Acucorp Joins Midrange Alliance Program

San Diego, CA - January 31, 2007 - Acucorp, Inc., a leading provider of COBOL modernization and extension solutions, today announced that it has become a member of the Midrange Alliance Program (MAP), a strategic initiative focused on bridging the gap between midrange solutions and the Microsoft Windows and .NET platforms.

The Midrange Alliance Program brings together the leading technology, service, and application partners—each with years of experience in midrange environments as well as Windows and the .NET framework. Midrange Alliance partners help organizations extend the lifetime of their applications, provide the agility to meet business needs and drive more value from their midrange investments.

“Acucorp’s knowledge of modernizing both HP e3000 and OpenVMS COBOL applications on Windows makes them an ideal fit for the MAP,” says Spyros Sakellariadis, director, Midrange Alliance Program at Microsoft Corp.

Acucorp’s robust suite of solutions, known as extend®, include technologies for interoperating with application servers and Microsoft .NET-based applications via Web services, deploying COBOL-based business systems on the Internet, accessing relational databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, transforming character-based screens into graphical user interfaces, and offloading workloads via Thin Client technology.

“Our decision to join MAP further strengthens our commitment to helping customers leverage the value of their COBOL applications while minimizing the cost and risk of migrating them to Windows,” says Lori Galván, Acucorp’s Vice President of Market Development. “Using Acucorp’s COBOL Virtual Machine™, our extend solutions can be ported to more than 600 platforms, including Windows-based servers.”

About Acucorp

Founded in 1988, Acucorp, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in San Diego, California, USA with additional offices in Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. Acucorp's products are distributed in more than 100 countries throughout the world. Its over 4,000 customers and 1,300,000 end users include Ford Argentina, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, L’Oréal Mexico, Red Cross Belgium, Siemens, Sport Chalet, The Travelex Group (formerly Thomas Cook), and Warner Music Group . The Company designs, develops, and markets innovative solutions for extending the life of vital COBOL business systems.

For more information about the Midrange Alliance Program, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/midrange.

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