ASNA, a BluePhoenix Solutions company, today announced the appointment of Greg Schottland as president.

Previous to this appointment, Schottland managed North American sales for BluePhoenix, a position he accepted after BluePhoenix's acquisition of CodeStream (formally Xitec Software) where he served as president. He brings experience in both the technical and business aspects of legacy migration.

"ASNA has been a driving force in the System i market as an advocate of both the platform and the developer community. I look forward to helping our customers leverage the System i to address their business challenges," said Schottland.

Prior to his work in the legacy modernization market, he founded and led Advanced Software Technologies, an object-oriented software design tools provider. Schottland has worked for Bell Laboratories, Lockheed Martin, and IBM in both technical and business related positions, enabling him to bring both a strong background in software development and technology, along with a sharp focus on the business realities of building and growing successful technology companies. He has 25 years of high-tech industry experience.

Schottland joins the company at an important time in the market, as System i users are faced with a variety of challenges including expanded business requirements, managing a mix of technologies and ensuring uninterrupted service to customers. ASNA offers a variety of services and products to help its customers address these needs.

About ASNA

ASNA (www.asna.com), a BluePhoenix company (NASDAQ:BPHX), provides comprehensive solutions for modernizing System i applications to RPG on the Microsoft .NET platform. Using a staged approach, ASNA enables companies to integrate and extend their solutions to .NET, the Web and beyond, while preserving investments in IT and human resources. ASNA solutions are distributed worldwide, and used by more than a million end users.

ASNA is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner, IBM Tools Network Partner, and an Advanced Tier Member of IBM's PartnerWorld for Developers. ASNA is also a founding member of MAP (Midrange Alliance Program) and an exclusive Delivery Partner for the Microsoft NXT program for ISVs.

About BluePhoenix Solutions

BluePhoenix Solutions (www.bphx.com) (NASDAQ: BPHX) is a leading provider of value-driven modernization solutions for legacy information systems. BluePhoenix offerings include a comprehensive suite of tools and services from global IT asset assessment and impact analysis to automated database and application migration, re-hosting, and renewal. Leveraging over 20 years of best-practice domain expertise, BluePhoenix works closely with its customers to ascertain which assets should be migrated, redeveloped, or wrapped for reuse as services or business processes, to protect and increase the value of their business applications and legacy systems with minimized risk and downtime.

BluePhoenix provides modernization solutions to companies from diverse industries and vertical markets such as automotive, banking, and financial services, insurance, manufacturing, and retail. Among its prestigious customers are: Aflac, CareFirst, Citigroup, Danish Commerce and Companies Agency, Desjardins, Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association, Merrill Lynch, Rabobank, Rural Servicios Informáticos, SDC Udvikling, TEMENOS, Toyota and Volvofinans. BluePhoenix has offices in the USA, UK, Denmark, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Cyprus, South Korea, Australia, and Israel.