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CIO challenges: Escaping the mainframe trap

CIO challenges: Escaping the mainframe trap

...infrastructure. One strategy is getting away from that pesky mainframe environment. This Micro Focus white paper looks at alternatives and provides examples of companies that... Read more

24 August, 2011
Guide: Fuel productivity by rehosting development

Guide: Fuel productivity by rehosting development

...of over 30 percent simply by rehosting development off the mainframe. This Micro Focus brochure offers examples of companies that benefited from rehosting development and... Read more

24 August, 2011
Is it time to replace your mainframe?

Is it time to replace your mainframe?

...reduces costs and makes IT more agile in supporting future business. This Micro Focus white paper examines the virtual mainframe lifecycle approach, as CIOs look... Read more

24 August, 2011
MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio 2010 Ecosystem Series: Performing Under Pressure (Level 200)

MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio 2010 Ecosystem Series: Performing Under Pressure (Level 200)

...expected once they are deployed into a production environment? In this webcast, Micro Focus code quality product manager shows how to use DevPartner Studio to... Read more

17 August, 2010

MS, Micro Focus team to shine COBOL apps

Despite the rush to languages such as C, C++ and Java, Micro Focus claims over 150 billion lines of COBOL code are still in... Read more

5 February, 1998 by Martin Veitch

Micro Focus appoints Waters as CEO

...more focussed on professional services and client/server solutions, a direction which Micro Focus started to take last year, following Gumucio's appointment. Gumucio arrived... Read more

18 July, 1997 by Marc Ambasna Jones

Reuze simplifies move from mainframe to Windows

Micro Focus on Wednesday launched a tool for migrating business processes from the... Read more

16 July, 2009 by Matthew Broersma

Micro Focus buys Borland in $75m deal

...Enterprise application management company Micro Focus said on Wednesday it has bought ailing competitor Borland for $75m... Read more

6 May, 2009 by Manek Dubash

Cobol moves into Amazon's cloud

Micro Focus is extending its Enterprise Cloud Services to support Amazon's Elastic... Read more

15 January, 2009 by Matthew Broersma

Micro Focus: IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills

...modernising key IT assets, according to a survey by application-management company Micro Focus. According to the study, published on Monday, there is a shortage... Read more

1 December, 2008 by Colin Barker

CIOs urged to adopt portfolio management tools

Enterprise software management vendor Micro Focus has launched a new version of its Enterprise View product, 5... Read more

5 March, 2008 by Adrian Bridgwater

New tech degree to include legacy app migration

...issue of migrating from legacy applications such as Cobol. Cobol migration specialist Micro Focus announced on Wednesday that it has joined e-skills UK’s... Read more

22 August, 2007 by Colin Barker

Micro Focus shares plunge

Micro Focus shares fell by 100p today following the resignation of CFO Anthony... Read more

13 January, 1998 by Marc Ambasna Jones

100 years of Grace Hopper

...programs that keep businesses running," Julian Dobbins, director of product management at Micro Focus, one of the key companies still developing for the language. "[Analyst... Read more

8 December, 2006 by Colin Barker

Latest language in Web services: Cobol

...to Web services front ends, or port it to Web services platforms. Micro Focus is planning to launch a version of its Cobol compiler for... Read more

7 November, 2002 by Peter Judge

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