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Technology Stocks : Millennium Comm. Inc (MLU:ASE) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lisa Taylor who wrote (99)	3/25/1998 11:06:00 PM
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MLU's Year2000 partner A net search on Century Technology Services Inc. (mentioned in the MLU release) turned up this item from CTSI, a company in Virginia. CENTURY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, INC. INTRODUCES T-SCAN2K(TM); Rapid Multi-Language Year 2000 Code Scanner Can Be Used On Mainframes, Mid-Range Systems, and PCs MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Century Technology Services, Inc. (CTSI) announced today the introduction of its new Year 2000 tool called T-Scan2K(TM), designed to rapidly analyze any text-based computer language for date-impacted programs. T-Scan2K(TM) comes in two versions: T-Scan2K(TM) and T-Scan2K (Lite)(TM). T-Scan2K(TM) is a state-of-the-art, text-based code scanner that can execute on mainframes, mid-range systems, and PCs. T-Scan2K(TM) was developed in response to the industry need for a code scanner that could handle multiple languages and platforms, operate at a high speed, and run on a PC as well as a mainframe. This robust text-scanner, written in COBOL, can scan code in any language, performing text searches for keywords, while excluding selected words from the search. T-Scan2K(TM) will scan multiple programs and directories in a single run, and produce a variety of metrics reports for a thorough analysis of an organization's code. "T-Scan2K(TM) will analyze both mainframe programs and PC programs," stated Michael P. Harden, Ph.D., CTSI's President and Chief Executive Officer. "This gives an organization one tool, at one cost, for its entire computer enterprise." "Many commercial Year 2000 scanning and automated remediation tools are time-consuming and expensive to run," stated Harden. "Whether a program contains dates or not, it must be run through these tools, many times with substantial human intervention. We developed T-Scan2K (Lite)(TM) specifically to eliminate having to run every program through a scanner or automated tool by identifying and removing the non-date impacted programs right up-front, before the process begins. T-Scan2K (Lite)(TM) has just one specific function. It runs quickly through all of your programs in an unattended mode, and produces a report showing those programs that contain no dates. If they have no dates, then there is no need to do anything else with them, so they can be removed from any further processing. Imagine being able to eliminate 20, 30, or 40 percent or more of your programs from Year 2000 processing on the very first day of your project. T-Scan2K (Lite)(TM) reduces your Year 2000 project workload and allows you to compress your assessment and remediation timeline. And if you are paying a per line of code fee to a tool vendor, you can significantly reduce that cost by eliminating non-date impacted programs from being run through their tool. T-Scan2K (Lite)(TM) will pay for itself the very first time you use it." Century Technology Services, Inc. is a privately held corporation involved in researching, developing, and providing Year 2000 solutions on a licensing or direct support basis. SOURCE Century Technologies, Inc. 02/24/98 /CONTACT: Jeri Ann Harden of Century Technologies, 703-749-7842/ CO: Century Technologies, Inc. ST: Virginia IN: CPR SU: PDT (24 Feb 1998 12:52 EST)