euro adhoc: Software AG / Management Changes / Software AG: Changes to the Executive Board

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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
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Otmar F. Winzig

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Phone: +49 6151 92 1669

Email: otmar.winzig@softwareag.com

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Vice President Corporate Communications

Phone: +49 6151 92 1146

Email: norbert.eder@softwareag.com

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