SOA Software announced the release of SOLA 6.0 (Service Oriented Legacy Architecture), a major update to its mainframe SOA Solution. SOLA is a complete mainframe Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution. SOLA solves today's most critical problem, making mainframe applications part of an SOA, in a cost-effective manner. SOLA provides customers with a process to expose mainframe applications as secure Web Services, and allows mainframe applications to consume Web Services. Using SOLA, customers can leverage billions of dollars of existing mainframe investments when building an enterprise SOA. The SOLA runtime environment runs entirely on the mainframe, eliminating the need for expensive, unreliable and unnecessary middleware. This, coupled with SOLA's Development Studio, increases developer productivity, providing faster time to market and lower application development cost.