Re: COBOL Lives - iSeries connection

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

how much longer until we see a CL and RPG compiler then?

Other folks have subsets of CL and RPG (DDS, etc) running on a PC network
and doing so very effeciently...and WITHOUT TIERED PRICING...oh and
without the interactive tax as well...:)



On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 jpcarr@tredegar.com wrote:

>
> Just caught this in another article about the subject.
> In the last paragraph of the article in Information week was this.
>
> <SNIP>
>
> http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021028S0007
>
> Micro Focus also is trying to win business in the minicomputer market. On
> Tuesday, the company plans to release a version of its Server Express
> software, used to compile and deploy apps written in Mainframe Express, for
> IBM's iSeries computers.
>
>
> -----------------------
>
>
>
> From: <jpcarr@tredegar.com>
> > Micro Focus, Microsoft strike Cobol deal
> >
> >
> http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/appdev/story/0,10801,754
>
> 13,00.html
> >
> > Micro Focus has partnered with Microsoft to allow its Cobol developers to
> > write applications for Microsoft's .Net development framework....
> >
>
> This is the second time they partner. Microsoft used to (like 20 years
> ago) sell the MicroFocus compiler (packaged as a Microsoft product -
> I still have the diskette - note singular).
>
> Leif
>
>
>
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