Acucorp Releases Version 5.2.2 of extend™5

San Diego, CA - September 6, 2002 -Acucorp, Inc., an international provider of legacy application extension solutions and Hewlett-Packard transition tools partner, just announced the release of Version 5.2.2 of its extend5 family of technologies. The new release provides enhanced COBOL support for applications both maintained on, and migrated off, the HP e3000 server, a popular platform that HP plans to discontinue in 2006. To help enterprise and government end users, programmers and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) move their mission-critical applications to another server line, Acucorp has built a set of HP e3000 migration-specific features into Version 5.2.2. These features include HP COBOL compatibility, HP COBOL macro support and a source-level COBOL debugger. In addition, the newest version of Acucorp's robust extend5 with ACUCOBOL™-GT development system and AcuBench™ integrated development environment provides:

• A "-Cp" option on the compiler, which allows ACUCOBOL-GT to accept non-ANSI features of HP e3000 COBOL such as $IF, $COMMENT, $PREPROCESSOR and $INCLUDE directives and macro calls with parameters.

• Support for HP e3000 COBOL Intrinsic functions defined in the file "hpcobol.h," thereby providing direct access to the TurboIMAGE/XL database and VPLUS interface.

• An enhanced file system interface so that HP e3000 programmers can use the ACUCOBOL-GT runtime with KSAM files.

"Using Acucorp's innovative extend5 solutions, developers now have a choice as to whether they maintain their applications on the existing HP e3000 hardware or move them to another platform," says Stephen Hjerpe, an Acucorp Systems Engineer and HP e3000 Specialist. "Regardless of what they decide, Version 5.2.2, coupled with the complementary technologies, tools and services of our HP e3000 partners, provides the maintenance, migration or modernization support necessary to keep their vital business assets running-now and in the future."

As part of the Version 5.2.2 release, HP e3000 end users and ISVs may also choose to implement Acucorp's other solutions including Internet deployment, COBOL-based graphical user interface development, Thin Client architecture and distributed computing, RDBMS and ODBC data access as well as capabilities specifically designed to increase programmer productivity. Supported on HP-UX (Itanium and PA-RISC), Linux (Itanium and x86), Windows (Itanium and x86) or more than 600 other computing platforms, these software solutions make it possible for Acucorp customers to modernize their legacy applications without any of the costs, risks or time involved in re-engineering, re-writing or replacing their core business assets.

About Acucorp

Founded in 1988, Acucorp, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in San Diego, California, with additional offices in England, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Acucorp's products are distributed in more than 75 countries throughout the world, and its technology users include DaimlerChrysler Corporation, Lockheed Martin, McDonald's Corporation, Siemens, Thomas Cook, Tower Records and Warner Music Group. The company continues to design, develop, and market robust solutions for extending the life of inherited COBOL applications.

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