Some interesting facts of COBOL
* 75% of all business data is processed in COBOL. - Gartner Group
* There are between 180 billion and 200 billion lines of COBOL code in use worldwide. - Gartner Group
* 15% of all new applications (5 billion lines) through 2005 will be in COBOL. - Gartner Group
* CICS transaction volume (such as COBOL-based ATM transactions) grew from 20 billion per day in 1998 to 30 billion per day in 2002. - The Cobol Report
* There are over 90,000 COBOL programmers in North America in 2002. Over the next four years there will be a 13% decrease in their number due to retirement and death. - Gartner Group
* The most highly paid programmers in the next ten years are going to be COBOL programmers who know the Internet. - GIGA Group