Open COBOL Solution Working Group

Purpose.

Opensource COBOL solution working group promotes the open source technologies in the enterprise system world, providing supports for development and adoption of FOSS COBOL compiler in terms of both technology and business aspects.

Activities.

OpenCOBOL 1.1 is the most popular open source COBOL implementation in Japan. The information about the compiler such as bugs, specs unsupported, actual use cases and others are shared and discussed here. 
* developing and distributing "opensource COBOL",   a localized branch of OpenCOBOL 1.1 tuned to needs in Japanese businesses
* documentation of OpenCOBOL/opensource COBOL in Japanese
* quarterly face-to-face meeting
* public seminar in Japan, about once a year
* discussion in members' ML and web forum

Members.

* AXE, Inc.
* BEAGER CORPORATION
* Computer Institute of Japan, Ltd.
* Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.
* Japan Pulp and Paper Information Center Co.,Ltd.
* LANCARD.COM inc.
* Tech Fun Corporation
* TOKYO SYSTEM HOUSE Co., Ltd.
(alphabetical)

Leaders.

* Hiroki Minematsu (LANCARD.COM inc.)
* Tsuyoshi Inagaki (Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.)

Contact.

 
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