Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It's ...

In our mania for the new, it’s convenient to forget just how long the “old” stays with us. Take COBOL, for example. The venerable programming language turns 60 this month and, as Steven J.

COBOL-Java integrator Veryant has just released a new version of its is COBOL Application Platform Suite (APS). This version, isCOBOL 2010, adds support for Eclipse Galileo, which comprises 33 Eclipse ...

Veryant, the COBOL and Java technology innovator, announced new software designed to help organizations lower operational costs by modernizing COBOL assets. The latest version of Veryant's isCOBOL ...

In context: Despite being designed in 1959, the COBOL programming language is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe computers. COBOL offers secure, reliable and transactional ...

The federal student loan service center Campus Partners, an offshoot of Sallie Mae, wanted to revamp its mainframe systems to make loan data accessible to customers via the Web. With millions of lines ...

For effectively all new development, the COBOL language is irrelevant. Many seem to think that Java is irrelevant, too, but I don't think that's the case. The problems that the languages were trying ...

Veryant, a provider of COBOL modernization tools, announced a new release of its isCOBOL Application Platform Suite (APS) for developing, deploying, and modernizing COBOL applications. This is the ...

Micro Focus updates Visual Cobol to include access to Azure and the Java Virtual Machine Micro Focus has updated its developer platform for the Cobol programming language, adding the ability to run ...