Cobol / mainframe: Can modernization projects succeed?

The death of the mainframe, and the Cobol, has been announced every year for 25 years. In autumn 2024, Rocket Software, together with the firm Forrester, had conducted a study of 300 AI managers, especially in the United States around the mainframe and the modernization of applications. Result: the refactoring of apps mainframe often fail from the first attempts. The finding is severe: 90% of attempts to rewrite fail and 50% of respondents say t…