MICRO FOCUS Launches SOA EXPRESS

Micro Focus today announced a new product, SOA Express that is well worth a serious look. They are well aware that getting quickly at our core mainframe systems without having to change them, and opening them up as SOA services is what our Businesses want and their focus looks spot on, with an emphasis on compliance standards, speed, simplicity, low-cost and low-risk.

A free webcast demonstrating how SOA Express works is scheduled for next week:

Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Time: 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET / 4:00 PM BST / 5:00 PM CET

Registration Link: www.microfocus.com/SOAexpressWebcast

Here is the press release in full

NEWBURY, England, July 17, 2007 - Micro Focus® (LSE.MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application management and modernization solutions, today unveiled the latest in its mainframe modernization solutions with the launch of Micro Focus SOA Express. The new solution provides customers with a high-performing business tool for mainframe-based applications and offers a seamless and open approach to Service Oriented Architecture.

SOA Express enables customers to rapidly build and deploy new 'services' by modernizing core business applications using proven methodology and standards-based technology (SOA Certified - "Ready for IBM"). Enterprise systems need to evolve at increasing pace to meet business demands, such as regulatory compliance, aligning IT and business after M&A activity, or improving time to market of new products and services. With Micro Focus SOA Express, customers are able to respond to market conditions and opportunities more efficiently, without the need to overhaul existing IT infrastructure or retrain existing staff.

Stuart McGill, Chief Technology Officer, Micro Focus, said: "SOA Express truly enables CIOs and IT directors to fully exploit their existing enterprise architecture, providing a platform for delivery of competitive advantage by exploiting the benefits of SOA. Everything is delivered in a predictable and repeatable fashion with a fast and low-risk option to extend legacy business applications from the mainframe to Web Services."

SOA Express dramatically reduces the risks associated with moving to SOA, by ensuring that new services do not impact the existing architecture or applications, retaining historical investments and intellectual property. In addition, the new solution allows existing application experts to focus on business priorities rather than building IT infrastructure, so the associated costs are also dramatically reduced.

Hal Peters, President, Pinebrook Consulting Inc. said: "For our large financial clients, adapting their core mission-critical mainframe systems to new business requirements is a crucial challenge for IT. With SOA Express we can leave what's already running unchanged and exploit legacy interfaces to build services from existing systems to meet new business requests faster and more effectively."

SOA Express highlights

· A fast path to WebSphere deployment

· Ability to build industry-standard Web Services, J2EE or .NET objects

· Rapid aggregation of mainframe business applications into reusable Services

· Automatic service deployment to WebSphere or your application server environment of choice

· Rapid time to market of new products and services with no business risk and no application changes

About Micro Focus

Micro Focus, a member of the FTSE 250, provides innovative software that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization and Management software enables customers' business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk. For additional information please visit www.microfocus.com