Transoft acquires tools to help over 400,000 legacy VMS and OpenVMS users worldwide migrate to UNIX and Windows

ATLANTA, August 3, 2004 - Transoft, a leader in enabling companies to evolve new solutions from existing applications, announced today its acquisition of the proven VMS and OpenVMS application migration toolset from Accelr8 Technology Corporation of Denver, Colo.

IT research firm Gartner, Inc. estimates there are still more than 400,000 VMS and OpenVMS mainframe installations worldwide. Originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), these platforms are now owned by Hewlett-Packard (HP). Many of these users are looking to move their applications onto new operating systems. Transoft's own research of the US market indicates that approximately 30 percent of all current VMS and OpenVMS sites are looking to move off these operating systems within the next three years.

For more than 15 years, the Accelr8 migration toolset has provided an established solution to this problem and given users a choice of migrating their applications to UNIX and Microsoft Windows operating systems. In addition to acquiring the migration toolset, Transoft will take on the existing software maintenance and support contracts of the Accelr8 products.

Paul Holland, Transoft's chief executive officer, said, "Transoft is recognized as one of the leading providers of application migration and modernization solutions. Our acquisition of the Accelr8 migration tools allows us to bring our proven solutions and methodologies to the VMS and OpenVMS user communities around the world. Over the next five to ten years we believe this is going to be the largest active application migration market with a potential value of over $8 billion."

Transoft's immediate task is to incorporate the Accelr8 migration tools into the Transoft Legacy Liberator™ suite of migration technologies. "The Accelr8 tools already provide a complete migration solution for any VMS or OpenVMS user," continued Holland. "They handle the migration of data, application code, screens and DCL job scripts. However, we are examining how we can integrate our other proven Transoft technologies to provide the VMS and OpenVMS users with a complete application migration, modernization and integration solution. Our goal is to provide the same 'don't just move - improve' application modernization benefits to the users of the old DEC operating systems as we do for the HP e3000, Data General, Bull and other legacy platform users."

Transoft has also signed a distributor agreement with CIM-Team Technische Informatik GmbH, a German company that provides the complementary Open FMS tools, which emulate on UNIX or Windows the FMS screen I/O manager used by VMS and OpenVMS.

VMS and OpenVMS are now trademarks of HP.

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