Micro Focus Lends Expertise and Support to U.S. Legislation to Create the Grace Hopper Code for Us Act
Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO; NYSE: MFGP) has announced support for U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright's Grace Hopper Code for Us Act, aimed at enhancing education in critical legacy programming languages like COBOL. The bill proposes $5 million grants to five U.S. universities to develop courses and scholarships. This initiative addresses skill mismatches in the workforce, particularly highlighted during the pandemic. Micro Focus emphasizes that effective modernization of applications, including COBOL, is essential for IT success, showcasing their commitment to future talent development through their COBOL Academic Program.
- Support for legislation enhancing programming language education.
- Potential to train future programmers in critical legacy languages.
- Micro Focus's expertise in modernization projects enhances credibility.
- No direct financial gain or immediate revenue increase mentioned from the initiative.
- Risks associated with reliance on legislative support for educational funding.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO; NYSE: MFGP) today announced their full support for U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright's Grace Hopper Code for Us Act to support universities and colleges "in the development and implementation of courses of instruction regarding maintaining, developing, and modernizing information systems utilizing critical legacy computer languages." With thousands of successful modernization projects completed for customers around the world, the expertise of Micro Focus was requested in the bill's development for the company's rich history of leadership in application, process and infrastructure modernization activities.
"As foundational elements of IT and business transformation, insufficient investments in critical business programming languages like COBOL puts our most successful organizations and government departments at risk" said Neil Fowler, Micro Focus General Manager of Application Modernization and Connectivity. "With our company's work in modernizing business programming languages and investing in future talent with our Micro Focus COBOL Academic Program, we are honored to support this U.S. House of Representatives' bill to ensure the next generation of programmers is well-versed in these increasingly-important and critical computer languages."
The proposed bill seeks to give three-year grants of no more than
"A lot of sectors are seeing a mismatch between the skills workers have and what employers need. Training workers for jobs that are in demand now is key to getting more people back to work and continuing our economic recovery," said Rep. Cartwright. "When it comes to IT, that mismatch was painfully clear as government agencies struggled to keep their computer systems using older coding languages running during the pandemic. The Grace Hopper Code for Us Act will help prepare workers for good-paying jobs available now in maintaining and modernizing our critical government and private sector information systems."
As recent Micro Focus research shows, modernization projects using an incremental and continuous improvement model achieve superior results when compared to other project-based approaches including the ripping and replacing of core business applications like those written in COBOL. With
To provide an understanding of the requirements for change from an operational, or business, perspective, Micro Focus' Modernization Maturity Model highlights the most important considerations any organization should have when embarking on a modernization journey. By helping organizations bridge now and next, Micro Focus has the experience and application, process, and infrastructure modernization solutions to enable innovation without added cost and risk.
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