See: "http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-04-19-008-26-PR-BZ-HE";
"Acucorp, an international provider of application development solutions designed to solve mission-critical business issues, announced that it was selected by the Taiwan Securities Central Depository Co., Ltd. to assist in the migration of a stock inventory system. The system was moved from IBM's RS6000 to Linux running on the S/390 mainframe server, making Acucorp the first open systems COBOL vendor to announce its selection as the COBOL of choice in a server consolidation strategy under Linux on this platform. Acucorp's extend5 family of solutions, currently available on more than 600 other platforms including Linux for the IBM eServer iSeries platform, provide technologies for Internet deployment, COBOL-based GUI development, COBOL access to RDBMS data (DB2, Informix and Oracle among others) as well as access to ODBC data sources; distributed computing with Thin Client architecture; and programmer productivity. "'extend5 has always offered our customers and ISVs a high degree of portability and interoperability,' says Joe Seiley, Acucorp's Director of Business Development. 'And, now with its support of the Linux for IBM eServer zSeries, xSeries and iSeries product lines, Acucorp customers, like TSCD, can enjoy the security and stability provided by these enterprise servers together with our state-of-the-art COBOL solution...'"
