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Welcome to 'In Focus', the regular online round-up of news, views and events from Micro Focus.

 

In this month’s edition, find out how you can improve your system performance and reduce costs by 70%. Learn about another customer's successful migration to ACUCOBOL, allowing the retirement of HP 3000 hardware. There’s news on Silk 2009 in our on-demand webcast. Check out the latest product updates, events and much more…

 
Slash COBOL development time on UNIX or Linux “As an industry, it is time to grow up. Once and for all. It is time to talk.”
Product Updates
Latest news on ACUCOBOL-GT and RM/COBOL
Learn about the latest updates, 7.x sundown and future roadmaps.
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Announcing Micro Focus Mainframe Express® Enterprise Edition Test Server
Mainframe Express Enterprise Edition Test Server is a mainframe COBOL application test environment on Windows. As applications execute just as they would on the mainframe, a wide variety of pre-production testing activities can be performed on low cost commodity hardware rather than on the mainframe.
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VisiBroker is alive and well under the care of Micro Focus
Following the acquisition of Borland, Micro Focus has continued its investment and support of the leading middleware object request broker (ORB), VisiBroker (and associated products), with new releases in the pipeline. But what is VisiBroker?
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News
Micro focus unveils COBOL product roadmap for ISVs
Micro Focus presented the product roadmaps for all its Open Systems COBOL products at our North American ISV partner event.
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Inform your future software improvement decisions
Micro Focus now offers an objective way for you to analyze your project management, quality, change and configuration management, and requirements processes so you can prioritize improvements based upon estimated economic and business impact.
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Application Development
ACUCOBOL is the way forward for HP3000 users
Read how another successful migration to ACUCOBOL allows the retirement of HP 3000 hardware.
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Key highlights:
Webcasts
Silk 2009 – what’s new?
Find out the latest feature updates to Silk 2009 – view the customer webcast from January 28, download your free trial and access the online resources.
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Events
Modernization Forum 2010
February 23rd, 2010, Milan.
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Quality Engineered Software and Testing Conference
April 19-23, 2010, Dallas, TX.
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In the Press
Stahlgruber migrates mainframe application to Linux
Improves system performance and reduces costs by 70%.
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Micro Focus launches SilkTest R2
New functional and regression testing automation software enables maximum return on investment during applications testing.
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A mainframe application modernization strategy that pays for itself
There is at least one way for a migration project to pay for itself, according to Rick Mears, CIO, Owens & Minor.
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Ignore data security at your own peril
Security during testing is a major weakness for many organizations, read about how to improve the situation.
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