We know what COBOL stands for
Posted by Mike on Monday, June 6, 2011 - 230 views
“You can’t do modern development with old tools. If you still have the old tools for writing RPG or COBOL code, you need to move forward. Move to modern compilers. Get to RPG IV, ILE COBOL and ILE CL.”
Read more of The Long and Short of Modernization here.
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.
Posted by Mike on Thursday, February 3, 2011 - 371 views
MONTREAL, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ – Speedware, a provider of legacy management and IT modernization solutions, today announced that it has signed an agreement with COBOL-IT to distribute COBOL-IT’s enterprise class open source COBOL in the North American market and to provide North American based support to COBOL-IT users. According to the terms of the agreement, Speedware will be the latest North American sales and support center, providing 24/7 technical support, re-hosting/system integration services, and training. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
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.
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 353 views
Micro Focus International PLC (MCRO.LN), a provider of enterprise application management solutions, Wednesday said it expected to achieve improved half-year revenue of $216 million and added that selective acquisitions will continue to be part of its growth strategy in future.
The Group’s Cobol Development, Modernization and Migration lines of business are expected to report revenues of $146 million which on a constant currency basis will show a year on year increase of 3.7%.
Posted by Mike on Monday, October 18, 2010 - 425 views
ATERAS announced today at the Gartner IT Expo in Orlando, Florida, that Gartner recognizes ATERAS for the eav suite of products as a “Cool Tool Vendor”. ATERAS is a leading provider of solutions for legacy migration and modernization. The ATERAS eav suite (eav and eavRPM) of tools was designed to preserve business critical applications while reducing costs and increasing productivity.
eavRPM (eav for Rapid Program Modernization) allows mainframe developers to generate new business web-based applications in native C# or Java, without knowing C# or Java. COBOL and Adabas Natural developers can now copy and paste mainframe maps, business rules and other source code from mainframe languages to web pages quickly. Mainframe analysts and developers can create customized, high powered and well documented applications in C# or Java that utilize HTML or Active Server Pages (ASP) Java Server Pages (JSP) presentation layer.
Posted by Mike on Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 223 views
The system’s 10 million lines of COBOL code embody some 30 years of business process expertise. “We have long felt our competitive edge lies, to some degree … MORE
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 256 views
Aflac is converting mainframe applications written in Assembly language to Java (for real-time operations) or Cobol (for batch jobs), Rabon says. … MORE
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