45,000 Developers Worldwide Receive Fujitsu's COBOL at Microsoft's 95 Developer Days Event.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 25, 1997--More than 45,000 developers around the world received a free, unrestricted copy of Fujitsu COBOL COBOL: see programming language. COBOL in full Common Business-Oriented Language. High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community. (R) version 3.0, Enterprise edition at Microsoft's 95 Developer Days events held March 19, it was announced today by Fujitsu Software Corporation (FSC FSC See: Foreign Sales Corporation ). Supporting the latest ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. and ISO standards This is a list of ISO standards that are discussed in Wikipedia articles. For a list of all the more than 16,000 ISO standards (as of 2007), see the ISO Catalogue. About 300 of the standards produced by ISO and IEC's Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC1) have been made freely/publicly of the world's most popular programming language, Fujitsu COBOL 3.0 offers dramatically enhanced performance and productivity features, including seamless integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. with Microsoft Visual Basic(R), Visual C++(R), and SQL Server. Its high performance and mission-critical environment is tightly integrated to Microsoft visual tools and key technologies, including Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual C++, BackOffice(TM), Distributed Component Object Model (programming) Distributed Component Object Model - (DCOM) Microsoft's extension of their Component Object Model (COM) to support objects distributed across a network. DCOM has been submitted to the IETF as a draft standard. (DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model) Formerly Network OLE, it is Microsoft's technology for distributed objects. DCOM is based on COM, Microsoft's component software architecture, which defines the object interfaces. ), and ActiveX(TM) technologies. "Enterprise companies have standardized on COBOL as the cornerstone of their mission-critical computing solutions," said Todd Yancey, director of sales and marketing for developer tools, Fujitsu Software. "As customers adopt Microsoft Windows solutions in increasing numbers, they are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to integrate their existing legacy COBOL systems. The combination of Fujitsu COBOL and Microsoft's visual development tools opens new deployment options for legacy COBOL applications. "Programmers can now re-use legacy COBOL programs as components in multi-tier client/server or Internet applications," Yancey said. "As a Microsoft Enterprise Development Partner, we want to ensure that Fujitsu COBOL not only fully supports Microsoft's advanced technologies but exploits those technologies across the enterprise." Fujitsu COBOL Enterprise edition provides development teams with the tools to design and build multi-tier solutions that tap the opportunities of the Internet and integrate with existing software and hardware investments. "We're excited to have Fujitsu as a Microsoft Enterprise Partner and sponsor to Developer Days; we have enjoyed a long standing relationship with them" said Tom Button, director of marketing for developer tools, Microsoft. "It's key for Enterprise companies to develop mission-critical computing solutions and Microsoft is delighted that Fujitsu is taking advantage of the power of Microsoft platforms and technologies to bring this functionality to companies worldwide." "Fujitsu COBOL leverages our existing COBOL programs by enabling full support for Windows based client/server computing and providing the `best-of-breed' mission-critical COBOL production environment on Microsoft Windows operating systems," said Murray Fish, chief executive officer of RealWorld Corporation, a leading application vendor for PC. FUJITSU SOFTWARE CORPORATION Fujitsu Software Corporation (FSC) is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Fujitsu Limited, a $34 billion international leader in computers, telecommunications, software and other electronic devices. Founded in 1991, Fujitsu Software Corporation focuses on key technology markets including: on-line multi-user virtual environments, Internet/intranet groupware, multimedia object-oriented software, network management, foreign language translation and programming languages. FSC is headquartered in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . For additional information, visit the FSC Web site at http://www.fsc.fujitsu.com. -0- Note to editors: If you are interested in viewing additional information on Fujitsu COBOL, please visit the Fujitsu COBOL Web page at http://www.adtools.com Fujitsu Software Corporation (FSC) and Fujitsu Limited are trademarks or registered trademarks of Fujitsu Limited of Tokyo. Microsoft, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Windows, Windows NT, BackOffice and ActiveX are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. CONTACT: Fujitsu Software Corporation Andrew Mackenzie, 408/456-7981 and@fsc.fujitsu.com |
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