Acucorp and Sector7 Announce Alliance
Austin, TX - June 5, 2002 - In response to increasing COBOL migration needs, Sector7, a multinational software migration services company, has announced an alliance with Acucorp, Inc. an international provider of application extension solutions designed to solve mission-critical business issues. As part of the agreement, Sector7 will offer Acucorp's extend™5 technologies with its own five-step assessment and re-hosting service-enhancing its existing COBOL migration solution by providing a life-after-migration strategy to the more than 600 computing platforms Acucorp supports.
"By combining our services with Acucorp's, we have created a best of breed migration solution for the COBOL application customer," explains Jon Power, CEO of Sector7. "As a result, we can now offer companies, in every industry and of every size, the most cost-effective, comprehensive and low-risk tool for migrating."
Refined over the past 16 years, Sector7's five-step application migration process includes migration assessment, migration planning, porting, validation and productization. It is designed for customers who plan to immediately migrate to a new platform-whether to protect their company's intellectual assets or to leverage their software investments while moving to a non-proprietary environment.
"Like Sector7, Acucorp is committed to providing customers with the services and solutions necessary to successfully migrate their mission-critical applications to another platform," says Gerold Ekström, Acucorp's Vice President, Strategic Directions. "And, once they've moved to that platform, we can help maintain or enhance their COBOL programs-now and in the future."
Included in Acucorp's extend5 family of solutions are technologies for Internet
deployment; COBOL-based GUI development; COBOL access to RDBMS data (Oracle, Informix,
Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase) and other ODBC data sources; thin client and
distributed computing architecture; and programmer productivity.
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 Sector7
Sector7 provides source-code level re-hosting tools and services to organizations in every industry sector, including software, consulting, manufacturing and finance. Established by CEO Jon Power in the UK in 1985, the company is now headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Sector7's tools and services enable application developers across all industry sectors to retain the significant investment in their applications by providing them with a cost-effective means to migrate them from proprietary systems to other operating systems. The company's toolkits and consulting practice have helped thousands of other companies to migrate their own applications. Sector7's five-step assessment and migration process has been refined through successful projects with Fortune 500 and technology companies, reducing the cost, risk and time involved with migration. For more information about Sector7, please visit http://www.sector7.com.
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