Nexaweb Launches Major Upgrade to Application Modernization Platform; Nexaweb Enterprise Web Suite5.0 enables modernization of legacy applications to Web 2.0 and the Cloud with new software migration and development innovations

Burlington, Mass. & Tokyo, Japan -- Nexaweb Technologies, Inc., the leading innovator of business application modernization software, today announced the availability of Enterprise Web Suite 5.0 - the next generation of its business application modernization platform. The new release makes it even easier for organizations to transform underperforming and expensive-to-maintain legacy systems into rich, secure Web 2.0 applications.

According to the June 2009 "State of Enterprise Software: 2009" report by Forrester Research, Inc, a survey of IT executives revealed that updating legacy applications is the top initiative for 64 percent of enterprises and 55 percent of small and mid size businesses. According to a June, 2009 press release, report co-author and Forrester vice president and principal analyst Jean-Pierre Garbani said "the costs of operating legacy applications makes them unsustainable, and our research shows that firms are seeking efficient ways to modernize." Mr. Garbani and Nexaweb VP Engineering, Rob Gagne, are co-presenting a webinar on legacy IT modernization on Tuesday April 6, 2010.

Nexaweb Enterprise Web Suite 5.0 (Nexaweb EWS) is an application modernization and runtime platform that is used by over 200 companies worldwide to transform legacy systems into rich, open standards-based Web 2.0 applications. With new developer productivity features and support for Ajax and Cloud deployment, EWS 5.0 builds on Nexaweb's ability to quickly migrate even the most complex and data entry-intensive legacy applications to the web to reduce IT operating costs and enable new business models such as customer and employee self-service

Nexaweb EWS 5.0 Feature Snapshot

The J2EE-compatible Nexaweb EWS includes the following:

* Eclipse-based IDE for graphical development of Web 2.0 applications

* Tools for legacy code capture, analysis, reuse and documentation

* Declarative XML language (XAL) for high-level Web 2.0 application development

* Pre-built Web 2.0 application frameworks into which custom business logic is generated

* Internet message bus automates secure, real-time data transfer between host and browser

* High-availability and scalability features like clustering, fail-over and load balancing

New features in Enterprise Web Suite 5.0 include:

* Nexaweb Reference Framework: Pre-built framework eliminates manual development of UI behavior, security, integration and other common Web 2.0 application elements.

* JSP Editor: Support for visual editing of JSP pages allows dynamic content to be combined with Nexaweb XAL.

* New Application Wizards: Allow developers to quickly add reference framework support as well as user interface, workflow themes and data connectivity elements to projects

* Linux and Mac OS X support - Nexaweb supports Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu and SuSe Linux platforms, as well as Mac OS X for application development and deployment

* Virtualization and Cloud deployment - Nexaweb applications can be deployed to private, virtualized clouds or public clouds such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for even better business continuity and data center economics.

Availability Nexaweb Platform 5.0 is generally available today and can be downloaded for evaluation at: http://www.nexaweb.com/products/enterprise-web-suite.

About Nexaweb Nexaweb Technologies, Inc. is the leading innovator of solutions for migrating legacy business applications to the Web. The Nexaweb modernization platform has the unique ability to rapidly transform legacy client/server systems to rich Web 2.0 applications by maximizing legacy code reuse, recreating secure, low-latency client/server performance over the web and enabling the continuous evolution of modernized software to support new trends such as cloud computing. Over 200 customers, including Aflac, AT&T, Bank of Tokyo, Best Western, DHL, EMC, Nokia Siemens Networks, US Air Force and others have leveraged the Nexaweb modernization platform and services to transform underperforming and expensive-to-maintain legacy systems into rich, secure Web applications. The company is headquartered in Burlington, Mass. For the latest news and information, follow Nexaweb on Twitter at NexawebTech and visit www.nexaweb.com.

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