Re: gnubol: COBOL IN LINUX -Reply

[Fred Mobach <fred@mobach.nl>]

Steven White wrote:

> Try Acucorp, makers of the Acucobol compiler.
> Acucorp
> 8515 Miralani Drive
> San Diego CA 92126
> USA
> 1-800-262-6585
> info@acucorp.com
> www.acucorp.com
>
> We are moving COBOL programs from a Unisys A-6
> to an RS6000 with the Oracle data base.  We use
> Acucobol on the RS6000 and it works very well.
> I believe the Acucobol compiler has been ported to
> Linux, but if it has not been, I think they could do it.
> They are very proud of their ability to run on any
> computer.  At one time, their compiler even ran on
> the Amiga 3000T with unix.

Acucorp COBOL runs on the GNU/Linux x86 platform, but beware, for every system
you run the generated intermediate code on you need a license for the run-time
system. For me _the_ reason not to buy their product (and an extra reason to
support any free COBOL compiler).

Just to let you know, all questions like this are answered in a book called
COBOL for dummies. Yes, I was stupid enough to buy it. But with that book I
could answer a number of questions for some of my friends, questions like this
one :-).

Regards,

Fred Mobach




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