Micro Focus Broadens Language Support for Year 2000 Conversion Tool.

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 1996--Micro Focus (Nasdaq: MIFGY), as part of its continued commitment to provide the most comprehensive Year 2000 solution, today announced that it is shipping the Micro Focus PL/I Extension for Revolve/2000. Revolve/2000 is now the industry's first Year 2000 solution with integrated full-parsing support for both COBOL and PL/I systems, allowing programmers to use a standard methodology for addressing the Year 2000 problem across multiple languages. Micro Focus is also beginning beta testing for the Assembler Extension for Revolve/2000. PL/I programmers can now use Revolve/2000 to automate many of their date conversion tasks, including inventory analysis to determine which software components belong to an application, identification to locate program logic that needs repair, and impact analysis to show how a change in one area will affect other areas of the system. Automation of these tasks can save a typical Year 2000 project team thousands of hours over the course of a project.

International Data Corporation (IDC) of Framingham, MA estimates that COBOL is being used on nearly every IBM mainframe worldwide and about one third of those mainframes are also running PL/I. Revolve/2000 can now parse COBOL and PL/I, providing IS shops with a single development and maintenance tool to support both languages, while leveraging existing skills and lowering application maintenance costs.

The parsing capabilities in Revolve/2000 enable PL/I and COBOL programmers to understand the impact a change in a data element or program logic will have across an entire system. Most industry tools are limited to text scanning capabilities, which can perform simple pattern-based searches and don't allow more complex analysis of the relationships between application components.

"Support for PL/I is a part of our ongoing commitment to provide analysis and maintenance capabilities to the enterprise developer," said Peter Katz, general manager of the Year 2000 Business for Micro Focus. "Broadening the languages that Revolve/2000 supports enables organizations to utilize a common methodology for Year 2000 conversion and general application development and maintenance."

Pricing and Availability

The Micro Focus Revolve/2000 PL/I Extension is available immediately on Windows 3.x, Windows NT, and Windows 95 and is priced at $1,500 per user. The PL/I Extension integrates with Revolve/2000 and also with Micro Focus Revolve, the leading application code analysis and understanding tool. A free demonstration of Revolve and Revolve/2000 may be downloaded from the company's Year 2000 website found at www.microfocus.com/Challenge2000. Contact a Micro Focus sales representative at 800-872-6265 for further information.

Micro Focus provides tools and technology to help corporations meet changing business requirements. The Company's state-of-the-art programming solutions allow application developers to manage and extend their enterprise applications for: Client/Server computing - Developing and deploying production systems in distributed environments; Legacy Solutions - Moving application development and maintenance off of the mainframe; and Year 2000 assessment and implementation - Providing solutions for preparing systems to handle the millennium date change.

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