BlueZone Software Announces Free Upgrade for Financial Services Companies

Terminal-emulation leader offers risk-free migration evaluation and planning services

ATLANTA - 17 December 2008

BlueZone Software (www.bluezonesoftware.com) today announced a limited-time offer to qualified financial institutions that provides a free competitive upgrade to the latest version of its terminal-emulation software with a 50% discount on maintenance that has already been budgeted for 2009. BlueZone Software is a best-of-breed terminal emulation product that is currently used by many large financial organizations world-wide.

As part of its offer, that expires March 31st, 2009, BlueZone Software will provide complimentary evaluation and migration planning services, and flexible, “audit free” licensing. Jeremy Sharp, Senior Vice-President of Sales at BlueZone Software, said, “Banks and other financial institutions are really feeling the pain in this economy, and we know that they’re cutting back on spending. At the same time, BlueZone generates real and tangible cost savings for our users, so this is really a way for them to help their bottom line in these difficult times.”

See the offer details on the BlueZone website at www.bluezonesoftware.com/q1financialoffer.

BlueZone’s terminal emulation software is the world’s most popular replacement for desktop-based terminal emulators, including Extra, Rumba and Reflection. In addition to superior technical performance, organizations are saving 50% – 80% on annual maintenance costs by switching to BlueZone, a robust terminal emulation suite that provides desktop and Web-based access to back-end systems including; Mainframe (TN3270), iSeries (TN5250), Unisys (T27 & UTS), Unix (VT) and Secure FTP. Its stability, robust feature set, and industry standard security make it an ideal enterprise-wide replacement.

Contact:
Jeremy Sharp
BlueZone Software
1.404.364.4200

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About BlueZone Software

For more than 25 years, BlueZone software (www.bluezonesoftware.com) has provided state of the art, secure, cost effective solutions for the enterprise. The BlueZone terminal emulator is primarily sold as a replacement product for organizations interested in saving money on annual maintenance renewals, upgrades and new license purchases – all of this with technology which is as good, if not better, than what they use today. We are the expert in emulator replacement and make the transition of emulator settings, macros, scripts, and integrated applications as easy as possible. BlueZone is a business unit of Rocket Software.

Rocket Software (www.rocketsoftware.com) is a global software development firm that builds and services Enterprise Infrastructure products for the world's leading OEMs, networks and software companies and enterprises. The company's products complement and extend strategic infrastructure in the areas of: application modernization, business intelligence, compliance and security, consumer productivity, database servers, database tools, file transfer, mainframe productivity, network management, publishing and search, SOA and integration, storage management, terminal emulation, and text mining.

BlueZone, a Rocket Software brand, provides state-of-the-art, secure, cost effective solutions for the enterprise. The BlueZone product line extends from basic terminal emulation to legacy web enablement and web services integration. BlueZone is committed to advancing this technology to meet the changing and growing needs of its customers. BlueZone is the expert in emulator replacement and makes the transition of emulator settings, macros, scripts, and integrated applications as easy as possible.