Acucorp Inc. Products to be Resold by HP.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 1998--Acucorp Inc., a leading provider of portable, open systems development tools, Tuesday announced an agreement for Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) to resell its products and services through HP's North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Complementary Products Division, formerly known as the Local Products Organization (LPO LPO London Philharmonic Orchestra LPO Legal Process Outsourcing LPO Local Purchase Order LPO Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra LPO Legal Process Offshoring LPO Leading Petty Officer LPO Loan Production Office LPO Lattice Preferred Orientation ). This agreement was signed on Aug. 14th and provides Acucorp with strong reseller capability in a wide range of markets. It provides HP customers the ability to acquire Acucorp's products as part of an integrated HP solution. Acucorp products complement HP server solutions for customers migrating their legacy 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. applications to open systems and/or seeking a rapid COBOL development environment to meet their business critical I.T. needs. Acucorp products offer customers a proven, Year 2000 compliant a. 1. (Computers) having dates fully and properly represented, and not susceptible to failure due to the year 2000 bug. , financially attractive option for modernizing COBOL applications. The Acucorp products included in this agreement are part of the ACUCOBOL-GT Development Suite and are designed to help organizations update their COBOL applications with GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. front-ends, client/server functionality, Web enablement, connectivity to industry-leading RDBMS's, cross-platform portability, and the ability to easily deploy COBOL applications across the Enterprise. These products include: ACUCOBOL(TM)-GT - compiler and runtime which offer native COBOL GUI syntax extensions; Acu4GL(TM) seamless COBOL-to-RDBMS interface; AcuBench(TM) - integrated development environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment ; AcuConnect(TM) - runtime application server; ACUCOBOL(TM)-GT Web Browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. Plug-In Runtime - to easily deploy COBOL applications over the Internet; AcuServer(TM) - client/server file system; and AcuODBC(TM) -interface from Windows applications to COBOL data files. "There is a natural synergy with this alliance," said Pamela Coker, president and chief executive officer of Acucorp. "Acucorp products are UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Windows NT-based and integrate well with HP Enterprise Server computing solutions. Acucorp's products help customers retain their competitive advantage by protecting their investment in applications that have been successfully meeting their mission-critical business needs for years, while at the same time modernizing those applications to incorporate the latest technologies." About Acucorp Inc. Founded in 1988, Acucorp Inc. is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with headquarters in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. and additional offices in Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and England. Acucorp's products are distributed in over 70 countries throughout the world. With over 1 million end-users, Acucorp provides superior technology for developing open systems COBOL applications. Acucorp developed the first truly portable COBOL compiler (currently ported to over 600 platforms), the first graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to for COBOL, and the first patented relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. interface. Acucorp's customers include: Atlantic Records, Bank of China, Chrysler, Coca Cola Bottling Co., GE Capital, Honey Baked Foods, Met Life Capital, State of California Insurance Fund, the U.S. Air Force, and Warner/Elektra/Atlantic. Information on Acucorp solutions may be obtained via e-mail at info@acucorp.com or by accessing Acucorp's World Wide Web site at: http://www.acucorp.com. About HP HP's North American Complementary Products Division, formerly known as the Local Products Organization (LPO), serves the HP Enterprise and Commercial Sales organizations by procuring third-party products for integration in complete technology solutions for HP's customers. Hewlett-Packard Co. is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 127,200 employees and had revenue of $42.9 billion in its 1997 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. ACUCORP, ACUCOBOL, Acu4GL, AcuODBC, AcuServer, AcuBench, and AcuConnect are trademarks of Acucorp Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open(copyright)Company Ltd. X/Open is a registered trademark, and the X device is a trademark of X/Open Company Ltd. in the UK and other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks referenced in this document are the property of their respective holders. |
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