DATA GENERAL COMPLETES SALES AGREEMENT WITH EGAN SYSTEMS
HOLBROOK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 1998--Egan Systems Inc. (OTCBB:EGNS)
announced Thursday an agreement with Data General Corporation's (NYSE:DGN) Channel
Sales Division to resell Egan's Year 2000 software toolset. The sales will be made to Data
General's customers whose systems use Interactive COBOL and or AOS/VS COBOL and who
wish to perform Year 2000 impact assessment and remediation of their own source code.
Data General will also exclusively market Egan's in-house Year 2000 and software migration
services to customers who wish to subcontract all or part of their Year 2000 or software migration
projects. Additionally, Data General will offer an innovative turnkey package consisting of the
appropriate Egan G-2K tool suite and a specifically configured DG Windows NT workstation on
which to perform the necessary Year 2000 fixes. The Interactive COBOL package will also
contain a full development and runtime license for this popular version of COBOL which allows
full impact assessment, remediation, recompilation and preliminary testing to be done on the
same workstation. The bundled package is expected to save customers thousands of dollars
over the price of individual components and will be available within two weeks.
Ed Egan, president of Egan Systems, said: ''Striking a deal with Data General truly shows the
quality and demand for Egan Systems' products. With prices for our stand-alone tools ranging
from $18,000-30,000 and with 3,300 initial customers identified, we expect strong potential
sales.'' Data General's Channel Sales Division is in frequent contact with thousands of users of
DG's Eclipse MVs and AViiON systems internationally and will focus on the sites employing
DG's AOS/VS operating system in conjunction with Interactive COBOL or AOS/VS COBOL.
Data General is a $1.6 billion/year company that specializes in providing high-end servers,
redundant array storage systems and related software and service to information technology
users worldwide. The company is headquartered in Westboro, Mass. and additional information
on the company is available on the Internet at www.dg.com. Egan Systems is a leader in
providing Year 2000 Impact Assessment and Remediation tools and services. Egan specializes
in building tools and solutions for COBOL languages and related software products. The
company is located in Holbrook, NY with research and design facilities in Raleigh, NC. The
company's website is: www.egns.com. |
