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Phase Change President Steve Brothers recently authored a contributed article for Nextgov.com about how artificial intelligence (AI) tools can help governments deal with the mainframe-developers skills shortage and continue to maintain critical legacy systems. The article, How AI Can Help with Critical Government System Maintenance Needs, describes how we should change the current industry strategy […]
The International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) 2021 accepted a technical paper authored by current and former Phase Change research scientists for presentation at its 37th annual event in Luxembourg City, Great Duchy of Luxembourg, September 27 – October 1. The paper, “Contemporary COBOL: Developers’ Perspectives on Defects and Defect Location,” was co-authored […]
A May 28 article published by TechRadar pro, and written by Phase Change President Steve Brothers, explains how the well-reported “COBOL skills shortage” is not really a fundamental problem for enterprises that rely on mainframe systems. The real challenge is application knowledge. Developers can learn COBOL in less than 6 months. What they can’t learn […]
Educating young developers about the importance of legacy software applications, and building the tools needed to connect them with modern technologies are the keys to combining old-school reliability and new-school engineering say Bill and Eileen Hinshaw of COBOL Cowboys. If you’ve followed the stories about the computer-system meltdowns brought about by the overwhelming demand for […]
