Seagull Software Sponsors Gartner Financial Services Technology Summit in Boston

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LegaSuite^® 5.0 featuring new Eclipse workbench and flexible architecture will be highlighted during event

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Atlanta - 28 August 2006

Seagull Software (AEX: SEAGULL), a leading provider of high-performance solutions that transform legacy business applications into service-oriented architecture (SOA) assets, is sponsoring the Gartner Financial Services Technology Summit, August 28 – 30 in Boston, MA. LegaSuite® 5.0 will be shown during the event held at Marriot Boston Copley Place.

“Financial institutions are looking for a solution to relieve the mainframe integration headache,’ said Kim Addington, executive vice president and chief marketing office of Seagull Software. “We understand the compliance, risk management, cost and competition challenges facing these organizations and have comprehensive integration solutions to address their needs,” she continued.

Because most financial institutions rely on mainframes for high volume, high availability transaction processing, the mainframe integration headache plagues the industry making it difficult to implement and maintain IT projects such as multi-channel banking, 360 degree view of the customer and Web-based policy management. LegaSuite from Seagull Software is a proven technology that liberates mainframe applications by transforming them into SOA-compliant assets. Financial services customers such as Fifth Third Bank and American General Finance have used LegaSuite to integrate customer data across disparate systems, connect core banking to Financial Fusion online banking and replace green screens with Web interfaces improving business processes for their CSRs, agents, tellers and brokers.

Seagull Software’s recently-announced LegaSuite 5.0 solution will be highlighted during the event exhibit. Some of the features include:

• New Eclipse Workbench--an integrated IDE for all Service Builders for all platforms and architectures
• Architecture flexibility - choice of runtime architectures
• Native CICS, distributed or hybrid
  • Hybrid is unique in the market – offload XML parsing to conserve MIPS
  • Security: JAAS security framework for distributed integration engine
• Bi-directional Web services support

Seagull Software also offers BlueZone -- the faster, thinner terminal emulator for 3270, 5250, VT and FTP. Financial services companies are making the switch from Attachmate EXTRA!, IBM Personal Communications, NetManage Rumba and WRQ Reflection to BlueZone, which can cut maintenance costs up to 83%.

Gartner Financial Services Technology Summit is designed for financial services industry IT executives and business counterparts who have an interest in the business aspects of IT. Strategic Planning and advice for IT organizations in Banking, Investments and Insurance will be the focus of this three-day event.

For more event information visit www.gartner.com

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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