Acucobol Inc of San Diego, California has opened an office in Japan to sell its products direct. The move is designed to compete directly with Micro Focus Plc and its Cobol product which according to Acucobol Japan’s business manager Ken Okazaki has made the Unix Cobol market almost invisible in Japan because it sells only OEM. Okazaki sees major demand for products such as the AcuCobol-85 for DOS/V and a similar Solaris-J product as companies downsize, leading eventually to an equal place for Unix business applications alongside the technical and scientific applications that still dominate the Unix market in Japan.
