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OpenConnect Joins Oracle Modernization Alliance

Comprehend Adds Unique Process Discovery Technology to Oracle Partner Line Up

DALLAS - April 9,2007 - OpenConnect Systems Inc. announced that it has joined the Oracle Modernization Alliance (OMA) to better promote the value and benefits derived from legacy process discovery. The Oracle Modernization Alliance (OMA) brings together vendors with the best products, processes, solutions and architectures for modernizing legacy IT into more open systems.

“To be considered for the Oracle Modernization Alliance, partner companies must demonstrate continued success in IT Modernization,” said Lance Knowlton, Vice President of Modernization Solutions at Oracle. “OpenConnect has a history of helping Fortune 1000 companies to discover and automate business processes involving their legacy systems, enabling these organizations to achieve growth into new environments such as Linux through improved efficiency. This history and expertise is an important asset to our partner network.”

Modernization efforts often must extend beyond the data center as businesses strive to upgrade not only their technology, but also the business processes encapsulated in legacy systems. As enterprise executives look at the initiatives to help streamline business to reach profits, they are evaluating an alphabet soup of multiple solutions including Business Process Management (BPM), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Process Analysis (BPA). An important aspect of achieving these solutions is to address the critical first step to any successful modernization effort – a comprehensive understanding of the attributes and events that are impacting the current business process activity.

OpenConnect provides technology that automatically discovers business process inefficiencies, allowing organizations to quickly improve business practices. The company’s product, Comprehend, records the attributes (who, what, where, when, etc.) and interactions of all the events and processes that occur within an organization’s systems to determine the root cause of business inefficiencies. With the information that results from OpenConnect’s analysis, enterprises have taken the first step towards determining services that can be enabled with Oracle’s Fusion Middleware to better achieve growth and competitive edge.

“Everyone is looking for ways to improve their business to deliver real value. With so many critical processes tied up in legacy systems, modernizing this architecture is a logical place to start. However, the scale of the effort traditionally makes this a risky and complex undertaking,” said Ed Peters, CEO of OpenConnect. “We’re excited to support Oracle’s efforts in fostering IT Modernization by joining the OMA and offering Comprehend’s unique process discovery to allow customers to quickly and confidently deliver real value in their modernization efforts.”

About the Oracle Modernization Alliance

The Oracle Modernization Alliance (OMA) is a group of vendors supporting modernization to Linux and Unix environments. OMA members consist of systems integrators providing modernization practices, vendors providing modernization solutions for specific environments and vendors that work with Oracle in providing modernization target architectures. For more information on the OMA, please visit www.oracle.com/goto/oma.

The OMA is an initiative within the Oracle PartnerNetwork, a global business network of 19.000 companies who deliver innovative software solutions based on Oracle software. For more information on the Oracle PartnerNetwork, please visit http://oraclepartnernetwork.oracle.com.

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About OpenConnect

OpenConnect is the premier supplier of technology solutions that turn information technology assets into business value. With a rich history of innovations in both mainframe and Web technologies, OpenConnect helps the world's largest and most complex organizations comprehend, configure and securely connect to their mainframe applications and data through Web-based architectures. OpenConnect's solutions save companies time and money, improve return on legacy technology investments and minimize the risk of expansion into the online realm. OpenConnect's products are distributed in more than 60 countries and used by more than 60 percent of Fortune 100 companies. For more information on OpenConnect, visit www.oc.com.

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