Re: How many lines of Cobol running worldwide???

From: Francis ANDRE (francis.andre_at_easynet.fr)
Date: 01/07/04 

Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:35:49 +0100

Here are some figures commonly found on the web.

>> 75% of business data is processed in COBOL (Source: Gartner).
>> There are 180 billion to 200 billion lines of COBOL in use worldwide
(Gartner).
>> 15% of new applications are written in COBOL (Gartner).
>> Replacement costs for COBOL systems estimated at $25 per line are in the
hundreds of billions of dollars (Tactical Strategy Group).

According to your own beliefs and experiences, do these numbers reflect more
or less the "reality" of Cobol???

"Francis ANDRE" <francis.andre@easynet.fr> a écrit dans le message de news:
3ffafcb5$0$386$afc38c87@news.easynet.fr...
> Hi Listers
>
>
> I made some research on the net to find out how many lines of cobol were
> running in today's production systems, but I could not find out a strong
> validated and (why not audited) figure.
>
> In my understanding from the various sources, it is counting in billions
of
> lines....which is quite large in term of evaluation....Does anybody could
> give me more precise numbers, specially on past, present and future
> estimations??
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> FA
>
>

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Gartner on Assessing the Age of Software Languages and Tools
    ... MicroFocus has a courtesy copy of a Gartner Report, ... MicroFocus are promoting it because it shows their implementation of COBOL ...
    (comp.lang.cobol)
  • Re: OT: Newsgroup Name Change?
    ... less than 200 billion lines of COBOL. ... equivalent COBOL programmers, there are about ... Ask Gartner what they mean by "legacy code". ... supports another notion of "the declining popularity of Cobol". ...
    (comp.lang.cobol)
  • Re: [Q]: How many lines of Cobol running worldwide???
    ... It does not matter so much to count included lines by copy....compare to the ... 75% of business data is processed in COBOL (Source: Gartner). ... hundreds of billions of dollars (Tactical Strategy Group). ...
    (comp.lang.cobol)
  • Re: OT: Newsgroup Name Change?
    ... less than 200 billion lines of COBOL. ... equivalent COBOL programmers, there are about ... The intial statement mentioned "the declining popularity ... the information from Gartner does not ...
    (comp.lang.cobol)
  • Re: OT: Newsgroup Name Change?
    ... less than 200 billion lines of COBOL. ... 210,000 COBOL programmers in the US. ... estimated some 10,000,000 worldwide for 2000. ... Do these statistics from Gartner Group [Internet posting in ...
    (comp.lang.cobol)