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Breaking News - Operating Systems & Middleware:
Acucorp, Oracle Ease Migration From Legacy To Open Platforms
Acucorp Inc, a provider of legacy application modernization and extension
solutions, and Oracle Corp announced they are offering companies the tools to
facilitate migration of legacy assets from proprietary legacy platforms to a
wide range of open, less expensive computing platforms.
Acucorp's ACUCOBOL-GT development system has been certified for use with
Oracle Database 10g and Oracle9i Database -- providing COBOL connectivity to
Oracle's state-of-the-art products. As a result, organizations and independent
software vendors (ISVs) can embed SQL statements in a host ACUCOBOL-GT program
and use that program to access Oracle databases through the Oracle Pro*COBOL
pre-compiler. This eliminates the need for costly application re-engineering
and rewriting and allows organizations to leverage their existing IT assets,
dramatically lowering their total cost of ownership and increasing their
return on investment when compared to other modernization alternatives.
"Oracle and Acucorp have worked closely to provide an effective way for
COBOL-based applications to be migrated from legacy platforms with inefficient
data stores to open system platforms and relational database technology," said
Jay Peretz, vice president of Partner Technical Services for Oracle.
"ACUCOBOL-GT is now certified for Oracle Database 10g, making it possible for
COBOL applications to take advantage of the low cost, high reliability and
security of Oracle's enterprise grid computing technology. Customers continue
to leverage their existing investment in legacy applications while taking
advantage of the interoperability inherent in 21st century technologies,
including access from Internet and mobile devices."
According to Pamela Coker, Acucorp's president and CEO, "Acucorp has a
long-standing commitment to provide COBOL developers with the latest
integration options and technological advancements, including support of
Oracle Database products. The addition of Oracle Pro*COBOL certification and
support for ACUCOBOL-GT will allow us to better serve the diverse and growing
population of Acucorp-Oracle customers -- considerably strengthening our joint
solution by maximizing database access and support."
Using the Oracle Pro*COBOL pre-compiler, ACUCOBOL-GT programmers can create
and maintain applications that manipulate Oracle data. The pre-compiler
accepts the host COBOL program as input, translates the embedded SQL
statements into standard COBOL CALL statements that call the Oracle libraries,
and generates a source program that developers can compile and execute with
the ACUCOBOL-GT runtime linked in with the Oracle libraries.
In addition to providing relational database access, organizations using the
Acucorp-Oracle offering may take advantage of Acucorp's entire extend product
suite. Highly interoperable and portable to more than 600 computing platforms
-- including Linux, UNIX, and Windows -- the extend family of technologies
offers innovative solutions for COBOL-based: Web services and Service-Oriented
Architecture; .NET and J2EE integration (including Oracle Application Server);
Web or mobile access; thin client architecture; graphical user interface
design; and improved performance. By incorporating these solutions into their
existing business systems, customers can both modernize and enhance their
current applications -- all while avoiding the costs, risks and time typically
associated with rewriting, replacing or re-engineering their legacy systems.
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