Micro Focus and m2o Successfully Migrate Legacy Applications to Windows Platform.ORLANDO, Fla. -- Central States Health & Life Co. of Omaha Latest to Move from Mainframe to Windows to Reduce Total Cost of Ownership Micro Focus International Ltd. (Micro Focus(R)) today announced from Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo 2004 that it has once again successfully partnered with m2o (Move2open), a leading provider of data migration and application conversion technologies, to migrate critical legacy applications from the proprietary mainframe environment to the more open and extensible Microsoft(R) Windows(R) platform. Central States Health & Life Co. of Omaha (CSO (Chief Security Officer) The person in charge of all staff members who are responsible for promulgating, enforcing and administering security policies for all systems within an enterprise or division. ) joins Tulane University History Founding/early history The University dates from 1834 as the Medical College of Louisiana.<ref name="facts" /> With the addition of a law department, it became The University of Louisiana as one of the most recent organizations to have realized the cost benefits of moving off the mainframe to the lower cost Windows solution. Both m2o and Micro Focus are members of the Mainframe Migration Alliance, a consortium of technology and service providers committed to helping customers migrate application workload from the mainframe to the Windows platform. CSO decided to move critical mainframe applications to Windows for two primary reasons. First, were high hardware and software costs associated with maintaining a mainframe environment, and second was difficulty finding and retaining personnel trained in the proprietary CA-IDEAL language and CA-Datacom database. Using the services of m2o and technology provided by Micro Focus, CSO converted its CA-IDEAL application portfolio to new 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. code using SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. databases on the Windows platform. "We were delighted with the results of our move off the mainframe to Windows," said Eric Kennedy, chief information officer at CSO. "Instead of paying the high mainframe hardware and software costs for proprietary legacy systems, we now have open, industry standard COBOL systems running on Windows servers See Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server, Windows 2000 and Windows NT. . The migration has reduced our operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales with minimal risk, freeing up IT resources for revenue generating projects." "This is not the first time we have teamed with Micro Focus to move proprietary CA-IDEAL and CA-Datacom on the mainframe to COBOL and SQL Server on the Windows platform," said Nick Jones, director of sales at m2o. "Our expertise in language and database conversions along with the "Lift & Shift" approach to platform migration from Micro Focus is a win-win for customers like CSO looking to reduce costs by moving off the mainframe." "We are delighted to be partnering with m2o to unlock the value of our customers' legacy," said Ian Archbell, vice president of product management at Micro Focus. "Once again a customer has seen the advantages of lifting and shifting application workload to the modern Windows environment (1) (upper case "W") Refers to computers running under a Microsoft Windows operating system. (2) (lower case "w") Also called a "windowing environment," it refers to any software that provides multiple windows on screen such as Windows, Mac, Motif and X Window. to reduce costs and increase business agility." More information about customer successes and mainframe migrations can be found by visiting www.mainframemigration.org, the community website of the MMA (Microcomputer Managers Association, Inc.) A membership organization with chapters throughout the U.S. that was devoted to educating personnel responsible for personal computers. It disbanded in 1996. Mma - A fast Mathematica-like system, in Allegro CL by R. Fateman, 1991. and its membership. About m2o m2o is a leading provider of data migration and application conversion solutions that unlock the value of relational databases and legacy systems. m2o specializes in transforming legacy applications, including automated conversions from CA-IDEAL to open languages such as COBOL and Java and migrations from CA-Datacom to open databases such as CA-Ingres, Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server. m2o provides automated conversion tools and migration services that offer wide platform coverage, exceptional accuracy and clear Return on Investment that are unmatched by any other vendor or solution. m2o has over ten years experience with a worldwide customer base of blue-chip organizations that benefit from its unique expertise and automated tools. For more information, visit: www.move2open.com. About Micro Focus Micro Focus is the leading provider of legacy application development and deployment software for contemporary platforms. Micro Focus enables organizations to unlock the value of their legacy by reusing their business-critical assets with .NET, Java, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. and Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. , resulting in reduced costs, increased agility and minimal risk. Founded in 1976, Micro Focus is a global company with principal offices in the United Kingdom, United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Japan. For more information, visit www.microfocus.com. Micro Focus is a registered trademark of Micro Focus International, Ltd. All other products mentioned in this announcement are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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