GT Software and Relativity Technologies partner to accelerate the identification, preparation, and deployment of service-oriented mainframe applications

ATLANTA and RALEIGH, NC-- June 21, 2006-- Companies and organizations seeking to enhance the value of their mainframe computers by integrating them into a service-oriented architecture can efficiently identify available applications and easily build services with them.

GT Software, the leading provider of rapid service-oriented architecture (SOA) development for the mainframe, and Relativity Technologies, the leading provider of Enterprise Application Modernization solutions, today announced a partnership that accelerates and boosts the value of SOA-enabling, mainframe-based business processes.

Together the GT Software and Relativity Technologies' solutions provide:

• Fast-Track to SOA-Enablement: With GT Software's Ivory Service Architect, mainframe developers can graphically orchestrate mainframe transaction, application, data, and web services into multi-step, multi-operation business services with no formal training or consulting required. Concurrently, Relativity Technologies' Modernization Workbench solution provides rich insight into enterprise applications, allowing developers to identify, understand, and select business processes targeted for serviceenablement through the Ivory solution.
• Multiply the Value of SOA-Enablement: Most complex mainframe applications are not optimally architected for SOA-enablement. Relativity Technologies' Modernization Workbench identifies and helps developers eliminate architectural traps that can reduce the value of SOA-enablement. Further, through its componentization capabilities, the Modernization Workbench isolates dispersed business logic into standalone components. Ivory Service Architect can then orchestrate and deploy these components as mainframebased services, permitting high-value but hidden business processes to be extended in anSOA framework.

"Organizations can gain low cost and low risk business value by SOA-enabling their mainframebased applications," said Dale Vecchio, research vice president of Gartner, Inc. "This value is further enhanced when using application analysis and application renovation capabilities by helping locate the functionality that forms the foundation of better grain services and ensuring that the mainframe's high quality-of-service can be preserved."

"This partnership is about removing complexity, cost and confusion from the process of integrating mainframe resources into an SOA," said Rob Morris, SVP at GT Software. "Relativity Technologies provides context to the available 'instruments' on the mainframe and Ivory Service Architect 'builds the orchestra', enabling customers to create services in a manner that emphasizes business process, results and ROI."

"The successful orchestration of mainframe-based services can yield operational flexibility and substantial efficiencies - and GT Software has taken a leadership role in delivering this business benefit," said Steve Maysonave, chairman, president, and CEO of Relativity Technologies. "Our combined software solution allows clients to rapidly demystify and segment business logic buried in complex applications and reuse the logic in an SOA environment. Improved business agility, productivity increases, and risk reduction are the end results."

The two companies will work closely together to jointly integrate, market and sell the technologies to the global market.

About GT Software

GT Software (www.gtsoftware.com) is a leading provider of rapid SOA development solutions that leverage mainframe resources, making the mainframe an active participant in SOA initiatives. GT Software?s products enable a company?s mainframe developers to quickly and easily model, automate, and extend mainframe processes for deployment as key components of an enterprise SOA solution. With more than 2,000 installations worldwide, GT Software provides high-quality, innovative and cost-effective solutions for many Fortune 1000 companies. Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, GT Software is a privately held company represented in the US, Canada, Asia, Europe, Australia, Africa and South America.

About Relativity Technologies, Inc.

Relativity Technologies' software solutions drive down the cost and accelerate the understanding, modernization, management, and maintenance of enterprise applications. The Modernization Workbench' serves as a platform for organizations to address critical business challenges such as increased IT productivity, outsourcing management, risk reduction, regulatory compliance, and SOA enablement of business-critical applications. Founded in 1997 and based in Raleigh, NC, Relativity Technologies provides its Enterprise Application Modernization solutions to over 250 Global 2000 companies, outsourcers, system integrators, and government organizations - - including financial institutions and multiple BlueCross and BlueShield companies. For more information, please visit www.relativity.com

Contacts:

Rob Morris, GT Software, Inc., 404-253-1300, rmorris@gtsoftware.com
Bill Baker, Baker Communications Group, 860-350-9100, wbaker@bakercg.com
Peter Mollins, Relativity Technologies, 919-786-2866, peter.mollins@relativity.com