Is NetExpress version 5.1 compatible with Windows Server 2012 R2?

 

Thank you,

Carol Carr

The following is our official statement regarding Net Express:

There is currently no end of life statement for Net Express. However, Net Express is not certified on Windows 10 or versions thereafter. This is in part due to limitations of the underlying build tools and Microsoft C-runtime environment with which the product was originally developed. Updating the build tools would require wholesale changes to Net Express and the COBOL runtime system which would introduce breaking changes to COBOL applications. As such, Net Express will remain at this level of Microsoft tooling and customers requiring support for more recent versions of Windows should be considering Visual COBOL for these purposes.

While the Net Express product and COBOL applications developed with it may function on new releases of Windows, this greatly depends on the components used by the application and more importantly, 3rd party software, that is beyond our ability to control. Subtle changes in the Windows platform and 3rd party software can introduce unpredictable behavior resulting in application failures. Micro Focus will make reasonable efforts to resolve issues reported by customers but strongly recommend the use of Visual COBOL which is fully supported on Windows 10 and above.

You should speak to your Account Manager about moving from Net Express to Visual COBOL.

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