Celebrate Application Modernization at GIDS 2009

Cobol continues to be the most important programming language in the world today, despite the sheen of a .NET or Java. Why? Because Cobol applications account for 60% of all the applications that are currently in operation, and around 85% of all the transactions (globally) that are processed (Database and Network Journal). The Aberdeen Group estimates that $2 trillion has been invested in mainframe applications in corporations that house approximately 70% of all critical business logic and data, while Gartner says Cobol code accounts for 65% (200bn lines of code) of the total software in use.

Celebrate 50 Golden Years of COBOL at GIDS 2009. The economic crisis is forcing organizations to reduce cost, increase productivity and so cutting IT expenditure has become imperative. CIOs are looking to increase business functionality and developer productivity by at least 30% and at the same time reduce their expenditure by 20-25%. Modernizing existing COBOL applications allows companies to enhance their productivity and get higher ROI. Thus Modernization is the way to go!

Celebrate COBOL's relevance to the Indian Developer Ecosystem. With 75% of the world’s business data and 90% of all financial transactions still happening in COBOL, there is an increase in demand for COBOL programmers. Even in the current economic scenario, salaries of COBOL programmers are on the upswing owing to their shortage. With the increase in the global demand supply gap, the Indian outsourcing industry has an opportunity to fill this gap in the next 5 years. COBOL language is portable on Linux/Windows/Unix/zLinux and can be integrated with Java, .Net and Web 2.0. This opportunity is opening new vistas for the developer community.

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Register and Celebrate Your Success

GIDS.COBOL is spread out through the length of the summit, from Wednesday, the 22nd of April through to Saturday, the 25th of April. VIEW SCHEDULE. Attendees registered to GIDS.COBOL benefit from the following:

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