Anthropic's Claude Code AI would accelerate COBOL modernization and undermine the mainframe business. AI can help translate ...

Some people think tens of millions of dead people are collecting Social Security checks. That's not true. What's really going on is people don't understand its old, underlying technology. The saga of ...

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest ...

Whenever the topic is raised in popular media about porting a codebase written in an ‘antiquated’ programming language like Fortran or COBOL, very few people tend to object to this notion. After all, ...

The most widely adopted computer language in history, COBOL is now causing a host of problems. It's also dangerously ...

As the Common Business Oriented Language, COBOL has a long and storied history. To this day it’s quite literally the financial bedrock for banks, businesses and financial institutions, running largely ...

Information technology modernization specialist Rocket Software Inc. is integrating generative artificial intelligence and adding support for Arm processors in its line of Cobol modernization products ...

COBOL — short for common business-oriented language — isn’t going anywhere. Released in 1960 and standardized in 1968, COBOL was developed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages to handle ...

IBM’s stock price suddenly fell by more than 10% on Monday afternoon after a big AI announcement shocked the market. The fall happened right after AI company Anthropic revealed a new tool that can ...

Despite the proliferation of digital banking apps, the banking industry still runs almost half its systems on a 1950s programming language, which makes it difficult for financial institutions to ...

Cobol has certainly taken hits to its integrity over the four-plus decades it’s been in service. It’s now widely renowned as cumbersome and inflexible to today’s IT requirements. Despite such an ...