Mainsoft, IBM To Co-Market .NET to Linux on eServer zSeries migration solution

Visual MainWin v 1.5 for J2EE on IBM eServer zSeries helps simplify IT environments

Application Development Summit, Phoenix, AZ - Sept 27, 2004 - Mainsoft^® Corporation, the cross-platform development company, today announced it is offering enterprises, with significant investments in Microsoft .NET code and skills, the flexibility to migrate .NET applications to the Linux^® platform, hosted on IBM's eServer zSeries servers. Visual MainWin^® for J2EE^™ v 1.5 enables these enterprises to use existing .NET code and resources on both Windows^® and Linux platforms, delivering business flexibility for mainframe customers.

Visual MainWin preserves .NET developer productivity and speeds time-to-deployment, lowering .NET to Linux migration costs of business-critical, on-demand applications that enterprises choose to host on IBM's eServer zSeries servers.

"We are very pleased to partner with companies like Mainsoft. The number of solutions on zSeries today continues to grow through our expanding community of partners. With products like Visual MainWin, IT executives can leverage their IT infrastructure to better support business objectives, and can save on skills retraining," said Joan Meltzer, Director, zSeries Marketing Programs, IBM. "Enterprises with .NET skills and resources can now tap into the business resiliency of IBM's eServer zSeries."

The Business Need

Businesses are seeking to simplify their IT environment by consolidating applications onto fewer servers in order to make it easier to manage their systems and reduce their overall IT costs. With Visual MainWin v 1.5 now available on IBM eServer zSeries systems, businesses can reduce their tiers of computing by running additional applications on the IBM eServer zSeries platform, tapping into the enhanced security, availability and reliability of the mainframe while using their existing skill set.

About Visual MainWin for J2EE

As an integrated Visual Studio development environment, Mainsoft's Visual MainWin removes productivity barriers of .NET to Linux migration with a long term, cross-platform development and porting strategy. Visual MainWin extends the high productivity of Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET development environment to Linux and other Java/J2EE enabled platforms, enabling enterprises with C# and Visual Basic .NET^® developers to rapidly develop J2EE/Java-enabled applications and Web services using Visual Studio. NET development software and ASP.NET. The output is pure Java bytecode, which can be easily deployed on standards-compliant J2EE/Java-enabled application servers such as IBM WebSphere^® .

"We are thrilled to extend our long-term relationship with IBM," said Yaacov Cohen, president and CEO of Mainsoft Corporation. "We offer IT executives the high productivity of Microsoft's rapid application development tools and the unparalleled application reliability and overall business resiliency offered by IBM's world-class zSeries servers."

About Mainsoft Corporation

Founded in 1993, Mainsoft Corporation, the cross-platform development company, enables businesses to develop mission-critical applications with Visual Studio software and deploy them natively on J2EE, UNIX^® and Linux^® platforms, dramatically reducing development costs and time-to-market. The company is a first-mover in cross-platform development. Its world-class research and development team has created patented cross-platform products that solve critical problems facing independent software vendors (ISVs) and IT organizations. Many of the world's largest ISVs including Siebel, Computer Associates and IBM Rational, use Mainsoft's products to extend the productivity of Microsoft Visual Studio, deploying more than $1 billion worth of software annually on multiple operating systems. For more information, visit www.mainsoft.com .

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Mainsoft Corporation
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