A blog post from Anthropic caused IBM's market value to drop over $30 billion due to concerns about COBOL. Here's everything you need to know about COBOL and the now viral blog from Anthropic ...

COBOL is a computer language used for business data processing and IBM is a leader in that area.

With the decline, IBM shares have fallen 27% in February, on track for its biggest one-month slide since at least 1968, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. “Modernizing a Cobol system once ...

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 ...

Mainframe computers running code dating back to the 1960s are still vital to some banks, airlines and government departments, but the skilled engineers familiar with their COBOL computer language are ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — The phrase “the future of Cobol” might seem an oxymoron, but in a talk so titled at the Club de Investigacion Tecnologica SA’s software transformation seminar here Friday, ...

Under the last coronavirus stimulus package signed into law late last year, each state was responsible for implementing federal unemployment extensions for people who lost their jobs in the pandemic.

State officials say aging computers systems that rely on a pre-Internet programming language may be causing delays in processing jobless benefits.... 'COBOL Cowboys' Aim To Rescue Sluggish State ...

And so, I dove in. I've used many of the languages I'm spotlighting here, so I'll take a little walk down memory lane and include some stories about my experience with those I've used. While I haven't ...