Customer Selects Acucorp For IBM S/390 Mainframe Server Migration Project
San Diego, CA - April 16, 2002 - Today, Acucorp, an international provider of application development solutions designed to solve mission-critical business issues, announced that it was selected by the Taiwan Securities Central Depository Co., Ltd. to assist in the migration of a stock inventory system. The system was moved from IBM's RS6000 to Linux running on the S/390 mainframe server, making Acucorp the first open systems COBOL vendor to announce its selection as the COBOL of choice in a server consolidation strategy under Linux on this platform. Acucorp's extend™5 family of solutions, currently available on more than 600 other platforms including Linux for the IBM eServer iSeries platform, provide technologies for Internet deployment, COBOL-based GUI development, COBOL access to RDBMS data (DB2, Informix and Oracle among others) as well as access to ODBC data sources; distributed computing with Thin Client architecture; and programmer productivity.
"extend5 has always offered our customers and ISVs a high degree of portability and interoperability," says Joe Seiley, Acucorp's Director of Business Development. "And, now with its support of the Linux for IBM eServer zSeries, xSeries and iSeries product lines, Acucorp customers, like TSCD, can enjoy the security and stability provided by these enterprise servers together with our state-of-the-art COBOL solution."
Taiwan Securities Central Depository Co., Ltd. (TSCD), a 400-employee service center charged with managing Taiwan's nationwide stock depository, was the first company to run Acucorp's ACUCOBOL™-GT development software on Linux on S/390. Their inventory application was moved to the more stable enterprise server using Acucorp's ACUCOBOL™-GT compiler and runtime. This allowed them to simplify existing hardware maintenance issues and substantially lower maintenance costs by consolidating the application onto one server. In addition to ACUCOBOL-GT, TSCD also incorporated Acucorp's AcuServer™ file server technology and the AcuConnect® distributed computing technology into their stock inventory system.
"We desperately needed a way to handle the increasing number of business transactions our application was receiving and Linux on S/390 provided the perfect solution," said David Chuang, TSCD's IT Manager. "So, when it came time to migrate our application, we didn't even consider switching from the ACUCOB0L programming language because of the risks, costs and time involved. With Acucorp's extend5 with ACUCOBOL™-GT, we were able to complete the migration in half the time it would have taken had we chosen another language alternative."
"The combination of the powerful Linux operating system, the stable S/390 mainframe server and Acucorp's interoperable ACUCOBOL-GT development environment made it possible to support TSCD's growing business needs," explains Joset King, Manager of Global Midmarket Business, IBM Taiwan.
For more information on Acucorp's support for Linux on IBM eServer platforms, please call (800) 262-6585 or (858) 689-4500.
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, Thomas Cook, Tower Records and Warner Music Group. The company continues to design, develop, and market robust solutions for extending the life of inherited COBOL applications.
About TSCD
Founded in 1990, Taiwan Securities Central Depository Co., Ltd. (TSCD) is located in Taipei and has more than 400 employees and capital of $28 million a year. The company, which operates as a service center of securities depositories for all securities companies in Taiwan, provides three major services: a central stock depository, stock-appropriate entering, and depositing of stock interest into related accounts. For more information on TSCD, visit http://www.tscd.com.tw/english/edefault.htm.
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