Defining Innovation In today’s fast-changing world, ‘innovation’ is a buzzword that has been widely used by the media and corporations alike. The issue with it is that ‘innovation’ is a subjective matter, and the word can be used to mean pretty much anything you like. I joined Micro...
We are delighted to announce Visual COBOL 3.0 , the latest major release of our modern solution for COBOL application development and deployment. Visual COBOL is the bridge to modern software development practices and the latest delivery platforms. This release enables Net Express and...
We are delighted to announce the latest release of our mainframe solution for application development, testing, deployment and modernization— Enterprise 3.0 . This release includes Enterprise Developer, Enterprise Test Server, Enterprise Server and Enterprise Server for .NET. Key features...
Micro Focus is delighted to announce the availability of a new book - Visual COBOL: A Developer’s Guide to Modern COBOL . Designed for Java, .NET and COBOL developers, this new resource offers over 300 pages of technical content and code samples along with access to a free student developer...
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On April 4th, Micro Focus announced its Visual COBOL solution now supports Microsoft Visual Studio 2017. For over 50 years, the enterprise has continued to rely on COBOL applications to drive competitive advantage and deliver critical business services. As the pace of business change accelerates...
With over 50 years of history, COBOL remains a significant language throughout the business world. The language itself is vast. It contains many different dialects such as the mainframe IBM Enterprise COBOL, and ANSI 74, 85 and ISO2002 standards. Developers who are unfamiliar with COBOL stand a...
Developing COBOL applications has, until now, been largely constrained to the desktop environment. Over the summer, we set out to change the limitations of developing COBOL applications on the desktop environment, with a team of interns from Southampton and Cambridge Universities. The result was...
I read today, 16th July 2012, that the remaining problems affecting customers of Ulster Bank, one of the banks affected by the RBS Group IT 'glitch', will be resolved "this week" (SkyNews.com) This is about a month after the original crash occurred. I blogged about this on the main Micro...
(as published in DZONE.COM) In the midst of all the expectations and pressure, IT needs to get back to basics with software development and re-establish the foothold that can fuel business growth. How can this be achieved, while remaining on the breaking edge of industry trends? Here are...
Leading industry online publication ComputerWeekly.com recently ran an interesting article showing the value, in salary terms, of developers learning more than one programming language. Micro Focus supports this view by ensuring COBOL development sits alongside - in the same IDE in fact - as...