New Fujitsu NetCOBOL Brand Built On Strength of COBOL Products In Internet Environment.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2002

Fujitsu Software Corporation today unveiled NetCOBOL(TM), the new name and web identity for the company's line of COBOL products. The NetCOBOL brand name reflects the strength of Fujitsu's implementation of the legacy COBOL language in the Internet environment.

The product line includes NetCOBOL for .NET, NetCOBOL for Windows, NetCOBOL for SPARC(TM) Architecture, and NetCOBOL for HP-UX. Each product is based on the same core technology, providing the same high standards of execution integrity and stability, while incorporating features required to target the different environments.

Fujitsu Software Corp.'s www.adtools.com website will become www.netcobol.com.

"In an era when some companies have chosen to distance themselves from COBOL, we have consistently shown that COBOL has made a smooth transition to the 21st century and is at home and of great value in Internet applications," said Ron Langer, director of languages, Fujitsu Software Corporation. "Our NetCOBOL for .NET, for example, allows companies with existing COBOL assets to recompile their COBOL85 programs and enhance them using the wealth of technologies available in the Microsoft .NET framework."

Invented more than 40 years ago to provide a programming language that helped business users create powerful applications, COBOL has led the computer industry through significant evolutionary steps -- providing workhorse, record-crunching power with reliability wherever it is required. Today, COBOL is most often used in environments where extensions to the language or complementary products are used to seamlessly integrate COBOL-based applications into the Internet environment. COBOL programmers continue to develop systems that support the essential needs of business including: interfaces to database management systems, report generation, sophisticated user interfaces, handling multiple transactions, on-line reporting and the preservation of data integrity.

For details, visit the NetCOBOL Web site at http://www.netcobol.com.

About Fujitsu Software Corporation

Fujitsu Software Corporation, based in San Jose, California, is part of the Fujitsu Limited family. Fujitsu Software Corporation leverages Fujitsu's international scope and expertise in developing and providing information technology solutions. Fujitsu Software Corporation's products include INTERSTAGE(TM), e-business infrastructure software that includes the INTERSTAGE Application Server and INTERSTAGE i-Flow, and NetCOBOL. The INTERSTAGE Application Server enables enterprises to build and run mission critical applications. The INTERSTAGE i-Flow Business Process Management engine empowers enterprises to manage business processes and business process change. NetCOBOL is a COBOL development environment and suite of tools to build fast, mission-critical business systems on open platforms, including Microsoft's .NET Framework. For more information, visit http://www.fsw.fujitsu.com.

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