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August 2006
Acucorp eUpdate provides timely
service, solution and training updates to our valued
customers and partners. For more information on
these and other late-breaking Acucorp news, please
visit our Web
site.
Register
for Acucorp’s U.S. Developers’ Conference
and You Could Win a Free USB Thumb Drive
Acucorp’s
U.S. Developers’ Conference is just over one
month away. And if you haven’t registered yet, you only have
until Friday, August 11 to guarantee your discounted
room rate at the Conference hotel, the Manchester
Grand Hyatt. Reserve
your seat today by signing up for the Conference
Package*, which includes two hotel nights, and you could win
a free Acucorp 256K USB thumb drive worth
approximately $25 if you are among the first five
people to complete the registration
process** after receiving this email (odds of winning are 1 in
20).
Scheduled for September 13-15 in San Diego, California,
this year’s Conference includes two full days
of technical presentations, interactive roundtable
discussions, and networking opportunities. It also
includes dinner aboard the historic USS
Midway, the
longest-serving aircraft carrier in U.S. Naval history.
Among the many presentations are:
- An overview of the features available in Version 7.2 of extend®,
such as optimized sorting capabilities, enhanced
native code generation, faster CALL handling, and
Thin Client auto update
- Solutions for accessing data from Vision, MySQL, and relational
database management systems (RDBMSs)
- New AcuBench® productivity
enhancements (autoload code generation for paged list boxes, list
boxes, combo boxes, grids and paged grids)
- ACUCOBOL-GT® tips and tricks
- Real-world customer case studies
- A technical panel to answer your ACUCOBOL-GT programming questions
- Roundtable discussion groups, led by Acucorp developers and technical
experts
- A presentation by Drake Coker, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder,
on the company’s future directions
The Conference also features an optional, hands-on training
session on Wednesday, September 13. As
an attendee, you will learn best practices for
graphical user interface (GUI) design and receive
an overview and recommendations for using ActiveX® controls.
With only a month left, and an August 11 deadline to reserve your
hotel room, make sure to register today. For more information about
the Conference, please visit our Web
site.
Conference
Sponsors
*The Conference package includes
a two-night hotel stay (September 13 and 14), admission
to all Conference sessions, the Welcome Reception,
breakfast and lunch on both days of the event, dinner
on Thursday, and all Conference materials.
** This promotion is being sponsored by Acucorp, Inc. located at 8515
Miralani Drive, San Diego, CA 92126, United States. To qualify for
the free Acucorp USB Thumb Drive, you have to be among the first five
people to register for the Conference Package, which costs $1,095.
In addition, you must have completed the registration process by confirming
the details of your stay and providing Acucorp the required credit
card information necessary for payment. Finally, you must not have
contacted Acucorp previously about registration or be in the middle
of the registration process with an Acucorp Marketing representative.
For official contest rules, please click here.
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Acucorp’s Pan-European
Developers’ Conference is Coming Soon
Pack your bags for
Acucorp’s pan-European Developers’ Conference,
scheduled for September 25-26 in Berlin, Germany.
The Conference—which brings together members
of the Acucorp COBOL community from across Europe,
including France, Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia,
Spain, and the U.K.—takes place at the five-star
Radisson
SAS Hotel located in the heart of Berlin.
In addition to providing you with an opportunity
to meet fellow ACUCOBOL-GT developers and Acucorp
technical experts (such as the Development Manager
and Director of Product Management) from the company’s
San Diego headquarters, the Conference features in-depth
presentations, customer success stories, and interactive
roundtable discussion groups. Click here for the
full agenda. Register today and you will receive
a one-night hotel stay, admission to all Conference
sessions, the Welcome Dinner, breakfast and lunch
on the second day of the event, and all Conference
materials. For more information, please visit our
Web
site.
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Don’t
Miss the Acucorp Developers’ Conference in Australia
Brisbane,
Australia is one of the exciting stops
on Acucorp’s Developers’ Conference
world tour, so mark your calendar for October 23-24.
The event, which will be held at the Royal
on the Park Hotel, includes in-depth presentations on
such topics as Proven Tools
and Techniques to Boost Performance and Future
Directions. Also included
are an overview on our latest Version 7.2 release,
a technical panel, and an optional group discussion.
On the night of Monday, October 23, you are
invited to attend the Conference dinner at the
nearby Venice Café Bar, known for its mouthwatering
meals and river views. You won’t want to
miss this informative Conference: register today.
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Acucorp’s Advanced
Windows Training Course Travels the Globe
Acucorp’s Systems
Programmer, Gisle Forseth, will be taking the Advanced
Windows Development with ACUCOBOL-GT Training course
all over the world, stopping first in Munich, Germany
on October 5-6. In addition to Munich, Mr. Forseth
will be visiting six cities in five different
countries:
- Twickenham, U.K.: October 19-20
- Utrecht, Netherlands: October 23-24
- Piacenza, Italy: November 20-21
- Johannesburg, South Africa: November 23-24
- Atlanta, GA: November 30-December 1
- Chicago, IL: December 4-5
This two-day advanced training course features:
- An overview of terms, such as API, DLL,
OCX, and COM
- Windows data types versus ACUCOBOL-GT
- Accessing the Windows API
- COM fundamentals
- ActiveX fundamentals
- ACUCOBOL-GT syntax for
Windows programming
- Accessing the COBOL Virtual
Machine™ from
C++, Visual Basic, and Delphi
- Unicode
- Distributing ActiveX components
Also included is information about Microsoft Office
tools, such as mail merge, charts, and formulas,
as well as functions like updating databases
and generating reports. The Microsoft components
provided with ACUCOBOL-GT are also covered. During
the course, you will have the opportunity to
put into practice what you learn through hands-on
lab exercises and classroom examples. You will
also receive a workbook containing copies of
the presentation slides and a CD containing extensive
sample code, as well as code for the lab exercises.
To register for any of these cities, please complete
our online registration form by selecting the location
and date. For more information, please contact your
Sales
Professional.
Note: A basic understanding of Windows and ACUCOBOL-GT
are prerequisites for this class.
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Requesting Enhancements
for WIN$PRINTER
Your opinion counts!
So that we can better allocate our development
resources, we need your feedback on the library
routine, WIN$PRINTER. Specifically, we'd like your
input on the following:
- How extensively are you using WIN$PRINTER?
- In what ways are you using this library routine?
- Do you use WIN$PRINTER in a Thin Client environment?
- Do you have enhancements to WIN$PRINTER that
you would recommend we implement? If so, please
tell us what they are.
So that we can make sure to properly consider
your feedback, please send your responses directly
to Lori
Galvàn, Director of Marketing.
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Stay Current with Acucorp's
Online Customer Forum
Acucorp's Customer
Forum is a great way for you to keep up-to-date
on new technology as well as interact with other
customers and our technical experts. As a member,
you can post or answer messages in several categories.
These include general development, language interoperability,
graphical programming/Active X, Linux and UNIX, and
enhancements to extend.
The Customer Forum is part of the registered
users section of our Web site and,
therefore, requires a valid user name and password.
If you do not know your user name and password, or
are unsure as to whether you have access to the registered
users section of our Web site, contact your Sales
Professional.
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Baker Seeks a Wholesome
Alternative to the HP e3000
Lewis Bakeries, one
of the few remaining independent wholesale bakeries
in the United States, has relied on an HP COBOL
II application that was developed in house to run
its business. But this application became costly
to maintain, and HP announced that it would no
longer support the platform on which it ran, the
HP e3000. As a result, Lewis decided to move its
business system to an HP Itanium 64-bit processor
running HP-UX. The company selected ACUCOBOL-GT
as its open-systems COBOL. Please click here to
read how Acucorp helped Lewis successfully complete
its migration project on time and under budget.
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Upcoming Events
LinuxWorld
Conference & Expo
San Francisco, CA: August 14-17
Acucorp will exhibit in the IBM booth at the upcoming
LinuxWorld
Conference & Expo. Throughout the
Expo, Acucorp will demonstrate its support for both
Linux and IBM.
Windows Application Development with AcuBench and
ACUCOBOL-GT
Utrecht, Netherlands: September 11-14
San Diego, CA: October 9-12
As an attendee, you will receive four full days
of intensive training on AcuBench and ACUCOBOL-GT,
the best tools for COBOL Windows development as well
as:
- Become productive using AcuBench for all
phases of the application development cycle (design,
coding, and testing)
- Receive an overview of the extend7 components
- Receive introductions to project management
and configuration, graphical designers, the integrated
debugger, ACUCOBOL-GT tools, and graphical controls
within AcuBench.
- Learn the AcuBench Report Composer feature and
see how to access XML data from a COBOL application
- Apply the features and techniques introduced
by the instructor through practical tutorials and
exercises
Contact your Acucorp Sales
Professional to register
or visit our Web
site for more information.
HP Technology Forum 2006
Houston, TX: September 17-22
Acucorp will present and exhibit at the upcoming
HP
Technology Forum 2006. Its first presentation,
Session #1363, (Tuesday, September 19 at 3:30 p.m.)
is entitled “Migrate, Modernize, and Extend
Your HP e3000 Applications” and will demonstrate
how, by implementing a proven migration strategy,
you can avoid many of the common pitfalls associated
with moving HP e3000 applications to new platforms.
Acucorp’s second presentation, Session #1369,
(Thursday, September 21 at 12:30 p.m.) is entitled “SOA
Through Legacy Migration and Modernization,” will
show how you can employ composite architectures and
key technology components to transform your COBOL
applications and deliver business-critical systems
for a service-oriented architecture. While at the
show, Acucorp will also exhibit in HP’s DSPP
(Developer & Solution Partner Program) Pavilion,
Booth D3.
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Holiday
Office Closures
Please note that Acucorp’s San Diego and European offices will
be closed during the following days in August and
early September. All technical support questions
and general queries will be addressed promptly when
the offices re-open.
France:
• August 15 - Assumption Day
Germany:
• August 15 - Assumption Day
Italy:
• August 15 - Assumption Day
U.K.:
• August 28 - Summer Bank Holiday
U.S.:
• September 4 - Labor Day
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