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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (66966)	4/10/2002 8:57:36 AM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Seems to me that MSFT will make .NET available for every manner of computer from main frame to desk top.Fujitsu NetCOBOL for .NET Ready to Ship; NetCOBOL Opens Doors to Leverage Existing COBOL Code While Taking Advantage of the Innovative Microsoft .NET Platform April 10, 2002 08:31:00 (ET) NEW ORLEANS, Apr 10, 2002 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Fujitsu Software Corp. today announced the general availability of NetCOBOL(TM) for .NET, the company's compiler and rich development environment for COBOL built for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework. "Thousands of users have come to understand the opportunity that a COBOL compiler on the Microsoft .NET platform represents through pre-release versions of Fujitsu's COBOL compiler," said Tom Button, vice president for the Developer and Platform Evangelism Division at Microsoft Corp. "Having Fujitsu's COBOL compiler available for the Microsoft .NET platform delivers the technological innovations of the Microsoft .NET platform to companies that have heavy investments in COBOL." NetCOBOL for .NET allows companies with existing COBOL assets to recompile their COBOL-85 programs and enhance them using the wealth of technologies available in the Microsoft .NET Framework. The ability to compile existing code enables a clear migration path for businesses wanting to move to a platform that can deliver the kind of cost savings and technological innovation necessary to give them a competitive edge. The Microsoft .NET platform supports an unprecedented level of integration between a variety of languages and technologies. NetCOBOL for .NET also takes advantage of the Microsoft .NET Framework's strengths in developing XML Web services, making it easier for COBOL programmers to expose their code as components. NetCOBOL for .NET includes a new compiler targeting the Microsoft .NET I wonder if Solaris/Java is as ubiquitous and accomodating as this ? JFD