Lund partners with Acucorp for migration assistance

Lund Performance Solutions and Acucorp announced a partnership between the Platinum migration provider and the maker of HP 3000 and Unix COBOL compiler and development software. Lund is participating in Acucorp’s Professional Services Program, which features access to a full range of Acucorp technologies, technical support and training courses. The objective is to enhance Lund’s HP Platinum migration offering by incorporating the options available through Acucorp’s ACUCOBOL-GT development system.

“This program is targeted at establishing and growing relationships with service providers,” said Acucorp’s director of strategic partnerships Joe Sieley. Other 3000 migration service partners which are part of the Acucorp program include AD Tech, MB Foster and MBS. Acucorp and Speedware are working out the details of a relationship in the Professional Services Program, Sieley added.

Competence and expertise in ACUCOBOL-GT is the main goal of joining the professional services program. “The Platinum partners have a unique relationship with HP,” Sieley said, “and they offer soup-to-nuts comprehensive migration solutions.” Acucorp also operates a Complementary Technology Program with HP 3000 providers, a group whose members include ScreenJet, iMaxsoft and Eloquence database supplier Marxmeier Software AG.

Lund said its relationship helps it deliver the ACUCOBOL-GT solution as part of its migration engagements. “Lund is pleased to be supporting Acucorp’s offering for our HP e3000 migration customers,” said Andrew Herbert, Lund’s vice president and director of sales. “ACUCOBOL-GT’s strong affinity for HP COBOL II, wide-platform support including PA-RISC and Itanium systems, and reputation for outstanding value and service make this an excellent choice for COBOL migration and modernization.”

Sieley said that some HP 3000 prospects approach Acucorp directly, but others will follow a path through the Platinum partners. “The bigger prospects will head to a migration vendor,” he said. Other COBOL providers to the Unix and Windows NT platforms, such as Fujitsu’s NetCOBOL and MicroFocus, haven’t signed alliances with HP’s Platinum partners.