Acucorp Announces Enterprise Application Integration Path with BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1
BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 provides ability to converge legacy COBOL with J2EESAN DIEGO, Calif. – August 4, 2003 – Acucorp, Inc., a worldwide developer of legacy application extension solutions, today announced support for the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform™ to integrate BEA Tuxedo® services written in Acucorp’s extend® COBOL development tools with BEA WebLogic—designed for maximizing the value and return on proven software investments. Today’s announcement supports the recent availability of BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1™, an integrated platform that provides superior business integration through the convergence of application development and integration, from BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS).
Acucorp provides companies with the ability to enhance and optimize valuable COBOL applications by safely transitioning these assets to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), eliminating the unnecessary cost and risks associated with rewrite or replacement strategies. Together, Acucorp and BEA offer customers a powerful solution to leverage their existing information technology (IT) code, staff and data, designed to ensure that these investments can be fully utilized as SOA components within the BEA WebLogic Platform.
According to Cameron Jenkins, Acucorp’s vice president of strategic partnerships, “As Gartner’s leading Application Platform Suite vendor, BEA provides customers with a compelling solution to develop, integrate and extend applications and business processes with its BEA WebLogic Platform and legacy integration capabilities. BEA’s product complements Acucorp’s mission to extend business’ investments in COBOL into the Application Platform Suite and J2EE worlds.”
“Acucorp’s product portability and partnership with BEA is designed to allow COBOL programmers and applications to work with J2EE applications to create reusable software services based on existing technology investments, not just packaged or custom applications,” says Scott Edgington, vice president and general manager, global software partners, BEA Systems. “BEA’s integration path for Tuxedo COBOL services helps these proven assets to gain new life by converging with WebLogic Platform 8.1.”
About Acucorp
Founded in 1988, Acucorp, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in
San Diego, California, with additional offices in Great Britain, France, Germany
and the Netherlands. Acucorp's products are distributed in more than 75 countries
throughout the world, and its technology users include Diageo (formerly Seagram
Americas), Ford Argentina, Red Cross Belgium, Sanyo Extended Data Systems, Siemens, The Travelex Group (formerly 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.
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