Finally...... A CONTRACT!!!!!
FORECROSS CORPORATION ANNOUNCES CONTRACT WITH TRW, INC. (FORMERLY BDM INTERNATIONAL)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, March 25 /CNW/ - Forecross(R) Corporation (VSE-FRX.U),
a leading legacy migration and year 2000 solution company, announced today
that it has signed a contract to analyze and renovate for year 2000
compliance, over 2 million lines of code of Micro Focus COBOL code belonging
to a BDM International client. The new contract agreement stems from the
recent teaming partnership wherein BDM can use the Forecross Complete/2000(TM)
solution and its fully-automated factory in San Francisco to address the Year
2000 renovation needs of select customers.
Cynthia Jennings, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at BDM says, ''The
Company's systems inventory cross a diverse range of languages. As a tool
independent service provider, using Forecross enables us to meet many clients'
renovation needs.''
''The industry has lost sight of the fact that a large percentage of the
billions of lines of COBOL internationally is either old COBOL, prior to 1985
released versions, or versions with nuances not analyzed or renovated by most
Y2K vendors. Micro Focus COBOL is one example of this type of COBOL
variation,'' said Bernadette C. Castello, Vice President and CFO of Forecross
Corporation.
The Forecross flagship year 2000 product, Complete/2000(TM), assesses and
renovates all versions of COBOL. The Company analyzes and automatically
renovates COBOL running on Micro Focus, MVS, HP, VM, VSE, AS/400, UNIX/AIX,
DEC, Wang and Tandem platforms. In addition, a factory service called
ReDirect automatically upgrades COBOL programs written in older versions prior
to ANSI 85 COBOL II so that they will compile successfully under the new
year-2000-compliant and COBOL compilers, such as COBOL/370 and COBOL for MVS.
Beyond the language of COBOL, Complete/2000(TM) assesses and renovates C, C++,
PL/I, PowerBuilder, CA-Easytrieve, REXX, IMSADF II, APS, CPS, CA-ADSO,
CA-Telon, CA-Ideal, Clist and CA-UFO.
BDM International, Inc., a company owned by TRW, Inc., provides
information technology systems and services to both public and commercial
customers. TRW provides advanced technology products and services for the
automotive, space and defense, and information technology markets. The
company's news releases are available through TRW's corporate web site
(http://www.trw.com). For more information about BDM, visit the corporate web
site (http://www.bdm.com).
Founded in 1982 as a high-technology software development laboratory,
Forecross Corporation is dedicated to the design and development of innovative
conversion software. Clients have included such leading corporations as IBM
Corporation, Aetna Life Insurance Company, Brown Brothers Harriman & Company,
Charles Schwab & Co., BDM Technologies, Inc., and Bank of America NTSA for its
migration software services. Teaming partners include TRW, Inc. (BDM
International), CIBER, Inc., NCR Corporation, SCB Computer Technology, Inc.,
and Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS) for its Complete/2000(TM)
offerings.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors,
Bernadette C. Castello
Vice President and CFO
FORECROSS CORPORATION |
