Transoft "Liberates" Rockland County's Technology onto Open Systems Environment

ATLANTA, March 18, 2004 - Transoft, a leader in enabling companies to evolve new solutions from existing applications, announced today an agreement with Rockland County, NY, to migrate the applications and data of its health department, mental healthcare and long-term care operations to the latest IT standards. The Transoft Legacy Liberator migration suite will move the county's programs and information to an IBM e-Server running the AIX operating system.

Up until now, the county relied on applications written for the GCOS 7 operating system and running on the Bull DPS 7000 mainframe, for which support and upgrading options are dwindling year after year. Installed in the late 1970s, the applications and data are used by approximately 300 professionals in several healthcare facilities across the New York state county, mostly for day-to-day accounting and administrative processes.

"Transoft worked with Rockland County tech experts for several months on analyzing migration options," said Terry Mikloucich, Transoft Vice President - Eastern Region. "We wanted to make sure that their IT systems did not become 'landlocked' by vanishing support and limited expansion options. Our Legacy Liberator package became the obvious choice to help the county not just move, but improve its technology infrastructure."

The migration of applications and data from GCOS 7/Bull to IBM AIX is expected to be complete in December 2004. Once the transfer is complete, Rockland County will turn the data it has gathered for years into effective information, along with receiving support and upgrades for future expansion.

"We needed to replace our aging infrastructure and update our computer systems to take advantage of today's technology," said John Davies, Assistant Director of MIS at Rockland County. "Transoft was selected because of its focus on leveraging legacy systems with a comprehensive tool-set based migration strategy. Transoft will position Rockland's IT for the future. So far, we are very pleased with the progress made by the Transoft team."

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