Acucorp to Support IBM® CICS® on the Linux® Platform

Acucorp, Inc., an IBM business partner and international provider of legacy application modernization solutions, announces its intention to support IBM's planned version of CICS on the Linux platform. This announcement follows IBM's Statement of Direction to release a CICS® offering on the Linux platform in 2005 in order to provide:

• A strategic migration path for TXSeries CICS customers wishing to maximize business value by consolidating heterogeneous distributed transactional application workloads to a single Linux operating environment.
• An entry-level CICS transaction server offering that enables the cost-effective execution of new mixed-language transactional solutions that can be readily migrated to any CICS platform to support future increases in business demands.

Acucorp currently supports IBM TXSeries for Multiplatforms on AIX 5L as part of its extend® suite of technologies. This allows organizations to rejuvenate and enhance their proven business applications while preserving their investment in CICS, and to exploit the flexibility and cost savings inherent in IBM's distributed environments.

Acucorp continues to demonstrate its leadership as the COBOL of choice for Linux on IBM hardware. The company was the first COBOL to run on Linux and offers the only enterprise Linux COBOL solution across all IBM eServers including the xSeries®, pSeries®, iSeries® and zSeries® servers running not only Linux, but also Windows and AIX 5L operating systems.

IBM's TXSeries technologies and Acucorp's COBOL modernization solutions have made it possible for IBM enterprise-class customers to have a low-cost, high-performance method for maintaining and modernizing their mission-critical mainframe applications. Users benefit from the familiarity of CICS and the scalability of TXSeries, and they have the tools necessary to greatly enhance the COBOL programs that are vital to their organizations.

The combination of IBM's TXSeries and Acucorp's ACUCOBOL-GT® development system makes it possible to protect existing technology and resource investments while offering modernization solutions including Java, Oracle, DB2® and WebSphere® interoperability on IBM distributed platforms as well as GUI development and Internet deployment.

Highly portable and interoperable, Acucorp's extend solutions provide developers with innovative tools for revitalizing their COBOL applications. These tools include such technologies as Web services deployment in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA); .NET, Java and XML interoperability; Web, mobile device and relational database management system (RDBMS) access; GUI design; and thin client architecture distributed computing. As an "Add-In Provider" member of the Eclipse Foundation, Acucorp is also working on an ACUCOBOL-GT Eclipse Plug-In, which will allow developers to take advantage of ACUCOBOL-GT using the Eclipse open-source integrated development environment.

Visit www.acucorp.com/ibm for more information about Acucorp's partnership with IBM.

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