Will the impending threat of the year 2000 time-bomb send wages forCobol programmers soaring, asks Tony Harrington. With year 2000 compliance already probably beyond the reach of late starters, and ...

As students study other technologies, vendors try to develop new talent and offer tools to fill the gap for these critical systems Before tablets, smartphones, and PCs became prominent, “big iron” ...

The federal student loan service center Campus Partners, an offshoot of Sallie Mae, wanted to revamp its mainframe systems to make loan data accessible to customers via the Web. With millions of lines ...

Many years ago, mainframes ruled the world. The only computer that was available to large companies AND was capable of processing large numbers of transactions was a mainframe. Huge computers and ...

After all, it’s growing increasingly difficult to find P/L1, COBOL or assembler programmers. So, if mainframes are going to continue attracting new applications, particularly mobile apps, will IT ...

Kristine Harper was a high school senior when she took her first mainframe class. Six years later she’s a professional mainframe programmer and platform evangelist to young people beginning their IT ...

These old programming languages are still critical to big companies. But nobody wants to learn them Your email has been sent Large organizations still rely on ageing IT systems and programming ...