Seagull Software Adds New Vice President of Enterprise Sales

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Senior Sales Veteran John Overholt Joins US Sales Division

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ATLANTA, GA – 12 January 2005

Seagull Software (AEX: SEAGULL), the leading provider of legacy evolution software solutions, today announced the appointment of John Overholt as a vice president of enterprise sales for North America, effective immediately. John will report directly to Don Addington, Seagull Software CEO and President.

"John is a highly seasoned sales executive who brings an experienced leadership perspective to all facets of our business, driving operational excellence across the company," said Don Addington, CEO and President of Seagull Software. "In particular, John has proven success in building and maintaining high performance sales teams, driving revenue growth and developing long term business relationships with large enterprise customers. We are fortunate to have an executive of this caliber on the Seagull Software team."

Overholt joins nine-year Seagull Software veteran DeWayne Addington, vice president of enterprise sales, in overseeing the enterprise software sales division for North America.

John Overholt has more than 25 years of experience in enterprise technology sales and service, and a keen understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing today's large IT organizations. Prior to joining Seagull Software, he was senior vice president of enterprise sales and service for Geac Americas, a leading provider of enterprise business applications. He was formerly a vice president of sales at Sterling Software, now a division of Computer Associates, where he led a $110 million revenue software sales organization, overseeing 250 employees in North America. During a 19-year tenure at Texas Instruments he oversaw sales teams within the enterprise software and computer systems divisions. Overholt has also held sales executive positions within early stage Austin Ventures portfolio companies. "Collectively, these experiences mean that John brings tremendous capabilities in the area of helping customers to understand and derive measurable business results from Seagull Software's products and services," said Addington.

"Large enterprises that rely on legacy systems want to transform them into reusable business services in order to improve business processes, lower the cost of operations and open new access channels," said Overholt. "With more than 8,000 customers worldwide, Seagull Software's value proposition to address the legacy integration challenge is unmatched. I look forward to working with Don and the rest of the Seagull Software team to meet the needs of our customers."

Overholt earned a B.S. in Management from Purdue University.

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, BPM and terminal emulation technology. With LegaSuite, customers connect legacy applications on IBM mainframe, ICL mainframe, iSeries, 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 SoftwareÕs technology is in use in more than 8,000 business and government organizations worldwide, and by millions of end users. Seagull Software has direct operations in the United States, the Netherlands, UK, France, Germany and Australia, supplemented by distributors serving approximately 30 additional countries. For more information, visit www.seagullsoftware.com.

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