Refreshing Insights for Modern COBOL
(WorldNews Italy)

10 Introduction In its seventh decade, COBOL`s heritage is legendary. This month sees yet another stride forward in COBOL innovation, with the latest release of the Micro Focus Visual COBOL and Enterprise product sets. But what of its practitioners? Where is the investment? We caught up two new members of the COBOL community, from our recent Graduate Recruitment program, to discuss how and why COBOL still attracts attention everywhere. Meet Giulia Sermann and Jennifer Osborne. Both joined Micro Focus recently as members of the International Region Graduate Recruitment program. Both relative novices in IT, and no pre-conceptions of technology. And both are teaching themselves COBOL as part of...