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From: fox.assistant on 31 Jan 2008 17:27 go to http://groups.google.com/group/web-cobol?hl=it and download WebCobolSetup.rar This is an precomplier for AcuCobol that allow to develop .wcp file like .asp or .php server page.
From: Robert on 31 Jan 2008 22:31 On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:27:05 -0800 (PST), fox.assistant(a)gmail.com wrote: >go to http://groups.google.com/group/web-cobol?hl=it >and download WebCobolSetup.rar > >This is an precomplier for AcuCobol that allow to develop .wcp file >like .asp or .php server page. It looks impressive. Unfortunately, AcuCobol was acquired by Micro Focus.
From: Bobo on 1 Feb 2008 03:05 On 31 Gen, 04:31, Robert <n...(a)e.mail> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:27:05 -0800 (PST), fox.assist...(a)gmail.com wrote: > >go tohttp://groups.google.com/group/web-cobol?hl=it > >and download WebCobolSetup.rar > > >This is an precomplier for AcuCobol that allow to develop .wcp file > >like .asp or .php server page. > > It looks impressive. Unfortunately, AcuCobol was acquired by Micro Focus. I know, but now AcuCobol continues with Micro Focus!!
From: Pete Dashwood on 1 Feb 2008 05:36 "Bobo" <r.federiconi(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:d94b5874-622c-487b-860e-7baa10427329(a)1g2000hsl.googlegroups.com... > On 31 Gen, 04:31, Robert <n...(a)e.mail> wrote: >> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:27:05 -0800 (PST), fox.assist...(a)gmail.com wrote: >> >go tohttp://groups.google.com/group/web-cobol?hl=it >> >and download WebCobolSetup.rar >> >> >This is an precomplier for AcuCobol that allow to develop .wcp file >> >like .asp or .php server page. >> >> It looks impressive. Unfortunately, AcuCobol was acquired by Micro Focus. > > I know, but now AcuCobol continues with Micro Focus!! The question is: For how long? I'll stick my neck out with some predictions... :-) 1. IBM or ORACLE will acquire MicroFocus within the next 7 years. (Probably IBM; ORACLE got burnt billions with PeopleSoft and it will take some time for them to recover...) 2. AcuCOBOL will not be supported within 2 years of tools to convert it to MicroFocus COBOL becoming available. (I see a rationalisation of the entire MicroFocus product range. Stephen Kelly is smart and knows they need to consolidate the product line and their corporate image, for more efficient marketing. They won't (can't) abandon the existing AcuCOBOL base, so they will provide them an alternative. The company will be seen more as a "legacy application moderniser", than as a COBOL vendor...) 3. MicroFocus will announce such a pathway within the next 5 years. (maybe even within 3 years...) I promise I have no "insider information" or corporate scuttlebut; these predictions are based on observable events and trends that are happening now. As such, I may be completely wrong, but I've made them anyway... :-) Pete. -- "I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
From: Robert on 1 Feb 2008 09:03
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:36:07 +1300, "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood(a)removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: > > >"Bobo" <r.federiconi(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >news:d94b5874-622c-487b-860e-7baa10427329(a)1g2000hsl.googlegroups.com... >> On 31 Gen, 04:31, Robert <n...(a)e.mail> wrote: >>> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:27:05 -0800 (PST), fox.assist...(a)gmail.com wrote: >>> >go tohttp://groups.google.com/group/web-cobol?hl=it >>> >and download WebCobolSetup.rar >>> >>> >This is an precomplier for AcuCobol that allow to develop .wcp file >>> >like .asp or .php server page. >>> >>> It looks impressive. Unfortunately, AcuCobol was acquired by Micro Focus. >> >> I know, but now AcuCobol continues with Micro Focus!! > >The question is: For how long? > >I'll stick my neck out with some predictions... :-) > >1. IBM or ORACLE will acquire MicroFocus within the next 7 years. (Probably >IBM; ORACLE got burnt billions with PeopleSoft and it will take some time >for them to recover...) >2. AcuCOBOL will not be supported within 2 years of tools to convert it to >MicroFocus COBOL becoming available. (I see a rationalisation of the entire >MicroFocus product range. Stephen Kelly is smart and knows they need to >consolidate the product line and their corporate image, for more efficient >marketing. They won't (can't) abandon the existing AcuCOBOL base, so they >will provide them an alternative. The company will be seen more as a "legacy >application moderniser", than as a COBOL vendor...) >3. MicroFocus will announce such a pathway within the next 5 years. (maybe >even within 3 years...) They had such a pathway years ago, called Lift And Shift. It was for getting off mainframes. |