OpenVMS Itanium Support Announced

L’Oréal Mexico Completes HP e3000 Migration Using Acucorp Technologies

Web Site Serves as One-Stop Resource

Acucorp Named to HP e3000 Transition Tools Program

Acucorp Presents at HP Interex Sweden Event

Upcoming Events

Acucorp’s HP eUpdate provides timely service, solution and training updates to HP employees and business partners. For more information about Acucorp or its extend COBOL modernization solutions for HP platforms, including HP/UX, Linux, OpenVMS, Tru64, and Windows, please visit our Web site.

Version 6.1 Release Features Native Code Enhancements for PA-RISC

Acucorp’s recent release of extend Version 6.1 provides COBOL developers with the ability to create native instructions for 32- and 64-bit PA-RISC machines running under HP-UX—substantially improving performance for CPU-intensive processes. Initial benchmarking tests performed with NCR Corporation's Csample program indicate that tasks were completed more than twice as fast on the 32- and 64-bit HP-UX 11i machine using native code, thus reducing the processing time by more than 50 percent. For more information about Version 6.1, or our enhanced support for COBOL interoperability with XML and thin client architecture, please visit our Web site.

In addition to unparalleled platform portability and performance, Acucorp’s extend6 family of solutions provide technologies for: wrapping legacy assets and deploying them in a Service-Oriented Architecture or as Web services; language interoperability with .NET, J2EE, Visual Basic and C#; COBOL-based Web or mobile connectivity; improved transaction response times; access to relational database management systems (RDBMSs) or other data source; and graphical user interface (GUI) design. For a complete list of our legacy modernization and extension solutions, please visit the Web site.

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OpenVMS Itanium Support Announced

Continuing its longstanding support of the OpenVMS platform, Acucorp has announced plans to support OpenVMS on the cost-effective, industry-standard HP Integrity platform, based on the Intel Itanium2 architecture. In preparation, Acucorp has attained “Integrity Ready” status as an OpenVMS 8.1 Fast-track partner by completing a successful pre-release port to the platform. Whether running on Alpha or Itanium2 architectures, Acucorp support means OpenVMS customers can take advantage of Acucorp’s unique capabilities to run mission-critical workloads on a state-of-the-art COBOL platform. Stay tuned for more information as well as a formal announcement on our enhanced support as OpenVMS 8.1 on Itanium2 approaches release.

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L’Oréal Mexico Completes HP e3000 Migration Using Acucorp Technologies

“Acucorp’s innovative technologies and responsive customer service have changed our business forever,” explains Jesús Solórzano, IT manager for L’Oréal Mexico, a subsidiary of the French cosmetics giant L’Oréal. “We’re not only saving money; we’re also able to keep our application and open it up to a whole new set of technologies.”

Faced with eventual end-of-support for their HP e3000 server, L’Oréal Mexico chose to migrate its manufacturing application to an HP ProLiant DL740 running Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Microsoft SQL Server 2000, and convert from HP COBOL II to Acucorp’s ACUCOBOL-GT. The COBOL-to-COBOL conversion provided a rapid solution that preserved their 16-year investment in the existing code, saving them the time and expense involved in rewriting a 400-program application. It also allowed them to keep their existing character-based interface, while preserving the possibility of adding a COBOL graphical interface in the future. And, by migrating their system to another HP platform, L’Oréal Mexico was able to reduce its annual hardware support costs by 95 percent.

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Web Site Serves as One-Stop Resource

Looking for information on recent trends in the COBOL application development industry? Then, look no further than Acucorp’s Web site. In addition to providing visitors with technical information on each of our extend solutions, the Web site also features informative White Papers covering a variety of topics including:

• Acucorp's Support of Extensible Markup Language (XML)
• Acucorp's Support of Application Server Technology
• COBOL Solutions for HP e3000 Business Systems

To download any one of these White Papers, simply complete the online registration form. And, for a complete list of the White Papers in our library, click here.

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Acucorp Named to HP e3000 Transition Tools Program

HP recently selected Acucorp as the only COBOL vendor to participate in its North American HP e3000 Transition Tools Program. The HP program, which was launched on November 1, 2003, offers existing HP e3000 server customers a free copy of Acucorp's COBOL development system, ACUCOBOL-GT, plus one full year of Acucorp technical support with the purchase of a qualifying HP server: the HP 9000, HP Integrity (except rp24xx servers), and HP ProLiant DL360, DL580, DL760 or ML570. Customers migrating their HP COBOL II applications from the HP e3000 server line to one of the qualifying HP platforms may also select an alternate third-party transition tool as part of the program. For the complete terms and conditions, visit the Acucorp or HP Web sites.

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Acucorp Presents at HP Interex Sweden Event

On February 5-6, Acucorp presented as well as exhibited at the HP Interex Sweden technology conference. The conference was held aboard the Silja Ariadne ship as it cruised between Stockholm, Sweden and Helsinki, Finland. Acucorp's Vice President of Strategic Directions, Gerold Ekström, presented on legacy modernization. Acucorp also exhibited during this event, sharing the exhibit hall with leading technology companies including BEA Systems, Microsoft AB, Oracle Svenska AB and HP Invent.

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Upcoming Events

HP ENSA@Work 2004
May 3-6, 2004
Munich, Germany

Acucorp will be exhibiting its software solutions for the HP community at the upcoming HP ENSA@Work 2004 (which includes the HP-Interex EMEA Conference 2004), scheduled for May 3-6 at the Internationales Congress Center München (ICM München) in Austria. Throughout the show, Acucorp’s technical experts will be on hand to answer questions as well as demonstrate our legacy modernization and extension solutions at Stand #20.

Proven Methodologies for Migrating Your HP e3000 Applications Seminar
May 5, 2004
Oakland, California

Acucorp and Transoft will co-host this free lunch-time seminar, designed to help HP e3000 customers evaluate their migration options. The agenda features real-life customer case studies and technical demonstrations. Topics covered include migrations from HP COBOL II to Acucorp’s ACUCOBOL-GT, database issues, VPLUS options, conversion of the Job Command Language, third-party utilities and environmental issues, migration workflow and phases, and life after migration. To register, contact Robert Morten at (800) 262-6585 or (858) 689-4490 (outside the U.S. and Canada).

Migrate & Modernise Your HP e3000 Applications Webinar
May 11, 2004, 11:00 a.m. GMT
Your Favorite Internet Browser

Join Acucorp’s U.K. office for this informative Webinar, which is designed to provide customers with a road map for moving their applications from the soon-to-be-discontinued HP e3000 to another HP platform. Also presenting are Acucorp partners Ordina Denkart, ScreenJet and Transoft. To reserve your seat for this session, please complete our online registration form .

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HP Integrity Developer Forum
May 26-28, 2004
Stockholm, Sweden

Acucorp, along with Microsoft and Intel, will co-sponsor HP’s Integrity Developer Forum, EMEA in Stockholm, Sweden on May 26-28. Targeting independent software vendors (ISVs), the Forum will provide developers with 60 consecutive hours of migrating or creating applications on the new HP rx2600 Integrity Server. After three tough days of programming, HP will give each ISV an HP rx2600 Integrity Server to use in their own environment together with the continued support of HP technicians within the HP DSPP organization, of which Acucorp is a member. Visit the HP Web site for more information.

HP World
August 17-19, 2004
Chicago, Illinois

Acucorp will exhibit at Interex’s upcoming HP World Conference. Throughout the three-day Expo, August 17-19, the company plans to demonstrate its legacy modernization and extension solutions for the HP community at Booth #769. Systems engineers will also be on hand to answer questions. For more information, visit our Web site.

Acucorp’s 15th Annual Developers’ Conference
September 29-October 1, 2004
San Diego, California

Real solutions. Proven success. Unlimited possibilities. You’ll see them all at Acucorp’s 15th Annual Developers’ Conference, which will be held September 29-October 1 at the world-renowned Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, California. You’ll also see the latest in COBOL application development—connecting legacy systems to .NET, J2EE, XML and Visual Basic; building a Service-Oriented Enterprise through Service-Oriented Architecture, Web services, application servers and system integration; as well as communicating with wireless, mobile devices. And, your Developers’ Conference “experience” doesn’t end there. You’ll also be treated to a special backstage look at the next installment in the extend6 Interoperability Series, Version 6.2. To find out more, visit our Web site. You can also register online by completing our registration form.

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The Developers’ Conference world tour, will begin in June 2004 with stops in the following countries:

Continue to visit our Web site for updated Conference information.

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