Vilnius — Representatives of IT company Exigen, on behalf of its partner Micro Focus, presented educational licenses for Micro Focus software development tools to the Technical University of Lithuania today.
The world's leading COBOL software developer, Micro Focus, in cooperation with Exigen, is offering colleges and universities in the Baltic States an opportunity to participate in mainframe study program and receive Micro Focus software development tools' licenses for academic and professional courses and research projects.
The total sum of the Micro Focus mainframe project grant for Baltic and Eastern European educational institutions is expected to reach approximately $1 million.
Due to the increasing pressure to reduce costs, corporations are seeking the technology and reuse of existing skills that reduces their TCO of mainframe legacy applications, much of it written in COBOL. As a result, knowledge of legacy application technology is in high demand on the world market. The goal of the Micro Focus program is to support COBOL education at Baltic and Eastern European institutions of higher learning to facilitate university faculty and students' ability to learn the world's leading software development tools, receive the latest information in the field, and participate in conferences and research projects.
The successful extension of legacy technologies is one way that the IT sector of Baltic countries can be on par with the latest developments around the globe. By reintroducing training courses for legacy applications at colleges and universities, the country can improve its competitiveness and foster new job creation. The cooperation between educational institutions and IT companies in developing a COBOL curriculum ensures that the professionals being trained possess the qualifications to meet market demand.
Exigen has been cooperating with the Universities in Lithuania and Latvia since 2002, helping to develop courses and train mainframe instructors. The company provides students free access to a mainframe computer and its resources remotely and in the classroom. This is a good example of how cooperation between the IT branch and educational institutions can provide students instruction in a field that opens a global career path and gives educational institutions the chance to prepare specialists to compete in the global marketplace.
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