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You've heard the pitch a thousand times. Your COBOL systems are legacy. They're risky. They're expensive to maintain. The developers who understand them are retiring. The solution? Modernize. Rip out those ancient mainframes and replace them with shiny new cloud-native microservices built on the ...

COBOL maintenance costs are rising as aging developers leave the workforce and well-trained replacements are in short supply. Learn about how pervasive COBOL-based applications remain, why the supporting developer workforce is shrinking every year, and scrutinize our estimates of how high these applications’ maintenance costs are rising. I began working with mainframe programming languages in […]