Forecross Signs Contract for Year 2000 IV&V Project with Teaming Partner; Five Languages - COBOL, PowerBuilder, SQL, CA-ADS and CSP.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 1999--Forecross(R) Corporation (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). BB:FRXX), a legacy migration and year 2000 solution company, announced today that it has signed another contract with the same undisclosed service provider. Under this contract, the third with this Teaming Partner since the beginning of the year, Forecross will use its Comfirm/2000(TM) product, an automated independent validation and verification software-based service. The project, to help a customer of the service provider judge the degree of compliance in a completed year 2000 renovation project, will be completed in the Forecross Comfirm/2000(TM) automated factory in San Francisco. The project includes COBOL COBOL: see programming language. COBOL in full Common Business-Oriented Language. High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community. , CSP, PowerBuilder, SQL and CA-ADS applications totaling approximately two-and-a-half million lines of code The statements and instructions that a programmer writes when creating a program. One line of this "source code" may generate one machine instruction or several depending on the programming language. A line of code in assembly language is typically turned into one machine instruction. . This agreement brings the total lines of code contracted with various clients of this Teaming Partner for processing through the Confirm/2000(TM) service to over five million since the beginning of 1999. For all projects year-to-date, the Confirm/2000(TM) process, methodologies and tools have verified errors ranging from 28 to 6,360 per million lines of code. The average number of errors for these projects is 540 per million lines of code. About Forecross Year 2000 Solutions Forecross provides automated solutions for all phases of year 2000 projects including assessment, renovation and independent verification and validation (testing) Independent Verification and Validation - (IV&V) The verification and validation of a software product by an organisation that is both technically and managerially separate from the organisation responsible for developing the product. (IV&V). A variety of languages are supported by Complete/2000(R) and Confirm/2000(TM) including COBOL, CA-ADS, APS, C, C++, CSP, CA-Easytrieve, CA-IDEAL, IMSADF II, PL/I (Programming Language 1) A high-level IBM programming language introduced in 1964 with the System/360 series. It was designed to combine features of and eventually supplant COBOL and FORTRAN, which never happened. , PowerBuilder, CA-TELON, CA-MetaCOBOL. COBOL solutions are available for AS/400, DEC/VAX, HP, MVS, Tandem, Unisys, VM, VSE See DOS/VSE. VSE - Virtual Storage Extended and Wang. Forecross Confirm/2000(TM) for independent verification and validation (IV&V) accurately identifies source statements that have code that is compliant, non-compliant or needs to be investigated. Confirm/ 2000(TM) provides detailed documentation of the results, including the degree of compliance, creating a comprehensive audit-trail. About Forecross Founded in 1982 as a high-technology software development laboratory, Forecross Corporation is dedicated to the design and development of innovative conversion software. Clients have included such leading corporations as Aetna Life Insurance Company, Brown Brothers Harriman & Company, Charles Schwab & Co., IBM Corporation and Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. NTSA NTSA National Training Systems Association NTSA National Tuberous Sclerosis Association NTSA National Technical Services Association NTSA National Training and Simulation Association NTSA National Traffic Safety Administration for its migration software services. Teaming partners of Forecross Corporation for its Complete/2000(R) offerings include AASKI Technologies, Ltd., Alydaar Software Corporation, TRW, Inc. (BDM International), CIBER CIBER Center for International Business Education and Research (various locations) CIBER Center for International Business and Research (Michigan State University) CIBER Cellular Inter-Carrier Billing Exchange Record , Inc., Information Sciences Group, Inc., Marconi Information Systems (a business division of Marconi North America Enterprise Solutions, formerly known as Tracor, Inc.), SCB Computer Technology, Inc., and Sapiens Americas (a subsidiary of Sapiens International). On Behalf of the Board of Directors, Bernadette C. Castello Senior Vice-President and CFO See Chief Financial Officer. FORECROSS CORPORATION Except for historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this release are forward-looking statements that are dependent on certain risks and uncertainties, including such factors, among others, as market acceptance, market demand, pricing, changing regulatory environment, changing economic conditions, risks in new product and service development, the effect of the company's accounting policies and other risk factors detailed in the Company's SEC and BCSC BCSC British Columbia Securities Commission BCSC British Columbia Supreme Court BCSC British Council of Shopping Centres BCSC Breast Cancer Society of Canada BCSC Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium BCSC British Columbia Safety Council filings. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this News Release, which has been prepared by the Company. -0- Note to Editors: Forecross is a registered trademark of the Forecross Corporation. Complete/2000 is a registered service mark of Forecross Corporation. Confirm/2000 is a service mark of Forecross Corporation. |
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