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Gold/Mining/Energy : Datamirror (DMCX) (T.DMC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Spiney who wrote (272)	12/13/1999 9:06:00 AM
From: Famularo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 603

We need to find out when the IPO will be for Pointbase. At 30% DMC interest in Pointbase, DMC can have a major uptick depending on the IPO price. Just a thought for others. regards Fast Frank

To: Spiney who wrote (272)	12/15/1999 4:00:00 PM
From: Famularo	Respond to of 603

DataMirror continues support for Microsoft alliance DataMirror Corp DMC Shares issued 10,208,073 Dec 14 close $13.60 Wed 15 Dec 99 News Release Mr. Nigel Stokes reports DataMirror's award-winning Transformation Server software has qualified for membership as a data warehousing build and management tool within the Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance 2000. Transformation Server for Microsoft SQL Server enables organizations to integrate and access critical data rapidly and efficiently across their organizations for business intelligence, as well as e-commerce and other distributed data applications. "In the Internet era, business intelligence applications must be seamlessly integrated with legacy systems and new e-commerce applications in order to leverage the full potential of the Web to gain new customers and do business more effectively," said Nigel Stokes, chairman, president and chief executive officer of DataMirror. "As companies implement business intelligence applications built on the Microsoft data warehousing framework, DataMirror Transformation Server makes it easy for them to rapidly integrate data for business intelligence, collaboration and e-commerce applications, even across many different hardware platforms and database technologies." As an alliance member, DataMirror is committed to delivering high-performance data integration tools that support the Microsoft Data Warehousing Framework 2000. This framework is an open architecture for building business intelligence and analytical applications based on the open standards and services built into the Windows 2000 operating system, Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and Office 2000. For customers, the Microsoft Data Warehousing Framework simplifies and speeds data integration and greatly expands their ability to deliver valuable business intelligence to decision makers securely over the Web. "Microsoft is pleased to have DataMirror as a DWA member," said Andrew Hoover, industry manager for business intelligence in Microsoft's business solutions group. "Whether it's legacy data integration or SQL Server 7.0 data warehousing, DataMirror replication and transformation software supports Microsoft's Data Warehousing Framework. DataMirror continues to be a valuable partner." Microsoft's new alliance criteria call for compliance with technical standards, including OLE DB for universal data access and the open information model for sharing metadata, that make it easier to integrate and use tools and applications from multiple vendors. In addition, alliance partner products support Windows 2000 including key features such as active directory services and the Windows installer. The new criteria and information about how alliance member products support these standards and services are available on-line.