Today's business applications are appearing more and more on the Internet.
The system configuration where these Web applications are typically executed includes host-centralized systems (Web Servers), client systems, and network-computing system support.
The network-computing system support has a role of providing access to information as a result of the rapid increase of host computers connected to the Internet. The network-computing environment enables businesses to be mutually linked through a network, and business efficiency to be improved as a result of the shared information involving the Web. Web Browsers with platform-free operability are essentially used in mutually linking various types of businesses.
For host-centralized systems and client/server systems, COBOL is commonly used as the core language in the mission critical area of business systems.
On the basis of Internet/Intranet technologies, the demand on COBOL to support the business enterprise has been increasing.
