Amdahl Forms Alliance with FastLane Technologies to Deliver Solutions that Help Customers Implement Windows 2000.

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SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 2000

Amdahl's Windows 2000(R) Implementation Services enable customers to

prepare for an efficient transition to Windows 2000

Adaptive Integration(TM) approach helps achieve non-disruptive

change

Amdahl Services, a division of Amdahl Corporation, today announced the availability of its Windows 2000 Implementation Services. This offering of Windows 2000 consulting services is a key component of Amdahl's customer commitment to Windows 2000 and is based on a newly formed alliance with FastLane Technologies Inc. Amdahl's Windows 2000 Implementation Services leverages Amdahl's Strategic Alliance with Microsoft(R) and FastLane's DM/Suite(TM), a robust suite of Directory Management tools, enabling customers to quickly and cost-effectively prepare and implement Windows 2000, which can result in a lower total cost of ownership.

&uot;We are committed to working with partners to ensure customers gain a smooth and efficient transition to Windows 2000,&uot; said David Roberts, Director of Technology Partners at Microsoft Corporation. &uot;Our alliance with Amdahl has helped customers integrate Microsoft technologies into their host environments. We're pleased that Amdahl and FastLane(TM) are now aligning their efforts to enable customers to quickly reap the benefits in moving from Windows NT(R) to Windows 2000, including enhanced reliability, scaleability, manageability, and improved support for knowledge workers.&uot;

These services provide customers that have large complex environments with a proven enterprise-ready framework for effectively managing the transition to Windows 2000. The Windows 2000 Implementation Services is comprised of six Solution Paks. The Solution Paks include:

- Readiness Assessment

- Infrastructure Design

- Migration Planning

- Pre-Migration Optimization

- Implementation

- Care and Support

These services offer customers the expertise, technology, and methodologies to help assess and prioritize the critical issues to prepare their infrastructures for Windows 2000 so they can enjoy an easy, low-risk, non-disruptive implementation. Amdahl consultants employ their unique Adaptive Integration(TM) approach, which improves and extends current IT infrastructures while integrating new technologies. This approach features a balanced focus on people, processes, technology, and organization, to identify major risk areas and then prescribe solutions. This results in an organization that is properly positioned to migrate to Windows 2000, with an enhanced ability to take advantage of this powerful new operating environment and the business benefits it presents.

&uot;FastLane's robust and process-driven Directory Management applications combined with Amdahl's expertise and superior service will be a real value to large enterprises preparing for and moving to Windows 2000,&uot; said JP Jauvin, FastLane's Vice President Worldwide Sales. &uot;We're pleased to be working with Amdahl and look forward to helping customers optimize their Windows NT networks and get to Windows 2000.&uot;

The announcement of the Windows 2000 Implementation Services adds a building block to the foundation of solutions formed by the Amdahl, DMR and Microsoft strategic alliance. Under the alliance, Amdahl and DMR deliver a full value chain of application solutions and infrastructure services integrating Microsoft BackOffice(R) technologies with OS/390(R) environments. They are training upwards of 750 Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers and Systems Developers and have implemented a Host Integration Lab and Business Solution Centers in North America and Europe.

&uot;Amdahl has a wealth of depth and breadth experience with the complexity of integrating and adapting new technology into IT infrastructures supporting business-critical applications,&uot; said George O'Meara, Managing Director, Enterprise Integration Practice at Amdahl Services. &uot;Our Windows 2000 Implementation Services provide customers with the technical readiness expertise and proficiency to plan for, and manage the change to Windows 2000. By leveraging our alliances with both FastLane and Microsoft we can help customers to achieve this change non-disruptively. As a result, customers gain the benefit of an accelerated and cost-effective transition to Windows 2000 and the robust infrastructure to meet their mission critical business application requirements.&uot;

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