With A $250,000 Annual Maintenance Fee, NEON Makes Entire Suite Of Industry’s Best IMS Tools Available To Mainframe Users

AUSTIN, Texas – July 1, 2010 – NEON Enterprise Software today is again driving down the cost of mainframe computing by making its entire suite of industry-leading Information Management System (IMS) database utilities available for an annual $250,000, three-year maintenance program.

The move reflects NEON’s ongoing commitment to investing in IMS utilities as a strategic segment of its business. IMS, which has been in use on mainframes for decades, is the engine behind much of the financial sector’s high-volume transaction processing systems. Automated teller machines (ATMs), online stock trading and e-commerce merchant services are among the many applications supported by mainframe-based IMS.

“For years, this important category of software has been overpriced from other mainframe ISVs with little or no innovation on their part to show for it,” said Lacy Edwards, CEO of NEON. “We’re not only investing in IMS utilities to improve the usability, features and functionality our customers need, we’re constantly striving to deliver products at a fair price. It’s surprising to us that ISVs can charge unjustifiably high prices for their tools, because they’ve been essentially unchanged for the past ten years.”

NEON’s legacy of innovation includes being the first and only ISV to deliver zIIP (System z Integrated Information Processor)-enabled IMS utilities through the IBM application programming interface, which it launched in the spring of 2008. Unlike bundled IMS tools from other third-party providers, which are all-or-nothing packages that force users to pay for products they don’t use or need, NEON also offers its IMS products individually with very low annual maintenance fees on a per-product basis.

NEON’s IMS tools include the following Eclipse products: iBuild, iCheck, iCopy, iLoad, iSurvey, iUnload, iChange, iExtract, iLM, iRecover, and iRepair. They also include NEON’s Database Director, HALO, Lightning Extend, Lightning X, Mission Control, Prefix Update and Partitioned Database Facility.

“Competitors will charge into the millions of dollars for comparable sets of products to NEON’s $250,000 suite,” Edwards said. “We’re not only continuously raising the bar of quality and functionality, we’re offering such innovation at a fraction of the cost competitors have charged for far too long.”

For more information on purchasing NEON IMS Utilities with the $250,000-per-year program, contact NEON Enterprise Software at 1-888-338-6366, or visit us online at http://www.neon.com/solutions/ims.shtm.

About NEON IMS Utilities
NEON IMS Utilities provides all the tools necessary to cost-effectively manage and maintain IMS databases. NEON’s set of products support both IMS full function and Fast Path DEDB databases, and allow users to perform all required database maintenance functions with optimal efficiency and at the lowest cost of any supplier in the market.

About NEON Enterprise Software
NEON Enterprise Software is a privately-held company with offices in Austin and Sugar Land, Texas that provides innovative mainframe software solutions to the world’s largest corporations. NEON products work to dramatically lower the cost of mainframe computing, and they enable organizations to take control of the IT resources vital to their business success. For more information about NEON, visit www.neon.com.

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