COBOL Technology

Industry sources estimate that as much as 60 percent of the world's business applications are built in COBOL and forecast a growth rate of five billion lines per year for the next several years. There are many reasons why COBOL technology still remain successful today:

• It is a business language designed to portray business rules effectively and has a long and successful track record with over 40 years of performance tuning
• It is open - ANSI subcommittee INCITS/J4 controls the syntax
• It now can be extended to interoperate with contemporary architectures such as Windows, .NET and J2EE

The papers and articles in this section describe how COBOL Technology is used to:

• Build scalable Business Systems
• Enable applications to run on any hardware
• Permit connecting of data and applications that exist on different platforms
• Keep TCO down and productivity up by extending COBOL to Windows, .NET and J2EE

What Professionals think of the Future of COBOL?

COBOL Glossary

This section on COBOL Technology is organized by readers' interests:

• Business Perspective articles and papers will be prefixed with the letter "B"
• Technical Perspective articles and papers will be prefixed with the letter "T"
• ROI Perspective articles and papers will be prefixed with the letters "ROI"
• Training Perspective articles and papers will be prefixed with the letters "TR"