Acacia Technologies Signs 100th New Client Since Becoming Independent Business Unit.

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 3, 1998--

Sterile Recoveries Selects PRMS(TM) To Help Manage Just-In-Time Surgical

Supply Delivery

Acacia Technologies(TM), a leader in manufacturing and distribution enterprise software, today announced the signing of its 100th new client since its April 1996 creation as an independent business unit (iBU) of Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA). Sterile Recoveries, Inc. (NASDAQ: STRC) joins Acacia' Technologies' growing customer roster, which now totals more than 3,000 worldwide.

The announcement was made at Dialogue '98, Acacia Technologies' five-day users conference in San Diego, Calif.

Sterile Recoveries, based in Clearwater, Fla., is a rapidly growing supplier of reusable surgical products, including gowns, towels, drapes and basins, and provides other disposable products necessary for surgery. The customer selected PRMS(TM), Acacia Technologies' flagship Enterprise Resource Planning product, to help them manage their closed loop system for providing procedure-based delivery to hospitals and surgery centers.

"Our selection committee selected PRMS because of the stability of the product and our comfort level with the implementation time and resources," said Mary McCoy, MIS director at Sterile Recoveries. "We also believe that Acacia Technologies closely matched our business practices. With the product functionality of PRMS, we expect a minimal amount of modifications."

John McCarron, senior vice president and general manager of Acacia Technologies, said that robust products and quick implementation are two of the reasons the division has continued to grow.

"New customers are a key measure of the health of any software company," McCarron said. "Mid-sized companies not only compare our products and services against others on the AS/400, but often against products on Windows NT and UNIX. When you get down to it, customers want products that help them manage their business well, and they want to have those products implemented without causing their organizations a great deal of headaches. Our customers choose Acacia for many reasons including our tightly integrated suite of products, and our full array of services that speed implementation and increases return-on-investment."

Robert Toth, senior vice president at Computer Associates, and general manager of CA's business applications independent business units (iBU), also remarked on the contribution Acacia Technologies has made to CA's bottom line.

"The Acacia Technologies division continues to deliver strong financial performance quarter after quarter," Toth said. "We just celebrated the two-year anniversary of the iBU structure, and in that time, Acacia Technologies has proven to be a highly profitable business unit."

Using PRMS, the Sterile Recoveries' program focuses on the goal of eliminating the need for hospitals to invest in reusable products or facilities in order to receive the quality, protection and comfort of reusable products. Its daily delivery of reusable and disposable surgical products directly to the operating room reduces many costly steps in the traditional surgical supply chain.

The signing of Sterile Recoveries comes on the heels of the company's record fiscal year 1998 (ended March 30), when the company added 64 new customers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Philippines, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. Acacia Technologies offers an integrated suite of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) and Warehouse Management System (WMS) software products geared for manufacturing and distribution companies using the IBM AS/400 computing platform. Acacia's customers traditionally are "mid-sized" companies - those with approximately $50 million to $1 billion in revenue or those with warehouse/distribution facilities of 100,000 square feet and larger. Acacia Technologies provides four product families to the IBM AS/400 marketplace as well as a suite of implementation and analysis tools. These include:

-- PRMS(TM) -- an integrated ERP solution for a variety of businesses using discrete, repetitive, process or co-existent manufacturing process;

-- Warehouse BOSS(tm) -- a complete warehouse management system covering all aspects of receiving, locating, putaway, order management, picking, packing and shipping;

ck Response Engine(TM) -- a Microsoft Windows cl floor scheduling.

The current releases of the four Acacia products are Year 2000 compatible.

Sterile Recoveries Inc. (NASDAQ:STRC) provides hospitals and surgery centers with a comprehensive surgical procedure-based delivery and retrieval service for reusable gowns, towels, drapes and basins, and provides other disposable products necessary for surgery. At eight regional facilities, the company collects, sorts, cleans, inspects, packages, sterilizes and delivers its reusable products on a just-in-time basis. The company, based in Clearwater, Fla., currently serves a growing customer base of hospitals and surgery centers located in 20 states. For additional information, contact Bert Martin, president and COO, 1-727-726-4421

Acacia Technologies, with headquarters in Lisle, Illinois, is a division of Computer Associates International, Inc. This division is responsible for the development, support, marketing and sales of PRMS, KBM, Warehouse BOSS and Quick Response Engine. The objective of Acacia Technologies is to meet the evolving needs of manufacturing and distribution businesses through a set of solutions built on the AS/400 client/server technology. Acacia Technologies can be reached by visiting http://www.acaciatech.com on the World Wide Web, or calling 1-800-523-5260.

Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include enterprise computing and information management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has over 11,000 people in 160 offices in 43 countries and had revenue of $4.7 billion in fiscal year 1998. CA can be reached by visiting http://www.cai.com on the World Wide Web, emailing [e-mail] or calling 1-516-342-5224.

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