21st Nov 2006 17:04
Micro Focus(R) (LSE:MCRO.L), a leading provider of enterpriseapplication modernization software, today announces that it willsupport the Eclipse platform as part of its industry-leading COBOLdevelopment product lines. £ Micro Focus will deliver the required plug-ins to enable rapiddevelopment of COBOL applications or composite Java/COBOL applicationswithin the Eclipse Framework. Micro Focus is adding Eclipse supportinto its key products for Windows, UNIX, Linux, and mainframeapplication development. This will include existing Micro Focusfacilities for creating Web services from existing applications, andwill provide a unified Eclipse-based environment that will standardizethe development of traditional workloads and facilitate the move toService Oriented Architectures (SOA). £ Micro Focus support for Eclipse will offer enterprise applicationdevelopment teams a consistent Integrated Development Environment(IDE) regardless of where the application is to be deployed, whiletaking advantage of the efficiencies inherent in Eclipse to offerbest-of-breed productivity. £ Micro Focus is already an Add-In Provider member of the EclipseFoundation, a not-for-profit corporation formed to advance thecreation, evolution, promotion and support of Eclipse. Thisannouncement means Micro Focus will accelerate its Eclipseintegration, a move based on the growing popularity of Eclipse and onan increase in demand from its customer base. £ Eclipse support within Micro Focus' distributed COBOL developmentproducts, Net Express(R) (for Windows) and Server Express(TM) (forUNIX and Linux) is targeted for delivery during the second quarter of2007. Eclipse support for Micro Focus' IBM mainframe applicationdevelopment environment, Mainframe Express(R) Enterprise Edition, willfollow. Micro Focus will open an Early Adopter Program for its Eclipseintegration capabilities in the first quarter of 2007. £ "Micro Focus is committed to delivering highly productive COBOLdevelopment platforms that offer our customers choice among allleading IDEs," said Stuart McGill, vice president of worldwidemarketing at Micro Focus. "We already offer our customers the abilityto embrace the market leading Microsoft Visual Studio developmentenvironment and I'm delighted that today we can answer the requests ofour customers who wish to standardize on the Eclipse platform byannouncing our intent to add Eclipse support into our current productsuite." £ "Eclipse's goal is to create a multi-language development platformthat increases efficiency in enterprise software development," saidMike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. "Asthe largest vendor of COBOL solutions off the mainframe, Micro Focus'announcement today is great news for COBOL programmers who can nowlook forward to enjoying the benefits of the Eclipse Platform whiledeveloping, extending and modernizing their enterprise applications." £ About Micro Focus £ Micro Focus provides innovative software that helps companies todramatically improve the business value of their enterpriseapplications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernizationsoftware enables customers' business applications to respond rapidlyto market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced costand risk. For more information please visit www.microfocus.com. £ Micro Focus, Net Express and Mainframe Express are registeredtrademarks and Server Express is a trademark of Micro Focus. All otherproducts mentioned in this announcement are trademarks of theirrespective owners. Copyright Business Wire 2006Related Shares:
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