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Semantic Designs Announces a New Family of Tools for PHP Software

Posted by Mike on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 1 views

Semantic Designs is pleased to announce general availability of a line of software tools for the PHP programming language. Semantic Designs tools have an extensive history being used on multi-million line business critical systems, typically developed using multiple programming languages. Most often these systems have been written in C/C++, COBOL/JCL, or Enterprise Java. The increased use of PHP for web applications has inspired Semantics Designs to offer a new line tools aimed at helping PHP systems architects, developers and code base maintainers. “Customers are telling us that they are building or have acquired large code bases in PHP, and they need to ensure the quality of these systems,” says Dr. Ira Baxter, Founder and CEO of Semantic Designs.  READ MORE

Veryant Delivers Choice and Cost Savings to COBOL Community

Posted by Mike on Monday, April 19, 2010 - 188 views

Veryant, the COBOL and Java technology innovator, announced the newest release of its isCOBOL Application Platform Suite (APS) for developing, deploying, … READ MORE

TmaxSoft replicates mainframes on open systems

Posted by Mike on Monday, January 18, 2010 - 90 views

TmaxSoft, founded in 1997 and boasting of US$100 million in revenue last year, is releasing OpenFrame 6.0, an execution environment for running mainframe …

“We’re not converting COBOL to Java,” he said. “Organizations don’t want to have to retrain 20000 people to reuse the application. …

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I Use Dead Programming Languages

Posted by Mike on Monday, January 4, 2010 - 171 views

Ted Neward wrote in mid-2008 that Java is Dead Like COBOL. In many ways, I still see this as the case. Java has warts and wrinkles. … MORE

Looking for job security? Try Cobol

Posted by Mike on Friday, January 1, 2010 - 108 views

A career as a Cobol programmer might not be as sexy as slinging Java code or scripting in Ruby, but if you buckle down and learn … MORE

Things CIOs Must Know About Mainframe Modernization

Posted by Mike on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 118 views

Aflac is converting mainframe applications written in Assembly language to Java (for real-time operations) or Cobol (for batch jobs), Rabon says. … MORE

Veryant and Donatos Pizza Demonstrate How to Modernize COBOL …

Posted by Mike on Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 227 views

The Webinar, “Bridging the COBOL to Java Divide: COBOL Modernization with Veryant,” will feature Alfredo Iglesias, vice president at Veryant, and Mike Born, … MORE