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    1. PaulPatrolRescue on

      in 2023, IBM released watsonx, an AI product designed to enable faster translation of COBOL to Java.

      IBM’s solution to COBOL disruption was to modernize the code but keep you trapped in the IBM ecosystem. watsonx converts COBOL to Java, optimized specifically for IBM Z mainframes. The moat wasn’t the COBOL expertise anymore. The moat was the hardware lock-in that survived modernization.

      Anthropic just dissolved that second moat entirely. Claude Code automates the exploration and analysis phases of COBOL modernization, and migrates it to any cloud provider, not IBM’s.

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