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• Last of the mainframers: Big Iron's Big Crisis

  Despite the mainframe's central and enduring position in the enterprise – or perhaps because of it – new blood is not joining the specialist workforce.

• Mainframe application updates could cost some A/NZ CIOs millions: study

  Some CIOs in Australia and New Zealand have estimated that it could cost an average of A$10 million or more to update their mainframe applications, according to a new study.

• WA Insurance Commission slashes IT costs with modernisation project

  The inevitability of having to modernise legacy systems is front of mind for many government organisations and the Insurance Commission of Western Australia (ICWA) is no exception.
  

• Cobol comes to the cloud

  Micro Focus has updated its developer platform for the Cobol programming language, adding the ability to run Cobol applications on Microsoft's Azure cloud service.

• Cobol skills drought persists amid mainframe migrations

  Enterprises struggling to fill demands for Cobol skills should consider an application modernisation program which could also pave the way for migration off the mainframe to an open system.

• 7 programming languages on the rise

  In the world of enterprise programming, the mainstream is broad and deep. Code is written predominantly in one of a few major languages. For some shops, this means Java; for others, it's C# or PHP. Sometimes, enterprise coders will dabble in C++ or another common language used for high-performance tasks such as game programming, all of which turn around and speak SQL to the database.

• One firm's story: The mainframe goes, but Cobol stays behind

  A lot of Cobol-based applications have a plot line similar to the first Star Trek movie.