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With GnuCOBOL and our open-source environment SuperBOL, we provide you with the most flexible solution to prepare your COBOL applications for the future evolution of your business.
GnuCOBOL is the only truly open-source COBOL compiler that allows you to redeploy all your COBOL applications in any environment (Cloud, Linux, Windows, legacy systems). Actively developed and used since 2002, GnuCOBOL supports major COBOL dialects (IBM, MF, GCOS, etc.), enabling smoother modernizations.
Prepare for upcoming technologies (Cloud, AI).
Use GnuCOBOL as a transitional phase to break free from mainframe dependency and prepare for safer migrations to other languages.
SuperBOL is the leading French contributor to the GnuCOBOL open-source compiler.
The acquisition of COBOL-IT by Micro Focus is quite similar to VMware’s acquisition by Broadcom, with well-known consequences. This demonstrates that commercial open source poses the same strategic and financial risks as proprietary software. On the contrary, GnuCOBOL’s community-driven open source guarantees independence from a single technology provider. The SuperBOL project follows the same philosophy, staying true to OCamlPro’s DNA.
GnuCOBOL is an open-source compiler first released in 2002 under the name OpenCOBOL. Between 2013 and 2015, it was accepted as a GNU Project.
GnuCOBOL is the most compliant compiler with ISO standards**
We provide the following support services:
SuperBOL Studio is a development environment for COBOL in VSCode that currently includes:
✓ un language server protocol (LSP), A server that analyzes COBOL code and responds to developer queries (indentation, syntax highlighting, code navigation, error diagnostics, etc.).
"We are happy to be able to contribute to the handling of the GCOS dialect in GnuCOBOL. This dialects is widely used within our department, which has developed a large code base on GCOS COBOL. Now that the time has come to decommission GCOS systems, COBOL on Linux is our chosen target, and the GnuCOBOL compiler is its cornerstone. We extend our sincere gratitude to the OCamlPro teams [...] for their support."
Olivier Blanc (DGFiP) - Published on LinkedIn
SuperBOL relies on a software company with more than 10 years of experience
SuperBOL is a team of the software company OCamlPro specialised in R&D on programming languages. This software company was created in 2011 by Fabrice Le Fessant, formerly “polytechnicien” researcher at Inria. True to its academic origin, OCamlPro’s engineers are in majority holders of PhDs in Computer Science.
