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29.04.2008

• The sales organizations of both business lines will continue and come under
the leadership of two board members with differing regional responsibilities
• Mark Edwards is responsible for both business lines (ETS and webMethods) as
Chief Operating Officer in region-West
• David Broadbent is responsible for both business lines (ETS and webMethods) as
Chief Operating Officer in region-East
• Dr. Peter Kürpick is responsible for the R&D of both business divisions
• David Mitchell, Chief Operating Officer of the webMethods business division
will leave the company

Darmstadt, 29. April 2008.

Software AG´s (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) Supervisory Board decided on a new
Executive Board structure in today´s session. The sales organization of both
business divisions, Enterprise Transaction Systems (ETS) and webMethods, will
each come under the leadership of two board members with differing regional
responsibilities. The region-West (North and South America, West and South
Europe) will be the responsibility of Executive Board member Mark Edwards,
previously Chief Operating Officer for the ETS business division. The
region-East (North and Central Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia) will be the
responsibility of Executive Board member David Broadbent, formerly the Chief
Product Officer of the ETS business division.

Mark Edwards joined Software AG in 1999 and has been an Executive Board member
since 2003. David Broadbent has been an Executive board member since the
beginning of 2007 and has been with Software AG for nine years. His regional
responsibilities included the Asia/Pacific region and the markets of Japan and
Australia. Both Board members have many years of sales experience in the
business infrastructure software market. The new organization will drive higher
sales efficiency, particularly for the webMethods product suite in Europe and
Asia. The management of both sales organizations will concentrate on generating
an increased number of larger projects in the Service-Oriented Architecture
market.

David Mitchell will leave Software AG´s Executive Board at his own request for
personal reasons with immediate effect. He was Chief Operating Officer for
webMethods business division at Software AG and previous to that President and
CEO of webMethods, Inc., USA.

Dr. Peter Kürpick, until now the Executive Board member responsible for
webMethods R&D will also assume responsibility for R&D for the ETS business
division.

Responsibilities of the Executive Board of Software AG

|Member of the Board |Former Responsibility |New Responsibility |

|Karl-Heinz Streibich |CEO |unchanged |

|David Broadbent |Chief Product Officer |COO (ETS + webMethods) |
| |business line ETS |Region East |
| |(+ Region |(Asia/Pacific, North- |
| |Asia/Pacific) |and Central Europe, |
| | |South-Africa) |

|Mark Edwards |Chief Operating Officer|COO (ETS + webMethods) |
| | |Region West (Americas, |
| |business line ETS |Western and Southern |
| |(+ Region EMEA) |Europe) |

|Dr. Peter Kürpick |Chief Product Officer |CPO (R&D) for both |
| |(R&D) for business line|business lines ETS + |
| |webMethods |webMethods |

|David Mitchell |COO webMethods |Leaves Software AG |
| |(+ Region America) | |

|Arnd Zinnhardt |CFO |unchanged |

Further inquiry note:
Otmar F. Winzig
Vice President Investor Relations & Compliance
Phone: +49 6151 92 1669
Email: [email protected]

Norbert Eder
Vice President Corporate Communications
Phone: +49 6151 92 1146
Email: [email protected]

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emitter: Software AG
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FAX: +49 (0) 6151 92 1933
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