Binary Star Ltd, a Kingham, Oxfordshire start-up, has introduced its first product, DeltaStar, a software re-engineering tool that converts source code from IBM Corp’s RPG Report Program Generator into Micro Focus Plc Cobol for Unix environments. Targeted at companies looking to migrate mainframe RPG-based applications, the company is currently negotiating OEM deals with Sequent Computer Systems Inc, Sun Microsystems Inc and NCR Corp. The privately-owned company is also working on tools for converting Basic source code into C, and importing RPG code directly into relational databases, such as Oracle and Informix, using SQL rule sets. DeltaStar is available now, and costs from ?5,000 with incremental increases depending on the number of code lines.
