Fujitsu COBOL To Support Microsoft .NET Platform; Fujitsu COBOL's support of the Microsoft .NET Platform will give COBOL programmers immediate access to leading-edge technologies

Business Wire, June 26, 2000

Business Editors and Technology Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2000

Fujitsu Software Corporation today announced that Fujitsu COBOL will support the Microsoft .NET Platform when it is first released in 2001.

Fujitsu COBOL developers will be able to take advantage of all of the latest technologies provided by the Microsoft .NET Platform.

This is a significant advance for the COBOL application development community that often has to wait for COBOL vendors to catch up with the latest Microsoft features. By supporting this new platform, Fujitsu Software Corporation ensures that COBOL will be an equal player with other languages such as Visual Basic and C when it comes to using the latest technology. COBOL developers will have access to the latest in Web services and application development frameworks, such as ASP , Microsoft's successor to Active Server Pages (ASP).

"The Microsoft .NET Platform provides significant improvements in the creation, execution, and deployment of sophisticated graphical and Web-based systems," said Ron Langer, Director, COBOL Sales and Marketing, for Fujitsu Software Corporation. "COBOL is still the best language for business application development, so it makes a lot of sense for us to partner with Microsoft to integrate COBOL fully into the Microsoft .NET Platform."

According to Langer, Fujitsu COBOL allows COBOL programmers, who are responsible for an estimated 70 percent of all business applications, to directly step into the Web computing world using the state-of-the-art environment provided by Microsoft. Further details of Fujitsu COBOL's integration with Microsoft's new platform will be presented at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference to be held in Orlando, Florida from July 11-14, 2000. Fujitsu Software Corporation will give a session at the conference and be represented on the exhibitors' floor.

For more information about Fujitsu COBOL, send an email to cobol@adtools.com.

About Fujitsu Limited

Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) is a leading provider of Internet-based information technology solutions for the global marketplace. Comprising over 500 group companies and affiliates worldwide -- including ICL, Amdahl and DMR Consulting Group-it had consolidated revenues of $49.6 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2000. Fujitsu's pace-setting technologies, world-class computing and telecommunications platforms, and global corps of over 60,000 systems and services experts make it uniquely positioned to harness the power of the Internet to help its customers succeed. Altogether, the Fujitsu Group has 188,000 employees and operations in over 100 countries.

Home page: http://www.fujitsu.co.jp/en/.> About Fujitsu Software Corporation

Fujitsu Software Corporation ("FS"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited ("Fujitsu"), was established in July 1991. FS is engaged in software research and development, software product and technology procurement, and software product sales. FS markets and sells the following products: Program Products, such as Fujitsu's network management application package, SystemWalker; Enterprise application server software products, INTERSTAGE; Work Flow products, i-Flow; COBOL language products; and Fujitsu's Japanese-language and translation software products, including Atlas and TransLinGo!. FS achieved $33 million in sales for the 1999 fiscal year and current employs 150 people.

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