San
Jose, Calif., June 18, 2001 - Fujitsu Software
Corporation today announced at Microsoft Tech·Ed 2001, that, as a
Microsoft Visual Studio Integration Partner, it is integrating its COBOL
for Microsoft .NET product into the Visual Studio .NET environment. For
COBOL programmers this represents an explosion in development environment
functionality and provides the best user experience for targeting the Microsoft
.NET Framework. For developers majoring in other languages, integrating
legacy COBOL code is no longer a multiple-development-environment challenge.
"While many customers like the Fujitsu COBOL development environment,
there are also many that have adopted Visual Studio as their development
platform," said Ron Langer, Director of Languages, Fujitsu Software
Corporation. "By bringing Fujitsu COBOL into the fold of Visual Studio
.NET languages, Fujitsu will provide COBOL programmers with the industry
standard development environment. With the additional partners who are working
with Microsoft to integrate more tools with Visual Studio .NET, the increase
in COBOL developer power is going to be significant."
As most major corporations
are looking at how they can take advantage of their strategic COBOL application
code in the Microsoft Windows and Microsoft .NET environments, not only
COBOL programmers but also many programmers that aren't as familiar with
COBOL are being exposed to COBOL. To date, that meant learning at least
two different development environments in addition to understanding the
COBOL code. With this announcement, Fujitsu Software Corporation removes
that additional learning step by making Visual Studio .NET the common
development environment.
"COBOL is an
important language in many enterprises, and Fujitsu has a proven track
record in the COBOL development world," said Tom Button, vice president,
Developer Tools at Microsoft Corp. "We believe that the integration
of COBOL with Visual Studio .NET will open up many new avenues and opportunities
for corporations."
"It has been
a pleasure working with a world class development platform," said
Basim Kadhim, Chief Architect, COBOL Product Group, Fujitsu Software Corporation.
"We have had to make a number of changes to our technology to make
it integrate well with Visual Studio .NET, and have been encouraged by
the quality of thinking that has gone into structuring the new environment.
The end result of our integration work will be that COBOL will just be
another language option within Visual Studio .NET. COBOL applications
will be built using the same functions as Visual C# applications with
all the features you would expect for a language integrated into this
development environment."
Preview copies of
Fujitsu COBOL for Visual Studio .NET are available from the Fujitsu COBOL
Web site: http://www.netcobol.com.
Updates to this preview will be provided between now and the full release
of the product following Microsoft's release of Visual Studio .NET.
About Fujitsu Software
Corporation
Fujitsu Software Corporation, based in San Jose, California, is a wholly
owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited. Fujitsu Software Corporation leverages
Fujitsu's international scope and expertise in developing and providing
information technology solutions. Fujitsu Software Corporation's products
include the INTERSTAGE Application Server; as part of the INTERSTAGE ebusiness
software platform built on open standards, the INTERSTAGE Application
Server enables enterprises to build and run mission-critical applications;
i-Flow, a 100% Java workflow engine for automating business processes;
QoEtient, a service for monitoring and managing "Quality of Experience"
on the Internet and Fujitsu COBOL, a COBOL development environment that
provides an integrated development environment and a suite of tools to
build fast, mission-critical business systems. For more information, visit
http://www.fs.fujitsu.com.
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