PR: Taiwan Securities Firm Selects Acucorp for Linux in IBM S/390 Server Migration

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“Acucorp, an international provider of application development
solutions designed to solve mission-critical business issues,
announced that it was selected by the Taiwan Securities Central
Depository Co., Ltd. to assist in the migration of a stock
inventory system. The system was moved from IBM’s RS6000 to Linux
running on the S/390 mainframe server, making Acucorp the first
open systems COBOL vendor to announce its selection as the COBOL of
choice in a server consolidation strategy under Linux on this
platform. Acucorp’s extend5 family of solutions, currently
available on more than 600 other platforms including Linux for the
IBM eServer iSeries platform, provide technologies for Internet
deployment, COBOL-based GUI development, COBOL access to RDBMS data
(DB2, Informix and Oracle among others) as well as access to ODBC
data sources; distributed computing with Thin Client architecture;
and programmer productivity.

“‘extend5 has always offered our customers and ISVs a high
degree of portability and interoperability,’ says Joe Seiley,
Acucorp’s Director of Business Development. ‘And, now with its
support of the Linux for IBM eServer zSeries, xSeries and iSeries
product lines, Acucorp customers, like TSCD, can enjoy the security
and stability provided by these enterprise servers together with
our state-of-the-art COBOL solution…'”

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