Acucorp Selected by HP Platinum Service Partner

Company will provide COBOL solutions for HP e3000 Migrations

San Diego, CA—May 28, 2003—Acucorp, Inc., an international developer of legacy application extension solutions, was recently selected by Pathway Pacific Pty Ltd, Hewlett-Packard’s sole Platinum Partner in Asia Pacific, to provide its ACUCOBOL-GT^™ development system to HP e3000 customers interested in moving their HP COBOL II programs to UNIX, Linux or Windows platforms—most in response to the HP e3000 end-of-life announcement made by HP in November 2001.

Using Acucorp’s robust ACUCOBOL-GT development system and integrated AcuBench^™ development environment, Pathway Pacific’s customers can first migrate their COBOL code while still on the HP e3000, before moving their mission-critical systems to any of the more than 600 platforms Acucorp supports. Once migrated, these systems can integrate such innovative Acucorp technologies as a native COBOL thin client, COBOL-based GUI development, and COBOL access to XML, .NET, J2EE, C# and Visual Basic through the integration of a service-oriented architecture.

As part of its HP e3000 migration offering, Pathway Pacific has bundled the Acucorp technologies with two other outside-vendor products. The first, Eloquence, is a database that is very similar to Turbo/Image on the HP e3000. The second, ScreenJet, is a tool that automatically converts the VPlus forms of an HP e3000 application to native AcuBench forms and MPUX.

About Acucorp

Founded in 1988, Acucorp, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in San Diego, California, with additional offices in Great Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Acucorp's products are distributed in more than 75 countries throughout the world, and its technology users include Ford Argentina, Red Cross Belgium, Sanyo Extended Data Systems, Seagram Americas, Siemens, The Travelex Group (formerly 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. Additional information about Acucorp’s HP e3000 solutions may be found by going to http://www.acucorp.com/hp.

About Pathway Pacific

Pathway Pacific, headquartered in Sydney, Australia, built its reputation on providing Hewlett-Packard based solutions to their Asia Pacific clients. Known for their experience in the HP 3000 arena, Hewlett-Packard appointed Pathway Pacific as the sole Platinum Migration Partner for Asia Pacific. Pathway Pacific is a leading supplier of System Administration Solutions, sourced from market leading vendors. For more information about Pathway Pacific, visit http://www.pathway.com.au.

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