Did you know...

 Did you know COBOL is still used in over 70% of business applications which support the majority of commercial transactions worldwide.   With over 200 billion lines of code, many programs are written in COBOL or interact with COBOL applications.

The facts are clear:

• “200 billion lines of COBOL code are still in use today,” Gartner Group.
• “70% of business applications are written in COBOL,” Forrester.
• “More than half of all new business applications are developed using COBOL,” Gartner Group.

Initially created in the 1950’s, COBOL is one of the first robust business computing languages. COBOL has been, currently is, and will continue to be a valuable software language.

If your customers have a negative perception of COBOL, which prevents you selling your solutions, Micro Focus can help.  Micro Focus realizes COBOL is a valuable modern language which, when combined with other technologies, forms a powerful and high performance application development architecture.

We are committed to promoting the message of pragmatic modernization of the best applications is a real alternative to software rewrites.  With help from industry analysts, Micro Focus sponsors The COBOL Portal.

To find out about what industry analysts think about the future of COBOL and to help you communicate the value of COBOL to your customers, please visit the portal by clicking here. www.cobolportal.com/.

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