Egan Systems Introduces COBOL for Web Servers; COBOL Web Applications Enabled
with cgiCOBOL
Business Editors/Technology Writers
HOLBROOK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2000--Egan Systems,
Inc. (OTCBB:EGNS) today introduced an enhanced COBOL runtime
environment designed to allow the estimated 2 million COBOL
programmers world wide to create Web Server Applications without the
need to learn a new programming language.
The Company's cgiCOBOL product enables programmers to employ
standard ANSI COBOL syntax to author software utilizing the Web Server
CGI (Common Gateway Interface).
With cgiCOBOL, Web Server Applications can harness all the power,
flexibility, and proven reliability inherent in the standard
Interactive COBOL runtime system, including a full-featured data
management subsystem. This high-performance subsystem implements
robust simultaneous shared data access capable of supporting hundreds
of users. It can be configured for a centralized server or distributed
access using a client/server model. User input to the cgiCOBOL program
is handled through standard READ statements, and output is
accomplished with either DISPLAY or WRITE statements. Any standard Web
Browser can be used to access a cgiCOBOL application resident on an
available Web Server.
World wide, hundreds of thousands of companies rely on application
software written in COBOL. With cgiCOBOL, it is possible to readily
enable those applications to perform data processing via the Internet
and to service e-Commerce opportunities when accompanied by the
appropriate security procedures and software.
The company's newest product, cgiCOBOL, is specifically available
for the most popular Apache HTTP Server running on Red Hat Linux and
Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) running on Windows
NT/2000, as well as for other platforms supported by Interactive
COBOL.
Egan Systems, Inc. is a thirteen year old provider of the COBOL
computer language, related products and services to over 400 resellers
worldwide and has sold over 39,000 licenses for its language product.
The Company is public, fully reporting and located in Holbrook, New
York, with research and development facilities in Raleigh, NC. More
information can be found on the Company's web site at www.egns.com.
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CONTACT: Egan Systems, Inc.
Investor Relations, 919/851-2239
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