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San Jose, January
22, 2003 - Fujitsu Software Corporation today announced the immediate
availability of an upgrade to its NetCOBOL for Linux product. The upgrade
contains two important features for those creating production applications:
the addition of NetCOBOL's compiler code optimization and an upgrade in
the run-time support so that it can be used in multi-threaded applications.
"I'm pleased
to be releasing this upgrade at a such a good time for customers who have
been developing applications using the initial NetCOBOL for Linux release,"
said Ron Langer, Director of Languages for Fujitsu Software Corporation.
"We are excited that customers can now use our fully optimized code
when they go to production and can include NetCOBOL components in multi-threaded
applications, a common requirement for Web-based applications."
Rick Hardman, Software
Development Manager for DB-NET, a developer of specialized accounting
systems for distributors, said, "My customers were already excited
about the performance they were achieving with the early version of NetCOBOL
for Linux so they'll be pleased to see further performance improvements
with the optimized code. I ran tests on a series of benchmarks which are
very I/O intensive, so I wasn't expecting to see significant timing improvements,
but this new release had these applications executing up to 18% faster
with an average gain of around 12%. For I/O bound applications that's
pretty significant."
Other features of NetCOBOL
for Linux include: support for the COBOL 85 standard, object oriented COBOL
extensions, embedded SQL, data file maintenance tools, and NetCOBOL's API
for creating CGI Internet applications. A point of significant interest
is the product's use of the Eclipse IDE - an Open Source cross-product development
environment produced by the Eclipse consortium, of which Fujitsu is a member.
Fujitsu has donated its COBOL-enabling sources to the consortium as the
base for a COBOL tools subproject.
For more details about
NetCOBOL for Linux go to: http://www.netcobol.com/products/unix/linux.htm
About Fujitsu Software
Corporation
Fujitsu Software Corporation, based in San Jose, California, is part of
the Fujitsu Limited family. Fujitsu Software Corporation leverages Fujitsu's
international scope and expertise in developing and providing information
technology solutions. Fujitsu Software Corporation's products include
NetCOBOL and Interstage™, e-business infrastructure software. NetCOBOL
is a COBOL development environment and suite of tools to build fast, mission-critical
business systems on open platforms, including Microsoft's .NET Framework.
For more information, visit http://www.fsw.fujitsu.com
About Fujitsu Limited
Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications
solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting technologies, high-reliability/performance
computing and telecommunications platforms, and a worldwide corps of systems
and services experts make Fujitsu uniquely positioned to unleash the infinite
possibilities of the broadband Internet to help its customers succeed.
Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated
revenues of 5 trillion yen (about US$38 billion) for the fiscal year ended
March 31, 2002. For more information, please see: http://www.fujitsu.com/.
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