This is the 11th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the ...

Tom Jodel, who is himself a programmer, interviewed his mother, who works as an IBM mainframe COBOL programmer at a major bank, about banking systems. Jodel's mother started in-house training at ...

The 60-year-old programming language that powers a huge slice of the world’s most critical business systems needs programmers Some technologies never die—they just fade into the woodwork. Ask the ...

After reading my article Making Mainframes More Efficient, Heirloom Computing CEO Gary Cook invited me to learn more about his company and what it does for enterprises wishing to migrate some of their ...

LzLabs reached out to discuss my article, "Applying 'Software Defined' to Mainframes." They thought the article didn't fully capture what they were doing, and wanted to provide a more detailed ...