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Neuma Extends OpenVMS Support to CM+ 5.2

Ottawa - June 26, 2003 - Neuma Technology has announced continuation of it's CM+ product line for the OpenVMS platform, both on VAX and Alpha architectures. CM+ 5.2 is available on both architectures with full functional support on the 64-bit Alpha platform and a slightly reduced set of functionality on the 32-bit VAX.

Neuma's President and CEO, Joe Farah explained Neuma's rational for continued support of VMS. "There's still a lot of legacy systems out there, particularly in the Defence sector. As VMS was one of the earliest platforms supported for CM+, and as Neuma's portability architecture facilitates multiple platform support, it does not cost us a whole lot more to offer new releases on these platforms. As long as the need is there, we will provide it."

The VMS version of CM+ supports users on a common architecture. Libraries may not cross the 32 and 64 bit architecture boundaries. But that will change with release 6.0 of CM+ when interoperability across 32/64 boundaries will be as simple as the current interoperability across big and little endian architecures. Interoperability is also possible between VMS and non-VMS (e.g. Unix, Windows) platforms. However, as VMS has significant constraints on file naming, the VMS restrictions must be obeyed by the non-VMS platforms as well in such a mixed environment.

The VMS support is almost identical to the Unix support except that files exported or generated by CM+ may not contain more than one dot in the filename. CM+ can be configured to use dashes (or other characters) instead of dots to work around this. Apart from that configuration change, VMS and Unix users have identical user interfaces. This is an improvement on CM+ 4.2 which restricted a useful bulk loading operation capability from working on VMS.

Neuma is expected to support VMS with its next major releases of CM+ as well. Initial test versions of 6.0 show that it will have significant new features which will expand the potential application set well beyond the product development domain into other areas of business process management. Such capabilities will be welcomed by the VMS community which does not get its share of new applications, as software vendors favour the Windows, Unix and MacIntosh markets.