COBOL language

Though opponents many times have stated that COBOL is dead, there are still many vendors around. The number of suppliers seems rather to increase, than to decrease.

E.g. computing centres of banks use COBOL a lot

	Commercial vendors
Acucorp	Offers the widest platform support for COBOL.
Computer Associates	With CA-Realia II you can maintain your mainframe COBOL application on your PC.
Envyr Corporation	Here continuation and modernization of Data General's ICOBOL is in good hands.
Fujitsu Software	Very modern COBOL technology; the first with .NET support.
IBM	The oldest and biggest supplier of COBOL tools.
LegacyJ	Combines the power of the old COBOL with the power of Java.
Liant Software	RM/COBOL was and still is a strong brand name, already more than 20 years.
Micro Focus	Now they are back on their own, the focus is back on COBOL.
theKompany.com	Very low-cost development environment for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
Veryant	The latest vendor. Concentrates on the integration of COBOL with Java.

	Shareware/freeware offerings
Cevela MX COBOL	Simple Windows compiler translating COBOL code into C code.
COBOL650	A simple and free COBOL compiler. Nice for study purposes.
COBOL for GCC	A free GNU COBOL 85 compiler. Still under development.
Fujitsu COBOL V3	After registration free for students.
OpenCOBOL	Also a GNU COBOL project. Still under development.
TinyCOBOL	Another GNU COBOL project. Runs on different platforms.

(Last change on: 8-Jun-2006)