Micro Focus Academic Program
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COBOL, despite being developed in 1959, remains vital today, enabling 85% of point-of-sale transactions and managing critical applications in various industries. There is a significant shortage of COBOL developers, leading Micro Focus to establish a free academic program to train new specialists. The program aims to ensure the future availability of skilled COBOL developers to maintain the core business infrastructures reliant on this language.
Micro Focus Academic Program
- 1. EVERYWHERE COBOL is 9 5 % of interactions use COBOL 7/10business transactions are enabled by COBOL COBOL powers 85% of all point-of-sale transactions BILLION lines of active COBOL code support today’s core business infrastructures 25 0 COBOL?! Why would anyone care So... Isn’t it a dead language from a bygone era? What use is a code developed way back in 1959 in today’s world? about Funny you should ask, because it turns out that However, did you know that of COBOL specialists? day... In just one of ALL app code to be precise.65%Right now, there are more active lines of application code written with COBOL than any other programming language, COBOL connects 500MILLION mobile phones COBOL helps 5.5MILLION home buyers move in COBOL programs manage 72 000shipping containers 200TIMES MORE transactions are processed via COBOL than all of the Google and YouTube searches COMBINED 60MILLION Hospital patients receive care, thanks to COBOL apps 1 500 000new lines of COBOL are written 20 000retirement plans are managed on COBOL based applications With COBOL serving as the structure for so many applications, how much does it get done in 24 hours? 96 000vacations get booked using COBOL based software COBOL developers are in short supply and high demand. The world needs more of them to service the systems we depend on! In order to create more COBOL specialists, Micro Focus has developed a free academic program to help educators, students, and businesses learn the ins and outs of COBOL, ensuring that there are enough skilled COBOL developers for the future. Micro Focus has more than 35 years of COBOL experience, servicing more than 15,000 customers and over a million licensed users with their products. For more information about taking part in Micro Focus’s academic program free of charge, please visit: This site provides educators with everything they need to know about teaching Micro Focus’s no-cost COBOL course to their students—explore it today! © 2017 Micro Focus Limited All rights reserved. MICRO FOCUS, the Micro Focus logo, among others, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Micro Focus Limited or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies in the United Kingdom, United States and other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. *Data sourced from global research of 119 Academic Partners, conducted by Micro Focus in 2013. there is a massive shortage 0 25 50 75 100