Fujitsu NetCOBOL for Linux Saves Valve and Fitting Distributor Time and Money
Upgrade reduces inventory list generation time from 30 minutes to less than one minute.
San Jose, CA, November 13, 2002 - Using Fujitsu NetCOBOL for Linux, DB-NET, a developer of specialized accounting systems for distributors, has saved money and improved performance at Scioto Valve and Fitting, a Worthington, Ohio distributor. The migration involved a hardware upgrade and move from Micro Focus COBOL on UNIXWare to Fujitsu NetCOBOL for Linux on RedHat Linux 7.3. DB-NET accomplished this move over a weekend.
Mike DeLauder, president of Scioto Valve and Fitting, describes the benefits his company has realized: "We recently expanded our business by purchasing another distributorship in West Virginia, and knew we had to upgrade our system. DB-NET proposed the NetCOBOL/Linux solution based on a $2,500 server. We've grown to trust DB-Net's judgment - easily confirmed when we are being recommended systems of comparable functionality costing ten times as much. With the new system, our two offices communicate reliably using VPN over DSL; our users can switch easily between our accounting system, other software and the Internet; and we have seen phenomenal (30-fold) improvements in the performance of many transactions. For example, generating a detailed inventory list used to take 30 minutes and you'd better not try to do anything else while that was running. Now that process takes less than a minute."
"I sleep better when I know I'm providing my customers with a cost-effective solution", said Rick Hardman, Software Development Manager for DB-NET. "With NetCOBOL for Linux I don't have to take money from my customers for run-time charges, which is something I hate to do. Linux is a reliable and reasonably priced solution and Fujitsu NetCOBOL does not charge run-times as other COBOL vendors do. Another important factor has been the reliability of the NetCOBOL compiler. In four years I've never had to deal with a bug caused by the compiler, so I have been keen to see the Linux version. I've written my applications to be portable so this type of migration is easy and is proving to be a big benefit to both me and my customers."
DB-NET's application provides a thin GUI client on Windows machines, communicating with the guts of the application on the Linux server. Locally machines use standard 100Mbps Ethernet connections. Remote locations use the same architecture with a Virtual Private Network connection on a DSL line. The application comprises hundreds of COBOL modules that are compiled and executed using Fujitsu NetCOBOL for Linux.
For more details about NetCOBOL for Linux go to: http://www.netcobol.com/products/unix/linux.htm
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