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We have a new, dynamic, experienced team at COBOL Magazine.  The team is ready to explore the COBOL Planet and enlighten the IT community regarding the status of COBOL. To see our new team Click Here

SunLit Communications LLC of Akron, Ohio joins publisher Frank Gauthier, to produce Cobol Magazine.  SunLit – and its team of award winning career journalists -- has supplied digital communications services to national clients in the United States, including Random House, MSN.com Shopping and the Washington D.C.- based Benton Foundation.

SunLit founder Diane Evans, a 32-year veteran of the former Knight Ridder Newspapers, will serve as editor and general manager of Cobol Magazine.
 
For more than a decade, Evans wrote a business column for the Akron Beacon Journal and later a syndicated column distributed weekly to more than 500 newspapers by the former Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service. More recently, working on behalf of a project funded by the Knight Foundation, Evans wrote columns relating to why broadband networks matter to communities.  Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, these columns appeared in major newspapers around the United States. 

The Cobol Magazine team will include former Knight Ridder veterans David A. Wilson and Chris Auman, along with writer and multimedia specialist Mike D’Agruma.

Wilson brings more than two decades of experience in newspapers and online media content.   He formerly served as an editor on the national and metro desks of the Akron Beacon Journal and as news editor of The Sun News in Myrtle Beach, S.C.  He has professional experience in technical support for a high-speed Internet provider and has taken classes in FORTRAN, COBOL and web design. 

He began working with SunLit Communications in 2007.
Auman spent 10 years as a member of the national online creative team of the former Knight Ridder Digital. His latest design project is for the opera tenor David Cangelosi.

D’Agruma gained four years of experience at a small newspaper before joining SunLit Communications in 2008.   He has demonstrated diverse skills in writing, editing, web design, video and audio production.


 


Issue Date August 1 2010



 

March 2009 IssueTaking Your COBOL to the Web ‘Servlet-Style’

Servlets offer a streamlined deployment model over CGI for server-side implementations

By Dovid Lubin

isCOBOL brings the benefits of the Java platform to COBOL applications without rewriting code and retraining programmers. isCOBOL compiled programs are 100% portable and run on any device that supports a Java Virtual Machine. This provides an ‘instant’ solution for thin client deployments, but what if your business is looking for an even lighter weight approach? If you are looking to expose COBOL business logic directly to a browser or Web Service, deploying COBOL programs as Java servlets provides a convenient way to add custom functionality without changing back- end program code.


Frank Gauthier
Publisher


 

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