Micro Focus to Provide the Latest in COBOL Development Technology for the Eclipse Platform.Offering to provide customers with increased development platform choices ROCKVILLE, Md. & NEWBURY, England -- Micro Focus[R] (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :MCRO.L), a leading provider of enterprise application modernization software, today announces that it will support the Eclipse platform as part of its industry-leading 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. development product lines. Micro Focus will deliver the required plug-ins to enable rapid development of COBOL applications or composite Java/COBOL applications within the Eclipse Framework. Micro Focus is adding Eclipse support into its key products for Windows, 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). , Linux, and mainframe application development. This will include existing Micro Focus facilities for creating 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. from existing applications, and will provide a unified Eclipse-based environment that will standardize the development of traditional workloads and facilitate the move to Service Oriented Architectures (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ). Micro Focus support for Eclipse will offer enterprise application development teams a consistent Integrated Development Environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment (IDE) regardless of where the application is to be deployed, while taking advantage of the efficiencies inherent in Eclipse to offer best-of-breed productivity. Micro Focus is already an Add-In Provider member of the Eclipse Foundation The Eclipse Foundation leads the development of Eclipse, the open-source Java application platform and IDE. History In 2003–2004 the Eclipse Consortium, an unofficial consortium of software industry vendors led by IBM, founded The Eclipse Foundation, a , a not-for-profit corporation A not-for-profit corporation is a corporation created by statute, government or judicial authority that is not intended to provide a profit to the owners or members. A corporation that is organized to provide profits to its owners or members is a for-profit corporation. formed to advance the creation, evolution, promotion and support of Eclipse. This announcement means Micro Focus will accelerate its Eclipse integration, a move based on the growing popularity of Eclipse and on an increase in demand from its customer base. Eclipse support within Micro Focus' distributed COBOL development products, Net Express[R] (for Windows) and Server Express[TM] (for UNIX and Linux) is targeted for delivery during the second quarter of 2007. Eclipse support for Micro Focus' IBM mainframe IBM mainframes, though perceived as synonymous with mainframe computers in general due to their marketshare, are now technically and specifically IBM's line of business computers that can all trace their design evolution to the IBM System/360. application development environment, Mainframe Express[R] Enterprise Edition, will follow. Micro Focus will open an Early Adopter Program for its Eclipse integration capabilities in the first quarter of 2007. "Micro Focus is committed to delivering highly productive COBOL development platforms that offer our customers choice among all leading IDEs," said Stuart McGill, vice president of worldwide marketing at Micro Focus. "We already offer our customers the ability to embrace the market leading Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft Visual Studio is Microsoft's flagship software development product for computer programmers. It centers on an integrated development environment which lets programmers create standalone applications, web sites, web applications, and web services that run on any platforms development environment and I'm delighted that today we can answer the requests of our customers who wish to standardize on the Eclipse platform by announcing our intent to add Eclipse support into our current product suite." "Eclipse's goal is to create a multi-language development platform that increases efficiency in enterprise software development," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. "As the largest vendor of COBOL solutions off the mainframe, Micro Focus' announcement today is great news for COBOL programmers who can now look forward to enjoying the benefits of the Eclipse Platform while developing, extending and modernizing their enterprise applications." About Micro Focus Micro Focus provides innovative software that helps companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization software enables customers' business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk. For more information please visit www.microfocus.com. Micro Focus, Net Express and Mainframe Express are registered trademarks and Server Express is a trademark of Micro Focus. All other products mentioned in this announcement are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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