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VOLUME 3 ISSUE 2
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Contents
Tony Hill wins 'Technology
CEO of the Year' Award
News Update 2
Alnova banks on the
.NET platform
Partner News 3
Announcing Micro Focus
International plc
Feature Article 4
SOLCORP
Customer Success 6
Marketing Calendar
Worldwide Events & Conferences 8
Leading insurance provider estimates it will save more than
$1 million a year by moving its applications and data store
onto Windows-based server.
Micro Focus, Cratos and Microsoft ®
announced that they will work with
Lombard Canada Ltd. to migrate its
mainframe systems to a Microsoft
software platform. Over the next 24
months, Lombard will move all its
applications onto a single platform,
earning the company an anticipated
significant return on investment.
"We estimate this project will save us
in excess of $1 million a year, but more
importantly, it will enable us to become
more competitive in our industry
both today and in the future," said
Peter Howling, vice president of IT,
Lombard Canada Ltd. "Part of Lombard's
competitive advantage is directly related
to technology, and this migration will help
us attract and retain the most talented IT
people, who are looking to work with the
latest technology."
SUMMER 2005
Micro Focus, Cratos and Microsoft ®
help Lombard Canada Ltd.
migrate its mainframe systems
to Windows ® platform
Lombard's mission-critical applications
were residing on mainframe systems. With
continuing decline on the ROI of these systems,
the company needed a cost-effective
alternative to replace its aging system.
Following an extensive analysis and
evaluation process, Lombard chose to
move all its core applications, including
financial, off the mainframe and onto
Windows Server 2003 operating system
and SQL Server. Lombard selected Micro
Focus Studio and Micro Focus Server to
facilitate a rapid and low-risk re-hosting of
mainframe applications.
Recognized migration specialist Cratos
was chosen to provide the necessary
technical expertise, and will continue to
work closely with Lombard to ensure the
successful migration of the mainframe
applications, data, processes and people.
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News Update
Micro Focus, Cratos and Microsoft...
"Lombard is among a leading group of
companies that want to derive further
value from their COBOL, CICS and JCL
based legacy systems by migrating from
the mainframe to the low cost, high
performance Windows platform," said Ian
Archbell, vice president of product
management, Micro Focus. "We are
pleased that our collaboration with Cratos
and Microsoft will deliver a rapid migration
solution for Lombard, lowering its IT
hardware and software costs, while
increasing its business agility."
"By migrating to the new platform
and running Micro Focus and
Microsoft technology solutions,
Lombard will enjoy the same
end-user functionality with
anticipated reduced development
and deployment costs..."
"We are delighted to be leading the
'Lift and Shift' migration of Lombard's
mainframe systems," said Andrew P. Wickett,
chief executive officer, Cratos Technology
Solutions. "By migrating to the new
platform and running Micro Focus and
Microsoft technology solutions, Lombard
will enjoy the same end-user functionality
with anticipated reduced development
and deployment costs, and achieve an
expected return of investment within less
than 18 months."
"Mainframe customers are facing
several challenges, including a decrease in
available technical skills, shortage of
innovation in the ISV ecosystem, and a
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"We are working with services
partners like Cratos, and Mainframe
Migration Alliance partners like Micro
Focus, to provide the resources, tools
and education customers need to
achieve a successful migration."
need for increased flexibility. Migrating to
newer technologies delivers the agility
they need to adapt to continuously changing
business requirements at a lower cost,
without sacrificing the scalability, reliability
and security they have come to expect
from the mainframe," said Randy
Lenaghan, director of financial services,
Microsoft Canada. "We are working with
services partners like Cratos, and
Mainframe Migration Alliance partners
like Micro Focus, to provide the resources,
tools and education customers need to
achieve a successful migration."
For more information visit:
www.cratos.ca
Tony Hill wins ‘Technology
CEO of the Year’ Award
Micro Focus announced that Tony Hill has won the
prestigious 'Technology CEO of the Year' Award at the
UK Technology Innovation & Growth Awards 2005
In just over three years, Tony has taken
Micro Focus from an 'orphan' division
spun out from Merant, plc (recently
acquired by Serena Software) to a leader
in legacy application development and
deployment on contemporary platforms.
He has also been an industry thought
leader, changing the perception of legacy
IT from that of a liability to an asset.
The judges felt that Tony's visionary
leadership and hands-on approach, combined
with transforming Micro Focus
from a COBOL tools company to a worldclass
leader in legacy modernization, were
decisive factors in the decision to honor
him with the award.
Under Tony's leadership, Micro Focus
has established a strong ecosystem of
partners addressing legacy IT issues, fostering
an environment in which Micro
Focus has developed strong relationships
About CRATOS Technology Solutions Inc.
Cratos, established in 1999, is headquartered
in Oakville, Ontario, a suburb of
Toronto. Cratos is a software solutions
company specializing in international
banking and financial transaction processing.
The majority of Cratos clients consist
of banks and financial institutions who use
the processing software for services such as
Visa ® , MasterCard ® , Eurocard ® , smart cards,
debit cards, other credit cards, store cards,
private label cards and loyalty based
products. Revenues are primarily
generated from large financial institutions
throughout North America, Europe and
Australia. Projects undertaken by Cratos
usually extend from a few months to over
one year in duration.
with industry leaders including CSC, EDS,
HP, Microsoft, Oracle and others.
More than 650 guests gathered to
discover the winners of the awards. Now
in their seventh year, the awards are
designed to celebrate the companies and
individuals that have demonstrated the
innovation and entrepreneurial flair that
is vital to the health and growth of the UK
technology industry.
"It is a great honor to receive this
award," said Tony Hill, chief executive
officer, Micro Focus. "Micro Focus has
grown beyond all expectations over the
last three years and together with our
partners is helping businesses reduce
costs, increase agility and mitigate risk by
reusing legacy assets. This award reflects
the hard work that the whole company
has contributed over the last three years,
and is a credit to the entire organization."

Partner News
Alnova Financial Solutions
banks on the .NET platform
Alnova Financial Solutions (Alnova) uses Net Express ® to expand
the customer base of its Financial Solutions product suite by
enabling its core retail banking solution to run on the low-cost,
high-performance Windows ® .NET platform, while utilizing
the existing and proven
mainframe-based
assets.
Alnova, one of the solutions in the
Accenture insurance and banking portfolio,
is an end-to-end, modular banking system
designed to provide retail banks with integrated
customer-centric financial services. It
allows financial institutions to solve many
IT issues and to increase service capabilities
and revenues while containing – and often
reducing – costs.
The Project
Accenture observed a growing number
of small to medium-sized banks (those with
up to five million accounts) trying to
compete with larger players while having
to control IT costs and maintain customer
focus. These small to medium-sized banks
needed a flexible and scaleable IT solution,
and Accenture wanted to provide a
product tailored to their needs.
"Only 10 developers had to work on
the project, and some processes
which are normally very time-intensive
and complicated only took a few
seconds..."
Creating a solution from scratch would
have been neither fast nor effective, and
Accenture wanted to leverage its existing
and proven Alnova mainframe-based
system as far as possible. The goal was to
create the Alnova .NET suite of products,
which, in order to comply with maintainability
and cost management requirements,
had to be done by maintaining a
unique business logic source code for any
platform. The bulk of the mainframe system
was written in COBOL, and Accenture
turned to Micro Focus Net Express to
support the re-use and extension of the
existing Alnova mainframe application to
the Microsoft ® .NET Framework.
"We selected Micro Focus because it was
the most mature compiler we looked at,
with the highest mainframe compatibility
and strong technical support. Our developers
did not have to spend more time – and
money – making changes to our existing
source code,” said Zigor de la Quintana,
alliances manager, Accenture.
Making it work
The existing Alnova mainframe system is
large, consisting of 11 million lines of
COBOL code across 5,500 COBOL programs.
Accenture needed to re-use this business
code while designing and implementing a
contemporary technical architecture.
Performance was also critical, as any
solution for banks with five million or more
accounts must be robust and scalable. The
data access code was preserved to a very
high level because Accenture adopted
Microsoft SQLServer using OpenESQL
support with-in Net Express.
"Only 10 developers had to work on the
project, and some processes which are
normally very time-intensive and complicated
only took a few seconds - Net Express
was certainly the most user-friendly and
flexible solution we evaluated," said
Soledad Lahulla, product technical
development director, Accenture.
Accenture selected Net Express because
it was the only solution they evaluated
which included sufficiently strong mainframe
COBOL compatibility. It also allowed
Accenture's programmers to include some
specific features of the Alnova platform
without having to make any changes to the
source code business logic. Only 10 developers
were needed to compile the source
code for the .NET platform.
Using Net Express, Accenture successfully
and rapidly migrated the COBOL core
base of its application to Windows. Following
the initial implementation, Accenture
embarked on a series of large scale benchmarks
to determine and prove the scalability
of the migrated system. Using an 8-way
machine attached by a 24 CPU application
servers farm, Accenture was able to obtain
250 transactions-per-second. This easily
proved the performance and scalability of
the solution, providing more than enough
processing power for the target banks
along with a dramatic reduction in
hardware infrastructure.
Alnova now delivers a large-scale
mainframe COBOL application to a
new and expanded customer base,
with all the advantages associated
with modern, agile business systems
under Microsoft Windows...
Winning new customers
As a result of the migration, Accenture
was able to incorporate new features in the
existing system, and to wrap COBOL
business logic using web services technology
to align the solution to a services
oriented architecture (SOA).
Alnova now delivers a large-scale
mainframe COBOL application to a new
and expanded customer base, with all the
advantages associated with modern, agile
business systems under Microsoft Windows,
and the Alnova .NET solution has already
won several major customers.
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Feature Article
Successful IPO in May 2005
Commenting on the results, Tony Hill,
Chief Executive Officer of Micro Focus, said:
"We are pleased to announce a strong set
of full-year results, building on the
substantial revenue and operating profit
growth the Company has achieved since its
independence in August 2001. We believe
this financial performance is further
endorsement of our technology leadership
and our strong and growing network of
business partners.
As companies around the world seek to
reduce operating cost and become more
agile, so they are increasingly looking to
exploit their investment in legacy IT assets.
By helping our customers manage legacy
more effectively and drive reuse within
contemporary contexts, Micro Focus
unlocks business value. Moreover, our
evolutionary approach comes with much
less risk than alternative strategies based
on wholesale system replacement.
Our business model is continuing to
prove its value. In recent months we have
achieved greater penetration of our target
markets and, following the IPO and the
repayment of debt, we are financially well
positioned to maintain profitable growth
and generate cash. The Company
continues to make good progress and is
well positioned for continued growth in
the year ahead."
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Announcing:
Micro Focus International plc
On May 17, 2005 Micro Focus International plc ("Micro Focus" or "the Company";
LSE: MCRO.L) announced its maiden preliminary results as a listed company on
the main market of the London Stock Exchange ("the IPO")
"In recent months we have achieved
greater penetration of our target markets
and, following the IPO and the
repayment of debt, we are financially
well positioned to maintain profitable
growth..."
Tony Hill, Micro Focus CEO and Tracey Pierce, Head of Company Services UK & International, London Stock Exchange.
The Micro Focus business traces its
origins back to 1976. Micro Focus Group plc
which was founded in 1983 and had its
ordinary shares listed on the London Stock
Exchange and American Depositary
Receipts quoted on NASDAQ, purchased
Intersolv, Inc. in a share-for-share exchange
offer in 1998 and the combined entity was
named MERANT plc ("MERANT"). In
August 2001 following a strategic decision
by MERANT to refocus its business,
MERANT sold the operations that form the
Operating Company to Golden Gate
Capital, a US-based private equity fund.
Since that time, we have refocused the
business on legacy development and
deployment, what we describe as "unlocking
the value of legacy", a strategy which
has formed the basis of our success over
the past four years.
Our Business
The need for companies to increase
their agility while, at the same time, reducing
costs and minimizing risk has led many
to look for ways to capitalize on their
investment in legacy technology. As much
as 80% of an organization's software
budget may be used to maintain and
operate legacy applications which have
traditionally been too inflexible to
integrate with one another or with newer
technologies. The lower cost of contemporary
platforms combined with technical
advances, such as security, flexibility and
scalability, and the emergence of enabling
technologies, such as Web services and
service-oriented architectures, has driven
many organizations to look for ways to
re-use their legacy investments. It should
be borne in mind that such legacy assets
might be as little as five years old.

Organizations seeking to modernize
their IT infrastructure broadly have the
following alternatives:
• Improve the development infrastructure for
their current applications and platforms by
increasing developer productivity and lowering
development costs. We refer to this as
Leverage and Extend;
• Extend critical legacy applications and services
on current platforms to new internal and
external user communities by using the
Internet and contemporary architectures,
also part of Leverage and Extend;
• Move legacy applications from current high
cost or end-of-life platforms, such as the
mainframe to more contemporary, open and
flexible platforms such as Windows, UNIX and
Linux. We refer to this as Lift and Shift; and
• Replace legacy applications on mainframes
with new packages or new custom-built
applications which run on more contemporary,
open and flexible platforms, such as
Windows, UNIX and Linux, often referred
to in the industry as 'rip and replace'.
Our legacy application development
and deployment software enables our customers
to improve their development
infrastructure, to extend legacy applications
to new users and to move them to
contemporary platforms. We believe that
the high costs and risks associated with
large-scale replacement projects are rarely
viable in today's climate of tight cost and
risk management and are, in most
instances, unnecessary.
Customers and Partners
Our expertise, developed over 30 years,
with a strong record of technology innovation
in legacy development and deployment
solutions has resulted in more than
one million licensed users of our software
around the world. Our customers include
more than 70 of the Fortune Global 100
companies. They include companies which
operate in a wide range of industry sectors,
including financial services, insurance and
government, of varying sizes and over a
wide geographic area. Approximately 49
percent of our turnover is derived from
North America, 38 percent from Europe
and the Middle East, and 13 percent from
the rest of the world. No single customer
dominates. Because our products are
Micro Focus opens trading at the London Stock
Exchange. (Left to right: Mike Gilbert, Michael Kearney,
Richard Lloyd and Tony Hill).
deeply integrated into our customers' core
IT systems, we have been able to create
and maintain long-term relationships with
them. We sell our software through three
channels:
• Direct customers buy our software to maintain
and operate core legacy business applications
and pay license and maintenance fees
direct to us;
• Indirect customers buy our software and pay
license and maintenance fees through
packaged application providers and
systems integrators; and
• Resellers sell Micro Focus software in
geographic areas where Micro Focus
does not have a presence.
We have developed a strong platform,
technology, service and application
partner ecosystem to expand our ability
to develop, market and distribute our
products, and to further support our
customers' legacy modernization
initiatives. For example:
Micro Focus is a member of the IBM
Advanced Partnerworld program. We are a
Microsoft ® Gold Certified Partner and a
premier member of Microsoft's Visual
Studio ® Industry Partner program. In 2004,
we jointly announced the formation of the
Mainframe Migration Alliance (MMA) with
Microsoft.
We founded the Migration and
Transformation Consortium, a global
network of companies which specialize in
modernizing legacy systems with a
combination of our software, specialist
technology and legacy expertise.
Many systems integrators such as EDS,
Accenture and CSC work with us to provide
migration and deployment services which
use our Lift and Shift software to minimize
the risk of moving to a contemporary
platform.
Our application partners offer a range
of packaged applications which feature
the latest technology innovations that can
be implemented across a wide range of
mainframe and contemporary platforms.
Long-term customer relationships have
resulted in a relatively stable stream of
revenue from recurring maintenance fees,
as well as from license fees from packaged
application providers.
Strategy
Our objective is to be the leading global
provider of legacy development and
deployment software. We believe we will
achieve this with the strategies outlined
below.
We will endeavor to strengthen
relationships with existing customers by
promoting our complementary Leverage
and Extend and Lift and Shift solutions. We
believe that opportunities also exist to help
systems integrators develop and deploy
their own legacy applications.
The market for mainframe migration is
expanding rapidly. We have been involved
in more than twenty Lift and Shift projects
since we launched the software in April
2004. We aim to increase awareness of this
product through marketing and by
establishing alliances with large systems
integrators, and software and hardware
vendors, including members of the MMA.
The increasing level of interest from
customers and the growth in the average
size of projects is, we believe, evidence that
the market for mainframe migration
continues to grow.
We aim to increase indirect sales
through packaged application providers,
systems integrators and resellers by
strengthening existing relationships with
key industry players such as Accenture, EDS
and CSC, and by developing new relationships
with other industry leaders.
We intend to continue to focus on selling
software licenses and the associated
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maintenance, and to rely on our systems
integrator partners for professional
services.
We will endeavor to continue to
develop innovative technology and will
further invest in expanding the features
and functionality of our technology and
products. We intend to maintain a leading
position in our market for legacy application
development and deployment software
by co-operating with our partners to
expand the coverage of our technologies
and products.
By helping our customers manage
legacy more effectively and drive
reuse within contemporary contexts,
Micro Focus unlocks business value.
We will pursue selected technologybased
acquisitions to take advantage of
the growing mainframe migration market.
This will enable us to ensure that our
technologies cover all the necessary legacy
and contemporary architectures, platforms
and applications. Any acquisition will be
incremental and will be selected to supplement
existing products and to expand our
customer base.
Outlook
As companies around the world seek to
reduce operating cost and become more
agile, so they are increasingly looking to
exploit their investment in legacy IT assets.
By helping our customers manage legacy
more effectively and drive reuse within
contemporary contexts, Micro Focus
unlocks business value. Moreover, our
evolutionary approach comes with much
less risk than alternative strategies based
on wholesale system replacement.
Our business model is continuing to
prove its value. In recent months we have
achieved greater penetration of our target
markets and, following the IPO and the
repayment of loans, we are financially well
positioned to maintain profitable growth
and generate cash. The Company continues
to make good progress and is well
positioned for continued growth in the
year ahead.
For more information visit:
www.microfocus.com
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Customer Success
Micro Focus migrates
SOLCORP's insurance policy
administration system
to Microsoft .NET
Founded in 1980, SOLCORP,
a wholly owned subsidiary of EDS,
provides software solutions and
consulting services for the life insurance
and wealth management industries.
SOLCORP's solutions are designed to
help their customers – insurers with
worldwide offices and high policy
volumes – reduce their administration
costs. Ever conscious of their customer's
pressures to respond to business quickly
while reducing IT costs, SOLCORP sought a
way to improve the performance of their
flagship product, INGENIUM ® , and allow
customers the option of standardizing on
the low cost, high performance Windows
platform, rather than having dedicated
servers specifically for their policy administration
systems. According to industry
analyst firm Celent Communications,
SOLCORP INGENIUM "boasts top notch
scalability matched by few competitors."
SOLCORP's INGENIUM is a high-performance,
Web services enabled policy
administration system that scales to highvolume
environments, providing robust,
full-function processing for an extensive
range of life and investment products. It is
available to customers running on
platforms ranging from the high end
mainframe IBM OS/390 to the powerful,
latest Intel-based CPU running on
Microsoft Windows.
Challenges
As a policy administration system that
supports the entire lifecycle of a contract
(from the acquisition of new business to
final settlement) INGENIUM contained
over one million lines of proven COBOL
and DB2 mainframe code. Although
INGENIUM was already running across
multiple platforms, many customers felt
Windows was enterprise ready, and SOL-
CORP responded by embarking with
Micro Focus on a move to re-use, migrate
and benchmark INGENIUM on Windows
and .NET using Net Express with .NET, one
of the products collectively known as
Micro Focus Studio, to optimize performance
and scalability for deployment on
Application Server, one of the products
collectively known as Micro Focus Server.
Many customers felt Windows was
enterprise ready, and SOLCORP
responded by embarking with
Micro Focus on a move to re-use,
migrate and benchmark INGENIUM
on Windows and .NET using
Net Express with .NET...
Solutions
The combination of the Lift and Shift
and Leverage and Extend solutions from
Micro Focus enabled SOLCORP to provide
customers the best of both worlds with
INGENIUM; it now runs in parallel on both
the mainframe and in the Windows and
Microsoft .NET environment, opening up
options and new markets for SOLCORP.
SOLCORP selected Micro Focus Studio and
Server to help them with the migration

ecause of the high level of support for
mainframe code, focus on performance
and the ease and flexibility of the tooling.
Together, they have achieved performance
and scalability on Windows with
INGENIUM that enables SOLCORP's
customers to deliver high volume,
low-cost products and process large
numbers of new contracts per day.
The cost of Windows hardware and
software provides significant savings
compared to the mainframe,
enabling insurers to drastically reduce
their initial hardware and software
expenses.
Using Micro Focus Lift and Shift,
Microsoft and SOLCORP moved the application
from mainframe DB2 database
architecture to a Micro Focus Server and
Microsoft SQLServer architecture. With
mainframe COBOL dialect support in
Micro Focus Studio, the migration of the
batch mainframe and DB2 to Windows
and SQL Server involved changes to less
than 100 lines of the one million lines of
COBOL code, while the migration of a
similarly sized online application to managed
COBOL code running under the .NET
Framework was achieved with changes to
less than one percent of the code.
Product Solution
Using Micro Focus Leverage and
Extend, SOLCORP has been able to deliver
a system that is agile with a high degree
of interoperability with other systems,
and integrate and extend INGENIUM into
the .NET Framework using Net Express
with .NET to provide support for
managed COBOL code. The open design
of INGENIUM.NET means that in addition
to the Web interface, COBOL business
functionality can be accessed through
published API's, ACORD XML and Web
services. Indeed, the architecture of
INGENIUM.NET uses Web services to
invoke the core COBOL based INGENIUM
code from the Java-based PATHFINDER
component. "INGENIUM exposes all of its
functions as Web services, and this ability
to unlock the core COBOL business
processes is invaluable for a contemporary
insurance system. With Web services, we
can provide simplified integration with
customers, distributors and other business
partners," said Steve Eaton, vice president
of marketing, SOLCORP.
Results
The migration of INGENIUM online and
batch processing to Windows and the
.NET Framework using Micro Focus Studio
and Server was completed with speed and
success. The new version of INGENIUM,
named INGENIUM.NET, was launched in
spring 2005 and has delivered benefits in
terms of lower operating costs, performance,
scalability, agility and flexibility. The
cost of Windows hardware and software
provides significant savings compared to
the mainframe, enabling insurers to drastically
reduce their initial hardware and
software expenses and continue to enjoy
lower costs going forward. "The move to
Windows and .NET has meant lower costs
for maintenance, with very low IT
infrastructure support. There is no need
for specialized mainframe support in
addition to regular Windows desktop
support – which means cost savings and
efficiency for our clients,” said
Todd Haney, vice president of product
management, Strategy and Global
Initiatives,SOLCORP.
"Micro Focus and Microsoft have
helped us position INGENIUM to a
wider range of customers without
sacrificing the security or scalability
we enjoy on the mainframe version..."
INGENIUM.NET brings the same scalability
that the system is known for on its
UNIX and mainframe platforms. Data
access, which is critical to most COBOL
business systems, was a key issue.
SOLCORP, Microsoft and Micro Focus
worked closely on ensuring maximum
performance and scalability for data
access including optimizing the behavior
of bulk FETCH/INSERT SQL requests. The
resulting improved performance delivers
multiple benefits including a reduced
batch window, improved resource utilization
and greater online availability.
Following successful benchmarking,
INGENIUM is now able to run an estimated
90 percent of the North American
life insurance market, reaching 2.1 million
policies on 12 CPU machines running
Windows (see figures below) and
positioned to exploit the capabilities of
the Microsoft .NET Framework.
CPUs 4 8 12
Policy Processing 700,000 1,400,000 2,100,000
Volume
INGENIUM System Scalability By CPU
"INGENIUM exposes all of its functions as
Web services, and this ability to unlock
the core COBOL business processes is
invaluable for a contemporary insurance
system. With Web services we can provide
simplified integration with customers, distributors
and other business partners,"
said Eaton.
"Micro Focus and Microsoft have
helped us position INGENIUM to a wider
range of customers without sacrificing the
security or scalability we enjoy on the
mainframe version, which many of our
customers continue to use. It truly is the
best of both worlds," said Blair Goulet,
senior vice president, Strategy and Global
Initiatives, SOLCORP.
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Workshop Marketing Calendar
Micro Focus recently held two workshops
at Southern Methodist University,
Dallas, TX and Loyola University, Chicago,
IL. The workshops were designed for IT/IS
teaching faculty to upgrade their skillsets
with the latest COBOL .NET technology.
The workshop host was a well known
lecturer and author of COBOL books,
Wilson Price. His latest book 'COBOL and
.NET' is available bundled with Micro
Focus Net Express with .NET.
Attendee responses were overwhelmingly
positive. "This kind of support from
Micro Focus is critical to higher education.
Will Price did an excellent job and the
workshops benefited from the guest
speakers, especially Mr. John Billman of
Micro Focus. Also the presence of
Paul Halpern from Micro Focus helped
explain the Academic Grant Program to
the attendees. These workshops help
faculty keep current with the latest IT
technologies, in particular the new world
of legacy programming,” said Professor
Ronald Kizior, Loyola University.
Micro Focus speaker, John Billman,
product director of Net Express and
Japanese products, discussed legacy applications
and why they are important assets
to organizations. He raised the importance
of training students to work in this
new COBOL legacy environment.
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Programming legacy
for the 21st century:
Academic faculty workshop
a resounding success
IBM speakers, Bill Seubert, zSeries software
IT architect and Paul Newton, senior
software engineer, spoke about the IBM
Academic Initiative which offers open
standards/source, IBM technologies and
educational resources to help faculty and
students stay current with the IT industry.
Microsoft speakers, Mike Wons,
technology strategy director, spoke about
mainframe migration status and
Spyros Sakellariadis, migration alliance
director, discussed the Mainframe
Migration Alliance (MMA) and the significance
of mainframe migration to the IT
community.
Micro Focus
training
educate • explore • experience
Get ahead with Micro Focus Training!
For more information visit
www.microfocus.com/training
North America
September 12-15
HP Technology Forum
www.hptechnologyforum.com
September 18-21
Serena XChange 2005
www.serenaxchange.com
September 18-21
Credit Directions Conference
www.cgi.com/cgi/html/event/creditdirections2005/
home.shtml
October 17-20
Gartner ITxpo
www.gartner.com/2_events/symposium/
worldwide.html
Lift and Shift Migration Events
September 15 - Montreal
September 20 - Toronto
September 27 - Dallas
September 29 - Philadelphia
Australia
August 30 - September 2
Microsoft Tech.Ed
www.microsoft.com/australia/events/teched2005/
default.aspx
November 15-18
Gartner Symposium ITxpo
www.gartner.com/2_events/symposium/2005/
ps13.jsp
France
September 9 - Cobol@Work
Thème : COBOL, J2EE et NET
September 20 - Journée de présentation
Thème : Migration des applications
Mainframes en partenariat avec
September 23 - Tune In To Cobol
Thème : Web Services & SOA
October 7 - Cobol@Work
Thème : Migration Mainframe
October 21 - Tune In To Cobol
Thème : Cartographie et Analyse des
applications COBOL
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