ADVISORY/Asset Performance Management on a Cell Phone: Datastream to Demonstrate Asset Performance Management Cell Phone Application In Booth #219 at National Manufacturing Week.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Monday (Feb. 23)

National Manufacturing Week 2004

Booth #219

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Datastream Systems, Inc.

What:   Datastream Systems, Inc. is announcing the Datastream 7i
        Mobile advanced module at National Manufacturing Week
        (see press release entitled: "DATASTREAM ANNOUNCES DATASTREAM
        7i MOBILE; NEXT-GENERATION SOLUTION EXTENDS THE POWER OF
        DATASTREAM 7i TO MOBILE WORKERS"). As part of this
        announcement, Datastream will demonstrate the industry's first
        J2ME-compliant Asset Performance Management application in
        booth #219 at National Manufacturing Week. J2ME is Sun
        Microsystems' version of Java that is used for cellular phones
        and other devices with limited hardware resources. Datastream
        will show how companies can extend mobile Asset Performance
        Management to devices such as Java-enabled cellular phones.

When:   February 23-26, 2004

Where:  National Manufacturing Week, Booth #219
        McCormick Place
        Chicago, IL

Why:    Datastream has raised the bar in mobile Asset Performance
        Management by enabling mobile workers to download work order
        activities and tasks, log hours and more, all on a cell phone.