Year 2000 Wire/Viasoft Announces Strategic Relationship with Computer Horizons; Information Technology Services Company Will Resell Viasoft's OnMark 2000 Solution.PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 1998--Viasoft, Inc. (Nasdaq/NM:VIAS VIAS Victorian Institute of Animal Science VIAS Visualization Information Archival/Retrieval Service (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) VIAS Vietnam Institute for America Studies ), a leading provider of business solutions to help companies manage and evolve their information technology assets, today announced a worldwide distribution arrangement with Computer Horizons (Nasdaq/NM:CHRZ). The strategic alliance will enable Computer Horizons to resell Viasoft's OnMark 2000(tm) technology when providing year 2000 consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" for their customers' distributed system See distributed computing. distributed system - A collection of (probably heterogeneous) automata whose distribution is transparent to the user so that the system appears as one local machine. environments. The OnMark 2000 family of software technology is an end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. to address each phase of a year 2000 conversion on personal computer (PC) desktops and client/server applications. Computer Horizons is an international systems integrator that provides information technology consulting Information technology consulting (IT consulting or business and technology services) is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives. services to Fortune 500 companies. "We are very excited to be partnering with Viasoft," said David Reingold, Senior Vice President, Computer Horizons. "We feel that the OnMark 2000 tool suite is an exceptional group of software products that addresses the century date change for the distributed environment in a comprehensive manner. We welcome the opportunity to provide the OnMark 2000 solution to our clients. This further enhances our solution for the distributed environments." "The strategic alliance with Computer Horizons is very important to Viasoft, because it allows us to reach a broader base of customers with both expert advice and comprehensive software tools for their year 2000 desktop conversions," said Maurice Heiblum, Executive Director, Distributed Systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. for Viasoft. "Computer Horizons complements our OnMark 2000 product offering with implementation services that deliver a complete solution to our mutual customers." About OnMark 2000 Viasoft's distributed year 2000 solution is composed of five main components: OnMark 2000 Survey automates year 2000 PC hardware/software inventory; OnMark 2000 Assess conducts a thorough risk assessment of hardware and desktop software, including spreadsheets, databases and data files, to determine the severity level of all systems at risk and for fixing the hardware BIOS; OnMark 2000 Workbench for Excel provides discovery and impact analysis for year 2000 problems 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. in complex Excel spreadsheets; OnMark 2000 Client/Server Workbenches analyze, plan and help to remediate re·me·di·a·tion n. The act or process of correcting a fault or deficiency: remediation of a learning disability. re·me year 2000 problems in client/server applications written in C/C C/C Center to Center C/C Combustion Chamber C/C Command/Control C/C Crew Chief C/C cabin cruiser (US DoD) C/C chief complaint (medical) C/C Channel-to-Channel C/C Communication and Collaboration ++, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder and UNIX Shell A Unix shell, also called "the command line", provides the traditional user interface for the Unix operating system and for Unix-like systems. Users direct the operation of the computer by entering command input as text for a shell to execute. Scripts; VIA/AutoTest(tm) delivers automated, multi-platform, functional equivalence testing of changed applications before and after they are placed back into production. About Computer Horizons Computer Horizons Corp., founded in 1969, is a diversified information technology services Company with 4,000 employees worldwide. Through its international network of 50 offices in the US, UK, Canada and India, it provides clients with resource augmentation AUGMENTATION, old English law. The name of a court erected by Henry VIII., which was invested with the power of determining suits and controversies relating to monasteries and abbey lands. and advanced technology solutions to business problems, including its industry-leading solution to the millennium date-change problem, Signature 2000(tm). Please visit the Web site at http://www.computerhorizons.com or e-mail information@chc.fabrik.com. About Viasoft Viasoft is a leading provider of business solutions, consisting of integrated technology and specialized professional consulting services, designed to enable customers worldwide to cost-effectively manage and evolve their information technology assets. Headquartered in Phoenix, Ariz., Viasoft provides sales and services through regional offices in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Europe, the Asia/Pacific region and a growing network of international subsidiaries and distributors. For more information on Viasoft's products and services, visit the Company's World Wide Web site at www.viasoft.com. -0- The statements made in this press release that are not historical facts contain forward-looking information that involves risks and uncertainties. Important factors that may cause actual results to differ include, but are not limited to, market demand and acceptance, the impact of competitive products and services, risks associated with results and timing of technology development and commercialization, the Company's ability to manage growth and acquisitions of technology or businesses, the effect of economic and business conditions including risks inherent in international operations Internal Operations (I.O., IO or I/O) is a fictional American Intelligence Agency in Wildstorm comics. It was originally called International Operations. I.O. first appeared in WildC.A.T.S. volume 1 #1 (August, 1992) and was created by Brandon Choi and Jim Lee. and the ability to attract and retain technical personnel, risks associated with, as well as the Company's ability to manage, a consulting services business and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. NOTE: Copyright 1998 Viasoft, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Viasoft is a registered trademark of Viasoft, Inc. All product names are trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Viasoft, Inc. Sue-Ellen Jacobs, 602/667-2866 sue-ellen_jacobs@viasoft.com |
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