By utilizing a
service-oriented approach to mainframe integration and the Shadow
z/Services product, Euro Nederland expects to save more than three
years in application development time.com

About Euro Nederland

Euro Nederland is a specialist ICT services provider to private
property insurance companies in Holland, who want to plan, manage and
implement stable, high-quality technology systems that improve
business performance and productivity."

About EasyAsk
EasyAsk delivers search and information retrieval solutions that help
organizations requiring scaleable, secure, single point access to critical
business information and insight, drive sustainable competitive advantage and
rewarding customer experiences.

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NEON's Shadow z/Services Accelerates SOA and Web Services
Deployment For Dutch Insurance Industry Service Centre

NEON(R) Systems, Inc. NEON's Shadow z/Services and Shadow z/Events
offerings attack the emerging mainframe Web services and real-time
mainframe event-driven markets and are unique in their depth and
breadth of support for the requirements of such markets .

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By enabling the
mainframe to participate more rapidly and cost-effectively in
composite application development, Shadow z/Services has an important
role to play in delivering cost-effective, next-generation services
that allow companies to respond to changing business requirements. Located in Amsterdam , Euro
Nederland has an ICT staff of 35 experts focused on three key service
delivery areas: Application Development, Operations and Services. HPshopping.

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By giving individual insurance agents a secure Internet
link that provides direct access to the wealth of customer data and
current account information stored on Euro Nederland's mainframe, we
are enabling them to develop new insurance policies quickly and easily
and positioning them for success. With Shadow RTE, customers have a mainframe
integration infrastructure that at its lower levels is designed and
proven to be secure, scalable, high performance , reliable and
manageable. in the USA and in other select countries. Leading investors include
Sigma Partners and Flagship Ventures.

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By allowing Euro Nederland
to easily migrate its CA-IDMS and Visual Studio.neonsys.

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Shadow offers more
features, better performance and allows Euro Nederland's customers to
re-use old, familiar functionality in a web environment."
"One of our top priorities at hpshopping.

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NET insurance policy
applications to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and
cost -effectively Web-enable a number of its 3270 IBM mainframe
applications, Shadow z/Services will allow the organization's
insurance sector customers to develop next-generation services cost
efficiently .NET and/or J2EE - in support of Web services
for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), real-time events for
Event-Driven Architectures (EDA), SQL for direct data access and
transactional (XA ) support, and Presentation integration for
Web-enablement of legacy screen-based applications and data. Shadow
RTE provides the auditing, tracing and logging layer required to meet
new compliance reporting. With
extensive mainframe integration expertise, NEON is uniquely qualified
to solve the complexities of supporting new business initiatives that
must integrate with critical mainframe systems. For more information
on the Powering the Real-time Enterprise, see our website at
http: //www.

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Shadow RTE is the foundation upon which
customers can integrate mission critical mainframe resources into a
Real-time Enterprise.

About Formula OpenSoft

Formula OpenSoft, a privately held company based in Dordrecht, The
Netherlands and founded in 1994, is a leading distributor of software
tools on Mainframe, Unix and PC platforms. Formula OpenSoft helps
companies to successfully modernize their mainframe applications., EasyAsk, an award-winning
provider of search and information retrieval solutions, today announced that
its EasyAsk Enterprise 9 software will provide search, search analytics and
search merchandising for hpshopping.

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Euro Nederland Chooses NEON Systems' Mainframe Integration Solutions to Improve Customer Service and Reduce Application Development Time

NEON Systems' Dutch partner, Formula OpenSoft, was responsible for
the Euro Nederland sale and implementation . A single unified platform, Shadow RTE enables
real-time mainframe integration with industry standard application
development platforms - . NEON's
Shadow technology is designed to reduce the complexity of mainframe
integration allowing large organizations with significant commitment
to mainframe systems to streamline incumbent technologies and lower
total cost of ownership.

The NEON logo , Shadow, Shadow Direct and Shadow Web Server are
registered trademarks, and Shadow Connect, Shadow Event Publisher,
Shadow Event Connect and Shadow Console are trademarks of NEON
Systems, Inc.

EasyAsk technology provides customers with accurate results, the ability
to provide search refinement that leverages the site product database by
category and attributes, and the ability to merchandise products within a
search.

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Roy Gnocchi adds, "We evaluated NEON's Shadow against IBM 's
WebSphere(R) Information Integrator (WebSphere II) Classic Federation
for z/OS(R) solution and it was no contest."
Shadow z/Services is a SOAP-based mainframe integration solution
that allows organisations to rapidly transform CICS, IMS, and CA-IDMS
applications into Web services. EasyAsk Offers Superior Customer Experience for Online Retailers

MARLBOROUGH, Mass.

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NET developers to use
existing skills and tools, increasing productivity and accelerating
the ability to re-use mainframe resources in support of new business
requirements. The
organization's solutions and tools are used by leading enterprises and
government organizations all over the world, to reduce and control the
total cost of owning operations and developing applications for
mainframe, UNIX and PC environments.com or contact us
at 1-800-425-8200.

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All other
trademarks, service marks and product or service names are the
property of their respective owners.

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EasyAsk to Provide E-Commerce Search for HPshopping.com

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It provides solutions and
products for legacy systems that are unique in the mainframe
environment.S.

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About Shadow RTE

NEON's Shadow RTE technology provides a robust technical
architecture to support the broad range of customer requirements for
mainframe integration.

About NEON Systems

NEON Systems, Inc.
"EasyAsk has long been regarded as the e-commerce search leader by
providing high value to all constituents -- our customers and their end
consumers," said Bob Alperin, president and CEO of EasyAsk.

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Shadow z/Services z/Studio
is a graphical interface tool and comprehensive IDE built to support
both Visual Studio .NET and Eclipse frameworks.com.easyask.

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Shadow z/Services is an easy-to-use, single-step configuration
that accelerates the development of mainframe Web services by
eliminating the additional programming typically required with
competing mainframe Web services products.

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Commenting on his company 's choice of technology, Roy Gnocchi,
Euro Nederland's Head of Infrastructure says: "In Holland, the major
insurance players expect their technology partners to invest in
technology that will enable them to be responsive to customer needs
and get new products and services to market faster than the
competition. We expect to
make substantial savings over the long-term as a result. Powered by a deep linguistic capability,
EasyAsk's Synchronized Search and Navigation(TM) technology accesses
structured and unstructured data, intelligently interpreting users' queries to
find fast, accurate and complete results.

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Euro Nederland expects to make mainframe integration
application cost-savings in the region of three-to-four 'man' years as
a result of the implementation of NEON's Shadow z/Services . Shadow z/Studio
provides seamless integration within the IDE in support of Web
services, to enable developers to rapidly publish legacy transactions
as Web services and reusable components to the mainframe.com is to deliver world-class
customer experience and search is a key contributor to this goal," said
Patricia Graca, director of Customer Experience and Web site Production for
hpshopping .

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Andy Gutteridge, VP EMEA Operations, NEON Systems (UK) Ltd says:
"We are witnessing a real acceleration in the adoption of Web services
technology across Europe as organisations in service-focused,
transaction-rich environments start to recognise and quantify the
business value that resides on their mainframes. "EasyAsk search analytics provide near real-time tracking of
search behaviors on our site, which enables us to take action to improve the
customer experience -- and increase the conversion rate from shoppers to
purchasers.

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(Nasdaq:NEON), the mainframe integration
experts, announced that Euro Nederland, a leading computer service
centre for the Dutch insurance industry, has successfully deployed
Shadow z/Services, an industry standard mainframe Web services
solution, to improve customer service and accelerate development of
new applications using mainframe resources. Over 100 industry leading brands
including retail, financial services, high technology and manufacturing
companies such as Lands' End, The Gap, GlaxoSmithKline, TruServ and Forbes. For more
information, please visit our website at http://www.

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Shadow z/Services is aimed at
organizations that want to take advantage of Service-Oriented
Architectures (SOA) as a foundation for re-purposing their existing
mainframe investments within new composite application development. "We're delighted
to continue to collaborate with leading companies, such as HP, to bring online
shopping to new standards of excellence.

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(Nasdaq:NEON) - the Mainframe Integration
Experts - is a leading provider of enterprise-class mainframe
integration solutions, delivering the only unified mainframe
integration platform to support the entire range of requirements for
Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Event-Driven Architectures
(EDA) - key requirements to underpin the Real-time Enterprise.

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Shadow
z/Studio removes the complexity of creating and implementing
mainframe-based Web services, allowing Java and . Formula OpenSoft maintains high standards in providing
companies with mainframe based solutions and products for
connectivity, web enablement, Web services, relational data access,
data replication, data synchronization and conversion/migration of
legacy systems with, and to, other platforms.com, HP's one-stop-shop for HP home and
home office products.com chose to deploy EasyAsk software to continue to
improve conversion and customer satisfaction when customers query the site .com
rely on EasyAsk for their search requirements. EasyAsk is headquartered near Boston
with sales and support offices throughout the U., and Europe.

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