Get physical get dirty and get to the net

This means getting to the dirty areas on the ice and getting the goals that aren’t necessarily pretty. In other words, the team needs more efforts like Cal Clutterbuck’s game winner on Saturday and less of the “dipsy-doodle” type plays. Get physical, get dirty, and get to the net. That’s how this team is going to get their even strength game going. The team also needs to find the right line combinations. The team needs to do something to get their lines to start clicking and contributing. Bluephoenix Solutions Secures Two New IT Modernization Contracts Worth inExcess of $1 MillionCARY, North Carolina, January 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ BluePhoenixSolutions (NASDAQ: BPHX), the leader in value-driven legacy IT modernizationsolutions, today announced that it has signed two new contracts, collectivelyvalued at over one million dollars.

Both projects are scheduled to completeduring 2009.One of the modernization projects, for an Asian national government, willprovide new self-service administration functionality for users within itsnational housing entitlement program. The new interface will improve theservices offered to users and reduce operational costs for the governmentthrough migration of this platform from ADABAS, a legacy database technology,to Oracle.BluePhoenix was also awarded a new contract by an international vendor ofbanking software solutions, with over 600 customers, to provide enhancementsto its JAVA-based portfolio of financial services products. This contractrepresents repeat business with an existing customer."We are excited to continue to build meaningful and lasting relationshipsin the public and financial services sectors. We are progressing well towardsour goals of acquiring new clients and expanding our relationships withexisting customers," said Yaron Tchwella, CEO, BluePhoenix Solutions. "Thesedeals clearly demonstrate that our offering is attractive to enterprisesacross geographies, sectors and technologies. These organizations areexperiencing the benefits of automated IT modernization: reduced ITmaintenance costs, low risk implementations, enhanced functionality and thebest possible return on investment."About BluePhoenix SolutionsBluePhoenix Solutions (NASDAQ: BPHX) is the leading provider ofvalue-driven legacy IT modernization solutions.

The BluePhoenix portfolioincludes a comprehensive suite of tools and services from global IT assetassessment and impact analysis to automated database and applicationmigration, re-hosting, and renewal. Leveraging over 20 years of best-practicedomain expertise, BluePhoenix works closely with its customers to ascertainwhich assets should be migrated, redeveloped, or wrapped for reuse asservices or business processes, to protect and increase the value of theirbusiness applications and legacy systems with minimized risk and downtime.Forward Looking StatementSAFE HARBOR: Certain statements contained in this release may be deemedforward-looking statements, with respect to plans, projections, or futureperformance of the Company, the occurrence of which involves certain risksand uncertainties that could cause actual plans to differ materially fromthese statements. These risks and uncertainties include but are not limitedto: market demand for the Company's tools, successful implementation of theCompany's tools, competitive factors, the ability to manage the Company'sgrowth, the ability to recruit and retrain additional software personnel, andthe ability to develop new business lines. This press release is alsoavailable at http:// All names and trademarks are their owners'property.Company ContactVarda SagivBluePhoenix Solutions972(0)Investor Relations:Peter SeltzbergSOURCEBluePhoenix Solutions LtdCompany Contact: Varda Sagiv, BluePhoenix Solutions, 972(0)9-9526110,; Investor Relations: Peter Seltzberg, 646-415-8972,. NEW YORK, Jan 21 (Reuters) - U.S.