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NEON Systems Joins Google Enterprise Professional Program to Extend Enterprise Search Capabilities to the Mainframe
Thursday September 22, 3:39 pm ET


SUGAR LAND, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 2005--NEON® Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:NEON - News), The Mainframe Integration Experts(TM), today announced the company has joined the Google Enterprise Professional program to bring enterprise search capabilities to organizations that rely on mainframe systems. Across the largest government and private sector organizations there are significant silos of information within mainframe data and application environments that do not currently have the enterprise search capabilities users have come to associate with Google.
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As a participant in the Google Enterprise Professional program, NEON, and its industry leading Shadow RTE mainframe integration technology will help Google customers extend their use of enterprise products to these previously hard-to-search areas of their infrastructure, such as legacy data locked in mainframes, through a secure, real-time mainframe integration platform that meets their unique requirements for information access and security.

"As a leader in mainframe integration, NEON Systems is excited to be participating in the Google Enterprise Professional Program and working with Google to extend the simple, robust indexing and search capability of the Google Search Appliance to the many mainframe systems of record which still undermine the largest global businesses," said Mark Cresswell, President and CEO, NEON Systems, Inc.

The Google Enterprise Professional program includes developers, consultants and independent software vendors that provide value-added services for Google enterprise products.

"Google is excited to have NEON Systems as a partner in the Google Enterprise Professional program. We're looking forward to bringing the power of Google search to organizations with significant investments in mainframe technology," said Kevin Smith, program manager for Google Enterprise Professional.

For more information on the Google Enterprise Professional program, please visit www.google.com/enterprise/gep.

About NEON Systems

NEON Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:NEON - News) -- the Mainframe Integration Experts -- is a leading provider of enterprise-class mainframe integration solutions, delivering the industry's first Mainframe Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) "On-Ramp" for mainframe integration: Shadow RTE. Shadow RTE is the only unified mainframe integration platform to support the entire range of requirements for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Event-Driven Architectures (EDA) -- key requirements to underpin the Real-time Enterprise. NEON's Shadow technology is designed to reduce the complexity of mainframe integration allowing large organizations with significant commitment to mainframe systems to streamline incumbent technologies and lower total cost of ownership. NEON's Shadow z/Services and Shadow z/Events offerings attack the emerging mainframe Web services and real-time mainframe event-driven markets and are unique in their depth and breadth of support for the requirements of such markets. With extensive mainframe integration expertise, NEON is uniquely qualified to solve the complexities of supporting new business initiatives that must integrate with critical mainframe systems. For more information on the Powering the Real-time Enterprise, see our Web site at http://www.neonsys.com or call 800-505-NEON.



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