Derek Britton

This article summarizes the recent media activity celebrating the 65th anniversary of the COBOL language.

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As it turns 65, the future of COBOL and its challenges-talent shortage, tech relevance, reputation, and busin…

Derek Britton captures the voices of COBOL experts in this article about COBOL's readability, portability, an…

Proponents of the longstanding programming language, including Reg Harbeck, Misty Decker, Derek Britton and m…

The enterprise computer language, COBOL, was first named in September 1959, by members of the CODASYL committ…

As COBOL reaches 65 years of loyal service to the IT world, this second piece in a four-part homage attempts …

As we celebrate its 65th birthday, a review of COBOL language's future in the age of cloud, AI, and legacy IT…

Part one of a journey to answer how COBOL, the 65-year-old legendary programming language, has stayed relevan…

Innovative observations I had the recent pleasure of attending the Tech Field Day event at the SHARE conferen…

A quick summary of the Broadcom Watchtower observability solution, based on the TechFieldDay meeting at SHARE…

When smart innovation pops up - my review of the capabilities of the PopUp Mainframe technology, as reviewed …

I had the recent pleasure of attending the Tech Field Day event at the SHARE conference in Kansas City, exper…

I had the recent pleasure of attending the Tech Field Day event at the SHARE conference in Kansas City, exper…

During the Tech Field Day event at the SHARE conference in Kansas City, I attended a tech presentation by BMC…

Collaboration w/ AveriSource. An interview to discuss and provide tips on fast-tracking application portfolio…

As we approach its big anniversary, attention is turning towards the most resilient of all technologies: COBO…

In the world of application modernization, 2024 has been, as many of us predicted, breathless and momentous s…

Large-scale app modernization promises a lot, but carries huge risk, so the lining up the right technology is…

Science tells us that every action has a corresponding reaction. But, for app modernization, what's the impac…

Successful application modernization relies on trained practitioners, but could this IT skills challenge also…

A word to the wise. A solid narrative can be the difference between a compelling brand identity, and an also-…

Today's CIO is faced with the conundrum of technical change. Go new or stay where we are. And while both appr…

I wrote an article recently, about COBOL. In it, I presented relevant facts to remind the publication's reade…