HP COBOL Migration Supported by Neartek in Collaboration with Acucorp
Lakeville, MA - October 15, 2002 - At HP World in Los Angeles, CA, Neartek, Inc., a Hewlett-Packard preferred solution provider for HP e3000 migrations, announced an agreement with Acucorp, Inc., a Hewlett Packard Business Partner, to enhance its comprehensive AMXW migration tool set to support HP COBOL migrations to ACUCOBOL™-GT on HP-UX, Unix, Linux, and Windows. HP e3000 enterprise and government customers, as well as Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) desiring to port their applications and data to open environments, will be able to leverage the proven value of the Neartek AMXW tool set while taking advantage of Acucorp's world class life-after-migration COBOL maintenance and modernization technology.
Hewlett-Packard promotes AMXW to its HP e3000 customers as a pathway offering substantial technical and financial benefits for prolonging application lifetime and safeguarding data investment. AMXW automatically migrates all e3000 applications, databases/data files, user account information, interfaces, intrinsics, and MPE scripts to a native UNIX operation on a wide range of the latest target open system platforms. Acucorp's extend™5 with ACUCOBOL-GT solution is recognized as the premier open systems COBOL application development and modernization environment, ideal for COBOL application re-hosting and enhancement in high performance environments such as HP-UX Itanium, or any of the other more than 600 platforms supported by Acucorp. The combination of the Neartek and Acucorp solutions promises to offer an outstanding HP COBOL application migration value proposition.
"Acucorp's worldwide presence and commitment to state-of-the-art COBOL modernization technology, together with its strong reputation for customer service make this partnership a perfect fit for Neartek in meeting the needs of HP e3000 customers who plan to migrate their applications," stated Ernesto Soria, Director of International Sales for AMXW.
Gerold Ekström, Acucorp Vice President of Strategic Directions says, "Like
Neartek, Acucorp is committed to providing solutions that allow customers to leverage
their investments in mission critical business applications as they move to new
platforms and databases. The marriage of Neartek's proven AMXW migration technology
with ACUCOBOL-GT constitutes a compelling migration and modernization strategy
for the many valuable COBOL application and data assets that reside on HP's e3000
platform."
About Acucorp
Founded in 1988, Acucorp, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in San Diego, California, with additional offices in England, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Acucorp's products are distributed in more than 75 countries throughout the world, and its technology users include DaimlerChrysler Corporation, Lockheed Martin, McDonald's Corporation, Siemens, The Travelex Group, Tower Records and Warner Music Group. The company continues to design, develop, and market robust solutions for extending the life of legacy COBOL applications.
About Neartek, Inc.
Neartek, Inc. is an innovative global company that is raising the bar and setting new standards for the way companies manage data. Founded in 1994, Neartek develops and delivers solutions to customers worldwide based on proven technologies for total HP 3000 environment migration, disk caching and tape virtualization. It maintains corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Massachusetts. Sales and marketing offices are located throughout North America and Europe. For more information about Neartek and its products and services, visit the web site at www.neartek.com, or call 1-866-NEARTEK.
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Acucorp and ACUCOBOL are trademarks or registered trademarks of Acucorp, Inc. AMXW is the trademark of Neartek, Inc. All other trademarks used are the property of their respective owners.
