Eclipse Community Awards 2012

Not a typical use of Eclipse, granted, or even the most popular downloaded plug-in. But, Elastic COBOL is the first product that allows customers to migrate IBM mainframe CICS applications to the cloud! Although desktop installation of the plug-in is possible, a cloud-hosted Elastic COBOL provides "eclipse development-as-a-service"!

That's right, "enterprise application development as a service" provided by Heirloom Computing, Inc. Go to the product portal page http://elasticcobol.com/ to register, sign-up, provision and log into an COBOL development and test environment running in the Amazon cloud.

When you've tested your app you can deploy it into the clouds as well through HCI's Enterprise Legacy Platform-as-a-Service (hosted by Amazon EC2), another first.

Wow, three firsts in one day. I'm tired!