[marktangotango]

>> There is not a surplus of developers or entry level folks willing to learn cobol over another entry level language, so it’s not cheap and it’s not “easy”.

Wrong, there are literally 10,000s of former cobol developers due to decades of offshoring. I know of several thousand in from one local company alone. Go look for these job listings, you won't find them because they're all offshore.

[brogrammernot]

Offshore isn’t a realistic solution, the quality & language barriers that come into play significantly slow down any sort of production cadence compared to in-house.