Software AG Appoints Dean Mericka as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for North America.

Mericka Commits to Helping Software AG's North American Customers Achieve Rapid and High Impact Business Results

RESTON, Va. -- Software AG today announced that Dean Mericka has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for North America. Formerly with Digital Harbor, Mericka brings more than 22 years of sales and marketing experience to the task of expanding Software AG's market leadership position as a solutions provider in legacy modernization and SOA management and governance.

"Our commitment in North America will be to our customers and investors," said Mericka. "We will accelerate our leadership in modernizing our customers' mission-critical systems, while helping them efficiently capitalize on SOA for the purpose of achieving both rapid and high impact business results. In North America we have a world-class team focused on customer success and sustained growth. I am delighted to be leading such a fantastic group of people who are so committed to market leadership and customer satisfaction."

"The North America region is absolutely strategic for Software AG, and we are very pleased to appoint Dean Mericka to lead the company's sales and marketing efforts for the US and Canada," said Mark Edwards, Member of the Executive Board, Software AG. "Mericka brings to Software AG an entrepreneurial spirit and a keen understanding of the ways that our customers must use the right technologies to improve agility and further their competitive advantage."

Prior to joining Software AG, Mericka was Vice President of Sales at Digital Harbor, a provider of composite application solutions to the US federal government and financial services institutions. Mericka also held prominent positions at IBM, where he began his career helping state government agencies and higher education institutions benefit from distributed and scientific computing. He was also responsible for IBM's software sales strategy in IBM's Southwest Area. After IBM, Mericka joined BMC Software, a provider of high availability and high performance solutions for mainframe and distributed computing environments, where he was initially focused on BMC's largest automotive and airline customers. He later went on to help establish BMC in the federal government marketplace. Afterwards, he played a major role in establishing BMC in the business service management market, leading field sales, go-to-market execution and customer satisfaction initiatives.

About Software AG, Inc. (North America)

Software AG, Inc. is based in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area and provides enterprise-class data management and integration solutions to customers in sectors such as local, state and federal government, insurance and public retirement. Software AG, Inc.'s customers include American Fidelity Assurance Company, National Gypsum Company, The California State Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS), American Community Mutual Insurance Company, New York City Department of Buildings, Export Development Canada, Tulsa County Government and the US Export-Import Bank.

Software AG, headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, provides a full range of products and services to deliver a service-oriented architecture (SOA) IT infrastructure, based on over thirty-five years experience in high-performance databases, application development tools and integration technologies. Its technology offers process driven integration through legacy modernization and SOA based integration. Software AG helps its customers to achieve a competitive advantage through flexible and adaptive business processes based on fast and easy integration of existing IT assets. It supports the mission-critical systems of over 3,000 customers globally. Software AG is represented in around 70 countries with more than 2,700 employees. It is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TecDAX, ISIN DE 0003304002 / SOW). In 2005 Software AG posted [euro]438 million in total revenue. www.softwareag.com.

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