Data General (TAC) Business Basic to Transoft's UBL (Universal Business Basic) Conversions

Today, you can take application software, originally developed as far back as the 1970’s for monochrome dumb-terminals, and teach it to create PDF files, seamlessly exchange files with the client PC or server, interact with SQL databases, send emails, export data to spreadsheets, and populate data on web pages.  We have even developed hybrid applications (part UBL and part .NET) which talk to each other using network sockets.  

 

Liberating company data from a UBL database is relatively easy to do for someone wanting to leave UBL behind for newer software applications. Moving your UBL software to a different operating platform (i.e. from Unix to Linux or Windows) or going from an on-premise server to a virtual server or to a cloud server is also easy to accomplish.  If you are designing new software applications, UBL would probably not be your first choice of software languages.

 

However, if you have applications written in Business BASIC/UBL that are doing the job for you (or need a little modernizing), there is absolutely no danger that your ability to run them somewhere will disappear.  

 

Affari Associates has done a number of BBasic to UBL conversions from various Data General operating systems, SCO operating systems and other flavors of Unix to current Windows and Linux platforms.