Giga Information Group to Offer Educational Seminars At Its Integrated Enterprise Applications '99 Conference.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 1999--

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Giga Information Group (NASDAQ:GIGX) announced today that it will offer three educational seminars at its Integrated Enterprise Applications '99 conference, February 21-25,1999 at the Renaissance Orlando Resort, Orlando, Florida. The seminars will be presented by Ken North Computing, International Systems Group, and the Message-Oriented Middleware Association (MOMA).

"We are delighted to be working with these fine organizations and industry luminaries," said Marlene Nusbaum, Vice President, Program Development at Giga. "Their collaboration with Giga further strengthens our conference offering and adds in-depth perspective to a set of very hotly debated technical issues."

On February 21, Max Dolgicer, Director, International Systems Group, will conduct a pre-conference tutorial titled " Java, Distributed Objects, Application Servers and Legacy Systems - Defining and Delivering a Best-of-Breed Application Integration Platform". Attendees will learn how to determine middleware requirements for enterprise applications integration; the state of Java, CORBA, and application servers platforms; where CORBA best fits; how to integrate distributed objects with Legacy application; and much more.

Also on February 21, MOMA will present the Eye on the Industry Seminar that focuses on message-oriented middleware, middleware, and vertical industry solutions. Attendees will learn how specific implementations of middleware have had an impact on users'bottom-lines and facilitated distributed computing solutions. In addition, vendor panelists will share their expertise on implementing enterprise solutions, including those specific to vertical industries.

Following the conference on February 25, Ken North Computing will host four Expert Seminars. " Java Database Magic", will be presented by Ken North, President, Ken North Computing, and will explain how to exploit the power of Java for writing database software. Claudia Imhoff, President and Founder, Intelligent Solutions, Inc. will present a management overview of the data warehouse titled " Data Warehousing for Managers". " XML: The Next Touchstone" will feature Mike Floyd, Author, Independent Consultant and Editor-at-Large with Web Techniques, and lays the groundwork for understanding this important technology and discusses existing XML tools and future development opportunities. "SQL for Smarties" - presented by Joe Celko, Author, Independent Consultant and Member of SQL Standards Committee - will deal with the use of subqueries, referential integrity, CASE expressions and how to think in terms of sets instead of sequential record processing.

For more information on the Integrated Enterprise Applications `99 conference and these educational seminars please call 1 [phone], e-mail [e-mail], or visit the conference website at http://www.gigaweb.com/events/iea.htm.

Platinum sponsors of the Integrated Enterprise Applications '99 conference include: The Baan Company; Hewlett-Packard; Compaq Computer Corporation; Computer Associates International, Inc.; INTERSOLV; IBM; and Oracle Corporation. Premier Sponsors include: Active Software, Constellar, Forte, Hitachi Software, TIBCO, and Sybase.

About Giga Information Group, Inc.

Giga Information Group (NASDAQ:GIGX), founded by industry icon Gideon I. Gartner, delivers technology and management advice to IT decision-makers via innovative research processes and a leading edge Web interface. Giga's research focus is on helping companies integrate their businesses with the Internet; it also covers other issues pertaining to the computing, telecommunications and related industries. Giga began providing its services in April 1996, and has become the world's fastest-growing advisory on IT with a global client base exceeding 900 organizations and over 14,000 individuals. Its enterprise clients include IT users, IT vendors, and institutional investors.

Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Giga has 10 other offices covering the Americas and Europe. Giga is also represented by distributors in other areas of the world.

The Company's Web site can be accessed at http://www.gigaweb.com. The Company's logo with the name Giga Information Group is a registered trademark of Giga Information Group Inc.