SimulTrans' Dublin Office's First Anniversary Marked by Major Expansion.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 1998--SimulTrans, a leading language translation and software localization company based in California's Silicon Valley, today announced the first anniversary and major expansion of its Dublin, Ireland, satellite office.

The Dublin office, one of SimulTrans' three satellite offices worldwide, currently employs 34 staff on-site (full-time and private contract) and will increase to 45 by year's end. The satellite office will soon move from its current, 3,000-square-foot site to a new 9,000-square-foot office in Dublin City's thriving East Point. According to Glyn O'Leary, managing director, "This should give us ample space -- for the next few years, at least."

With the Dublin office expansion comes the ability to serve more clients with a wider range of localization and internationalization services. Localization, or L10N, is the process of translating a product's User Interface, help files and accompanying documentation into the local language of each target market. Internationalization, or I18N, is the process of designing and building software that can be easily adapted into any target language and region without subsequent engineering changes.

A number of major software companies have contacted SimulTrans' Dublin office regarding both localization and internationalization of their products. According to O'Leary, companies are increasingly seeking "turn-key" localization and internationalization of their software titles.

Prior to opening its Dublin office, SimulTrans worked with the Irish subsidiaries of Lotus, Symantec and Microsoft on various Latin American and Asian projects. SimulTrans soon discovered the need to establish a permanent presence in Ireland in order to compete for larger, multilingual projects, especially those going into European languages. SimulTrans President and CEO Mark Homnack hired O'Leary to serve as managing director of his company's first European office. O'Leary has a decade of experience in the localization industry and served as engineer with Measurex of Cupertino, Calif.; and as project leader and development manager of Lotus Notes, cc:Mail and Word Pro. He also served as customer operations manager for IDOC Europe (now part of Bowne Global Solutions) prior to joining the SimulTrans team.

"A number of US software developers and hardware manufacturers expressed an interest in having SimulTrans open a Dublin office," O'Leary said in reference to SimulTrans' initial move. "These companies, often based in Silicon Valley near SimulTrans' main office, wanted the best of both worlds: 1) an Irish localization center to support their Irish subsidiary; and 2) a local US office that could work more closely with their development team-especially when internationalizing products for the support of multibyte languages."

Since 1984, SimulTrans' local project management and international linguistic resources have allowed it to deliver fast and accurate translations of diverse media for the software, electronics, health care, telecommunications and other industries. Additional satellite offices are located in Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo. On the Internet, visit the company at http://www.simultrans.com.

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