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Brazilian food giant downsizes to Unix - Sadia converts its Cobol systems running on IBM mainframes to LAN- and Unix-based systems - Newsfront - Brief Article

Software Magazine, Sept, 1992

Sadia, a $2 billion-a-year food company in Sao Paulo, Brazil, decided a year ago to convert its Cobol systems running on IBM mainframes to LAN- and Unix-based systems.

"Them machine room is 70% empty now," said Chris Turnbull, president of the Sterling Software, Inc. AD Labs Division, Ottawa. "The savings on the mainframe gear they have already returned has more than paid for their investment in the new systems."

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Many of Sadia's new systems are based on the ZIM fourth-generation language relational database management system (4GL/RDBMS) developed at AD Labs and marketed by Sterling's Dylakor Division in Chatsworth, Calif., Turnbull said.

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