Clerity Solutions, Inc. Acquires Sun Microsystems' MTP/MBM Legacy Migration Business Unit

CHICAGO, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Clerity Solutions, Inc. (Clerity) is pleased to announce the acquisition of Sun Microsystems' mainframe rehosting business. On June 30, 2006, Clerity acquired the intellectual property assets and hired Sun employees directly involved in the mainframe rehosting solution business. This assures support and product continuity for all current and future Sun rehosting customers worldwide.

Effective immediately, Clerity will directly market and license the online and batch application execution environments known as MTP (Mainframe Transaction Processing) and MBM (Mainframe Batch Manager) software, as well as 3270 Pathway, mainframe migration tools, and associated services. Supported platforms include Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX and Linux. Clerity will continue its collaborative alliance with Sun and will work closely with their professional services group, sales, and support teams around the globe. In addition to its existing partner network, Clerity will establish new relationships with Sun's partners who are involved in the support of MTP/MBM.

Clerity understands that different businesses have different needs. That's why Clerity offers customers a comprehensive portfolio of Legacy Transition solutions to help address individual migration needs. Whether customers are looking to rehost, migrate and/or modernize applications to meet new business demands, Clerity offers customers the means by which to reduce costs, protect investments, and optimize data center functionality.

Sun Microsystems & Clerity Solutions believe that this arrangement and product transition to Clerity provides the best path forward for addressing existing and new MTP/MBM customers' current and future mainframe migration solution needs.

About Clerity

Clerity is a leading, full-service legacy transition company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with offices worldwide. Clerity has customers in all in major countries throughout the world, including some of the largest financial services ISVs and Fortune-class end users. Clerity's migration team and automated software solutions have facilitated hundreds of legacy system migrations over the past 10 years. Clerity can architect, design and configure solutions; provide the software and hardware infrastructure, and support the operational aspects of the migration from start-to-finish. This combination of services and products makes Clerity unique among traditional migration vendors.

Additional information about Clerity is available at http://www.clerity.com or call 1-888-REHOST1 or 630-971-9200 (International).