| Q4 2004 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
6.2 of extend Now Available
Acucorp is proud to announce the latest release in
its extend6
Interoperability Series. Version 6.2, featuring more
than 125 enhancements to the extend
product suite, includes:
- Improved HP COBOL II Compatibility
Acucorp’s ACUCOBOL-GT—a
robust COBOL development system with a compiler,
runtime (known as The COBOL Virtual Machine), Vision
indexed file system, support utilities and a source
level, interactive debugger—now provides support
for $SET on the command line, thereby simplifying
HP COBOL II to ACUCOBOL-GT conversions. In addition,
Acucorp continues to offer the leading open systems
COBOL solution to ease migration from the HP e3000.
- Support for Microsoft .NET
Extensions that allow programs written in ACUCOBOL-GT
to interoperate with Microsoft .NET technologies
have been added to Version 6.2. ACUCOBOL-GT applications
can now provide key functions or services to a .NET
program or assembly. They can also consume or invoke
.NET assemblies and interact with .NET Web services.
This allows legacy systems to easily interoperate
with applications in the .NET environment and helps
revitalize them by providing and consuming services.
- ACUCOBOL-GT Web Thin Client
Also new with Version 6.2 is the ACUCOBOL-GT Web
Thin Client—a special version of Acucorp’s
existing thin client technology—which enables
developers to provide Web access to their applications
using a thin client configuration. Delivered as
an ActiveX control, Acucorp’s Web thin client
makes it possible for the deployment of existing
thin client applications on the Internet without
the requirement to rewrite or even recompile them.
Visit our Web
site for a demonstration.
- New Graphical Controls
Version 6.2 introduces many new graphical controls
to allow COBOL developers to design richer GUI applications.
Included are: a new standard control for entering
dates, improved grid control styles and properties
for scrolling and cell content protection, and new
tab control styles that allow tabs to be displayed
at the left, right or bottom of the control—making
it more convenient for users to enter a date or
time value and for developers to have greater control
over the appearance of tabs and grids.
For more information on Version 6.2, visit our Web
site.
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Columbia
Steel Migrates Core HP e3000 Business Applications
to HP-UX
Columbia Steel, a U.S. manufacturer of industrial
impact and wear-resistant replacement parts, was faced
with a difficult decision: maintain its business applications
on their HP e3000 or migrate them to another server.
Using Acucorp’s extend,
along with Ordina Denkart’s MPUX and Marxmeier
Software’s Eloquence, Columbia Steel was able
to maintain its vital COBOL business logic without
having to rewrite or re-engineer its 120 program modules.
Instead, the company simply moved its HP COBOL II
applications to Acucorp’s ACUCOBOL-GT running
on HP-UX.
See Acucorp’s ad in the November issue of HP
World, or download the pdf
for details.
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Acucorp
Reinforces Commitment to OpenVMS
For more than 15 years, Acucorp has developed innovative
COBOL solutions portable to over 600 platforms and
operating systems (OS), including OpenVMS Alpha and
Itanium2. By default, the ACUCOBOL-GT
development system supports many HP COBOL extensions
for OpenVMS. This support makes it less costly and
risky to modernize COBOL applications and maintain
them on trusted OpenVMS servers. The Acucorp development
system also takes advantage of Record Management Services
(RMS), and offers easy access to Digital Command Language
(DCL) and many other facilities available with OpenVMS.
As part of its renewed OpenVMS support, Acucorp has:
- Featured the OS in the Next Issue of its
Newsletter
The upcoming issue of Acucorp
News, Acucorp’s printed newsletter
due out in early December, includes an in-depth
article on OpenVMS titled: OpenVMS: The History
of an Operating System. In addition to providing
a historical look at the nearly 30-year-old OS,
the article documents both HP’s and Acucorp’s
future plans for support. If you are not currently
a subscriber to Acucorp News, please complete our
online subscription
form. Or, contact Acucorp
Marketing for a copy of the issue.
- Participated in the Winter 2005 HP OpenVMS
Business Solutions CD
The CD, endorsed by HP and featuring products and
services that run on HP OpenVMS-based Integrity
servers and AlphaServer systems, includes a one-page
Acucorp position paper, press release and other
documents outlining Acucorp’s offering for
the popular operating system.
- Announced Plans to Attend the December
OpenVMS Ambassadors Partner Roundhouse
Acucorp will, once again, participate in the OpenVMS
Ambassadors Partner Roundhouse beginning December
6. As an attendee of the Roundhouse meetings, Acucorp
will introduce the company and its products as well
as develop contacts with the HP team of OpenVMS
Ambassadors.
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Support
for HP e3000 Transition Tool Program Continues
Acucorp has renewed its support for HP’s Transition
Tools Promotion, which offers current HP
e3000 customers their choice of a free third-party
transition tool with the purchase of a qualifying
HP server: HP 9000 (except RP24xx models), an Integrity
server or a ProLiant DL360, DL580, DL760 or ML570.
Acucorp’s ACUCOBOL-GT development system for
HP-UX, Linux or Windows is one of the transition tools
offered in the promotion, which also features a year
of Acucorp technical support, free of charge. To qualify
for the special program, customers need to receive
their free tool(s) from one of HP's e3000 Transition
Platinum Partners (MBS, Lund Performance Solutions,
MB Foster, and Speedware). For additional information
about the program, complete the form on HP’s
Web
site or email us at hp@acucorp.com.
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Oy
Porasto Selects Acucorp and Ordina Denkart for HP
e3000 Migration Project
“After evaluating and testing the various
alternatives, we chose Acucorp not only because of
the compatibility between ACUCOBOL-GT and both HP
COBOL II and MPUX, but also because of the excellent
features ACUCOBOL-GT offers, which will be very useful
in our future development work,” explains
Matti Merilainen, IT Director of Oy Porasto.
Oy Porasto Ab, a leading IT services company in Finland
that provides pensions insurance applications to pension
funds and foundations, recently selected Acucorp and
Ordina Denkart for an HP e3000 application migration
project. The project will involve migrating the organization’s
business-critical HP e3000 systems to the HP 9000.
Additional information is available on our Web
site.
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Acucorp
Technologies Offer Enhanced Support for HP Adaptive
Enterprise
Acucorp has officially announced its support for
the HP Adaptive Enterprise—making it possible
for Fortune-class corporations, government end users
and independent software vendors (ISVs) to manage
costs, mitigate risks and increase service quality
by leveraging existing information technology (IT)
assets. These assets, many of which include business
systems written in COBOL, can be integrated with other
enterprise IT components using Acucorp’s extend
interoperability solutions in a Service-Oriented Architecture
(SOA). This allows companies to quickly adapt to changes
within their organizational environment as well as
drive business strategy and processes through IT—all
fundamental principles of the HP Adaptive Enterprise.
For more information, please visit our Web
site.
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Unparalleled
Portability to HP Platforms Included in extend
Acucorp’s COBOL development and deployment
tools provide unparalleled platform portability for
HP-UX, Linux, Windows, Tru64 and OpenVMS environments
(see table below). With this portability, Acucorp
has created a compelling value proposition for the
migration, modernization, and integration of mission-critical
legacy applications on HP 32- and 64-bit platforms.
| Operating System |
Chip |
| HP OpenVMS 7.3 |
HP Alpha |
| Itanium2* |
| HP Tru64 |
HP Alpha |
| Itanium2 |
| HP-UX (32- and 64-bit) |
RISC |
| Itanium2 |
| Linux |
x86 |
| Itanium |
| Power PC |
| Windows (32-bit) |
x86 |
| Windows (64-bit) |
Itanium2 |
*Available with HP's release of OpenVMS on Itanium.
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Upcoming
Events
Wednesday
Webinar: Future Directions
December 15, 2004, 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time
Your Favorite Internet Browser
Find out what the future holds for Acucorp’s
extend product suite when
you attend this online seminar. The seminar—hosted
by Drake Coker, Acucorp’s Chief Scientist and
Co-Founder—will include an in-depth discussion
of upcoming technology enhancements such as: COBOL
integration with Java and .NET, compatibility options
to ease platform migrations, new debugging and support
tools, graphical programming features and overall
product performance and reliability improvements.
This is a must-attend event, especially for those
who missed it at our 15th Annual Developers’
Conference in San Diego earlier this year. Additional
information can be found on our Web
site. To register, please complete our
online registration
form.
HP
World 2005
August 15-19, 2005
Moscone Center
San Francisco, CA
Acucorp will participate in the HP World Conference
& Expo, scheduled for August 15-19, 2005 at Moscone
Center in San Francisco. Throughout the Show’s
three-day Expo, the company will demonstrate its technology
solutions for HP at Booth #637.
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