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Your COBOL applications interoperating with .NET, J2EE and XML. Using Acucorp's extend® family of solutions, you can maintain and modernize your mission-critical applications-and, you can do so at a substantially lower risk and lower total cost of ownership than other application modernization alternatives. The extend product suite features technologies for:

• Enabling disparate applications and devices to work together via a Service-Oriented Architecture and Web services
• Deploying COBOL applications on the Internet and mobile devices
• Improving transaction response times using Thin Client and distributed computing technologies
• Accessing non-COBOL data sources including DB2, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and Sybase
• Developing graphical user interfaces (GUIs)

Considered the most portable and interoperable COBOL solution available, Acucorp's COBOL Virtual MachineTM can run on more than 600 computing platforms. This unparalleled interoperability, combined with Acucorp's innovative technologies, has produced more than four thousand customers and one million end users of extend located in over 75 countries throughout the world. For additional information about Acucorp or its development tools, please visit www.acucorp.com/cobolcenter or contact a Sales Professional at (800) 262-6585 or +1 (858) 689-4500 (outside the U.S. and Canada).