Fujitsu Software Corporation Adds Optimization and Multi-Threading in NetCOBOL for Linux V7.0.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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)--Jan. 22, 2003 Fujitsu Software Corporation today announced the immediate availability of an upgrade to its NetCOBOL for Linux product. The upgrade contains two important features for those creating production applications: the addition of NetCOBOL's compiler code optimization and an upgrade in the run-time support run-time support - run-time system so that it can be used in multi-threaded applications. "I'm pleased to be releasing this upgrade at a such a good time for customers who have been developing applications using the initial NetCOBOL for Linux release," said Ron Langer, Director of Languages for Fujitsu Software Corporation. "We are excited that customers can now use our fully optimized code when they go to production and can include NetCOBOL components in multi-threaded applications, a common requirement for Web-based applications." Rick Hardman, Software Development Manager for DB-NET, a developer of specialized accounting systems for distributors, said, "My customers were already excited about the performance they were achieving with the early version of NetCOBOL for Linux so they'll be pleased to see further performance improvements with the optimized code. I ran tests on a series of benchmarks which are very I/O intensive Refers to an application that reads and/or writes a large amount of data. The performance of such an application depends on the speed of the computer's peripheral devices and can cause a computer to become I/O bound. See I/O bound. , so I wasn't expecting to see significant timing improvements, but this new release had these applications executing up to 18 percent faster with an average gain of around 12 percent. For I/O bound Refers to an excessive amount of time getting data in and out of the computer in relation to the time it takes for processing it. Faster channels and disk drives improve the performance of I/O bound computers. See I/O intensive. applications that's pretty significant." Other features of NetCOBOL for Linux include: support for the 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. 85 standard, object oriented See object technology and object-oriented programming. COBOL extensions, embedded SQL SQL statements that are written into a high-level programming language such as C or Pascal. In a preprocessing stage, the SQL code is converted into function calls, which may be optimized to provide the fastest results. , data file maintenance tools, and NetCOBOL's API for creating CGI CGI in full Common Gateway Interface. Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program. Internet applications. A point of significant interest is the product's use of the Eclipse IDE - an Open Source cross-product development environment produced by the Eclipse consortium, of which Fujitsu is a member. Fujitsu has donated its COBOL-enabling sources to the consortium as the base for a COBOL tools subproject. For more details about NetCOBOL for Linux go to: http://www.netcobol.com/products/unix/linux.htm About Fujitsu Software Corporation Fujitsu Software Corporation, based 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. , is part of the Fujitsu Limited family. Fujitsu Software Corporation leverages Fujitsu's international scope and expertise in developing and providing information technology solutions. Fujitsu Software Corporation's products include NetCOBOL and Interstage(TM), e-business infrastructure software. NetCOBOL is a COBOL development environment and suite of tools to build fast, mission-critical business systems on open platforms, including Microsoft's .NET Framework. For more information, visit http://www.fsw.fujitsu.com About Fujitsu Limited Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting technologies, high-reliability/performance computing and telecommunications platforms, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts make Fujitsu uniquely positioned to unleash the infinite possibilities of the broadband Internet to help its customers succeed. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :6702) reported consolidated revenues of 5 trillion yen (about US$38 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2002. For more information, please see: http://www.fujitsu.com/. Fujitsu Software Corporation ("FSW") and Fujitsu Limited are trademarks or registered trademarks of Fujitsu Limited of Tokyo. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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