https://opensource.com/article/17/8/what-about-cobol
https://www.microfocus.com/about/press-room/article/2013/micro-focus-launches-cobol-code-contest-challenge/
-COBOL supports 90% of Fortune 500 business systems every day
-70% of all critical business logic and data is written in COBOL
-COBOL connects 500 million mobile phone users every day
-COBOL applications manage the care of 60 million patients every day
-COBOL powers 85% of all daily business transactions processed
-COBOL applications move 72,000 shipping containers every day and process 85% of port transactions
-95% of all ATM transactions use COBOL
-COBOL enables 96,000 vacations to be booked every year
-COBOL powers 80% of all point-of-sale transactions
-There are 200 more COBOL transactions per day than Google + You Tube searches worldwide
-$2 trillion worth of mainframe applications in corporations are written in COBOL
-1.5 million new lines of COBOL code are written every day
-5 billion lines of new COBOL code are developed every year
-The total investment in COBOL technologies, staff and hardware is estimated at $5 trillion
-An estimated 2 million people are currently working in COBOL
https://www.microfocus.com/about/press-room/article/2013/micro-focus-launches-cobol-code-contest-challenge/
-COBOL supports 90% of Fortune 500 business systems every day
-70% of all critical business logic and data is written in COBOL
-COBOL connects 500 million mobile phone users every day
-COBOL applications manage the care of 60 million patients every day
-COBOL powers 85% of all daily business transactions processed
-COBOL applications move 72,000 shipping containers every day and process 85% of port transactions
-95% of all ATM transactions use COBOL
-COBOL enables 96,000 vacations to be booked every year
-COBOL powers 80% of all point-of-sale transactions
-There are 200 more COBOL transactions per day than Google + You Tube searches worldwide
-$2 trillion worth of mainframe applications in corporations are written in COBOL
-1.5 million new lines of COBOL code are written every day
-5 billion lines of new COBOL code are developed every year
-The total investment in COBOL technologies, staff and hardware is estimated at $5 trillion
-An estimated 2 million people are currently working in COBOL