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This site is dedicated to COBOL and mainframe as well as to those with an investment in COBOL and mainframe. There are many Internet sites that provide information about COBOL and mainframe. The COBOL and Mainframe Resource Center brings that information together so that you will not need to cruise all over the Web to find it. Practical help is what you will find here.
Gainsville, Texas was formed to provide support and solutions to clients who currently use COBOL. The company's focus on COBOL can help to boost business growth enabled by better functioning legacy COBOL systems. more...
Open COBOL is replaced by GnuCOBOL, and is available from the Open Software Foundation under the Gnu General Public License. Muliptle dialects are supported from COBOL85 to COBOL2014 to IBM MVS. Code integrates with C, Javascript, Python and others. In addition, suports screen libraries and SQL access. more...
December, 2019, COBOL turned 60 in 2019. Here is the timeline - 1959:
COBOL was based on Flowmatic, a creation of Admiral Grace Harper,
who is often honored as the "Mother of COBOL".
COBOL History
The COmmon Business Oriented Language - COBOL is the original language of Open Systems so it makes sense that today the language is a leader in Linux/Unix and the Open Systems movement. The trend is also for a movement from proprietary mainframes to Linux - a big boost for COBOL.
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