Acucorp Achieves Industry-Optimized Status with IBM

San Diego, CA - April 26, 2007 - Acucorp, Inc., a leading provider of COBOL modernization and extension solutions, today announced that it has achieved industry-optimized status in IBM's PartnerWorld Industry Networks—a global IBM partner marketing and enablement program for independent software vendors (ISVs). As an industry-optimized partner, Acucorp can now take advantage of IBM sales, marketing, and technical expertise to continue to develop and deliver technologies that meet customer requirements in the automotive industry.

"PartnerWorld Industry Networks is mobilizing thousands of ISVs, like Acucorp, helping them to develop customized, industry solutions for customers," said Mark Hanny, vice president, ISV Alliances and Go-to-Market, ISV & Developer Relations, IBM. "Customers aren't seeking a one-size-fits-all solution—they want tailored, industry-specific solutions that can help solve their business challenges. Through PartnerWorld Industry Networks, IBM and Acucorp are working together to deliver open and flexible solutions to match our customers' needs."

With more than 4,000 customers and 1.3 million end users worldwide, Acucorp has many customers within the automotive vertical. These customers include Symology Ltd., the U.K.’s leading provider of integrated solutions for the management of infrastructure assets. Using Acucorp’s extend® product suite, alongside IBM’s System p5 servers running WebSphere® and AIX®, Symology was able to provide a comprehensive software solution that features real-time communication between mobile devices and a central database. Since introducing this solution, the company has been able to meet, and exceed, the demands of the industry. It has also been able to overtake the competition, giving the organization a market-leading position for its Insight product line.

“As an industry-optimized partner, we can continue to deliver robust technology solutions for customers, like Symology, who want to retain their proven COBOL investments and take advantage of IBM’s market-leading hardware and software," says Lori Galván, Acucorp’s Vice President, Market Development.

Using Acucorp’s extend, ISVs and corporate end users can deploy their applications via Web services in a service-oriented architecture, interoperate with application servers like WebSphere, make their business systems available on the Internet, display graphical user interfaces, access relational databases including DB2 and Informix, streamline processing via Thin Client technology, and run on more than 600 platforms including AIX 4 and 5L 32- and 64-bit and all enterprise distributions of Linux.

Additional information about Acucorp’s offering for IBM customers can be found at www.acucorp.com/ibm, and further details on IBM’s PartnerWorld Industry Networks are available at www.ibm.com/isv.

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. In addition to its industry-optimized status, the company is also an IBM Linux for Leaders Business Partner and member of the Chiphopper Program. Acucorp's products are distributed in more than 100 countries throughout the world. Its over 4,000 customers and 1.3 million 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.

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