ACCUSTAFF SUBSIDIARY SELECTED BY BANCO DEL ATLANTICO FOR CRITICAL I.T. PROJECT IN MEXICO.JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 15, 1997--AccuStaff Incorporated (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ASI ASI, n See Anxiety Sensitivity Index. ), a national provider of strategic staffing, consulting and outsourcing services, today announced that its operating subsidiary An operating subsidiary is a business term frequently used within the United States railroad industry. In the case of a railroad, it refers to a company that is a subsidiary but operates with its own identity and rolling stock. , Openware Technologies, has been selected by Banco del Atlantico to provide technology and consulting services for a large, bank-wide information technology (IT) project. The project will involve the implementation of government-mandated changes to the bank's legacy credit system and will also result in the adoption of relational database technology for all of its critical systems. With over 200 branch locations, Banco del Atlantico is one of the largest and fastest growing banks in Mexico. The bank's IT staff is headquartered in Mexico City with additional data centers throughout Mexico. Commenting on the announcement, Ing. Anton o Jos Alvarez Garcia of Banco del Atlantico, said, "After reviewing a number of alternatives, we chose Openware as the only company with the experience and technical expertise on large-scale projects to get this job done. Openware has an exemplary track record in moving legacy applications to client-server." "We are looking forward to working with Banco del Atlantico on this project," said Openware Country Manager, Steve Steuart. "Mexico represents an excellent opportunity for IT companies such as Openware, and we plan to focus more of our marketing efforts there and throughout Latin America." Openware is a leading provider of software development tools and consulting services, with customers throughout North America, South America, Australia, Europe and South Africa. The company specializes in IT consulting and in developing "open" tools that allow deployment of software applications on multiple hardware platforms and databases. These tools also allow users of mainframes to quickly and inexpensively migrate proprietary mainframe applications to UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Windows NT and Client-Server. Openware provides both the technology and the staffing to accomplish such transitions. In addition, Openware provides mainframe users with solutions to meeting the software application's "Year 2000" problem. Openware products and services are used domestically by companies including United Healthcare Corp., Toys 'R Us Corp., the HON Corp., Chanel, Inc., the American Society of Civil Engineers “ASCE” redirects here. For the Nigerian stock exchange, see Abuja Securities and Commodities Exchange. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is a professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide. , and Mount Sinai Hospital Mount Sinai Hospital can refer to:
The University of South Africa (UNISA) is a distance education university, with headquarters in Pretoria, South Africa. , Israeli Discount Bank, Swiss National Insurance Company, and others. The company has strategic marketing relationships with Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Oracle Corporation, and Micro Focus. Openware was acquired by AccuStaff in June of 1996. AccuStaff Incorporated, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, is a national provider of strategic staffing, consulting, and outsourcing services to businesses, professional and service organizations, and governmental agencies through a branch office network that includes franchised and associated offices. AccuStaff now has over 750 offices in 44 states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). . This press release may contain certain forward-looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties. The Company's actual results could differ materially from the results anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of certain of the factors set forth under the "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in the Company's Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus dated October 8, 1996, and as discussed in the Company's reports of Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K made under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. CONTACT: AccuStaff Inc. Michael D. Abney, Derek E. Dewan de·wan n. Any of various government officials in India, especially a regional prime minister. [Hindi d , 904/725-5574 |
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