COBOL@50: Cloud-Enabled and Mobile Friendly

摘要

It's very rare that a technological movement stands the test of time - even more rare is that specific innovation is impact- ing how we not only run our businesses, but also function in our everyday lives. On May 28th, 1959 a group of computer scientists and government officials gathered at the Pentagon to lay down the guidelines for a groundbreaking event - the advent of COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language). Well, while other momentous events have surely taken place at such an historic building, none other had the impact on enterprise technology as this one. Over the following decades, COBOL developed an almost ubiquitous relationship with enterprise IT.