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Re:Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy by mrweasel on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @03:18AM (#20457243)
A Danish news article on the death of mainframes (or their unwillingness to die) where they have some stats that says that 10 out 10 of the largest insurance companies still use mainframes for they core systems. So learning that large insurance companies run Cobol isn't that surprising.

They cite: https://www.share.org/blog/mainframe-matters-how-mainframes-...

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Re:Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy by tapland on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @03:29AM (#20457294)
Looking at job listings over a few months this is easy to verify for the nordic countries.
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