October 9, 2013 9:12 AM
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
COBOL, Micro Focus
Keeping COBOL sexy with a game coding challenge

As part of its corporate academic programme, Micro Focus has staged a COBOL code contest for student and community developers around the world. Programmers and code hobbyists are being challenged to design and develop a video game program using the company's Visual COBOL Personal Edition, for the...
December 17, 2010 12:29 PM
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
COBOL, Developers, Legacy systems, Micro Focus
Micro Focus: COBOL is modern, honest!

Micro Focus is serious about COBOL. The last time I attended a Micro Focus press conference it was held in the Houses of Parliament. The company is serious about COmmon Business-Oriented Language, even if its first specification was originally laid down in 1959 by US Rear Admiral Grace Murray...