RDO from Micro Focus

NEW DELHI: Micro Focus, a provider of Enterprise Application Modernization, Testing and Management solutions, today announces Micro Focus Server Express Remote Development Option (RDO), a new development environment option for its development platform that helps slash time and costs for companies building or maintaining Micro Focus COBOL applications for deployment on UNIX and Linux servers.

As claimed by the company, using Micro Focus Server Express RDO, customers can now remotely develop, debug and test core COBOL applications in an Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE). This eliminates expensive and tedious manual development processes and frees up valuable IT resources. The new solution enables customers to keep COBOL programs and the source-code on the target server, removing the costly and time-consuming need to transfer code between the development environment and the UNIX or Linux server on which the application will be tested and run.

“Micro Focus Server Express Remote Development Option is the first COBOL development tool to enable developers to create and maintain applications on a remote server while sitting on a local machine,” said Peter Anderton, Product Solutions Director, Application Development at Micro Focus. “Development projects that once took several days to complete can now be finished in mere hours, with customers seeing tenfold productivity gains in the development process. This allows customers to greatly reduce costs and enables IT staffs to redeploy personnel for more strategic initiatives. At the same time, RDO brings customers one step closer to developing applications remotely for deployment directly on the cloud.”

“It is critical that organizations debug and test applications in an environment that is as close to production as possible. In the past, this has meant sacrificing powerful tools when that platform was UNIX or Linux,” continued Anderton. “Micro Focus Server Express RDO solves this problem, and developers become instantly more productive as programs stay on the target server, using local databases and services, while the Eclipse IDE provides a state-of-the-art developer tool set.”