Alliance to focus on seamless migration of mission-critical mainframe applications to a Microsoft Windows-based architecture CAMBRIDGE, Mass., LONDON, MUMBAI, India, April 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Patni Computer Systems (BSE:PATNIBSE:COMPUTBSE:NSE:BSE:PATNIBSE: NYSE:BSE:PTI) today announced that it has entered the Mainframe Migration Alliance (MMA), an industry representation enabled by Microsoft and industry partners to help customers seamlessly migrate workloads off the mainframe and onto the Microsoft Windows platform. Based on Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft .NET technologies, the MMA helps clients migrate their applications to the Windows platform and offers customers the information they need to achieve the scalability, reliability, and security achieved on the mainframe, while delivering much greater organizational agility and significantly lowering overall IT cost. "In many applications, mainframes no longer make business sense," said Harish Bhat, Sr. VP of Patni's ISV Business Unit. "The Alliance gives us the opportunity of working even closer with Microsoft in providing the solutions required to transition these applications to more flexible and affordable Microsoft platforms." Patni brings over 25 years of mainframe platform, development and engineering life-cycle experience to the Alliance. This experience is backed by a Center of Excellence (CoE) for Microsoft technologies that ensures Patni is up-to-date and on top of the latest Microsoft tools and processes needed to implement a modernization initiative. This has enabled Patni to develop proven migration methodologies and deep expertise in key Microsoft technologies like .NET that has helped clients in Insurance, Financial Services, Manufacturing and Telecom seamlessly move critical business applications to Microsoft platforms. "We are very pleased that Patni has joined the Mainframe Migration Alliance," said Spyros Sakellariadis, director of the Mainframe Migration Alliance at Microsoft Corp. "Patni's mainframe and domain expertise will benefit customers looking to transition from monolithic legacy systems to Windows-based platforms that accelerate product development and decision making, and achieve better interoperability." About Patni Patni Computer Systems Limited (BSE:PATNIBSE:COMPUTBSE:NSE:BSE:PATNIBSE:NYSE:BSE:PTI) is a global IT Services provider servicing Global 2000 clients. Patni caters to its clients through its industry-focused practices, including insurance, manufacturing, financial services, telecommunications, and its technology-focused practices. With an employee strength of over 12,000 and multiple offshore development facilities across eight cities; Patni has 23 international offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Patni has registered revenues of US$ 450 million for the year 2005. Patni's service offerings include application development, application maintenance and support, packaged software implementation, infrastructure management services, product engineering services, business process outsourcing and quality assurance services. Committed to quality, Patni adds value to its client's businesses through well-established and structured methodologies, tools and techniques. Patni is an ISO 9001: 2000 certified and SEI-CMMi Level 5 organization, assessed enterprise wide at P-CMM Level 3. In keeping with its focus on continuous process improvements, Patni adopts Six Sigma practices as an integral part of its quality and process frameworks. For more information on Patni, visit http://www.patni.com/. Safe Harbor: Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Patni has made strategic investments, withdrawal of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry. The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company. Products and service names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. DATASOURCE: Patni Computer Systems CONTACT: Sriya Kodial of Text 100 for Patni Computer Systems, +1-617-399-4918, ; or Colin White of Patni Computer Systems, +1-617-914-8337, Web site: http://www.patni.com/

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