Computer Concepts' SOFTWORKS subsidiary hires Year 2000 expert; James Huggins named Director of Extended Services.BOHEMIA Bohemia, Czech Čechy, historic region (20,368 sq mi/52,753 sq km) and former kingdom, in W and central Czech Republic. Bohemia is bounded by Austria in the southeast, by Germany in the west and northwest, by Poland in the north and northeast, and by , N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 29, 1997--Computer Concepts Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CCEE CCEE Conseil des Conférences Episcopales Européennes (Switzerland) CCEE Câmara de Comercialização de Energia Elétrica CCEE Consilium Conferentiarum Episcoporum Europae (Council of European Bishops' Conferences) ) announced today its SOFTWORKS Inc. subsidiary has hired James S. Huggins, a leading authority on the Year 2000 problem Year 2000 problem, Y2K problem, or millennium bug, in computer science, a design flaw in the hardware or software of a computer that caused erroneous results when working with dates beyond Dec. 31, 1999. , to the new post of Director of Extended Services within the firm's Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. Division. Huggins worked previously as Senior Technologist at Dallas-based COMSYS where he was responsible for technical leadership for client projects as well as providing training and advice on the Year 2000 issue for the company's corporate and regional offices. As Director of Extended Services, Huggins will be responsible for support of special practices including Year 2000, Client/Server, and Data Warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse for SOFTWORKS. "Mr. Huggins is a welcome addition to the SOFTWORKS professional services team," said Judy Carter, president of SOFTWORKS Inc. "His IT knowledge and extensive experience with 2000 projects makes him a valuable asset for SOFTWORKS and its customers." His Year 2000 expertise is expected to bolster the growing demand for the company's strong suite of Year 2000 tools and conversion services. SOFTWORKS currently counts nearly 80% of the Fortune 100 as clients. SOFTWORKS' Professional Services Division was designed to provide the company's more than 1,800 corporate clients worldwide with supplemental professional staffing services to help them meet the battery of challenges facing corporate Information Technology (IT) departments today, chief of which is the Year 2000 problem. In addition to its Professional Services Division, SOFTWORKS provides systems software in the MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. and 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). environments to address performance, storage management, inner-platform communication, and Year 2000 issues. In addition to his duties at SOFTWORKS, Huggins will continue his active schedule of speaking engagements on the Year 2000 challenge and other major issues facing IT managers today. Huggins, age 43, resides in Dallas. He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Computer Concepts develops software tools including d.b. Express (TM) that assist end users in the retrieval and visualization of all types of data. Computer Concepts' d.b. Express Internet Server (TM) has recently been integrated with British Telecom's Syncordia Services C-View software application which allows BT's customers to access and analyze the high volumes of technical and account information available within BT's Internet-based databases without having to download the data to their own computers. The new d.b. Express Internet Server (TM) and JAVA Applet A Java program that is downloaded from the server and run from the browser. The Java Virtual Machine built into the browser is interpreting the instructions. Contrast with Java application. have overcome a major Internet problem, that of high data volume and limited bandwidth, currently responsible for the lengthy delays associated with data downloading. Computer Concepts' wholly owned SOFTWORKS subsidiary is a leading global provider of IT solutions for the enterprise. SOFTWORKS responds to the data management needs of more than 1,800 organizations worldwide, supporting customers, including nearly 80% of the Fortune 100, in more than 50 countries. Located in Bohemia, Computer Concepts and its subsidiaries employ a staff of 165. For more information about Computer Concepts and SOFTWORKS, call 516/244-1500 or visit Computer Concepts' web site at www.computerconcepts.com or SOFTWORKS' web site at www.softworkscc.com. CONTACT: Computer Concepts Corp., Bohemia Leigh Athans, 516/244-1500 or Manhattan Media Associates, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Fielding Dupuy, 212/633-2283 |
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