Micro Focus Net Express Named Finalist for Esteemed Software & Information Industry Association - SIIA - Codie Awards

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & NEWBURY , U.K., Jan. 10, 2002 Net Express Recognized as One of Five Finalists in Best Enterprise Application Integration Category

Micro Focus International Ltd. (Micro Focus(R)), a leading global enterprise development company for legacy systems, has been named a finalist for the 2002 SIIA Codie Award for its Net Express(R) product in the Best Enterprise Application Integration category.

Finalists were chosen from an initial group of more than 500 companies promoting more than 700 products by the SIIA. The SIIA 2002 Codie Awards showcase the software industry's finest products and services and honor excellence as well as corporate achievement and philanthropic efforts. The award program provides the only peer recognition program in the industry. Micro Focus Net Express is the market leading COBOL development environment for Windows and UNIX platforms offering the only open scalable alternative to running COBOL systems on traditional mainframe environments. It provides a rich Windows development environment for creating and extending enterprise business processes written in COBOL and delivering distributed or e-business COBOL applications on Windows or UNIX platforms.

"The Codie Awards finalists are the best of the best our creative and innovative industry has produced in the past year," said Ken Wasch, SIIA president. "The Codie Awards represent peer recognition of excellence. We congratulate all of the developers, designers and programmers that have had a hand in bringing such outstanding work to the market."

"The SIIA Codie Awards are deemed a prestigious honor in the software industry," said Ian Archbell, vice president of product management for Micro Focus. "We are proud that our industry peers realize the powerful benefits of Net Express that enable our customers to protect their legacy assets in a cost-effective, low-risk manner."

Winners of the SIIA Codie Awards will be announced April 15, 2002 during the SIIA Annual Conference in San Diego.

About SIIA

The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to more than 800 leading software and information companies. For further information, visit www.siia.net .

About Micro Focus

Micro Focus is the industry leader in COBOL development solutions spanning traditional maintenance and program understanding to business rule mining, Web-enablement and user-interface transformation. With 70,000 licensed users at more than 7,000 sites around the world, Micro Focus offers unsurpassed breadth of platform support, performance and scalability, and the most comprehensive suite of development and integration environments to help customers succeed in taking full advantage of the power of their legacy systems. Founded in 1976, Micro Focus is a global company that employs more than 450 people worldwide, with principal offices in the United Kingdom and United States. For more information, visit www.microfocus.com.

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