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| Robert 2008-01-30, 9:57 pm |
| On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:27:05 -0800 (PST), fox.assistant@gmail.com wrote:
>go to http://groups.google.com/group/web-cobol?hl=it
>and download WebCobolSetup.rar
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>This is an precomplier for AcuCobol that allow to develop .wcp file
>like .asp or .php server page.
It looks impressive. Unfortunately, AcuCobol was acquired by Micro Focus.
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| On 31 Gen, 04:31, Robert <n...@e.mail> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:27:05 -0800 (PST), fox.assist...@gmail.com wrote:
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> It looks impressive. Unfortunately, AcuCobol was acquired by Micro Focus.
I know, but now AcuCobol continues with Micro Focus!!
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| Pete Dashwood 2008-01-31, 7:55 am |
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"Bobo" <r.federiconi@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:d94b5874-622c-487b-860e-7baa10427329@1g2000hsl.googlegroups.com...
> On 31 Gen, 04:31, Robert <n...@e.mail> wrote:
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> I know, but now AcuCobol continues with Micro Focus!!
The question is: For how long?
I'll stick my neck out with some predictions... :-)
1. IBM or ORACLE will acquire MicroFocus within the next 7 years. (Probably
IBM; ORACLE got burnt billions with PeopleSoft and it will take some time
for them to recover...)
2. AcuCOBOL will not be supported within 2 years of tools to convert it to
MicroFocus COBOL becoming available. (I see a rationalisation of the entire
MicroFocus product range. Stephen Kelly is smart and knows they need to
consolidate the product line and their corporate image, for more efficient
marketing. They won't (can't) abandon the existing AcuCOBOL base, so they
will provide them an alternative. The company will be seen more as a "legacy
application moderniser", than as a COBOL vendor...)
3. MicroFocus will announce such a pathway within the next 5 years. (maybe
even within 3 years...)
I promise I have no "insider information" or corporate scuttlebut; these
predictions are based on observable events and trends that are happening
now. As such, I may be completely wrong, but I've made them anyway... :-)
Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
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| Robert 2008-01-31, 6:56 pm |
| On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:36:07 +1300, "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@removethis.enternet.co.nz>
wrote:
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>"Bobo" <r.federiconi@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:d94b5874-622c-487b-860e-7baa10427329@1g2000hsl.googlegroups.com...
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>The question is: For how long?
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>I'll stick my neck out with some predictions... :-)
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>1. IBM or ORACLE will acquire MicroFocus within the next 7 years. (Probably
>IBM; ORACLE got burnt billions with PeopleSoft and it will take some time
>for them to recover...)
>2. AcuCOBOL will not be supported within 2 years of tools to convert it to
>MicroFocus COBOL becoming available. (I see a rationalisation of the entire
>MicroFocus product range. Stephen Kelly is smart and knows they need to
>consolidate the product line and their corporate image, for more efficient
>marketing. They won't (can't) abandon the existing AcuCOBOL base, so they
>will provide them an alternative. The company will be seen more as a "legacy
>application moderniser", than as a COBOL vendor...)
>3. MicroFocus will announce such a pathway within the next 5 years. (maybe
>even within 3 years...)
They had such a pathway years ago, called Lift And Shift. It was for getting off
mainframes.
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| Rene_Surop 2008-02-01, 6:56 pm |
| On Jan 31, 2:36 am, "Pete Dashwood"
<dashw...@removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote:
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> The question is: For how long?
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> I'll stick my neck out with some predictions... :-)
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> 1. IBM or ORACLE will acquire MicroFocus within the next 7 years. (Probably
> IBM; ORACLE got burnt billions with PeopleSoft and it will take some time
> for them to recover...)
> 2. AcuCOBOL will not be supported within 2 years of tools to convert it to
> MicroFocus COBOL becoming available. (I see a rationalisation of the entire
> MicroFocus product range. Stephen Kelly is smart and knows they need to
> consolidate the product line and their corporate image, for more efficient
> marketing. They won't (can't) abandon the existing AcuCOBOL base, so they
> will provide them an alternative. The company will be seen more as a "legacy
> application moderniser", than as a COBOL vendor...)
> 3. MicroFocus will announce such a pathway within the next 5 years. (maybe
> even within 3 years...)
>
> I promise I have no "insider information" or corporate scuttlebut; these
> predictions are based on observable events and trends that are happening
> now. As such, I may be completely wrong, but I've made them anyway... :-)
>
> Pete.
It could be. Great predictions... it would be an advantage (IBM or
Oracle) but in every acquisition success depends on corporate culture
compatibility. Look what happened last time with Merant.
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| Judson McClendon 2008-02-01, 6:56 pm |
| "Rene_Surop" <infodynamics_ph@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Pete Dashwood" <dashw...@removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote:
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> It could be. Great predictions... it would be an advantage (IBM or
> Oracle) but in every acquisition success depends on corporate culture
> compatibility. Look what happened last time with Merant.
I would expect IBM to be far more receptive to a COBOL mindset than
Oracle. :-)
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Judson McClendon judmc@sunvaley0.com (remove zero)
Sun Valley Systems http://sunvaley.com
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."
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| C Goodman 2008-02-01, 6:56 pm |
| Bobo wrote:
> On 31 Gen, 04:31, Robert <n...@e.mail> wrote:
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> I know, but now AcuCobol continues with Micro Focus!!
Does anybody remember MBP COBOL. They were acquired by MF.
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| Robert 2008-02-01, 9:56 pm |
| On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:46:33 GMT, C Goodman <foxgrove@shaw.ca> wrote:
>Bobo wrote:
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>Does anybody remember MBP COBOL. They were acquired by MF.
MBP was written in CDL2, a precursor of C, in Germany, in the early '90s. I wrote a review
of it in 1994. It generated honest to god native machine code for the Intel 80xx, while
other compilers of the era generated interpreted p-code. The compiler was terribly slow,
took ten minutes for an average program, becaise the compiler itself was nasty interpreted
p-code.
Micro Focus did the world a favor by putting it out of its misery.
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