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Whether you shop at the supermarket, pick up a prescription at the pharmacy, submit an insurance claim, make an ATM transaction, buy or sell stocks over the Web or receive your paycheck via direct deposit, a system running COBOL has most likely touched your transaction.
Admiral Grace Murray Hopper developed COBOL in the 1950s for creating, accessing and manipulating real world data centric business applications. If you are a COBOL programmer you are part of a vast group of highly sought after software professionals. It is estimated that there are about 2.4 million COBOL programmers maintaining 9.5 million COBOL applications. Businesses have approximately five trillion dollars invested in these systems. This represents over 60 percent
of the world's computer code. Micro Focus recognizes the resiliency and the continued importance of COBOL. We also believe COBOL has an even greater future. With its newly added functionality for supporting Object Orientation, and extensions supporting Internet based technologies such as COM, ASP and EJB it has evolved into COBOL the Technology.
We at Micro Focus are dedicated to COBOL and are introducing a new tool - the COBOL Portal - the single most important technical resource for the COBOL community. Whether you are a first time COBOL programmer or an experienced veteran of the Y2K war, we invite you to visit, browse and make use of the site content. We also encourage you to submit suggestions on what features you would like to see added to the site.
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