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Semantic Designs Joins Mainframe Migration Alliance

Semantic Designs Inc., a 10 year leader in delivering automated software tools and solutions for optimizing large systems, today announced it has joined the Mainframe Migration Alliance (MMA), an organization created by Microsoft and industry partners to help customers easily and efficiently migrate workloads off the mainframe and onto the Microsoft Windows platform.

, Salt Lake City, April 18-21)

"Semantic Designs is an ideal member of the MMA because we have a decade's worth of practical experience in addressing migration problems," said Ira Baxter, Semantic Designs CEO and CTO. "Our enterprise-class transformation tool, the DMS(R)(TM) Software Reengineering Toolkit, has been designed for scale and flexibility, and is capable of automatically translating an arbitrary mixture of mainframe languages directly to the Microsoft .NET Framework or any other desired target. In addition, we also offer several .NET, Visual C#, SQL and Visual Basic solutions to aid in transformations and are pleased to share our expertise with both MMA partner and customer communities."

"Mainframe customers often have special requirements, such as the ability to reliably handle thousands of transactions per second coupled with all-too-brief maintenance windows. Successfully migrating those applications while preserving functionality requires a deep understanding of both the mainframe and target platforms," said Spyros Sakellariadis, Mainframe Migration Alliance director at Microsoft Corporation. "We are pleased to extend our relationship with Semantic Designs, whose expertise in migrating multiple legacy languages and databases can provide mainframe customers with specific resources that help prepare them to migrate in an automated fashion to the desired platform."

About the Mainframe Migration Alliance
Formed in spring 2004, the Mainframe Migration Alliance is comprised of software vendors and service providers focused on enabling mainframe customers to meet the challenges posed by legacy application environments, including the pressures to reduce IT costs and increase the flexibility in IT systems. In addition to Semantic Designs, current alliance members include Fujitsu Software Corporation, EDS, Getronics, Micro Focus, Net Manage, Serena and Microsoft, among others. Additional information about the alliance can be found at www.mainframemigration.org.

About Semantic Designs
Semantic Designs Inc.'s headquarters is in Austin, Texas. The company's Web site is www.semanticdesigns.com. Since 1996 the privately- held company has provided leadership in automating the analysis, testing, modification and transformation of large software systems. Business solutions include tools, bundles and suites, services for enterprises and ISVs, and system integrator partnering for dozens of languages, databases and schema. Sources include C/C++, COBOL, Ada, Fortran, Transact, Java, C#, PHP, ECMA (Java) Script, VBScript, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, Verilog, VHDL and others. Tools, bundles and suites benefit productivity in formatting, test coverage, execution profiling, metrics, clone detection, inactive code management and detailed source browsing. Obfuscation scrambles source files but allows applications to run normally. Services enable massive, regular change for enterprise and cost-effective system development for ISVs. System integrators help deliver automated transformations for large and/or legacy systems using proven DMS(TM) technology. Concentrations and vertical industries include, legacy optimization and migrations, applications security/Testing/QA, Web site operations and electronic design automation. Customers include Northrop Grumman, Boeing, IBM/Tivoli, Nomura Securities, ARM, Synplicity, Rockwell Collins and others. Semantic Designs performs all development and client deployment on Windows platforms and has been a Microsoft Certified Developer and Solution Provider (MCSP) since 1997.

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