Year 2000 Wire/TUEV Rheinland Partners with Reasoning Inc., for Year 2000 Auditing Services in Germany.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 1998--

Leading Quality Expert Relies on Reasoning/2000 for

Inspection to Accelerate and Improve Accuracy of

Y2K Certification Programs

Reasoning, Inc., and TUEV Rheinland/Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany's leading technical testing and certification authority, today announced that TUEV has selected Reasoning as its partner and Reasoning/2000 for Inspection as its code inspection tool for auditing and certifying Year 2000 (Y2K) compliance projects in German companies.

Reasoning/2000 for Inspection will help TUEV customers accelerate the Y2K compliance process, cut the costs associated with achieving compliance, and enhance the quality and effectiveness of their compliance efforts.

"TUEV provides both a method and a tool -- Reasoning/2000 for Inspection -- to help our customers prove they have done everything necessary to achieve Y2K compliance," said Detlev Henze, TUEV's director of Business Development. "As the time frame for achieving compliance gets tighter and tighter, automated inspection is practically a prerequisite for Y2K certification. Reasoning has the best automated code inspection tool on the market, superior in its ability to deliver excellent results, fast."

Headquartered in Cologne and respected around the world, TUEV Rheinland tests and certifies a wide range of electronic and mechanical products for technical safety and quality. The company's purview now extends to its clients' Y2K projects and includes third parties auditing their information systems, production environments, plants and even suppliers. A conditional TUEV certificate is issued when a solidly planned Y2K compliance project is underway, and a final certificate is issued when compliance is achieved.

TUEV uses Reasoning/2000 for Inspection to audit its clients' already analyzed and remediated applications in order to identify any Y2K defects that may still exist in the code. This automated inspection greatly reduces subsequent Y2K test cycles by finding errors prior to testing -- when they are easier and less costly to fix -- and by discovering errors that testing might miss altogether.

"Inspection is an important tool in helping prove that a company has taken appropriate steps towards Y2K compliance," said David Jones, Reasoning CEO and president. "By adding to the safety and quality of previously remediated code, Reasoning/2000 for Inspection enables TUEV to streamline its audit activities, while putting its clients much farther along the road to TUEV's coveted Y2K certification. We are naturally pleased to be partnering with one of the world's foremost quality experts, whose mark is recognized around the globe and whose certifications are indispensable for doing business in one of the world's most important and technically advanced economies, Germany."

About Reasoning/2000 for Inspection

Reasoning/2000 for Inspection enables compliance checks to be done up to 100 times faster than with manual code inspection methods, and finds software defects at one-tenth the cost of testing. An adjunct to rather than a replacement for testing, it gives a strong line of defense against Y2K defects by consistently auditing remediated code and documenting all potential Year 2000 noncompliance conditions. Reasoning/2000 for Inspection can be used to audit code before or after testing. When used prior to testing, Reasoning/2000 can accelerate the pace and reduce the costs of Y2K compliance projects. When used after testing, it can guard against code inadvertently slipping back into noncompliance.

An important feature of Reasoning/2000 for Inspection is that it provides a framework for a company to define a compliance policy, and then identifies Y2K problem areas in accordance with that policy. This approach allows it to yield more accurate and rapid inspections, as well as serving as an audit trail to document compliance. The actual inspection process is enhanced by the program's logic flow and data flow mapping, combined with program slicing and artificial intelligence to automatically locate and reliably analyze date-sensitive items in the code. The end result is that millions of lines of code can be accurately inspected within the course of a week.

Reasoning, Inc.

Reasoning was founded in 1984 as a software company specializing in the development of advanced computer languages that automate programming. Today, Reasoning is a leading provider of transformation software technology and services including code-base management systems, application mining tools and second-generation solutions for the Year 2000 problem. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Reasoning provides sales and services through regional offices in North America and a growing network of subsidiaries and distributors in Europe and Asia-Pacific. Visit the Reasoning web site at www.reasoning.com.

TUEV Rheinland/Berlin-Brandenburg

TUEV Rheinland/Berlin-Brandenburg merged with Rheinisch Westfaehlischer TUEV/CUBIS AG to become the world`s largest technical testing, certification and testing organization. With subsidiaries in more than 50 countries around the globe, TUEV Rheinland offers products, system testing and certification, such as ISO 9000 and other standards. The company employs over 12,000 personnel, of which 75 percent are engineers, serving TUEV customers in all industries. TUEV also provides Year 2000 audits and certification helping customers remain successful in the new millennium.

Visit the TUEV website at www.tuev.com.

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