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To: Gilbert Drapeau who wrote (15220)	1/25/2001 9:31:18 AM
From: Gilbert Drapeau	Respond to of 19080

DMR Consulting Partners With Precise Software Solutions: Companies to Deliver Oracle-based Business Solutions Worldwide QUEBEC CITY, QUEBEC--JANUARY 25, 2001 - 07:00 EST DMR Consulting Inc., a leading global provider of information technology and e-consulting services, announces that it has become a Premier Partner of Precise Software Solutions Inc. (Nasdaq: PRSE), whose products boost business efficiency and performance by optimizing Oracle-based applications in web and enterprise infrastructures. DMR Consulting will use Precise performance management software solutions to extend the capabilities of its Oracle Business Solution Centres in Quebec City and Montreal. The partnership will enable both DMR Consulting and Precise to provide industry-leading software solutions to their worldwide customers and help them leverage the power of their Oracle systems. DMR Consulting's Oracle Business Solution Centres will resell, install and integrate Precise's performance management solutions to enterprises requiring comprehensive performance monitoring and tuning of their IT infrastructures. DMR Consulting will provide training and technology transfer to their clients' data base administration (DBA) staff. DMR Consulting's Oracle Business Solution Centres will also use Precise software as the basis for their Remote DBA and Oracle Diagnostic services. The promise of this new partnership was recently unveiled at a breakfast seminar in Ste-Foy, Quebec. The seminar helped customers to understand how they can maximize their Oracle investments and increase the power of their Oracle systems. "Our combined solutions will help us meet our clients' demands for increased performance from their databases and applications," commented Robert Michon, Manager for DMR Consulting of the Oracle Business Solutions Centre in Quebec City. "We have found Precise to have one of the most comprehensive and easy-to-use performance management solutions available today." "DMR Consulting is a leading global provider of e-consulting services and business solutions and we are extremely pleased to partner with their world-leading centres for Oracle expertise," says Christopher Sauer, Vice President of Global Alliances, at Precise Software Solutions. "In today's world, the performance of a business's IT infrastructure is tied directly to the overall growth and profitability of that business. Our partnership ideally positions both Precise and DMR Consulting to jointly provide leading and innovating companies with the technology and Oracle expertise they need to remain ahead of today's economy." The DMR Consulting Oracle Business Solutions Centres specialize in Oracle database management, Oracle data warehousing, client/server and web development as well as Oracle applications. They support DMR Consulting offices worldwide. Precise's industry-leading suite of IT infrastructure performance management solutions maximizes the performance of business-critical applications, including Enterprise, ERP and custom-developed applications, and e-business applications. These solutions provide a complete, correlated end-to-end view of performance, both at the IT component level and at the user-specific "business level". At the business level, Precise measures end-to-end application response time, segments response time by IT component, gauges service quality in business terms, baselines performance, identifies performance deviations, and trends performance levels to facilitate strategic IT planning. At the IT level, the Precise solutions proactively capture, measure, and correlate performance metrics from all critical system components to provide a holistic view of application performance. Instead of monitoring each system component in isolation, the Precise solutions pinpoint the causes of performance problems in context and determines those problems' impact on the application, before they impact the end-users. About DMR Consulting Inc. DMR Consulting is a leading global provider of information technology and e-consulting services and solutions to major corporations, governments and organizations. Our consultants design, build and operate high-impact e-systems that measurably enhance business performance. A strategic subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, a US$50 billion provider of Internet-based information technology solutions for the global marketplace, DMR Consulting employs over 8,000 IT specialists in 67 offices worldwide. Its corporate website is located at www.dmr.com. About Precise Software Solutions - "Performance is Our Business(TM)": Precise Software Solutions (Nasdaq: PRSE) (www.precise.com) is the leading provider of IT infrastructure performance management solutions. By advancing the performance of mission-critical applications, the Precise solutions have enabled over 1,200 enterprises, including leading Fortune 500 and e-business companies worldwide, to maximize their technology investments and meet their business goals. Precise serves customers worldwide through its offices in the United States, Israel, the United Kingdom and France, as well as through a global network of resellers and distributors. Precise recently acquired Savant Corporation (www.savant.com) a Bethesda, MD-based company that develops and markets a suite of real-time diagnostic and proactive management solutions.

To: Gilbert Drapeau who wrote (15220)	1/25/2001 9:59:25 AM
From: bsl113	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

I do some part time air charter flying for fun every now and then and recently I fly some people to Clevland, Ohio. Before they got on the plane I overheard someone say that they hoped that they everyone would come to an agreement on the "Oracle or SAP" decision. What I thought was most interesting was how this person went about making the statement as if every company was experiencing the same decision. I was not aware that these two companies competed so closely on database solutions. My perception was that people always looked at Oracle as the best solution...