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Micro Focus Announces Support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005; Micro Focus to integrate industry leading tools for extending value of legacy COBOL with Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Business Wire, March 24, 2004

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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 2004

Micro Focus International Ltd. (Micro Focus(R)) today announced from Fawcette Technical Publications VSLive! San Francisco that it will support the upcoming Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. Visual Studio 2005 will now become the native IDE for Micro Focus Net Express(R) with .NET, the premier COBOL development tool for Windows and the Microsoft .NET Framework. Developers will not only receive the productivity benefits of Visual Studio 2005 but will now also have COBOL when using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Windows Forms, WebForms and ADO.NET. These latest enhancements will continue to give organizations with large investment in COBOL applications best-of-breed technology for unlocking the value of their business logic with the dependable foundation of the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.

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"As a member of the Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program, with industry-leading development and deployment tools for enterprise COBOL applications, Micro Focus is giving our mutual customers the latest in Microsoft technology by moving to Visual Studio 2005," said David Lazar, director in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Division at Microsoft Corp. "We are glad to be working with Micro Focus to help customers migrate critical applications to the Microsoft Windows platform."

Net Express with .NET will provide a more productive and seamless development environment for COBOL applications and will have access to the .NET Framework's classes and functions from COBOL. This will provide today's COBOL programmers the latest advances to help realize continued value from critical legacy applications.

U.K. ERP provider, McGuffie Brunton is already seeing advantages from moving its COBOL to run under the Microsoft .NET Framework. "Now with Visual Studio .NET as a single IDE it has become faster and more convenient to develop composite applications including both languages built on top of the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and existing or new COBOL programs," said Jeremy Hart, technical director at McGuffie Brunton. "Micro Focus' support of Visual Studio 2005 will greatly enhance our product's ability to connect with newer technologies and users through the ease of application development."

"Continuing to make COBOL a first class citizen in the world of Microsoft .NET is of vital strategic importance to our success," said Ian Archbell, vice president of product management, Micro Focus. "Visual Studio 2005 will allow us to deliver the most productive tools for rapidly reusing, extending and building enhanced COBOL applications on newer platforms that ultimately reduce costs and increase business agility."

About Micro Focus

Micro Focus is the leading provider of COBOL application development and deployment software for contemporary platforms and architectures. Micro Focus enables organizations to unlock the value of their legacy by reusing their business-critical assets, resulting in reduced costs, increased agility and minimal risk. 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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Micro Focus Announces Support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005; Micro Focus to integrate industry leading tools for extending value of legacy COBOL with Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Business Wire, March 24, 2004

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