MICRO FOCUS MAINFRAME EXPRESS CERTIFIED ca smart WITH COMPUTER ASSOCIATES' ALL FUSION ENDEVOR CHANGE MANAGER

-- Integrated Solutions Provide Productive Application Development Environment for the z/OS --

SUNNYVALE, Calif. August 12, 2003 - Micro Focus, today announced that its Mainframe Express, a workstation-based development environment for IBM mainframe business applications, has been certified ca smart with AllFusionEndevor Change Manager, an automated mainframe software configuration management tool, from Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). Working together, Mainframe Express and AllFusionEndevor Change Manager provide an end-to-end application development environment for z/OS. Developers now have the flexibility and productivity provided by the ability to carry out the development lifecycle on a Windows PC using Mainframe Express instead of using mainframe host resources, while making use of the security and scalability of CA's host-based source control management systems.

AllFusionEndevor Change Manager enables organizations to control all software management tasks associated with the mainframe development environment through its automated transformation functionality, module relationship management, parallel development management and release automation. It eliminates the manual steps that slow down the software development process and ensures greater efficiency with fewer errors.

"Using the AllFusionEndevor Change Manager option included in Micro Focus Mainframe Express means that our developers no longer have to go and log on to the mainframe for everyday access to source files stored in AllFusionEndevor Change Manager," said Marie Edenborg, project manager at SvenskaHandelsbanken, one of the largest banks in the Nordic countries, offering complete universal banking services. "As a result, we can do more work using our Windows PCs instead of ISPF while, at the same time, continuing to take advantage of the extensive configuration management facilities that AllFusionEndevor Change Manager provides."

"ca smart certification is designed to deliver value to customers by extending CA's breadth of management solutions through partnerships with industry leading companies in systems integration, hardware and software," said Ricardo Antuna, vice president of marketing, AllFusion and CleverPath solutions, CA. "Micro Focus and CA continue to prove their commitment to addressing the evolving needs of the application development community."

"We are extremely pleased to announce the ca smart certification of our Mainframe Express with CA's AllFusionEndevor Change Manager," said Michael Waters, director of strategic alliances for Micro Focus. "z/OS developers have demanded a platform for the development and testing of Internet-based and client/server applications. Our product, now ca smart certified, enables organizations to combine mission-critical COBOL with emerging information technologies in order to extend business applications across the enterprise with minimized risk at lower cost."

ca smart solutions are certified to integrate seamlessly with CA's industry-leading technologies, providing customers with substantial and immediate business benefits.

Micro Focus' Mainframe Express development environment offers programmers increased productivity with an alternative to host-based development. The solution enables them to edit, compile, debug and test applications on workstations by utilizing a comprehensive suite of mainframe emulators and specialized mainframe connectivity technology.

About Micro Focus

Micro Focus is the fastest, most effective way to migrate, extend, develop and deploy enterprise applications. As the industry standard for COBOL, Micro Focus bridges business-critical legacy assets with Web services, J2EE, XML and .NET, enabling organizations to reduce costs, increase agility and minimize risk for accelerated business success. The company's software products for COBOL are among the most widely used in the industry with an estimated 130,000 COBOL developers in 80,000 organizations producing applications used by more that 3,000,000 people around the world. Founded in 1976, Micro Focus is a global company with principal offices in the United Kingdom, United States and Japan. For more information, visit www.microfocus.com.

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