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To: Salvador Villavieja who wrote (362)	12/12/1997 9:30:00 PM
From: mike mulhearn	Respond to of 915

More News Friday December 12, 5:22 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release Neil Hamilton Joins SSA as General Manager Canada ERP Veteran Offers Extensive Supply Chain, Customer Service, Distribution Experience to SSA Clients CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 1997-- System Software Associates (SSA), one of the fastest growing major package application software vendors, today announced that Neil Hamilton had joined SSA's North American executive management team as General Manager SSA Canada. Mr. Hamilton reports directly to Paul Lavallee, SSA's President Americas. Most recently, Mr. Hamilton was Chairman, President and CEO of a Canadian-based company specializing in distribution, customer service and supply chain management software for large enterprises. Prior to that, Mr. Hamilton spent over 15 years at IBM in a variety of executive management positions, including marketing manager of the General Systems Division. Before IBM, Mr.Hamilton was vice president of sales and marketing for a Canadian enterprise resource planning (ERP) distributor. ''Neil Hamilton brings to SSA and our clients a combination of extensive ERP knowledge and broad experience with major Canadian corporations in successfully implementing technology strategies,'' said Roger E. Covey, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of SSA. ''He will be a strong contributor to SSA's global executive management team.'' Mr. Andrew Barkla, SSA's former General Manager Canada, is relocating to Australia to head up SSA's very successful Pacific operation. SSA is well established in Canada, with a staff of over 200 and major offices in Toronto and Montreal, as well as a Toronto-based development laboratory. SSA Canadian clients include Avenor White Paper, Canada's second-largest forest products company, Celestica, one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers, and over 200 other Canadian companies, as well as many international firms. About SSA SSA has been chosen by the world's leading industrial sector firms as the best way forward. The Company's product line, BPCS Client/Server version 6.0, is currently being implemented in more than 1000 industrial sector firms in over 4,000 sites worldwide. The BPCS Client/Server product line delivers unparalleled agility and re-configurability to meet changing market demands through a quantum leap forward in ERP technology that delivers significant business benefits, including century dating. The BPCS Client/Server product suite delivers competitive advantage by integrating all mission critical operations from global financials to multi-mode manufacturing to management of the total supply chain, including Electronic Commerce and EDI. SSA's Distributed Object Computing Architecture (DOCA) provides the computing platform choice, whether IBM AS/400 or RS/6000, Digital, Hewlett-Packard, a combination of these or server access via the Internet. Database options include Oracle, Informix and DB2/400. Over 8,500 clients in over 25,000 sites in various vertical markets - automotive, chemical, consumer goods, electronics, fabrication and assembly, food/beverage, forest products, pharmaceuticals - have implemented an SSA BPCS ERP system. SSA and its strategic partners provide full implementation support for BPCS Client/Server in over 90 countries worldwide. Visit SSA's homepage at ssax.com. Editor's Note: BPCS is a registered trademark of SSA. BPCS Client/Server and DOCA are trademarks of SSA. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Miller/Shandwick Technologies (Boston) Charles Spofford/Doug Black, 617/536-0470 cspofford@miller.shandwick.com dblack@miller.shandwick.com or

To: Salvador Villavieja who wrote (362)	12/12/1997 11:58:00 PM
From: James B. Barnes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 915

Salvador, RE: <<SSAX on the other hand used to be an AS/400 based application that has opened it's market wide open to other operating systems and they seem to be very successful on these new platforms.>> I have a friend that works as a consultant with SSAX's customers (for more then five years at least). He tells me they are still not moving much product on the Unix front. He says that IBM is offering such a good deal bundling SSAX's product with the AS400s (installed at the factory), that the incentive to use a different platform is small. At least that's my understanding. Maybe someone else out there has some visibility on this issue. James