Saga's 'Renowned' DCOM Expert, Eben Schoeman, Promoted to Director of Technology

Business Wire, Dec 11, 1998

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 11, 1998--Citing him as one of the top experts on Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), SAGA SOFTWARE Inc. Chief Technology Officer David Linthicum announced Eben Schoeman has been named to the position of Director of Technology.

A 15-year veteran in design and development of systems for distributed computing environments and a frequent speaker at developer conferences worldwide, Schoeman has held several technical leadership positions at SAGA, concentrating on middleware and component technologies.

He is currently responsible for product development strategy at SAGA, and in his new role, will also be in charge of working with cross-functional teams in Sales, Marketing and Professional Services as well as selecting and analyzing technology for acquisition or further development.

His accomplishments at SAGA include designing the company's worldwide local and wide area network infrastructures while also providing guidance on SAGA's product strategy.

"Eben Schoeman is truly one of the most advanced middleware experts in the world," said Linthicum. "His contributions to SAGA's Solutions-Oriented Middleware(TM) approach have been invaluable over the past few months, and I am confident he will continue to bring even more value to our efforts with Sagavista(TM) as we continue its development."

Sagavista is the company's in-development enterprise application integration engine scheduled for general availability in the second half of 1999.

About SAGA SOFTWARE Inc.

SAGA SOFTWARE Inc. (SAGA), based in Reston, provides enterprise system software and Solutions-Oriented Middleware products that support billions of mainframe transactions daily for some of the world's largest organizations.

SAGA's suite of mission critical products and associated professional services take customers from the heart of the enterprise to the desktop, freeing their information and leveraging their IT investment. SAGA Affiliates are located worldwide in the Asia-Pacific, Eastern and Western Europe, Japan, Latin American, the Middle Eastern and South American regions.

SAGA's parent company is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AGS. For further information, please visit the company's Web site at www.sagasoftware.com.

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