CA CLIENTS TO CLIMB LEARNING TREE FOR COBOL APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT TRAINING; Learning Tree Becomes Strategic Education Partner For CA-Visual Realia and CA-Realia II Workbench.ISLANDIA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 1995--Demonstrating the importance of premium client education, Computer Associates today announced that Learning Tree International, Reston, VA, is the designated trainer for clients of CA-Visual Realia and CA-Realia II Workbench, CA's PC-based 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. application development solutions. Learning Tree will develop two intensive training courses and offer them both at client sites and at Learning Tree education centers. Clients can supplement their CA product training with Learning Tree's extensive courses on networking, client/server systems databases, programming languages, software development and system support. "The partnership between CA and Learning Tree provides COBOL programmers with a jump-start for moving COBOL applications into the 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. , client/server world without losing invaluable, veteran experience," said Marc Sokol, CA vice president of product strategy. "COBOL programmers don't need to learn a new language with CA-Visual Realia and CA-Realia II Workbench. Now they can learn how to take advantage of the tremendous power of COBOL through simple GUI commands." "We're very pleased to have been selected as the designated training source for these two CA application development products," said Dr. Alan Salisbury, president of Learning Tree. "Based on Learning Tree's long history of providing high quality, vendor-independent training on advanced IT products and technology, CA clients can be confident that our courses will give them the hands-on skills needed to be up and running with these exciting products in short order. "In addition, our full spectrum 83-course curriculum gives CA clients access to all the background technology and related skills necessary to make the client/server transition," said Dr. Salisbury. CA-Visual Realia uses a Windows-based visual programming environment to provide veteran COBOL programmers with new, highly productive tools for creating or updating existing applications, yet retains their full investment in COBOL code and developer experience. CA-Visual Realia creates Windows applications A program that is written to run under Microsoft's Windows operating system. Such applications typically run under all 32-bit versions of Windows, but earlier applications might also run under the 16-bit versions (Windows 3.x) as well. See Windows. that use COBOL for the business logic and GUI Windows tools for the user interface. CA-Realia II Workbench provides a mainframe-compatible COBOL development environment on the PC to maintain or create new character-based applications. CA-Realia II Workbench includes a high-speed COBOL compiler compiler Computer software that translates (compiles) source code written in a high-level language (e.g., C++) into a set of machine-language instructions that can be understood by a digital computer's CPU. , a Windows-hosted DOS debugger Software that helps a programmer debug a program by stopping at certain breakpoints and displaying various programming elements. The programmer can step through source code statements one at a time while the corresponding machine instructions are being executed. , a COBOL-intelligent analyzer, a CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without emulator, an integrated editor and a complete life cycle management tool for source control. Clients who would like detailed course descriptions or additional information may call 1-800-THE TREE (843-8733). From desktop to mainframe, Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CA) leads the world in client/server software. Guided by CA90s open architecture, 8,000 dedicated employees in 30 countries develop, license and support more than 300 integrated products that include systems and database management, application development, financial and manufacturing applications and consumer solutions. The world's major industrial, government and research organizations depend on CA, whose calendar year 1994 revenues exceeded $2.4 billion. Learning Tree International is the world's leading provider of instructor-led advanced technology education. Founded in 1974, the Company delivers 2400 courses per year to more than 35,000 technical professionals from leading corporations and government agencies all over the world. Learning Tree offers 12 Professional Certification Professional certification, trade certification, or professional designation, often called simply certification or qualification, is a designation earned by a person to assure that he/she is qualified to perform a job or task. Programs and its courses are recommended for college credit to more than 1500 universities and colleges throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . -0- All referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Computer Associates, Islandia Bob Gordon Bob Gordon may refer to:
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