David Taylor, President of Micro Focus for APJ, says many governments built mainframes for critical applications to handle bulk data processing, such as financial information, government data and health records.
Legacy code is all pervasive. Industry analysts estimate that there are between 200 and 300 billion lines of mainframe legacy code. COBOL accounts for about 70% of that, with five billion new lines of code added each year. This article will examine various approaches to managing legacy code so that IT departments can maximize the performance of their existing applications.
There is value in old COBOL applications but can I put some of the cool functionality of AJAX and let customers create new smaller APPS using mashups? Governments being the largest single consumer of technology have legacy applications written in old, obscure programming languages. The bureaucratic nature has perpetuated the life of these applications for ages. And its not changing any time soon. So here is help for those still using COBOL in the government.
