SAGA's Solutions-oriented Middleware to Incorporate IBM's Mqseries and Component Broker Technologies

Business Wire, Oct 2, 1998

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 1998--SAGA Thursday announced plans to incorporate IBM's MQSeries(TM) and Component Broker(TM) technologies into SAGA's Solutions-Oriented Middleware(TM) development program, slated to produce a major new enterprise application integration product by mid-1999.

This relationship, founded on more than two decades of cooperation between the two companies, will build upon IBM's OS/390(TM) as the enterprise class server for SAGA's Solutions-Oriented Middleware offerings.

SAGA's Solutions-Oriented Middleware enables global businesses to connect their existing custom, packaged and database applications with today's Enterprise Resource Planning applications, such as SAP(R), Baan(R), and Peoplesoft(R).

The Solutions-Oriented Middleware architecture extends the reach of the OS/390 to the desktop, a major benefit for enterprise customers who need access to both existing custom applications and packaged applications. This solutions- based approach will significantly speed enterprise integration and enable businesses to share more information with more people more efficiently and cost effectively.

"This relationship provides a major business benefit to SAGA's customers who need to manage and support rapid change, while leveraging their investments in existing infrastructure," said SAGA President and CEO Daniel F. Gillis.

"Together, SAGA and IBM are making it easier than ever for our customers to deploy new business applications regardless of the underlying platform-mainframe or desktop-enterprise wide, thereby freeing their information."

SAGA Chief Technology Officer David S. Linthicum said, "The expanded relationship will combine the efficiencies of SAGA's EntireX(TM) with those of MQSeries to build an underlying message infrastructure for our new product.

"This new product is an enterprise integration technology that leverages object broker standards like Microsoft(R) DCOM and CORBA while enhancing the value of the OS/390 as the preferred platform for enterprise integration." SAGA plans to use IBM's Component Broker as part of a distributed services feature for the SAGA product.

"As SAGA continues to build our Solutions-Oriented Middleware products, our heritage of servicing OS/390 and major mainframe customers now melds beautifully with a relationship with IBM that will permit both companies to further integrate mission critical enterprise systems," Linthicum said. "As we progress, SAGA hopes to work with IBM further in this space.

"IBM understands the solution developer and the importance of e-business in the marketplace," said Donna Troy, vice president, Global Solution Developer Alliances, IBM. "Through our Solutions Developer Program, IBM is growing its alliance with SAGA and together we are providing our mutual customers with solutions that will help them achieve e-business success."

SAGA is a member of IBM's worldwide Solution Developer Program, which facilitates the development and sale of third-party software applications running on IBM hardware and software platforms by providing business, technical, marketing and information services.

The program is focused on leading-edge technologies that enable developers to deliver complete e-business solutions to their customers. For more information on the Solution Developer Program, visit http://www.developer.ibm.com.

SAGA, based in Reston, provides enterprise system software and Solutions-Oriented Middleware(TM) 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. Software AG Systems Inc., 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 http://www.sagafyi.com.

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