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Tuesday, 02/05/2008 8:40:28 AM

Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:40:28 AM

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BluePhoenix Announces Recent $4 Million Modernization Contract Win at a Major U.K. Government DepartmentLast update: 2/5/2008 8:32:00 AMRepresents Continued Market-Leading Success in Penetrating the Fujitsu ICL Mainframe Market Contract in Close Cooperation With One of the Largest Global System Integrators Implementation Will Enable an Enterprise Data Warehouse, Yielding Far Reaching Benefits Through the Smarter Use of Data, Such as Increasing Efficiencies HERZLIYA, Israel, February 5, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- BluePhoenix Solutions (BPHX), the leader in value-driven legacy modernization, today announced that it has won a major contract valued at around $4 million with a UK Government Department. The contract was signed with one of the leading global system integrators. Organizations that have mission critical systems running on Fujitsu ICL mainframes are facing growing risks and costs. Diminishing availability of tools and resources are compelling many companies to modernize this aging platform. Many Fujitsu ICL systems have been in place for over 25 years. BluePhoenix's market-leading solution for Fujitsu ICL includes a highly automated toolset that migrates data stores from IDMSX to Oracle, SQL Server or DB2. In addition, our solutions enable Fujitsu ICL applications to be modernized to .Net, UNIX or Linux platforms. These projects are often complex due to the age and size of the typical Fujitsu ICL application. BluePhoenix's tools will be used to modernize the Department's data stores from IDMSX on the Fujitsu ICL mainframe to Oracle running on Sun UNIX, and to perform daily synchronization. The major goal of the project is to streamli
This contract represents another large win for BluePhoenix in the government vertical and around the Fujitsu ICL mainframe computing platform," said Arik Kilman, CEO of BluePhoenix. "BluePhoenix offers ICL customers reliable, low-risk and cost-effective modernization providing a combination of technology, expertise and services. We have proven experience in this area with excellent references." Fujitsu ICL computers can be found in leading UK public sector organizations, military and defense and large financial institutions. For more information

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