As the year goes on, we see COBOL-IT's Open Source solutions being increasingly embraced as a strategic solution. We see proprietary COBOL vendors continuing to raise prices and reduce services. COBOL-IT's Open Source solutions are responding with lower prices, and better technical services in addition to high performance and interoperability.
PagesJaunes' success in migrating from an IBM Mainframe to an SOA-based solution using COBOL-IT is an excellent example of all of these principles, and we invite you to read the full success story at www.cobol-it.com.
Also interesting are the success stories of Orsud-Valley and Taffe.
Orsud-Valley successfully completed a migration from an IBM DOS/VSE system to Microsoft Windows, greatly lowering their costs, while enhancing their opportunities for application modernization.
Taffe, a long-time user of ACUCUBOL-GT, saw their prices rising, while their services declined, and looked at COBOL-IT for a solution. We invite you to read their full story at www.cobol-it.com.
New version of COBOL-IT® Developer Studio
As we head into the autumn, I would like to invite you to check out the most recent releases of our Compiler Suite, and Developer Studio.
The Eclipse-based COBOL-IT® Developer Studio continues to evolve with requests from our growing Customer base, and now includes full-featured Eclipse-based debugging environment, and functionality that allows the Developer to connect to remote machines hosting the COBOL-IT® Compiler Suite Enterprise Edition.
Full documentation is available in the Getting Started with Developer Studio documentation that is downloadable from www.cobol-it.com.
COBOL-IT continues to add new technologies to our list of certifications. Following close collaboration between technical staff at COBOL-IT and Oracle, COBOL-IT is now certified with the Oracle Tuxedo application runtime (ART) products, further enhancing COBOL-IT's position as a COBOL of choice in re-hosting solution stacks.
Our technical hubs in Belgium, Germany, the US, and Brazil are busy working on accounts which we expect to log as future success stories, with corporate clients and ISVs in Europe, North America, and South America. At the same time, we're reviewing enhancements which can serve to improve programmer productivity, and enhance our compatibility, and ease of use even more.
We hope that you will find new, or continued success with your use of COBOL-IT's offering of products and services. We're always listening, and I hope our users will not hesitate to let us know what we can do to further improve.
In the weeks and months ahead, we will use this space to highlight our achievements, and keep you up to date on new developments. Our aim is to open a channel of communication with you, and we hope you will let us know what you think, and what you need. You may address an email to me personally at MessageForThePresident@cobol-it.com.
