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Northern States Power Awards Compuware And Alydaar Year 2000 Contract
PR Newswire - December 08, 1997 09:44
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Jump to first matched term CHARLOTTE, N.C., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Northern States Power Company
(NSP) of Minneapolis, MN has awarded Compuware (Nasdaq: CPWR) and Alydaar
Software Corporation (NASDAQ: ALYD) a Year 2000 compliance contract. The
contract calls for Compuware to project manage, provide automated testing
tools and partner with Alydaar to remediate about 16 million lines of code.
The Year 2000 problem arises from computer programs written in the 1970's
and 1980's that read only the last two digits in a year. The 00 reading for
2000 would cause an error in some programs or could be interpreted as 1900.
The world-wide cost to repair the Year 2000 problem is estimated to be in
excess of $600 billion.
NSP's Year 2000 Project Director Dale Leatherman, stated "The Compuware
and Alydaar team will complement NSP's Year 2000 needs by bringing together
what we need most; the highest quality automated testing products and services
and expert code conversion. NSP looks forward to working with these two firms
to help meet our Year 2000 requirements."
"We are pleased NSP has selected the team of Compuware and Alydaar to
provide a Year 2000 solution. The strong capabilities of our joint
remediation approach combined with Compuware's testing tools provide a
thorough and efficient means for Year 2000 compliance.", said Steve Fagan,
Compuware's Senior Vice President of Professional Services.
Robert Gruder, Alydaar's CEO, said: "I believe the fix-it, test-it
combination of Alydaar and Compuware brings NSP the premier Year 2000 solution
available today. NSP has demonstrated significant vision in determining the
necessary steps to successfully complete its Year 2000 effort."
About Northern States Power
Northern States Power Co. headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a
major U.S. utility with growing domestic and international nonregulated
operations. NSP and its wholly owned utility subsidiary, Northern States
Power Company-Wisconsin, operate generation, transmission and distribution
facilities providing electricity to about 1.4 million customers in portions of
Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota and Michigan, The two
companies also distribute natural gas to more than 400,000 customers in
Minnesota, Wisconsin , North Dakota and Michigan, and provide a variety of
energy-related services throughout their service areas.
About Compuware
Compuware Corporation is a leading worldwide provider of software products
and professional services that help information technology professionals
efficiently develop, implement and support the applications that run their
businesses. Founded in 1973, Compuware today ranks as one of the largest
independent software providers in the world. The Company's products have been
licensed by nearly 11,000 organizations worldwide. The Company's professional
services organization has a staff of over 4,300.
Compuware now offers QASolutions testing services as part of Production
2000, a complete management process of remediation, testing, and
implementation of Year 2000 conversions. The innovative packaged service
offering delivers a proven process and the expertise to enable businesses to
assess, implement and integrate their testing activities into the application
life cycle. QASolutions leverages the strength of Compuware's QACenter suite
of mainframe, client/server and Internet products to develop an efficient and
repeatable testing process.
About Alydaar
Alydaar Software Corporation is a software reengineering company,
specializing in providing services to resolve the Year 2000 problem, as well
as computer language translation and systems migration services. Using
SmartCode, Alydaar's core reengineering technology, Alydaar has already
automatically corrected millions of lines of code for it's clients, and the
code has been put back into production. Alydaar has offices throughout North
America and Europe.
SOURCE Alydaar Software Corporation
/CONTACT: Thomas Dudchik, Alydaar Software Corporation, 704-365-2324 or
Suzanne Sperling, Compuware Corporation, 248-737-7300/
/Company News On-Call: prnewswire.com or fax, 800-758-5804,
ext. 124139/
/Web site: alydaar.com
/Web Site: compuware.com
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