With a shortage of Cobol programming talent looming in the next decade and a clear need for greater software agility and lower operating costs, IT organizations have begun to make transition plans for ...

Sabre Holdings Corp., the air-travel software company, has an ambitious set of objectives for the remake of its “shopping engine,” a 25-year-old mainframe application with 10 million lines of ...

Unfortunately, those programs don’t play well with today’s distributed systems, and the amount of legacy code at companies such as Sabre Holdings Corp. in Southlake, Tex., makes a rewrite a huge ...