Is it Microfocus COBOL or something else. Is it possible to have a license of only Microfocus COBOL (The compiler only) without the Net Express suite of products.Īnd what language does Net Express use?. Although, they are from the same company, how are they same or different?. I actually could not find the relationship between Microfocus COBOL and Net Express. I was also interested in Microfocus products some time back. Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement. Using NetExpress & MicroFocus Cobol you develop Windows and Unix based applications. Net Express(a Micro Focus Product )is a powerful development environment for creating PC, distributed, and Internet applications. What is the connection between Microfocus Cobol and Net express?Ĭan I see some Manual or Documentation for it? Posted: Fri 4:42 pm Post subject: Microfocus Cobol.

Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Net tool, which also compiles Cobol code to run on Windows.īut Hay said Micro Focus supports a broader range of platforms and has a larger installed base than :: View topic - Microfocus Cobol. Earlier this year, San Jose-based Fujitsu Software Corp. The Micro Focus product won't be the first tool targeting Cobol developers. Hay said Microsoft will likely work out an arrangement whereby Micro Focus can sell Visual Studio to its customers along with the Net Express product. The final version of the tool, which will sell for $3,700 per seat, is due next June. Net support in Net Express will start in December. Net tool will be able to create an application project using Micro Focus Cobol or work with existing legacy code, Hay said.Īn early-adopter program for. Net framework's many new class libraries, including the Windows and Web forms that can be used to create user interfaces, said Dan Hay, a lead product manager in Microsoft's Visual Studio enterprise tools division.Īccordingly, users working inside Microsoft's Visual Studio. Net environment without the need to rewrite the code, so long as they haven't targeted any special or proprietary application programming interfaces, Billman said. Users should be able to move all of their business logic written in Cobol and significant portions of their other Cobol code directly to the. That effort will have two important consequences for developers.

John Billman, Net Express product manager, said Micro Focus had to adapt its Cobol compiler to translate Cobol code into the Microsoft Intermediate Language that can be executed by the.

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