MPG Press release

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MPG Announces Enhancements to its Second Opinion Service (SOS)
Boulder, Colorado, USA - August 25th, 2010

Midrange Performance Group (MPG) announced today that its unaudited financial result for the first seven months of 2010 reflected improved results despite the lingering US recession. Product revenue of MPG's flagship products Performance Navigator® and Power Navigator® were up 14.3% as of July 31st on a year over year basis.

This trend mirrors IBM's resounding success in the enterprise server space with Power 6 and 7 servers. While IBM servers are licensed with the bulk of MPG's software installations, Power Navigator is gaining market share in the Oracle/Sun and HP UNIX server markets, providing cross-brand capacity planning and modeling capabilities for servers from all three major manufacturers, a unique capability in the UNIX space.

MPG recently entered into a new, expanded arrangement with Arrow ECS, a long-term client for MPG's technology and services, to provide all of Arrow hardware resellers with capacity planning and sales support for IBM Power servers, particularly in engagements requiring server consolidation, in the IBM i, AIX/Linux, and competitive Unix markets. MPG's SaaS capacity planning offerings were used in over 3,000 engagements by Business Partners and IBMers in 2009, worldwide, and are on track to equal or top that figure in 2010 given IBM's refresh to the Power server product line.

In light of IBM's much anticipated announcement of additional Power 7 servers, MPG has readied both Performance Navigator and Power Navigator for new models, supporting MPG's Business Partners' sales campaigns.

About Midrange Performance Group, Inc.
Midrange Performance Group®, Inc. (MPG) is a recognized industry expert in capacity planning and performance measurement for IBM Power Systems, Linux, and UNIX platforms.

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