Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

Since its inception in the 1960s, COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) has served as the backbone of global financial transaction systems. Valued for its stability and efficient processing ...

Abstract: Legacy modernization is a significant task in the software industry to maintain the relevance of legacy but critical software systems that are still widely used across various domains. COBOL ...

International Business Machines is insulated from AI disruption due to its mission-critical, deeply integrated enterprise software and hardware solutions. IBM's mainframes and core systems remain ...

Anthropic’s AI-powered computing-coding agent Claude appears easily capable of competing with one of IBM’s core businesses. Worries of this threat sent IBM stock careening on Monday. A deeper dive ...

The market's knee-jerk reaction makes enough superficial sense. Anthropic's AI-powered computer-coding platform Claude can easily help modernize complicated programs written in COBOL (Common ...

The stock market is reaching record highs, but since it’s being pushed there by AI-focused tech companies, there are plenty of comparisons to the dot-com bubble of late 1990s and early 2000s, when the ...

It’s 1959. Ike is still all right. While serving in the U.S. Army, Elvis Presley takes up amphetamines and karate. Fashion-forward women are wearing capri pants while rebellious young greasers are ...