Last summer, Michael Vu, a 40-year-old independent IT consultant, found himself in a wholly unexpected place midway through his career. He’d signed a three-week contract to help a major U.S. retailer ...

Mainframe developers are not just retiring, they are expiring -- and young developers have little interest in mainframe careers. Mainframe programmers have be treated like bus drivers whose only job ...

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The COBOL skills gap is neither as extreme nor as straightforward as you might imagine. Here’s what companies can do to keep their COBOL systems running, and what would-be COBOL developers should know ...

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM TechXchange — The Open Mainframe Project, an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets ...

As long as there are mainframes, there will be Cobol. Learn the language and the culture and you might land a job that that lasts until retirement A career as a Cobol programmer might not be as sexy ...

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David Brown is worried. As managing director of the IT transformation group at Bank of New York Mellon, he is responsible for the health and welfare of 112,500 Cobol programs — 343 million lines of ...

People turn off when they hear the word mainframes. That’s real ‘people people’ as well as ‘techie people’, who we might suppose would lend a more sympathetic ear to hearing about these computing ...