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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedSUN MIGRATES 500,000,000 LINES OF COBOL CODE OFF MAINFRAMES.
Mainframe Computing, August, 2002
More than 500,000,000 lines of COBOL code, in 300 different enterprises, have been moved off costly mainframes using Sun Microsystems Inc.'s (NASDAQ:SUNW) mainframe rehosting software. Sun, in conjunction with systems integrators and channel partners around the world, has helped companies and institutions in a wide range of industries, including Affina, CedCamera and Ingegneria Sistemi Elaborazione Dati, S.p.A. (ISED), increase their flexibility, modernize their IT infrastructures and reduce costs by up to 70 percent.
The high cost of mainframe operating systems, applications and hardware, abetted by IBM's monopoly in the market, was the impetus for phase two of Sun's Project "Blue Away" initiative announced last month targeting midrange capacity mainframes. A...
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