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Social Media Release: Micro Focus Live Kicks Off May 1 with On-Demand Sessions Featuring Industry Analysts and Experts

2,000-Plus Attendees Set to Discuss Cloud Computing, IT Cost Reduction, COBOL and Much More

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - May 01, 2009

Market Trends and Issues:
•    Cloud computing - the cloud computing market continues to expand daily with new, niche cloud services being announced weekly. However, questions of the cloud’s viability continue to arise as seen in a recent McKinsey report.

•    Extending the value of COBOL – as COBOL nears its 50th birthday, enterprise executives may be surprised to learn that 70-80 percent of all business transactions are based on COBOL.

•    IT modernization – a survey of 450 respondents across the US and European markets showcased the lack of employees skilled in maintaining and modernizing core IT applications. Only 13 percent of CFOs said they were training or hiring new employees skilled in maintenance of core systems.

Highlights / Key Facts:
•    Micro Focus online user conference registration is now open. Attendees can watch on-demand sessions as of May 1 and post questions against the material for further discussion.
•    Confirmed speakers include: Dale Vecchio, Research Vice President, Application Development, Gartner Research; Eddie Amos, General Manager for Developer Tools and Platforms, Microsoft; Jim Johnson, Founder, Standish Group; David Chappell, Principal, Chappell & Associates; Brian Wallace, CTO of BPO Technologies; and Bob Ellsworth, Director, Enterprise Platform Modernization, Microsoft.
•    These speakers will address topics ranging from maximizing your IT assets to strategies that enable you to reduce costs and risk.
•    The agenda focuses on key issues for developers, business managers and ISVs.
•    This year, attendees were invited to vote on topics to be included in the event agenda. The top topics voted for by attendees are:
o    COBOL’s Future: Next 50 years
o    Modernization Best Practices: Optimizing for business service delivery
o    The Cloud for business continuity
o    Getting Past Complexity: Understanding your applications
o    Visual Studio 2008: Getting the most from Microsoft and Micro Focus
•    Through pre-recorded content, live Q&As and interactive forums, attendees will gain insight to effective ways to cut costs, improve developer productivity and drive modernization and migration initiatives.
•    The live portion of Micro Focus Live (MFL) ’09 will take place May 11-13.

Video Quote:
•    Sally Hanson, Global Marketing Communications Director, Micro Focus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7X86EApm_Y
•    Stephen Kelly, CEO, Micro Focus: http://tinyurl.com/crspus
•    David Chappell, Principal, Chappell & Associates: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwoZJovSNqM
•    Micro Focus Live for Developers. Don’t worry what to wear, its virtual: http://tinyurl.com/crq7g3

Links / URLs:
•    MFL '09 homepage: http://microfocuslive.com/
•    MFL '09 Live content agenda: http://www.microfocuslive.com/agenda/index.asp
•    MFL ’09 On-Demand Content: http://www.microfocuslive.com/agenda/ondemand/index.asp
•    MFL '09 Blog: http://microfocuslive.blogspot.com
•    MFL '09 Twitter: http://twitter.com/microfocus
•    MFL '09 LinkedIn Group: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/894727
•    MFL '09 YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/microfocuslive
•    Micro Focus home page: www.microfocus.com
•    Twitter hashtag: #MFL09

Technorati Tags:
Micro Focus, Micro Focus World, COBOL, modernization, cloud computing

Executive quote

Quotes:
• Stephen Kelly, CEO, Micro Focus: "The Micro Focus Live agenda is addressing the IT and business concerns caused by today’s economic reality head-on. More than 2,000 attendees across 80 countries will gain knowledge on the best strategies to move their business forward while avoiding costly, risky approaches to IT modernization. It is critical that enterprises realize they have the freedom to update the systems that already work best for them in whatever form they best see fit – be it cloud computing, SOA or Web services, for example. Micro Focus Live will give attendees the information they need to make informed decisions to dramatically improve their business.”

About the company

Micro Focus, a member of the FTSE 250, provides innovative software that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization and Management software enables customers’ business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk. For additional information please visit www.microfocus.com

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617-226-8840
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