Software AG Announces Performance Testing Milestone for Adabas on IBM System z9 z/OS Mainframe Platform

Software AG today announced that its Adabas transactional database software has reached a new performance milestone in joint testing with IBM. Adabas 2006, running along with IBM's recently introduced z/OS v1.8 operating system on the company's new System z9 Enterprise Class mainframe, attained transaction speeds of approximately 320,000 per second - a record speed for Adabas on a commercial mainframe system.

During the trials, which took place at IBM's Poughkeepsie, New York test center, Adabas 2006's enhanced level of 64-bit virtual memory was used in combination with z/OS V1.8's ability to support more than 128 GB of real memory in a single image on IBM System z (z990 and z9 EC) processors. During the testing Adabas 2006 ran on 32 parallel processors.

"We are pleased with the support and continued investment in the System z platform by partners like Software AG," said Randy Daniel, director, System z Marketing Execution, IBM Systems & Technology Group. "The impressive results of these recent joint tests with Software AG not only demonstrate the strength of our system design, but also emphasizes that our approach to transactional data management remains unrivaled throughout the industry."

"This achievement demonstrates that Software AG is fully committed to the continued improvement of Adabas," said Philip Howard, Research Director, Bloor Research. "Such performance should convince users that no matter how much their volume demand increases - or their processing resources are taken up by other, more CPU intensive, products - Adabas is likely to have more than enough headroom to continue performing effectively."

"As these remarkable joint test results demonstrate, Software AG continues to optimize our Adabas 2006 family of products to keep pace with growing enterprise requirements alongside the industry-leading hardware and operating system platforms of IBM - to the ongoing benefit of our mutual customers," said Joe Gentry, vice president of Enterprise Transaction Systems for Software AG.

Additional Features

In addition to its unprecedented transactional performance, Adabas 2006 now supports multi-media objects up to 2 GB in size. This new capability means that large unstructured files (such as photographs, design files, fingerprint files, spreadsheets, XML & HTML documents, and other document types) can be stored alongside structured data files inside Adabas 2006. Being able to store structured and unstructured files in the same location eliminates the need for data synchronization, improves data accuracy and reduces costs associated with system integration.

Another significant upgrade to Adabas 2006 is the addition of support for logical records exceeding 32 KB, (called spanned records), which eliminates virtually all practical limits on record size. This enhancement prevents down-time when storage limits are reached for extremely large volumes of data, moving Adabas even closer to (theoretical) 24 x7 x 365 operational uptime.

Product Availability

Software AG's Adabas 2006 is shipping now. For more information about Adabas 2006, visit http://www.softwareag.com/Corporate/products/adabas/default.asp.

About Software AG, Inc. (North America)

Software AG, Inc. is based in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area and provides enterprise-class data management and integration solutions to customers in sectors such as local, state and federal government, insurance and public retirement. Software AG, Inc.'s customers include American Fidelity Assurance Company, National Gypsum Company, The California State Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS), American Community Mutual Insurance Company, New York City Department of Buildings, Export Development Canada, Tulsa County Government and the US Export-Import Bank.

Software AG, headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, provides a full range of products and services to deliver a service-oriented architecture (SOA) IT infrastructure, based on over thirty-five years experience in high-performance databases, application development tools and integration technologies. Its technology offers process driven integration through legacy modernization and SOA based integration. Software AG helps its customers to achieve a competitive advantage through flexible and adaptive business processes based on fast and easy integration of existing IT assets. It supports the mission-critical systems of over 3,000 customers globally. Software AG is represented in around 70 countries with more than 2,700 employees. It is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TecDAX, ISIN DE 0003304002 / SOW). In 2005 Software AG posted EUR 438 million in total revenue. www.softwareag.com.

Software AG and/or all Software AG products are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Software AG. All other product and company names mentioned herein are used for identification purposes only, and may be the trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.

For further information: Software AG, Inc. Gerda Yearwood, 703-391-8295 gerda.yearwood@softwareagusa.com

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