Micro Focus Launches Acucorp Extend®8 Interoperability Suite

New modernization suite with over 100 enhancements launched to help businesses get the most value from their existing assets  

NEWBURY, England, and SAN DIEGO, USA, September 26, 2007 — Micro Focus (LSE.MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application management and modernization solutions, today unveils the latest in its application modernization solutions with the launch of the Acucorp extend8 Interoperability Suite of products. extend8 key enhancements include a new product in AcuXUI™, a Java display engine for the company’s graphical technology, and enhancements to the recently released AcuXDBC™, a database management system for the Vision file system interface. With new ports to the Windows x64 platform, and over 100 enhancements in the development and deployment products, extend8 will increase programmer productivity, provide superior performance, and extend data access solutions. The launch signals the first Acucorp product announcement since Micro Focus acquired the company in May 2007, and underlines Micro Focus’ commitment to Acucorp customers. 

extend8 allows businesses to reinvigorate systems, while maintaining the value and information stored within them, by providing powerful graphical technology that is fully enabled in distributed computing environments with a mature thin client technology, seamless access to database technologies and feature-rich interoperability. Enhancements are engineered for ease of use and full portability, to provide the greatest possible return on investment and ensure that the existing application continues to have the ability to modernize in an evolutionary manner. Businesses are looking for IT systems to provide more value with often reduced investment. With extend8, customers are able to exploit previously untapped resources currently residing in their IT systems, while building new platforms that can run on any environment. This minimizes the need to overhaul existing IT infrastructures and retrain staff.
 
Stuart McGill, Chief Technology Officer, Micro Focus, said: “extend8 enables CIOs and IT directors to unlock more value from their respective organization’s IT systems. All too often, we hear of the need to replace systems that have been in place for a number of years. extend8 allows businesses to avoid the huge cost and risk of such projects by providing a straight-forward modernization solution, easily adaptable to a variety of platforms. This is an important development in the Micro Focus product portfolio and clearly demonstrates our commitment to support our Acucorp customers going forward.”
 
One of the principle enhancements of extend8 is the introduction of AcuXUI™, which allows users of ACUCOBOL-GT® graphical technology to use Java as their display engine, providing a more modern look and feel to their interface, and allowing them to create graphical user interfaces for their applications that are portable to any platform running a Java Runtime Environment. Users can deploy their graphical applications to UNIX, Linux, Macintosh, or Web Browser environments, with no changes to their code.  
 
“We are long-time users of Acucorp’s graphical technology, their development tools, and their data access tools – all of which continue to get steadily better. With each major release, we’ve seen our return on investment grow, as Acucorp has engineered solutions that have allowed us to provide increasingly powerful solutions to our customer base and expand our market,” said Donald R. Frey, President, Donald R. Frey & Company, Inc.
 
extend8 highlights

• AcuXUI™, providing the ability to create cross-platform graphical user interfaces
• 64-bit ports for Windows products
• AcuBench® enhanced to be fully compatible in client/server environments
• Over 100 enhancements geared to minimize the need for reengineering current COBOL applications
  

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