| SAN FRANCISCO, CA: Forecross® Corporation (VSE-FRX.U), a
leading legacy Migration and year 2000 solution company, announced today that it has
signed a contract to analyze and renovate for year 2000 compliance, over 2 million lines
of code of Micro Focus COBOL code belonging to a BDM International client. The new
contract agreement stems from the recent teaming partnership wherein BDM can use the
Forecross Complete/2000TM
solution and its fully-automated factory in San Francisco to address the Year 2000
renovation needs of select customers. Cynthia
Jennings, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at BDM says, "The Company’s
systems inventory cross a diverse range of languages. As a tool independent service
provider, using Forecross enables us to meet many clients’ renovation needs."
"The industry has lost sight of the fact that a large
percentage of the billions of lines of COBOL internationally is either old COBOL, prior to
1985 released versions, or versions with nuances not analyzed or renovated by most Y2K
vendors. Micro Focus COBOL is one example of this type of COBOL variation," said
Bernadette C. Castello, Vice President and CFO of Forecross Corporation.
The Forecross flagship year 2000 product, Complete/2000™,
assesses and renovates all versions of COBOL. The Company analyzes and automatically
renovates COBOL running on Micro Focus, MVS, HP, VM, VSE, AS/400, UNIX/AIX, DEC, Wang and
Tandem platforms. In addition, a factory service called ReDirect automatically upgrades
COBOL programs written in older versions prior to ANSI 85 COBOL II so that they will
compile successfully under the new year-2000-compliant and COBOL compilers, such as
COBOL/370 and COBOL for MVS. Beyond the language of COBOL, Complete/2000™
assesses and renovates C, C++, PL/I, PowerBuilder, CA-Easytrieve, REXX, IMSADF II, APS,
CSP, CA-ADSO, CA-Telon, CA-Ideal, Clist and CA-UFO.
BDM International, Inc., a company owned by TRW, Inc.,
provides information technology systems and services to both public and commercial
customers. TRW provides advanced technology products and services for the automotive,
space and defense, and information technology markets. The company’s news releases
are available through TRW’s corporate web site (http://www.trw.com). For more
information about BDM, visit the corporate web site (http://www.bdm.com).
Founded in 1982 as a high-technology software development
laboratory, Forecross Corporation is dedicated to the design and development of innovative
conversion software. Clients have included such leading corporations as IBM Corporation,
Aetna Life Insurance Company, Brown Brothers Harriman & Company, Charles Schwab &
Co., BDM Technologies, Inc., and Bank of America NTSA for its Migration software services.
Teaming partners include TRW, Inc. (BDM International), CIBER, Inc., NCR Corporation, SCB
Computer Technology, Inc., and Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS) for its Complete/2000TM
offerings. |
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.
The Vancouver Stock Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept
responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this News Release, which has been prepared
by the Company. |
