Micro Focus simplifies COBOL
VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE With an estimated 220 billion lines of COBOL code in active use in business and finance applications today, COBOL systems are powering more than 70 per cent of the world's businesses. Rewriting these COBOL applications to incorporate new technologies and platforms can be a costly and risky proposition for companies. To help defray costs and minimize risk, Micro Focus has launched Visual COBOL R3, which gives developers the freedom to extend COBOL to the latest platforms using a variety of application development environments, without having to rewrite code. "India is a key market for software development and we are excited to launch this latest generation COBOL developer tool. Visual COBOL is set to be the most advanced version of the COBOL development platform in existence, combining the heritage of a language that has defined business computing for over 50 years with the latest advancements in computing, such as object-oriented a...