Hieatt: Gartner Estimates 250B to 750B Lines of Active Production COBOL
Edward Hieatt · Unlocking Legacy Systems: Modernizing Mainframes via AI with Mechanical Orchard · Jun 13, 2025 · at 21:58
Edward Hieatt, Chief Customer Officer at Mechanical Orchard, cites Gartner data on global active COBOL code to illustrate the total addressable market for mainframe modernization.
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“There's an estimate from Gartner that there are between 257 hundred and fifty billion lines of COBOL in the world running in production, right? If you can imagine, like, some dollar per line of code fee on average, right, that, that's a big term.”
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