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Micro Focus and Microsoft focus on COBOL modernization


By David Worthington
July 2, 2008 — 
Application management specialist Micro Focus has forged a strategic relationship with Microsoft to deepen the integration of the former’s COBOL tools with the latter’s platform technologies.

Micro Focus said today it would work with Microsoft to develop functionality for Enterprise Server, Net Express and SOA Express products to bring Micro Focus’ trio of products closer to the full Microsoft stack.

Customers will be able to create managed 64-bit code with hooks for Microsoft technologies, including the BizTalk Server, .NET Framework, the Server and System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), SQL Server and Team Foundation Server, Micro Focus said.

As a result, BizTalk will be able to connect to enterprise COBOL applications and SCOM will manage those applications, while SQL Server will be used as Micro Focus’ primary data platform for enterprise applications, said company CTO Stuart McGill.

“The purpose of this relationship [with Microsoft] is for our customers to be able to take COBOL applications that are running their business and have them play a full part in the Windows environment and .NET,” he said. While Micro Focus’ current products do not specify that customers should have the full Microsoft stack in place, future versions will, he noted.

Ultimately, COBOL applications would be more reliable, perform better and be easier to manage on Windows, McGill added.

“Modern [programming] architecture now means that it is far more important that applications fit into a prescribed architecture than what language they are written in,” he said, adding that COBOL application “components can be deployed across the enterprise in a host of different ways.”


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