| SUGAR LAND, Texas, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- NEON(R) Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NESY), a leading provider of Enterprise Access
 and Integration software products, today announced that their Diplomat product
 now seamlessly integrates with NEON Shadow Direct(R).  NEON Systems' Diplomat
 now delivers Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) between disparate
 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Help Desk applications, as well as
 direct access to System/390(R) data and transactions.
 "Global 2000 companies keep about 70% of their corporate data on the
 mainframe, yet most of the work is performed in a multi-platform environment,
 often with UNIX and Windows NT(R) systems.  This can be a very complex
 computing environment, yet for effective CRM and Help Desk Support,
 integration and global information sharing are essential elements of
 successful business.  NEON Systems is the first company to focus on this issue
 with EAI for sophisticated cross-platform environments.  I believe our
 mainframe expertise and ability to integrate the Diplomat code with the Shadow
 Product Group will deliver the B2B integration solution that companies have
 been seeking," said Joe Backer, president and CEO, NEON Systems.
 Diplomat provides a blending of EAI and B2B integration for disparate
 System/390 mainframe, Windows NT, and UNIX applications in interoperable,
 cross-functional environments.  With Diplomat, event-driven integration is
 streamlined among intra-office business units as well as among business-to-
 vendor and business-to-customer interactions without investing in new
 applications or computing platforms.
 To successfully participate in business-to-business and business-to-
 consumer e-initiatives such as Web-to-host data access, client/server
 application development, or enterprise application integration, a key element
 is access to System/390 IMS, CICS(R), VSAM, ADABAS(R), or DB2 data and
 transactions.  NEON Systems' Shadow Direct is the strategic choice of many
 Global 2000 companies to provide rapid deployment for e-initiatives through an
 open and less complex architecture.
 About NEON Systems
 NEON Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of Enterprise Access and
 Integration, Security, and Subsystem Management software products for all
 industries.  NEON Systems' Enterprise Access and Integration e-business
 solution delivers integrated, global information sharing in cross-platform,
 multi-functional environments via the Internet or client/server.  Many Global
 2000 companies have chosen NEON Systems software for the revitalization of
 legacy applications, e-commerce, enterprise application integration, and
 business-to-business integration.  NEON Enterprise Security Management
 software products help companies protect valuable information with
 encryption/decryption technology for the Internet and password synchronization
 for interoperable computing environments.  NEON Enterprise Subsystem
 Management software products economically enhance and maintain the high
 availability, integrity, and performance of key CICS and IMS mainframe
 environments as the demand for existing and new applications increases.
 Headquartered in Sugar Land (Houston), Texas, NEON has sales, support, and
 distributor offices covering 25 countries around the world.  NEON's website
 can be visited at www.neonsys.com.
 NEON and Shadow Direct are registered trademarks of NEON Systems, Inc.
 All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies.
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