Microsoft, Micro Focus target mainframes
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft and mainframe software company Micro Focus International have strengthened an alliance aimed at luring away IBM mainframe customers. At a customer event Thursday in New York, the two companies are expected to announce an extension to their existing partnership and to tout the benefits of moving mainframe applications onto Intel servers that run Windows. In particular, the partnership is designed to provide an alternative to customers who run Customer Information Control System (CICS), a widely used mainframe transaction system.