Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 604 views
New version of isCOBOL enhances GUI development and maximizes value of existing IT resources
CHICAGO, April 11, 2011 –
Veryant, the COBOL and Java technology innovator, today announced the immediate availability of
isCOBOL Evolve 2011 Release 1. To lower software licensing fees and simplify application modernization, isCOBOL Evolve enables developers to continue programming in a familiar COBOL environment, and at the same time, deploy and enhance applications across multiple platforms in an open Java framework without rewriting code.
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 353 views
When you come right down to it, Jeff Papows argues that IT organizations have only a handful of options available to forestall this problem. They can either embark on COBOL training and an application modernization project, or they can attempt to rewrite these applications in a modern language that is thoroughly documented.
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Posted by Mike on Friday, March 25, 2011 - 333 views
With an endless wave of new companies pushing innovative new technologies, the BI market has been one of the most dynamic in the software industry during the past 20 years.
…[T]he plethora of advertisements about BI capabilities that appear on television (e.g., IBM’s Smarter Planet campaign) and major consumer magazines (e.g. SAP and SAS Institute ads) reinforce the maturity of BI as a mainstream market. BI is now front and center on the radar screen of most CIOs, if not CEOs, who want to better leverage information to make smarter decisions and gain a lasting competitive advantage.
To prove this point, Wayne created a great timeline of the Business Intelligence industry mapping the changes in Users against those of the Vendors.
Prior to 1990, Wayne tells of how companies used 3GL (COBOL, PL/1, etc.) and 4GL (NOMAD, RAMIS, and FOCUS) computer programming languages to handle reporting needs.
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 317 views
Remember back when most developers worked with structured programming in languages like C, Fortran, Pascal, COBOL and PL/I? In our conversations and writing, many of us differentiated that new-fangled object-oriented programming and design stuff for years… And then, after a while, OOP languages and methodologies became standard. Read more on this at the SDTimes…
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 379 views
Cobol software supplier Micro Focus has lost nearly one-third of its value as it warns that its full year figures will be disappointing.
Revenues in the three months to January 2011 were below expectations and the shortfall will not be made up this year. A number of deals were deferred or lost. The business is still cash generative. Net debt is $5.5m.
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Posted by Mike on Monday, January 31, 2011 - 256 views
Smithsonian’s recognition is deserved, but the programming language is a long way from retirement
Last month, the Smithsonian announced plans to launch an exhibit on Cobol at the National Museum of American History. The exhibit, which is planned to open this spring, celebrates 50 years of the Cobol computer programming language, and its influence over the past five decades.
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Posted by Mike on Friday, January 21, 2011 - 297 views
COBOL, one of the oldest programming languages created, is often thought to be as dead as Latin. Yet, as we reported in October, COBOL remains a consistently in-demand skill for enterprise developers. Why? Maybe because, according to an announcement from application modernization company Micro Focus, there are still 220 billion lines of COBOL code in active use in enterprise applications today. Micro Focus claims that COBOL still powers 70% of the world’s businesses. READ MORE
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 359 views
vCOBOL Enterprise provides cost-effective alternative for mainframe rehosting and modernization
January 18, 2010 – Veryant, the COBOL and Java technology innovator, today introduced vCOBOL Enterprise, a powerful platform to migrate legacy COBOL applications off IBM mainframes as part of strategic cost-cutting, consolidation, and operational effectiveness initiatives. With an optimized compiler and pioneering COBOL-to-Java runtime technology, vCOBOL is the newest software addition to Veryant’s comprehensive portfolio of COBOL application development, maintenance, and deployment solutions.
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