Year 2000 Wire/NeoMedia Expands Year 2000 Tool Suite With ADAPT-PC/2000(tm) Personal Computer Solution.FORT MYERS, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1998-- Now Offers Full Range of PC to Mainframe Year 2000 Solutions NeoMedia Technologies, Inc. (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 Small Cap: NEOM) today announced that it has expanded its Year 2000 solutions offering by adding a powerful suite of impact analysis tools for personal computers called ADAPT-PC/2000(tm). "With the addition of ADAPT-PC/2000(tm), we now offer comprehensive solutions for 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. ranging from desktop to mainframe," said Charles Fritz, president and chief executive officer of NeoMedia Technologies, Ind spreadsheets, including Microsoft Access v2xisting reseller channels worldwide and through an expanded group of global value-added resellers. ADAPT/2000-PC(tm) is unique in providing comprehensive au "The severity of the Year 2000 prorcent of the $600 billion worldwide date-field compliance problem. NeoMedia joins a very short list of companies that are proactively addressing this critical segment within the Year 2000 software tools market." The adoperating client/server networks." During the past year, NeoMedia Technologies has significantly expanded its suite of Year 2000 software tools solutions. In July 1997 it entered a license agreement to market ADAPT/e much of the renovation phase of Year 2000 projects. It is part of a family of legacy 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. extension products that help users migrate proprietary solutions to open Internet-ready systems. It is unique in providing code remediation for the greatest number of COBOL dialects and supports multiple methods of Year 2000 conversion-date expansion, windowing or encoding. ADAPT/2000(tm) is targeted at midrange users and Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 conversion factories in orphaned COBOL markets, such as IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) DOS/VSE (Disk Operating System/Virtual Storage Extended) An IBM multiuser, multitasking operating system that was widely used on IBM's 43xx series. It used to be called DOS, but due to the abundance of DOS PCs, was later renamed VSE. , Wang, HP3000, Data General, Digital and Unisys. Its customers include Countrywide, EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. and Tracor. NeoMedia Technologies markets its Year 2000 products directly and through a network of major hardware vendors, system integrators, consulting companies and value-added resellers. More information can be found at the company's Web site, http://www.neom.com/y2k CONTACT: George Cohen Communications Elyse Familant (Press/Analyst) 978-725-3637 email: elysef@mediaone.net or RKC Communications Robert Kneeley (Investor Relations) 954-351-1976 email: rkccomm@safari.net |
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