Posted by Mike on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 832 views
IBM has proposed to establish an Eclipse open-source project around its Enterprise Generation Language technology for modernizing mainframe code.
The EGL is a higher-level, business-oriented programming language within IBM’s Rational Business Developer (RBD) product. It is designed for business application developers to build end-to-end solutions in a single language that can also be compiled into COBOL, Java and JavaScript.
IBM hopes to start the project in late August or early September, after the proposal is tweaked and all interested parties are added, said Will Smythe, product line manager for IBM RBD and EGL. The project was announced in early June at IBM’s Innovate 2010 conference, held in Orlando.
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 476 views
At the INNOVATE 2010 conference, IBM today announced new software and services that help customers design and deliver the advanced products leading the convergence of mechanical, electronic, and digital technologies.
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EGL code compiles into popular languages like Java, JavaScript, and COBOL, which then executes on proven, ubiquitous environments. IBM is helping customers … FOR MORE
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Posted by Mike on Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 1 views
IBM is furthering its push to position Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) as a key component of its legacy modernization business, bridging customers to Java.
“Fundamentally, IBM is using EGL as the broom to sweep up many of the stray cats and dogs [3GL languages] of the last several decades as a first step to modernization,” said Gartner Research vice president Dale Vecchio.
IBM uses EGL as a replacement language that it says will help organizations reduce third-party ISV licensing costs as well as the number of licenses required on the mainframe, Vecchio said. EGL targets COBOL, Natural and other languages that were commonly used to write business applications in previous decades. READ MORE
