PACIFIC LIFE CHOOSES MICRO FOCUS REVOLVE FOR APPLICATION PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS AND UNDERSTANDING

ROCKVILLE, Md., and NEWBURY, England, Oct. 17, 2006 - Micro Focus® (LSE: MCRO.L), a leading provider of core system application development and deployment solutions, today announces that Pacific Life Insurance Company's Life Insurance Division has chosen Micro Focus Revolve® Enterprise Edition to review its portfolio of COBOL-based applications. Revolve will help Pacific Life to improve development time, reduce application errors and reduce costs of integrating existing applications with newer technologies.

Pacific Life continuously enhances millions of lines of COBOL code across several key administrative and financial systems. The company realized it needed a powerful set of tools to understand and analyze existing COBOL code before making changes. Using the latest in application understanding and analysis technology from Micro Focus, Pacific Life anticipates improving application development productivity for key applications through Revolve will identify the precise changes required within the millions of lines of code and data that make up Pacific Life's systems. Revolve does this in a fraction of the time taken using alternate approaches. As a result, Pacific Life will be able to adapt more quickly to change and deliver comprehensive, high-quality results in a greatly reduced time frame.

"We chose Micro Focus Revolve because it is easy to use, yet a very powerful analysis tool for COBOL developers," said Jeff Bradshaw, assistant vice president of application development, Pacific Life. "As we continue to implement complex enhancements in our applications, tools like Revolve will help improve our estimation accuracy, software design, development time and software quality, while reducing overall IT costs spent on critical projects."

"Pacific Life is another example of companies looking to exploit the value in their core systems through detailed understanding and analysis of those systems, first, before applying any set of changes," said Mike Shinya, chief operating officer, Micro Focus. "We expect to deliver crisp value to Pacific Life's critical applications and help them make the best use of Revolve as they seek to implement and maintain competitive new products."

About Pacific Life

Founded in 1868, Pacific Life provides life insurance products, annuities, and mutual funds, and offers a variety of investment products and services to individuals, businesses, and pension plans. Pacific Life counts more than half of the 100 largest U.S. companies as clients [1] and is a member of the Insurance Marketplace Standards Association (IMSA), whose membership promotes high ethical standards for the sale of individual life insurance and annuities.

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