Seagull Software sponsors and exhibits at Gartner Application Integration & Web Services Summit 19-20 June 2007, Rome

LONDON – 14 June 2007

Seagull Software, a leading provider of high-performance solutions that transform legacy business applications into service-oriented architecture (SOA) assets, is to sponsor and exhibit at the Gartner Application Integration & Web Services Summit, 19-20 June 2007 in Rome. Seagull Software will showcase its industry leading LegaSuite^® solution during the exhibition, which enables organisations across all sectors to reduce the time, cost and risk of SOA migration and achieve real business process transformation.

Wico van Helden CTO at Seagull Software commented: “The classic model for IT implementations no longer works. In today’s era of application optimisation, companies first need to change their mindset: the project shouldn’t be driven by the IT department – it’s not a case of ripping out the old in favour of the new but of deriving and extending value from existing applications – ‘wrapping and adapting’.

“At the moment, SOA initiatives usually start in the IT department using new technology with little regard to business requirement.” Wico van Helden continued. “These attempts will invariably fail to deliver the full potential of SOA. Service is absolutely key to SOA and the organisation should ask itself ‘what services do we need to offer our customers so they can access the company effectively, and our employees so they can do their jobs effectively?”

LegaSuite supports the legacy liberation requirements of over 8,000 customers globally. European customers include the Dutch Ministry of Defense, UTI, Verizone and AMF Insurance France. The technology is designed for rapid results while enabling organisations to:

• Migrate to SOAs for mainframe, iSeries, Dec VT/UNIX and even Windows client/server applications
• exponentially accelerate IT response to new business requirements
• utilise the skills of existing developer teams with little or no coding and no changes to legacy applications

“All organisations are now facing the new and very real challenge of how they can most effectively manage their application infrastructure and improve collaboration – both internally and externally – through SOA. And that’s why Application Development, Open Source and B2B multi enterprise are all key areas of focus for the upcoming Gartner event” Wico van Helden concluded.

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About the Gartner Summit in Rome

At this industry-defining Summit, Gartner brings an array of over 20 Gartner analysts, industry leaders and visionaries to provide the latest strategies and tactics on SOA, application integration, Web services, middleware, rich internet applications, application development, open source and more. For more 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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