Amdahl Licenses External Transaction Interface Specification, Providing Businesses With Industry Standard for Systems Integration.

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 1999 --

The ETIS enables global businesses to gain feature-rich

interface capabilities that advance emerging mission-critical

smart card or e-commerce applications.

The SmartCard Group, a division of Amdahl(R) Corporation, today announced that it is now licensing its External Transaction Interface Specification (ETIS(TM)) to vendors and businesses that are engaged in smart card and e-commerce technology. The ETIS enables businesses, such as financial institutions, to support multiple devices with a common interface.

With its highly scalable architecture, the ETIS enables connectivity between devices, such as teller terminals and ATM's, interfacing directly to an institution's "back office". Used as a part of the Amdahl Mondex Solution (AMS(TM)), the ETIS has successfully converted external customer interfaces, including TCP/IP, X.25 or SNA, to a standard protocol that delivers uniform host processing. In addition, the ETIS is able to stand separately from AMS, and may be configured to be used with other smart card or e-commerce systems.

"Amdahl is at the forefront of delivering innovative and efficient Mondex solutions to our customers," said Charlie Pratt, Vice-President Americas, the Amdahl SmartCard Group. "The licensing of ETIS is another example of the SmartCard Group enhancing support of our systems to further our position as an industry leader in smart card and e-commerce systems integration."

About Amdahl

Amdahl Corporation (www.amdahl.com) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, a leading provider of information technology products and solutions for the global marketplace with revenues of $37.7 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 1998. Amdahl provides integrated enterprise computing solutions designed to meet the needs of the leading, most compute-intensive environments around the world. Amdahl has over 25 years of experience with large-scale computing solutions and client/server technology. The company supports heterogeneous architectures found in mission-critical customer environments that blend MVS(R), Windows NT(R), and UNIX(R) operating systems. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Amdahl combines hardware and software products and services methods with world class offerings to create customized solutions that help clients gain a competitive advantage in their industries.

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Amdahl is a registered trademark, AMS and ETIS are trademarks of Amdahl Corporation. MVS is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Mondex is a trademark of Mondex International. Windows NT is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively (except in Japan where such license is non-exclusive) through the Open Software Foundation. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners.

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