CO-OP FINANCIAL SERVICES TURNS TO MICRO FOCUS FOR ANNUAL SAVINGS OF $2 MILLION

-Credit Union-owned EFT Processor completes critical application modernization-

ROCKVILLE, Md., March 26, 2007 - Micro Focus® (LSE: MCRO.L), a leading provider of enterprise application modernization software, today announces that CO-OP Financial Services, the largest U.S. credit union-owned electronic funds transfer (EFT) network and processor, is reaping the benefits of migrating its branch transaction processing system from a legacy Unisys 6822 mainframe. Using Micro Focus's and The Progeni Corp's application modernization technologies to preserve and re-use its existing COBOL application logic, CO-OP was able to complete a move to Windows in just four months and reduce its $2.3 million annual operating costs by over 95 percent. In addition to these dramatic cost reductions, the project has delivered mainframe-level reliability, availability and serviceability while supporting a 50 percent increase in transaction throughput and a new "real time" management reporting capability.

CO-OP's shared branching operation, in which multiple credit unions utilized the same core service, allows credit union customers to conduct transactions at any member branch, as if they were at their own home branch. For decades, the application that supported this facility, including the one million credit union transactions per month, ran on a powerhouse Unisys mainframe environment.

As part of a long term consolidation and modernization initiative, CO-OP had replaced all other applications that used to operate on its leased mainframe, leaving its core branch transaction processing system as the last remaining application. By August 2005, CO-OP determined that by moving this critical application off the mainframe, it could effectively eliminate all costs associated with any mainframe renewal lease in December 2005.

Utilizing the proven Unisys mainframe migration technology and approach of the Progeni Corporation (a Micro Focus Migration and Transformation Consortium member), CO-OP moved this COBOL-based transaction system to Windows with minimal change. This allowed for the reuse of all core business logic and eliminated the risk of delay associated with any re-write.

"It was a very aggressive schedule, but we did it," said Jack Beckman, Senior Systems Analyst at CO-OP Financial Services. "Time to market was crucial and the quality of products and support from Micro Focus, Microsoft and Progeni were critical. Compared to the multimillion-dollar cost of the mainframe, the cost of running the solution on Windows is virtually zero. Our return on investment is through the roof."

"CO-OP Financial Services faced a demanding deadline in migrating a service that was business-critical for hundreds of participating credit unions," said

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