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According to Gartner, 85% of the world's businesses data was still being processed in COBOL as recently as 2001 Why would you use decade old technology statist
by s_henry_paulson 14y ago
According to Gartner, 85% of the world's businesses data was still being processed in COBOL as recently as 2001
Why would you use decade old technology statistics to prove any point?
If someone told you that an extremely large number of websites in 2001 were written in classic ASP, would you start considering it as a career path?
I agree that COBOL will still be around for awhile, but a lot can happen in 11-12 years, and this leaves the reader to wonder what the market is currently like.
- jackhoy 14y agoWas curious to look this up - doesn't appear to have been much movement (see below from 2011) "It is estimated that there are approximately 200 billion lines of COBOL code in production, with 5 billion lines of new code added to these highly valued core production systems each year. As much as 70% of business data worldwide is stored on mainframes and approximately 80% of daily business transactions are processed in COBOL. There are about 1.5 - 2 million developers globally developing and maintaining COBOL code today. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/invisiblethread/entry/a_rational_approach_to_enterprise_modernization-part1?lang=en https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/in...