Micro Focus Net Express: High performance COBOL development

Net Express® provides an environment to both build new applications and leverage proven business logic, data and programming resources which dramatically reduces the development cycle and accelerates the deployment of contemporary business applications.  Net Express can be upgraded to Net Express with .NET to enable the creation of COBOL applications, using Visual Studio 2008 for deployment into the .NET Framework.  With the Eclipse option, it also enables the creation of mixed COBOL and Java applications and provides common development tools across Windows, Linux and UNIX.

Product benefits

  • Delivers competitive advantage and new features to market through the extension of existing code.

  • Provides the flexibility to deploy applications to all major Windows, Linux and UNIX platforms to take advantage of existing hardware and skills.

  • Improves developer productivity with point-and-click SQL generation and rapid access to standard databases.

  • Enables utilization of the latest high productivity development and test environments - Visual Studio and Eclipse

  • Securely exposes existing assets to reporting, collaboration and new business initiatives through COBOL Web service support

Micro Focus Net Express

Provides a complete environment for quickly building and modernizing COBOL enterprise components and business applications on Windows.

 Product Data Sheet