Micro Focus Announces Visual Studio 2010 Support

Posted by Mike on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 448 views

Micro Focus has announced four new product releases as part of the launch of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 — Visual COBOL, Silk4Net, DevPartner Studio, and Analyzer Express. Together, the tools help developers build, analyze, and test code, and all are fully integrated with Visual Studio 2010. (READ MORE)

Career Watch: Making Cobol cool again

Posted by Mike on Monday, April 5, 2010 - 411 views

Q&A: Darin Edmunds

The leader of the Action program at Micro Focus explains what it’s doing to bring young people into the Cobol fold.

What is the Academic Connections, or Action, program? The Action program was conceived to introduce and maintain Cobol in IT academic programs, in response to fears that such programming and other IT skills could be lost because of dwindling interest in Cobol as newer and more glitzy technologies arrive on the scene. The idea is to forestall a potentially disastrous resource vacuum.

It would be disastrous because Cobol remains extremely important. (READ MORE)