Climbing out of the Cobol hole

In this week's tech column Rob O'Neill says it has been a decades-long journey but some large organisations are finally close to retiring ancient legacy code.

Rob O'Neill
Thu, 09 May 2019

I owe readers an apology: I used the software c-word in a recent column.

“Cobol” is perhaps not quite as offensive as the other word but, for many large organisations, it represents a fast-growing risk to the business and a huge challenge and investment to replace.

Cobol is everywhere in

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