Software migrates mainframe applications to SOA.

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Featuring Eclipse Workbench, LegaSuite® v5.0 provides integrated IDE for all Service Builders, for all platforms and architectures. It offers choice of runtime architectures, including distributed or hybrid native CICS. Hybrid enables offload XML parsing to conserve MIPS. Additional features include bi-directional web services support and JAAS security framework for distributed integration engine.



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Seagull Software to Unveil LegaSuite® 5.0 at SHARE 2006 Conference in Baltimore



Enterprise IT Professionals gather to explore best practices and solutions for today's IT challenges including LegaSuite for migrating mainframe applications to SOA

ATLANTA, Aug. 14 /-- Seagull Software , a leading provider of high-performance software solutions that transform legacy business applications into service-oriented architecture (SOA) assets, announced that it will be exhibiting the LegaSuite 5.0 mainframe Web services solutions at the 2006 SHARE User conference beginning Monday, August 14 - 16 in Baltimore, Maryland, booth #609.

Some of the highlights for LegaSuite 5.0 include:
o New Eclipse Workbench--an integrated IDE for all Service Builders for all platforms and architectures
o Architecture flexibility - choice of runtime architectures
- Native CICS, distributed or hybrid
- Hybrid is unique in the market - offload XML parsing to conserve MIPS,
o Security: JAAS security framework for distributed integration engine
o Bi-directional Web services support

"SHARE is an ideal event to showcase our LegaSuite solutions," commented Kim Addington, executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Seagull Software. "LegaSuite is designed for mainframe shops that have valuable legacy applications in production and need non-invasive SOA interfaces, and SHARE is one of the premier gatherings of the mainframe pro's who run those shops."

Established in 1955, SHARE became the first organization for computing professionals. The conference is synonymous with high-quality, user-driven education and resources to make enterprise computing specialists more effective professionals. SHARE encompasses over 2,000 IBM enterprise customers among its membership ranks. Total membership represents more than 20,000 individual computing specialists. SHARE, an independent and financially self- sufficient organization, has a close partnership with IBM as well as other leading vendors.

About Seagull Software
Seagull Software specializes in technology that transforms "legacy" applications into SOA-compliant Web services, helping enterprises achieve exponentially faster IT support for business change, governance and compliance. Our LegaSuite(R) software platform includes integration, GUI, BPM and terminal emulation technology. With LegaSuite, customers connect legacy applications on IBM mainframe, ICL mainframe, iSeries, UNIX/VT and Windows client/server platforms to the Web, to other middleware and to newer- generations of applications such as portals, CRM and SCM. LegaSuite is based on open standards including Web services, XML, J2EE and .NET. Powerful and innovative tools require no coding, which means rapid results, reduced risk and no maintenance burden. Committed to providing the best customer experience in the industry, Seagull Software's technology is in use in more than 8,000 business and government organizations worldwide, and by millions of end users. Seagull Software has direct operations in the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, UK, France and Germany, supplemented by distributors serving approximately 30 additional countries. For more information, visit www.seagullsoftware.com.

CONTACT: Dianne Edwards, Seagull Software, +1-404-760-1560 x2312, or dedwards@seagullsoftware.com

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