I'd also say that the article actually shows why COBOL is not that big a thing anymore. Yes, there is still COBOL hardware and there is still COBOL software. Bu

I'd also say that the article actually shows why COBOL is not that big a thing anymore. Yes, there is still COBOL hardware and there is still COBOL software. But there are not really any signs of COBOL growing. It's more likely that it slowly gets replaced by Java. And one argument for that is shown there as well: There are already compilers that transfer your COBOL code to Java and people might use that in production to slowly transform to Java. I can agree that there will still be COBOL in 50 years, but the impact becomes smaller every day. Building a career is a thing of 25 years + 5-10 years of education. You can't build that around a technology that is dying already for a decade or two.