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Company Press Release SOURCE: NEON Systems, Inc. Business Week Ranks NEON Systems as Tenth Hottest Growth Company SUGAR LAND, Texas, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- NEON© Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NESY - news), a leading provider of eBusiness Integration, Security, and Subsystem Management software products, was ranked as the tenth hottest growth company by Business Week magazine. Business Week publishes annually the top 100 hottest publicly traded corporations in the US. To win a position on Business Week's list, a company must excel for three consecutive years in sales growth, earnings growth, and return on invested capital. ``We feel very honored and gratified to have been selected as one of Business Week's top ten Hot Growth Companies for 2000,'' said NEON Systems CEO and President Joe Backer. ``This honor further exemplifies NEON Systems' commitment to continued growth and increased value to our shareholders. I'd like to recognize our employees, partners, clients, and investors for their dedication to NEON Systems. The future is bright at NEON, and the best is yet to come.'' Standard & Poor's Institutional Market Services, a division of The McGraw- Hill Companies, which maintains computerized financial data on more than 10,000 publicly traded companies, provided the pool of companies from which winners were chosen. For consideration to be listed as a Business Week Hot Growth Company, a company must be publicly traded with a current stock price greater than $5, have annual sales between $25 and $500 million, and have a current market value of more than $25 million. The entire list of Hot Growth Companies can be found in the May 29, 2000 edition of Business Week as well as online at www.businessweek.com. About NEON Systems NEON Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of eBusiness Integration, Security, and Subsystem Management software products for all industries. NEON Systems' eBusiness Integration 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 provide 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 is a registered trademark, and the NEON logo is a trademark of NEON Systems, Inc. in the USA and in other select countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. SOURCE: NEON Systems, Inc.