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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.
Eliminate proprietary licensing costs and excessive maintenance fees.
Adopt modern DevOps practices: CI/CD, version control, automation.
Deploy to the Cloud, adapt quickly to business changes.
Escape vendor lock-in and maintain control of your legacy assets.
Preserve your COBOL assets while adapting them to modern requirements. GnuCOBOL enables you to migrate your applications to the Cloud, integrate them with recent technologies (AI, microservices), and benefit from an open and sustainable ecosystem.
Use GnuCOBOL as a strategic transition step. Break free from mainframe dependency, test your applications in modern environments, and prepare gradual and secure migrations to other languages while maintaining business continuity.
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.
SuperBOL is a modern and complete ecosystem that bridges COBOL legacy with current technologies. It combines the GnuCOBOL compiler and intelligent tools to deploy your COBOL applications in Cloud and DevOps environments.
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.) and was accepted as a GNU Project between 2013 and 2015. Its portability and dialect-agnostic design make it the ideal solution for smooth and controlled modernizations.
SuperBOL Studio is a modern development environment for COBOL in VSCode. It integrates an intelligent code analysis server (LSP) providing navigation, auto-completion and error diagnostics, as well as code coverage visualization to identify executed portions of your programs.
"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 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, well-versed in developing the most powerful tools for developers
Compilation and interpretation of programs
Formal certification
Static analysis
OCamlPro has been developing successive versions of the optimizing compiler used by Jane Street Ltd for over 10 years. Jane Street is one of the world’s leading private high-frequency trading (HFT) firms, trading more than 20% of U.S. equities and operating on the largest global exchanges.
OCamlPro developed Tezos, the first Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain, from 2014 to 2018. The project progressed from an idea to a prototype and finally to production, including the design and implementation of its ICO (Initial Coin Offering) platform, which led to the largest ICO of 2017 ($250M in Ether and Bitcoin).
We have surrounded ourselves with numerous trusted partners, including IT service companies, competitiveness clusters, and funders to lead our joint projects to success.
Choosing SuperBOL means partnering with experts who focus on delivering maximum value.
The success of your COBOL project lies at the crossroads between expert integration and cutting-edge technology.
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