Size of COBOL 2022
Project Information
Client name:
Micro Focus
Published:
Feb 2022
Number of interviews:
1000+
Countries:
United States of America, France, Germany, Brazil, India, Canada, Israel, United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Italy, Denmark, South Africa, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Norway, Austria, Argentina, Philippines, Poland, Malaysia, Mexico, Romania, Belgium, Greece, New Zealand, Switzerland, Republic of Ireland, Colombia, Andorra, Bahrain, Czech Republic, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Kuwait, Morocco, Pakistan, Senegal, Singapore, Tunisia, Uruguay, Zimbabwe
Organisation size:
1000+ employees
Topic:
Business attitudes to IT
For this research project we interviewed Micro Focus' customers, contacts and the wider IT community across 49 countries worldwide. Listen to the webinar for more information on the findings
58%
of respondents say that their organisation runs COBOL on two platforms
48%
expect the volume of COBOL in their organisation to increase in the next 12 months
52%
of respondents expect that the COBOL applications in their organisation will be here for at least the next decade, if not longer
Jimmy Mortimer
Research lead
Press attention:
- COBOL is still a high-paying job option for many developers - Analytics Insight - 16 Jun 2022
- COBOL Market Shown to be Three Times Larger than Previously Estimated - Database Trends and Applications - 17 Feb 2022
- Global COBOL Growth Spurs Reevaluation of ‘Legacy’ Assets - IT Jungle - 16 Feb 2022
- This old programming language is much more important than you might expect. Here's why - ZDNet - 09 Feb 2022
- COBOL market 3 times larger than previously estimated - survey - IT Brief Australia - 09 Feb 2022
- COBOL Language Still in Demand as Application Modernization Efforts Take Hold - IT Pro Today - 07 Feb 2022
- COBOL market shown to be 3 times larger than previously estimated: Micro Focus Survey - Express Computer - 07 Feb 2022
- COBOL Market Shown to be Three Times Larger than Previously Estimated in New Independent Survey - Yahoo! Finance - 04 Feb 2022
