5 Programming Languages Fading Away Dice Staff, March 6, 2017 5 min read Some programming languages take a long time to die. Companies and institutions are often unwilling to devote the...
Federal Agencies’ Problem with Ancient Tech Nick Kolakowski, May 26, 2016 3 min read The federal government spends the majority of its technology budget maintaining ancient platforms, including ones...
Turning Legacy Computing Skills Into a Job Mark Feffer, December 28, 2015 5 min read For many companies, especially those in the financial and insurance industries, legacy computing is a fact of life....
Unpopular Programming Languages That Are Still Lucrative Jeff Cogswell, September 8, 2014 11 min read In a previous article, I discussed the best programming languages to learn over the next year. Most of those were...
The Software Side of Sears David Strom, August 6, 2013 8 min read Metascale leverages quite a few Hadoop-related tools, including Map Reduce, Hive, and Pig. Thanks to Apache Hadoop...
Is the Demise of COBOL Greatly Exaggerated? Mark Feffer, July 2, 2013 3 min read Some people say COBOL is kind of like a Wall Street bank: It's too big to fail. Not long ago, our blogger David...
New IBM Software Takes COBOL to the Cloud Nick Kolakowski, May 20, 2013 3 min read IBM still rocks the mainframes. The COBOL programming language first appeared in 1959. The subcommittee for...
