For independent software vendors (ISVs) and in-house IT organizations alike, optimizing business systems and applications for higher performance—with greater agility and at lower total cost of ownership—is an ongoing objective.

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from Hewlett-Packard LP and Intel Corp.

For independent software vendors (ISVs) and in-house IT organizations alike, optimizing business systems and applications to deliver higher performance-with greater agility and at lower total cost of ownership-is an ongoing objective. Increasingly, open systems based on the Intel® Itanium® 2 microarchitecture are the platform of choice for business-critical applications. But with so much invested in existing business logic-much of it in COBOL-the challenge is to get there with the greatest efficiency and the least risk.

Acucorp has the solution with its extend suite of technologies, which modernizes and enhances proven COBOL applications on Itanium 2 processor-based HP Integrity servers. It's a powerful foundation for the Adaptive Enterprise-the HP strategy for building organizations in which business and IT are synchronized for change.

Acucorp introduced the first COBOL ported to HP-UX, Linux and Windows for Itanium 2 platforms and continues to lead the industry with flexible, graphical tools that allow businesses to optimize and leverage existing investments in COBOL-based code. As a result, these critical applications can be retained, transitioned and modernized for the Adaptive Enterprise at far less cost and risk than other alternatives.

The Acucorp extend suite
Considered one of the most portable and interoperable COBOL solutions available, the Acucorp extend suite runs on more than 600 platforms via its COBOL Virtual Machine™, providing:

• Support for HP-UX, Linux, Windows, and OpenVMS environments on HP Integrity servers.
• Extremely fast compilation and execution performance.
• Optimized native-code objects for the Intel Itanium 2 architecture.
• A variety of user interface options, including the only native COBOL GUI.
• Native COBOL thin client, web and client/server deployment options, as well as support for XML.
• Market-leading RDBMS integration options, including Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Full-featured, modern IDE designed specifically for COBOL developers.
• Deployment support for J2EE, .NET, web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Meeting customer demands
At the core of the Acucorp extend suite is the ACUCOBOL-GT® development system, which offers unparalleled portability, enabling compiled applications to be moved from one platform to another without any changes or recompilation.