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Command economies, decentralization, and the z114

Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, July 17, 2011 - 211 views

It comes and goes. It’s like a pendulum swinging in one direction,  running out of steam, and then swinging in the completely opposite direction. And it applies to countries, economies, and the way people view computing. Let me explain…

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Speedware to Offer Open-Source COBOL to North American Market

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 »

What is TinyCOBOL?

Posted by Mike on Friday, November 5, 2010 - 380 views

TinyCOBOL is a COBOL compiler being developed by members of the free software community.

Our Mission is producing a COBOL compiler based on the COBOL 85 standards.

To read more about TinyCOBOL, click here.

IBM and an Open Source Milestone

Posted by Mike on Friday, April 2, 2010 - 551 views

Since opening the mainframe to run popular open source Linux applications 10 years ago, there are today 3,150 Linux applications enabled for System Z and 70 per cent of the top one hundred global mainframe customers run Linux. (READ MORE)

OpenCOBOL- open-source COBOL compiler

Posted by Mike on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 1,130 views

OpenCOBOL is an open-source COBOL compiler. OpenCOBOL implements a substantial part of the COBOL 85 and COBOL 2002 standards, as well as many extensions of the existent COBOL compilers.

OpenCOBOL translates COBOL into C and compiles the translated code using the native C compiler. You can build your COBOL programs on various platforms, including Unix/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.

CLICK HERE to visit the OpenCOBOL website.

Note: link provided for the sake of knowledge. I have no relationship with the folks at OpenCOBOL.

COBOL-IT Chooses COBOL-WORKS GmbH as Distributor for the German Market

Posted by Mike on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 257 views

COBOL-IT, the first company to provide an enterprise-class Open Source COBOL Compiler has selected COBOL-WORKS GmbH as distributor and Technical … MORE

USPS goes open-source with tracking system

Posted by Mike on Friday, July 10, 2009 - 272 views

For its part, USPS had to find a way to take source code written in Cobol and reuse it on Linux. Cobol, which marks its fiftieth anniversary this year, … MORE