"That is nonsense about Cobol being obsolete (and thus obscure). You certainly don't need to hire from India to get Cobol expertise, unless you are just looking for bottom dollar.
Show me a Cobol program, I'll fix it real good, no problem. ;-)
Honestly, Cobol is one of the simplest languages to ever get popular."
It is true Cobol isn't very hard.
Joanna