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Peter Alluyn

2004-03-26, 11:00 pm

Hello,

Our company is searching a Linux Cobol Environment with cheap runtime
licences. All ideas are welcome.

Thanks

Bernard Giroud

2004-03-26, 11:00 pm

Peter Alluyn a écrit :

> Hello,
>
> Our company is searching a Linux Cobol Environment with cheap runtime
> licences. All ideas are welcome.
>
> Thanks

TinyCOBOL or OpenCOBOL might be your choice: no cost.

--
Bernard Giroud
Open Source COBOL Tools Developer

Steve Youngs

2004-03-26, 11:00 pm

* Peter Alluyn <peter_alluyn@hotmail.com> writes:

> Our company is searching a Linux Cobol Environment with cheap
> runtime licences. All ideas are welcome.

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Doug Robinson

2004-03-26, 11:00 pm

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 21:00:02 GMT, Steve Youngs <sryoungs@bigpond.net.au>
wrote:

> * Peter Alluyn <peter_alluyn@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>
> <http://www.google.com/>
>
Peter;
Depends on your definition of cheap, AcuCobol runtimes are nominal enuf
(if you don't go for the thin client version which only displays on
Windoze.) Or you could take a look at Kobol from the Kompany which is
developing nicely, but they don't have any GUI capabilities defined as of
yet. The worlds largest body of code is not well represented in this
environment.......hopefully in the future..... fdr

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Vaclav Snajdr

2004-03-26, 11:00 pm

Peter Alluyn wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Our company is searching a Linux Cobol Environment with cheap runtime
> licences. All ideas are welcome.
>
>
> Thanks

If you start with cobol you can try to take Kobol, OpenCobol or TinyCobol.
But if you have a Cobol written application with thousands of statements
you must use one of the prof. Cobol compilers (Micro Focus, Acu, Fujitsu,
IBM, etc.) because the extensions of the Compiler are the salt in the
soupe.

A GUI for Linux has nobody, only TinyCobol makes some translations to Tcl/Tk
from screen section.

We use now Tcl/Tk for the front-end and MF-Cobol for the back-end.

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Vaclav Snajdr

Bob Wolfe

2004-03-26, 11:00 pm

"Peter Alluyn" <peter_alluyn@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Our company is searching a Linux Cobol Environment with cheap runtime
>licences. All ideas are welcome.
>
>
>Thanks
>

Peter:

Fujitsu has a Linux COBOL compiler and I'm quite sure that they don't
charge a runtime distribution fee at all.

Bob Wolfe
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Bob Wolfe

2004-03-26, 11:00 pm

Vaclav Snajdr <vsn@snajdr.de> wrote:

>Peter Alluyn wrote:
>
>
>If you start with cobol you can try to take Kobol, OpenCobol or TinyCobol.
>But if you have a Cobol written application with thousands of statements
>you must use one of the prof. Cobol compilers (Micro Focus, Acu, Fujitsu,
>IBM, etc.) because the extensions of the Compiler are the salt in the
>soupe.
>
>A GUI for Linux has nobody, only TinyCobol makes some translations to Tcl/Tk
>from screen section.

Vaclav:

It is possible to use COBOL sp2 to design GUI screens and run them
with the Flexus Web Client from a Linux server. This allows you to
display the GUI screens in a Linux GUI web browser.

>
>We use now Tcl/Tk for the front-end and MF-Cobol for the back-end.

Bob Wolfe
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