Micro Focus Simplifies COBOL for Portability to Java, Microsoft Azure Cloud and .NET Platforms

摘要

With an estimated 220 billion lines of COBOL code in active use in business and finance applications today, Rewriting these COBOL applications to incorporate new technologies and platforms can be a costly and risky proposition for companies. Micro Focus launched Visual COBOL R3, which gives developers the freedom to extend COBOL to the latest platforms using a variety of application development envi- ronments, without having to rewrite code. In addition to Windows, UNIX, Linux and .NET, COBOL applications can be deployed to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud platform.