Seagull Software is Selected as Software & Information Industry Association’s CODiE Award Finalist

Atlanta - 16 January 2007

Seagull Software (AEX: SEAGULL), a leading provider of high-performance solutions that transform legacy business applications into service-oriented architecture (SOA) assets, announced the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) has selected its HostFront product as a finalist in the 22nd annual CODiE Awards Best Software Development Solution.

Seagull Software’s HostFront is a native extension to Visual Studio.NET that offers .NET developers a familiar development environment to easily transform IBM host applications into Web services. HostFront significantly shortens development time and complements the Business Logic Integration (BLI) of Microsoft’s Host Integration Server 2006 by providing easy, standards-based access to 3270 and 5250 screen-based transactions.

“It is always exciting to be selected for a product innovation and vision award,” said Don Addington, CEO and president for Seagull Software. “HostFront is one of the many Seagull Software products that are being certified, proven and awarded for technology excellence.” he remarked.

The CODiE Awards were established in 1986 and recognize outstanding achievement and vision in the software, digital information and education technology industries. Seagull Software’s HostFront is among the 367 finalists representing an impressive array of technology and business excellence, passion and success. CODiE finalists are chosen from more than 1,200 nominations submitted by more than 600 companies –- breaking the record set for the 2006 awards. Over 219 trade press, consulting, educators, IT specialists and other neutral specialists have reviewed the products entered.

“The 2007 CODiE Finalists represent real winners, even at this stage of the contest,” said Ken Wasch, SIIA President. “Competition is fiercer than ever and that makes selection as a CODiE Finalist a major achievement. All the companies on this year’s list should feel justifiably proud of their recognition.”

Seagull Software specializes in technology that transforms “legacy” applications into SOA-compliant Web services, helping enterprises achieve faster IT support for business change, governance and compliance. Committed to providing the best customer experience in the industry, Seagull Software’s technology is used in more than 10,000 business and government organizations in over 30 countries worldwide, and by millions of end users. View the complete listing of CODiE Award Finalists.

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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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