Even Cobol programmers are no longer secure in the brave new world of open systems, and Dun & Bradstreet Software Services, which last week laid off 300 employees, 8%, as part of an effort to refocus its efforts onto client-server computing and professional services, says some 30 Cobol programmers were fired. It said that the reduction in Cobol programmers followed the slowdown in the IBM mainframe business in Dun & Bradstreet’s US stronghold.
