A GCC COBOL status report

Aside: COBOL is really Micro Focus's strength (they've been doing it forever, like since before the 80s, they're older than Oracle and even less sexy), but they were also long known as the place old tired companies went to die: Borland, CompuWare, Novell... when they accidentally got hold of something actually exciting they got rid of it (SuSE).

As usual for the UK we couldn't hold on to it after the political excitements of the last few years (and the rollercoastering pound): the company has just been purchased by OpenText, a Canadian company only slightly more exciting than Micro Focus. I can't really imagine them changing much.