Dear COBOL Users, Articles are being sought for the COBOL User Groups (COBUG) newsletters.
Will you help us in our efforts to provide newsletters for the COBOL community at large? The COBUG newsletters will be an independent place to exchange information on any topic related to COBOL. This is an opportunity for you to share your ideas, opinions, and experiences with the COBOL community. This is also an opportunity for you to provide information about yourself, as well as your business, services, products, publications, websites, etc. Thousands of COBOL programmers, software developers, IT managers, and consultants will read your article. All are welcome to participate in submitting articles. Here are some ideas on articles that may be of interest and useful to the COBOL community: * Implementation of technologies such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), web services, Java, .Net, XML, etc. * COBOL migration techniques and issues. * Innovative methods to maintain and develop COBOL applications. * Useful COBOL tips, tricks, and design techniques. * Opinions on the state of COBOL and its future. * Discussions about the outlook for COBOL jobs, training, and workforce. * Reviews of COBOL books and products. * Discussions about COBOL standards. * Information on related legacy technologies such as transaction processing, databases, graphical user interfaces (GUI), sorts, file conversions, report generators, communication networks, etc. * Legal, regulatory, and security requirements for COBOL application systems. If you have other ideas that you feel would be useful to the COBOL community and would like to contribute to the COBUG newsletters, please submit them. Submit articles or questions to COBUG at "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Please submit articles by November 6, 2006. If you are planning on submitting an article for the COBUG newsletters, please let us know of your intent in advance to submitting your article. Thank you for your time and attention. We look forward to your contributions. Sincerely, Thomas Perry COBOL User Groups (COBUG) http://www.cobug.com/