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Strategies & Market Trends : Cents and Sensibility - Kimberly and Friends' Consortium -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (13900)	8/16/1999 2:55:00 PM
From: Tassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108040

PINC News... FYI... I have taken position on this one last week... PR NewsWire Planet City Upgrades PC Y2K Tool -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEDONA, Ariz., Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Planet City Corp (OTC Bulletin Board: PINC) is pleased to announce a major update to the Millennium Bug Compliance Kit (MBCK). The Year 2000 impacts three areas of a PC: hardware, software and user data files. If any one of the three areas is affected by the Year 2000 and isn't corrected before January 1st, 2000, it can create havoc with the user's PC, and with any other PCs sharing files with it. The MBCK provides a solution for all three areas. Terry Dennis, President and CEO of Planet City, said "The Year 2000 is rapidly approaching. This new version of MBCK comes at a time when owners of personal PCs are realizing they are exposed to Y2K problems and are beginning to purchase solutions. MBCK Version 5.0 is now available for download from our new web site at mbck.com. A free restricted version is available for 'tire-kickers' to check out their PC to see if it is Y2K compliant. Many PCs are not. Prospective buyers can preview all of the product's features in the free version, and can then fully enable the product by simply registering at our website. List price is $49.95. Owners of prior versions can upgrade for $29.95. "The product is immediately available in English, with versions in French, German, Spanish and Italian available soon. This new language support opens up sales to International markets we had not penetrated with prior versions. "Developers interested in taking advantage of the open-architecture 'plug-in' opportunity should send an email to terrydennis@planetcity.com. You will be provided, at no cost, the technical specifications required to 'plug-in' to our product." The MBCK's hardware support includes the PC's three system clocks: the Real Time Clock, the BIOS clock, and the Operating System clock. The software support identifies every registered application installed on the PC, then provides automated access to the vendors' Y2K compliance information on over 10,000 Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software packages, from vendors such as Microsoft, Lotus, Computer Associates, Intuit, etc.. User data file support includes scanning and remediation of file formats from leading software applications, like Microsoft Excel, as well as support for programming languages, like Visual Basic. Also provided is a "default text remediator" (DTR) which scans the user's text files for words and strings that may be date related, and provides a mechanism for update. The DTR is configurable to support user defined textual data files. MBCK Version 5.0 contains an innovative open-architecture feature that is unique in the PC Y2K tools industry. It will allow third party developers to provide scanner / remediators for those proprietary data file types that are not currently supported by the product. This feature will allow developers to "plug-in" their proprietary data file tools to the rest of MBCK's three pronged Y2K solution. Planet City will provide MBCK purchasers with no-cost access to the third party developed data file tools via the Planet City corporate website. By allowing third party product updates without requiring users to purchase an entirely new product, Planet City will be providing a cost effective method to Y2K remediate PCs, while providing a low cost entry to developers wishing to provide their proprietary data tools to the public. The developers may treat their extensions as freeware, as shareware or as conventional retail software. Several functionality enhancements have been made to the product. MBCK now supports Win 95/98 and NT. The hardware tests have been improved to show progress of each test while it is happening, the performance of the software scanning technology has been vastly improved, the user interface has been totally rewritten to be more user friendly, and automated access to multiple Internet resident COTS databases has been provided to ensure users have access to the latest information regarding the Y2K compliant status of proprietary software application products. For further information call: 1-800-219-8785 The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a "Safe Harbor" for forward-looking statements. Certain of the statements contained herein which are not historical facts are forward-looking statements with respect to events, the occurrence of which involve risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements may be impacted, either positively or negatively, by various factors. Information concerning potential factors that could affect the company is detailed from time to time in the company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. SOURCE Planet City Corp -0- 08/16/99 /CONTACT: Greg Kraft, VP Communications of Planet City, 800-219-8785, Info@planetcity.com/ /Web site: mbck.com /Web site: planetcity.com (PINC) CO: Planet City Corp ST: Arizona IN: CPR SU: PDT