Migrate Off IBM’s MDp to Seagull Software’s “LegaSuite for CICS™” for SOA Compliance and Improved Performance

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MDp Users Seek Replacement as IBM Withdraws Support for MDp

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ATLANTA - 20 March 2006

Seagull Software (AEX: SEAGULL), a leading provider of high-performance solutions that transform legacy business applications into service-oriented architecture (SOA) assets, today announced that LegaSuite for CICS supports a strategic migration path for customers using IBM’s Message Driven processor (MDp) (formerly marketed by Early, Cloud & Company). Customers can replace MDp with LegaSuite without any changes to the mainframe applications. LegaSuite also offers the ability to replace MDp with no changes to the client applications that connect to MDp.

“Because IBM has announced withdrawal of support for MDp, customers are looking for replacements” commented Andre den Haan, Vice President of Product Strategy for Seagull Software. “LegaSuite for CICS helps customers minimize the cost, risk and disruption of migration to a supported solution, and they get SOA compliance as a bonus.”

The integration modules of LegaSuite for CICS feature many of the inherent strengths of MDp and leverage core CICS functionality to give customers all the capabilities of MDp and more – including faster performance and SOA standards-based integration.

“Enterprises are still struggling to find the best ways to rapidly implement their service oriented architecture plans," said Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst with ZapThink, LLC. "With Seagull's LegaSuite solution, customers can take a big step forward by 'leapfrogging' from an older generation of middleware straight to SOA Web services, without disrupting ongoing business operations.”

Seagull Software offers several conversion utilities to assist customers in their migration from MDp to LegaSuite. “The goal is to replace MDp as transparently as possible to the other applications on either end,” said den Haan.

Benefits of LegaSuite Integration for the Mainframe

With LegaSuite for CICS customers receive the following benefits in addition to replacing MDp with a supported solution:

• Benchmarks show improved performance over MDp
• Reduced MIPS consumption
• LegaSuite for CICS is a complete platform of integration, BPM and UI solutions for CICS
• Automated development tools to generate reusable mainframe Web services from existing CICS applications - with no coding and no changes to the mainframe applications
• Reusable SOA services can execute in four different runtime architectures
• Enter CICS at any level in the stack: COMMAREA, screen-based (3270 Bridge/Link, FEPI or Telnet 3270) or database
• Integrated BPM workflow engine – LegaSuite BPM
• Integrated GUI solution – LegaSuite GUI
• Supports both J2EE and .NET projects

“LegaSuite for CICS has outperformed MDp, resulting in cost saving through reduced CPU usage, increased scalability and increased user satisfaction through better response times,” remarked den Haan.

LegaSuite for CICS is currently available and is in production use at many mainframe accounts worldwide.

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About Seagull Software

Seagull Software specializes in technology that transforms "legacy" applications into SOA-compliant Web services, helping enterprises achieve exponentially faster IT support for business change, governance and compliance. Our LegaSuite^® software platform includes integration, GUI, workflow and terminal emulation technology. With LegaSuite, customers connect legacy applications on IBM mainframe, VME mainframe, System i, OpenVMS and UNIX-VT and Windows client/server platforms to the Web, to other middleware and to newer-generations of applications such as portals, CRM and SCM. LegaSuite is based on open standards including Web services, XML, J2EE and .NET. Powerful and innovative tools require no coding, which means rapid results, reduced risk and no maintenance burden. Committed to providing the best customer experience in the industry, Seagull Software’s technology is in use in more than 10,000 business and government organizations worldwide, and by millions of end users. Seagull Software has direct operations in the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, UK, France, and Germany, supplemented by distributors serving approximately 30 additional countries. The company was acquired by Rocket Software (www.rs.com) in 2007. For more information, visit www.seagullsoftware.com.

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