Cobol skills still prized by CIOs

Martin Courtney
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Interest in the 50-year-old development platform among the 'laptop generation' is growing

IT students at the University of Limerick are being offered Cobol courses Cobol has long been written off as old hat, but many CIOs at large UK organisations have little choice but to carry on em...

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