Software AG Unveils Next Generation of Adabas and Natural.

RESTON, Va. -- Software AG, Inc.:

--Support for Service-oriented Architectures (SOA), Eclipse open source, cross-platform initiatives, and AJAX-based Rich Internet Applications ensures Adabas 2006 and Natural 2006 address customer's business and IT requirements

Software AG, Inc. today announced the next generation versions of its Adabas transactional database and Natural development platform. Adabas 2006 and Natural 2006 are designed to provide customers with an even greater return on their IT infrastructure investment, based upon powerful new tools that enable SOA, Web services, open source development environments and AJAX-based rich Internet applications. In addition, cross-platform support and event-driven data replication provide customers with full freedom in choosing and mixing the right development and deployment platforms to address their business needs.

"Our customers are clearly moving to SOA, as well as consolidating and standardizing their IT operations, in order to achieve cost reduction, agility, speed and greater efficiency," said Joe Gentry, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Transaction Systems for Software AG. "Adabas 2006 and Natural 2006 are ideal platforms to support our customers' exciting new vision for the interaction of business and technology."

Today, leading businesses and government organizations throughout the world - including Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminal, American Fidelity Assurance, Vafik Bank, Medihelp and California State Teacher's Retirement System - depend on Adabas and Natural to support operations directly tied to their business success.

"The high performance systems we have running on Adabas and Natural are critical to our business," said Steve Hogan, Manager, Database Administration, Nissan Motor Company Australia. "They ensure we can get parts out of the warehouse and cars out of the compounds. With Adabas 2006 and Natural 2006, Software AG is future proofing these systems with the ability to extend our applications to a scalable Service-Oriented Architecture and to build new rich Internet applications."

"Our customer service system runs on Adabas, and we built it ourselves using Natural," said David Lee, Sr. Manager, Business Solutions & Technology for Charlotte, North Carolina-based National Gypsum Company. "This system is a key competitive differentiator for us; we have been the leader in customer service in our industry for the past 7 years."

Philip Howard of Bloor Research has noted that, "Software AG is committed to openness and interoperability and the company continues to evolve both Adabas and Natural in this direction, while still being available on almost all the platforms available in the market."

Adabas 2006 Highlights

Adabas 2006 delivers extremely high transaction levels (for example, more than 150,000 transactions per second), with a fraction of the staff and system resources needed for a comparable relational database management system - making Adabas 2006 a very cost effective solution for enterprise scale data management.

Adabas 2006 highlights include support for:

--Virtually unlimited volumes of data

--Real-time, event-driven distribution of data into Adabas, relational databases and XML 

--Open interfaces with Web services, JDBC and ODBC 

--Standard data queries with SQL and XQuery

--A single environment to manage large multimedia files along with structured data.

In addition, Adabas 2006 offers cross-platform support from the latest mainframe environments to Linux, UNIX and Windows, all with a single browser-based administration tool that can manage data across multiple locations.

Natural 2006 Highlights

Natural 2006 excels as a new application development platform due to its openness and flexibility, as well as its simplicity and efficiency - typically requiring fewer lines of code for a given task than other development environments. Natural 2006 also provides a quick learning curve, reducing the training time required before developers can begin productive work.

Natural 2006 highlights include support for:

--The Eclipse development environment

--Web services, SOA, and rich Internet applications

--Mainframe, Linux, UNIX and Windows

--Service Oriented development of business applications

Availability

Throughout the year, specific new products are planned for introduction as part of the Adabas 2006 and Natural 2006 product portfolios, including the Adabas SOA Gateway, announced on February 7, 2006 and Natural Business Services, announced on February 13, 2006. For the latest details on Adabas 2006, visit www.softwareag.com/adabas. For the latest details about Natural 2006, and to download a free, personal Windows version of the product, visit www.softwareag.com/natural.

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, manufacturing and public retirement. Software AG, Inc.'s customers include the U.S. Navy, American Fidelity Assurance Company, The California State Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS), National Gypsum Company, NYC Department of Buildings, the State of Alaska and the County of Sacramento. For more information, visit www.softwareagusa.com. For more information, visit www.softwareagusa.com.

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 real-time single views of strategic business information. 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 60 countries with more than 2,600 employees. It is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TecDAX, ISIN DE 0003304002 / SOW). In 2005 Software AG posted EUR 438 million in total revenue (unaudited). www.softwareag.com.

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