Micro Focus and m2o Successfully Migrate Legacy Applications to Windows Platform

Oxford, UK - October 18, 2004 - Micro Focus International Ltd. (Micro Focus) today announced from Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo 2004 that it has once again successfully partnered with m2o (Move2open), a leading provider of data migration and application conversion technologies, to migrate critical legacy applications from the proprietary mainframe environment to the more open and extensible Microsoft® Windows® platform. Central States Health & Life Co. of Omaha (CSO) joins Tulane University as one of the most recent organizations to have realized the cost benefits of moving off the mainframe to the lower cost Windows solution. Both m2o and Micro Focus are members of the Mainframe Migration Alliance, a consortium of technology and service providers committed to helping customers migrate application workload from the mainframe to the Windows platform.

CSO decided to move critical mainframe applications to Windows for two primary reasons. First, were high hardware and software costs associated with maintaining a mainframe environment, and second was difficulty finding and retaining personnel trained in the proprietary CA-IDEAL language and CA-Datacom database. Using the services of m2o and technology provided by Micro Focus, CSO converted its CA-IDEAL application portfolio to new COBOL code using SQL Server databases on the Windows platform.

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