Comment by gregsadetsky

Hey all, I'm the poster but I don't have a relationship to the domaine/site here. I just found it interesting and was hoping that people would chime in with arguments/counter-arguments.

I've also now been trying to chase down sources for these numbers - one archived page [0] from 2013 might have been the origin for this, but it itself sources unlinked reports such as "Aberdeen Group; Giga Information Group; Database & Network Journal; The COBOL Report; SearchEngineWatch.com; Tactical Strategy Group; The Future of COBOL Report"

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I can ... "half" believe it's not that 90% of Fortune 500s own/run/manage their own custom COBOL code, but rather that many of them rely on a few HR systems, or payment systems, that are written in COBOL. That's one theory.

Again, sorry if this seems a bit outlandish and/or maybe an exaggerated claim - but I do appreciate everyone's input here. I feel like it would be great to fully debunk this, or actually to collectively learn something ha. Cheers

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20180707025312/https://www.micro...