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To: Josef Svejk who wrote (97)	11/11/1998 10:42:00 AM
From: David Leichner	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 141

Hello - As I saw that you follow Formula and Magic, see below Magic's recent win: Intelligent Enterprise Announces 1998 DBMS Readers' Choice Award Winners 11/10/1998 PR Newswire Readers Vote for Top-Performing IT Software Products SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Winners of the annual DBMS Readers' Choice Awards were announced today by Intelligent Enterprise Editor-in-Chief, David Stodder. Readers were asked to select their favorite IT software products in 16 categories (see list below). Winners will be announced in the December issue of Intelligent Enterprise. Stodder stated, "Readers demand a lot from products they use to build information supply chain solutions, and they have spoken. By voting for this year's Readers' Choice winners, our readers recognize that these products solve real business problems." Intelligent Enterprise Publisher, David M. Kalman, emphasized the importance of the Readers' Choice Award. "Intelligent Enterprise readers are the true experts in evaluating and buying IT products and solutions. The Readers'Choice Award is the symbol of excellence in the intelligent enterprise." 1998 DBMS Readers' Choice Winners: Application Development: Magic (Magic Software Enterprises) CASE, Design, and Modeling: ERwin/ERX (Logic Works, Inc. A Division of Platinum Technology) Components, Frameworks, and Libraries: ActiveX Component Suite ProtoView Development Corp.) Data Migration and Cleaning: Data Junction (Data Junction Corp.) Data Warehouse Systems: DSS Administrator (MicroStrategy, Inc.) Database Administration: DBArtisan (Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.) Database Servers: Oracle Rdb (Oracle Corp.) Electronic Commerce: DataMerchant (Cognos, Inc.) Middleware and Application Servers: Microsoft Internet Information Server (Microsoft Corp.) Object-Oriented DBMSs: Jasmine (Computer Associates International, Inc.) Packaged Applications: Oracle Applications (Oracle, Inc.) Query, Reporting, and Analysis: Crystal Reports (Seagate Software, Inc.) Source Code Management: Intersolv PVCS Series (Intersolv, Inc.) Systems Management: Unicenter TNG (Computer Associates International,Inc.) Testing and Software Quality: SQA Suite (Rational Software Corp.) Favorite DBMS Columnist/Author: Joe Celko About Intelligent Enterprise Intelligent Enterprise is a major technology publication specializing in business-critical applications such as business intelligence (data warehousing, data mining, and decision support), ERP (enterprise resource planning), scalable e-commerce, and enterprise information and knowledge management. These applications form the backbone of corporate information supply chains that deliver information to business decision makers. Intelligent Enterprise(TM) serves an audience of more than 100,000 IT and business leaders who create and manage the information supply chain. Visit intelligententerprise.com for more information. About Miller Freeman A wholly owned subsidiary of United News & Media plc, Miller Freeman is the world's largest trade show producer and a leading publisher of technical and industry-specific magazines. With divisions in Asia and Europe as well as the U.S., Miller Freeman produces more than 370 exhibitions and conferences and almost 400 publications, including 270 magazines and a growing portfolio of digital media services. For more information, visit the Miller Freeman Web site at mfi.com. NOTE: All Miller Freeman product, service and program names are trademarks of Miller Freeman. Intelligent Enterprise are trademarks of Miller Freeman,Inc. /CONTACT: David Kalman, Publisher of Intelligent Enterprise, 650-655-4251/10:00 EST

To: Josef Svejk who wrote (97)	12/5/1998 7:11:00 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 141

Crystal Systems Solutions and Ernst and Young Spain Awarded Euro Conversion Project HERZLIA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 1998--Crystal Systems Solutions Ltd. (NASDAQ: CRYSF - news), together with Ernst & Young Spain, announced today that Plus-Ultra, a large Madrid-based insurance company, has awarded Ernst & Young Spain a Euro-conversion project that will utilize Crystal Systems Solutions' C-EURO conversion product. Crystal will implement its Single to Dual Euro-conversion approach to convert current, local-currency applications to enable dual currency applications. This Euro-conversion project will involve the conversion of several thousand COBOL programs. Ernst & Young Spain is a long-time partner of Crystal Systems Solutions. Based on the prior success of other conversion projects, such as Y2K, Ernst & Young Spain has determined that Crystal's C-EURO product's features are very well suited to serve the needs of its growing customer base. Crystal continues to expand upon its partner relationships and evolve its business and product offerings to meet new conversion challenges. ''Crystal has always taken pride in its ability to assess and determine the future needs of the market, and to develop suitable tools for those conversion tasks. Our approach has always been to identify new opportunities, allowing us to specifically address and manage various conversions efficiently,'' said Amiram Mel, CEO of Crystal Systems Solutions. C-EURO can manage all three approaches to Euro-conversion, Big Bang, On-going and Single to Dual. C-EURO provides a comprehensive solution that automates the conversion of all components of the application, including source code, copybooks, JCL, utility parameter statements, files, and databases. C-EURO can also generate control statements for a Change Management product used at the site. The high degree of automation and extensive control, management, and reporting facilities provided by C-EURO simplifies and shortens the conversion process, while reducing the risks usually associated with large projects of this type. Furthermore, the product reduces the possibility of human errors which are difficult to detect and correct, minimizes the code freeze times required for deployment, and allows other support activities to continue while the conversion project is in progress. At the same time, intervention by the conversion team is possible at all stages of the process, thus enabling support for special situations and client requests that must be dealt with on a daily basis. Crystal Systems Solutions has recently announced a new C-EURO based service called ''Euro Rapid-Assessment''. This service will provide, in a very short period of time, valuable information which the business analyst or customer can use in order to quantify the overall euro project in terms of the projects scope, currency-suspected fields, Euro-conversion strategy to be implemented, resource requirements, etc. Crystal Systems Solutions Ltd. is a member of the Formula Group (NASDAQ: FORTY - news), which is the largest public information technology group in Israel. Crystal provides software tools and services that perform complex conversion projects for mainframe systems. Crystal's tools and conversion methodologies are designed for application changes such as Year 2000, Euro currency conversion, field expansion as well as technological changes such as platform migration or language upgrades. chris