I don’t know about cobol specifically , but I do know about technical debt: Liability and cost of switching. Who will take responsibility for any outages (or mu

I don’t know about cobol specifically , but I do know about technical debt: Liability and cost of switching. Who will take responsibility for any outages (or much, much worse) if it goes wrong? Who will pay for all the safeguards and processes to prevent that from happening? Easier to keep paying the (predictable, consistent, piece meal) upkeep fee than to spend an unknown chunk of money to take a huge risk for a very low immediate gain. It’s in a local maximum. Just like all technical debt. And as far as I hear, cobol is used for things that put that risk and liability factor on steroids. I know I wouldn’t touch it without some serious budget to set up massive amounts of redundancy and fail safes.