Cobol visionaries build on microcomputer success. (Micro Focus Inc company profile) (Cover Story: Micro Focus)(Company Profile) (Cover Story)

From: Software Magazine | Date: March 1, 1991| Author: Harding, Elizabeth U. | Copyright information

Micro Focus Inc is a software vendor that produces Cobol programming tools for microcomputers. Founders Paul O'Grady and Brian Reynolds are responsible for moving Cobol programming to microcomputers from its mainframe roots. Although Cobol was considered a dying language at the time, O'Grady and Reynolds believed in 1976 that the language could continue for at least 10 years. Their Compact Interactive Standard (CIS) Cobol was the first microcomputer-based Cobol compiler to meet the ANSI stand...

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