MetaWare Wins
ORACLE PARTNERNETWORK
Innovation Award 2009 in France

Metaware's Refine is Awarded for its 100% Automated Mainframe Rehosting capabilities, enabling the fully automated conversion and rehosting of mainframe applications onto Oracle architectures

 

Paris, France, December 1, 2009 – Metaware, the leading provider of mainframe modernization, won the Innovation Award 2009 from the French Oracle Partner Network.

With Refine, MetaWare provides a comprehensive and powerful software platform automating the conversion and rehosting of IBM mainframe applications onto Open, Standards-based Architectures such as Oracle.

Rehosting mainframe applications onto modern, open and Standards-based environments allows customers to:

• Significantly reduce TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) resulting from hardware and software more competitive prices
• Protect decades of investments in custom applications while enhancing agility and enforcing standardization
• Make any future any future modernization decisions by decoupling data, business logic and user interactions layers
• Mitigate risks of resource shortage, obsolescence and loss of control of critical environments

"With this award, Oracle recognizes the innovation of Metaware in the mainframe modernization area", said Judson Althoff, Senior Vice President Worldwide Alliances and Channels at Oracle. "This area is a growth opportunity for Oracle. Refine allows customers to run their mainframe applications onto Oracle's Middleware and integrated product stack."

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