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Software AG Announces Enhancements to its ApplinX Legacy Modernization Product

ApplinX to support the open source Eclipse development environment, the Fujitsu-Siemens BS2000/OSD operating system, and additional languages

/noticias.info/ Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW), today announced enhancements for its ApplinX legacy modernization software, including support for the open source Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE), the Fujitsu-Siemens BS2000/OSD operating system, as well as support for Arabic, Farsi and Turkish. The enhancements to ApplinX will further ease the task of creating standard programmatic components (including Web screens and Web services) from legacy systems that can be readily incorporated into modern environments such as Java, .NET and enterprise portals.

Capitalizing on legacy systems' longstanding strengths of reliability, security and high performance, ApplinX provides the ability to preserve and extend legacy applications and integrate them into Web services and SOA environments. ApplinX lets users combine multiple screens into a single Web page, and automatically generates Web components and Web services based upon XML, SOAP and WSDL standards. Furthermore, ApplinX’ user-friendly composing and administration tools enable developers to achieve rapid results using their existing Java and/or .NET programming skills.

"With the new version of ApplinX we continue to help customers around the world drive their legacy systems forward," said Joe Gentry, Vice President of Enterprise Transaction Systems for Software AG. “Our support for a wide variety of legacy systems within a single modernization product gives our customers the power to adapt, while ApplinX’s no-coding, point-and-click approach allows developers with no legacy skills whatsoever to achieve rapid modernization results within weeks or even days.”

Because ApplinX now supports the globally accepted Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE), open source developers can achieve legacy modernization using their familiar toolset, thus increasing developer productivity.

The new version of ApplinX adds support for Arabic, Farsi and Turkish – alongside double-byte languages (Japanese, Chinese and Korean) as well as Hebrew, Russian and Thai. ApplinX now brings a wide variety of legacy modernization options to companies that use the Fujitsu-Siemens BS2000/OSD (9750) operating system. Additional enhancements to ApplinX include support for Natural® data uploads and downloads, the ability to make global changes to a group of screens, instant extensions, and support for HTML Document Object Model (DOM).

ApplinX is part of Software AG’s Enterprise Legacy Integrator (ELI) product portfolio, which enables organizations to save costs and enhance productivity by preserving and extending the value of their current technology investments. ApplinX conforms to virtually any organization's pre-defined infrastructure and standards. ApplinX can be deployed within any J2EE application server environment and communicates with a comprehensive set of legacy platforms, including the zSeries and IBM mainframe (3270), iSeries - former AS/400 (5250), Unisys (T27), Fujitsu (6680), Natural UNIX, HP3000, Tandem (6530), and now Siemens OSD/BS2000 (9750).

Software AG provides a real-time single view of strategic business information by integrating applications and systems, in addition to modernizing mainframe and open system IT environments. Its offerings are based on the product families Adabas, Natural, ApplinX, EntireX and Tamino. Around 2,500 employees in 59 countries support the mission-critical systems of 3,000 customers around the world. The company maintains five R&D facilities across three continents. Founded in 1969, Software AG today is Europe’s largest and most established systems software provider. It is headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany and is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TecDAX, ISIN DE 0003304002 / SOW). In 2004 Software AG posted 411 million euros in total revenue.
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