Forecross Corporation to Perform an IDMS to ORACLE Migration for a Leading Canadian University

October 17, 1996

Contact: Pat Dittmar (Pat@forecross.com)

San Francisco, California—Forecross® Corporation (VSE-FRX.U) announced today that it has signed an agreement to migrate certain COBOL and ADSO IDMS applications to ORACLE for a leading Canadian university. Under the terms of this agreement Forecross will receive an aggregate payment of $750,000 US for its Migration services.

"This Migration will enable our customer to move certain key applications from a mainframe environment to a client server environment" said Kim Jones, President and Chief Executive Officer. "This is our first Migration with ORACLE as the target database and another project made possible by our transition to a fully automated software-Migration factory, which is also at the core of our Complete/2000™ solution to the year 2000 problem."

Founded in 1982 as a high-technology software development laboratory, Forecross Corporation is dedicated to the design and development of innovative conversion software. Its clients have included such leading corporations as IBM Corporation, Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Montreal, Fujitsu Limited, On-Line Software International, Inc., Pansophic Systems, Inc., Price Waterhouse, Cincom Systems, Inc., Kimberly-Clark Corporation, BDM Technologies, Inc. and Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association. Forecross Corporation’s Convert series of products is available directly to the IS community, optionally packaged with the Corporation’s proven methodologies and services. Complete/2000 is Forecross Corporation’s automated solution for the year 2000 market and the latest innovation offered by the Company to the IS community.

On Behalf of the Board of Directors,

Kim O. Jones
President and CEO
Forecross Corporation

Except for historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this release are forward-looking statements that are dependent on certain risks and uncertainties, including such factors, among others, as market acceptance, market demand, pricing, changing regulatory environment, changing economic conditions, risks in new product and service development, the effect of the company’s accounting policies and other risk factors detailed in the Company’s SEC and BCSC filings.
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