Stonebranch and OpsWise Announce Agreement to Merge

Combined Company Positioned for Rapid Growth, Offering Most Modern and Complete Workload Automation Solutions Spanning from Mainframe to Distributed to Cloud

ATLANTA, January 12, 2011 - Stonebranch, Inc. and OpsWise Software today announced that they have
signed a definitive agreement to merge. The combined company offers the most
modern and advanced workload automation solutions available on the market
today.

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"Today marks a new era in Workload Automation. The joining of OpsWise and
Stonebranch's solutions and vision will prove to enhance data center
automation around the world," noted Wolfgang Bothe, Stonebranch's President
and CEO. "In merging with OpsWise, we will expand our Indesca capabilities to
include the most modern Job Scheduler available on the market today, allowing
our customers to take advantage of current technologies and to address the
complex needs of today's data center. In OpsWise, we found a true partner.
Together, we aim to revitalize Workload Automation, providing better
alternatives for our customers and the industry."

"Job scheduling is evolving to a more dynamic market, from one that had
been considered mature (in which all problems had been solved, and the
choices had been consolidated into a handful of dominant vendors) just a few
years ago," reports Milind Govekar, research vice president, Gartner Inc. in
the Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling, 2009, April 28, 2009.

OpsWise Software is an industry recognized provider of sophisticated and
modern workload automation solutions. Their core product, Automation Center,
is one of the most comprehensive and easy-to-use job scheduling solutions for
environments that span from z/OS to distributed systems and even to
cloud-based solutions.

Stonebranch's innovative Workload Automation solutions include
independent job scheduling agents that enable total cross-platform
integration and interoperability of disparate scheduling environments.
Stonebranch also offers a suite of Managed File Transfer products that
inter-operate with existing Job Scheduling and Workload Automation tools.

Jim Sievers, CEO of OpsWise, said "Our Automation Center technology
provides a viable alternative to existing solutions, and at a fraction of
what they pay for solutions from typical legacy vendors. Combining that with
Stonebranch's Independent Scheduling Agent technology results in one powerful
solution to offer the marketplace."

The new entity will reside under the Stonebranch name and brand and will
be headquartered out of Stonebranch's existing headquarters in Atlanta, GA,
USA. Stonebranch founders Wolfgang Bothe, Chairman & CEO, and Nathan Hammond,
CTO, will remain in their respective roles while COO John Mecke will continue
to lead day-to-day operations of the business. All existing OpsWise employees
will join the new organization including Jim Sievers, OpsWise's CEO, who will
become the company's new Chief Architect & VP of Engineering and Gwyn Clay,
OpsWise's VP of Product Management & Marketing, who will take on the same
role within the new company.

"The merger with OpsWise will enable us to invest more resources in our
Indesca and Infitran products. We remain steadfastly committed to the
development, expansion, and quality of our core products," said John Mecke,
Stonebranch's COO. "Our goal is to seamlessly integrate Automation Center
with our existing technologies. Over the next year, the OpsWise technology
will be merged into Stonebranch's solutions, and those customers wishing to
take advantage of OpsWise Automation Center will simply be able to set a
configuration option to enable agents to interact with OpsWise."

For more information on the merger, please visit
www.stonebranch.com/merger.

About Stonebranch

Stonebranch challenges traditional workload management practices by
offering the most innovative and reliable Workload Automation solutions on
the market today. Our Workload Automation products include OpsWise Automation
Center, the most modern job scheduler on the market; Indesca, an independent
job scheduling agent solution; and Infitran, a suite of intelligent managed
file transfer solutions. Stonebranch clients include some of the world's
largest financial, healthcare and technology institutions. Founded in 1999
and headquartered in Atlanta, GA, Stonebranch has offices throughout the
world, including Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Spain and Denmark. For
more information, visit us at: www.stonebranch.com.

About OpsWise Software

OpsWise Software is an innovative Data Center Automation company based in
Los Altos, CA. OpsWise's flagship product, OpsWise Automation Center, a
Workload Automation Broker, was released in September 2008.

Designed to accomplish the automation goals of any enterprise - From
Linux and Windows servers, mid-range UNIX and the Mainframe, OpsWise
solutions can be hosted on-premise, in the Cloud, or via
Software-as-a-Service. For more information on OpsWise, please visit:
www.opswise.com.

Annelle Barnett, +1-678-366-7887 ext. 260, annelle.barnett at stonebranch.com