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Halcyon Software, Inc. Announces Active Server Pages Support for Linux for the IBM eServer zSeries; Instant ASP Now Available for the IBM's Mainframe

Business Wire, August 27, 2001

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 2001

Halcyon Software, Inc. announced today that it has ported its award-winning product, Instant ASP(TM) (iASP) to the IBM eServer zSeries architecture. iASP is a Java implementation of the industry-standard Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) Active Server Page (ASP) framework that allows developers to easily create interactive e-commerce Web sites.

The ASP framework has become the de-facto Web-application development methodology of choice for Microsoft NT/IIS developers. Active Server Pages gives developers the ability to use standard front-end tools, components, programming/scripting languages, and databases to build Web-based applications quickly and easily. More than one million developers are now building ASP applications. However, the ASP framework has traditionally been limited to Microsoft Windows-based deployments.

Using iASP, developers can combine the ease of use and flexibility of the Active Server Page framework with the robustness and performance of the IBM zSeries mainframe. Businesses that have standardized with Linux for zSeries can eliminate their Windows-based IIS Web servers thus saving thousands of dollars in maintenance and hardware costs. In addition, since iASP is written completely in Java, it can take full advantage of the world class IBM WebSphere Application Server. Current major iASP customers include Agilent, Verizon, Intel, Oracle, Amerisource, and many others.

"Porting iASP to the Linux for zSeries environment will allow our customers to exploit all the intrinsic values of the IBM mainframe server environment thus permitting them to consolidate numerous Microsoft servers on a single piece of IBM hardware. The open source technology of Linux allows us to create cost-effective solutions that leverage existing IT investments." Joann Duguid, Director, Linux marketing IBM eServer zSeries noted, "The Halcyon iASP port to Linux is a further validation of how heterogeneous workloads can be consolidated to run on the zSeries mainframe server. As more and more traditional S/390 applications, such as iASP, support zSeries, we feel confident this environment is ready for our enterprise customers today."

"Instant ASP provides the critical piece required for consolidating multiple Windows servers into a z900 mainframe solution," Don Hsi, Halcyon's President and CEO, commented, "in addition, Halcyon's soon-to-be-available ASP.NET implementation will provide iASP with an upgrade path for Microsoft's latest technologies."

About Halcyon Software

Halcyon Software, founded in 1990, is based in San Jose, CA, and has more than 150 engineers in offices worldwide. Halcyon is dedicated to assisting developers in migrating and transitioning enterprise applications and solutions from one platform to another. Halcyon is privately held. For more information, please visit Halcyon's Web site at http://www.halcyonsoft.com/.> Note to Editors: The following are either trademarks or registered of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both: IBM, the IBM e-business logo, zSeries, and WebSphere.