To: rogermci® who wrote (21871 ) 3/18/1999 9:34:00 AM From: MaryinRed Respond to of 122087
MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 1999-- TradeStation(R) 2000i, OptionStation(R) 2000i, RadarScreen(TM) 2000i and Omega Research ProSuite(TM) 2000i To Interface With E*TRADE Electronic Order Placement Services Omega Research, Inc. (Nasdaq:OMGA) announced today that it has extended and broadened its marketing alliance with E*TRADE Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:EGRP), a leading provider of branded online investing services. Under the terms of the extended agreement, E*TRADE's electronic order placement services will be accessible as a menu choice within Omega Research's 2000i investment software products, providing a new level of trading convenience to Omega Research customers. The Company plans to add additional online brokerages in the coming months. The Company currently plans to charge a flat monthly fee to brokerages for being included. As part of the expanded alliance, Omega Research's 2000i line of products will be the exclusively-featured investment analysis software on the home page of the Marketplace section of E*TRADE's web site, where Omega Research shall be featured as an E*TRADE preferred partner. Additionally, demonstrations of Omega Research's 2000i line of software will be featured in E*MOBILE, E*TRADE's specially-designed demonstration vehicle which is open to visitors at a variety of U.S. destinations. E*TRADE will also be the Diamond Sponsor of OmegaWorld 99, Omega Research's annual system trading and development conference scheduled this year to occur May 21-23 at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas. As the conference's headline sponsor, E*TRADE will host an interactive mock "Trade-A-Thon" in which all attendees are invited to participate. Other sponsors of OmegaWorld 99 include every major real-time financial market data vendor to the U.S. individual investor market. The conference features five keynote presentations by Ralph Acampora, John Bollinger, Linda Bradford Raschke, Bill Cruz and Jack Schwager, approximately 30 "break-out" classroom-style tutorials conducted by more than 50 of the nation's leading technical investment analysis experts, and an exhibit hall where numerous data vendors, online brokerages, investment software providers and other companies that serve technical investors will be demonstrating and offering their products and services. Marc J. Stone, Vice President of Corporate Development, Omega Research, commented, "We believe that the extension and broadening of our alliance with E*TRADE is good news for investors who seek the best investment tools and services available in order to more fully take control over their investment activities. Both companies are committed to offering investors integration of the best products and services necessary to help them make and then execute better investment decisions." Mike Pohlmann, Vice President of Strategic Alliances, E*TRADE, added, "We believe that our customers will find significant benefits in using Omega Research's award-winning, state-of-the-art investment analysis software products. Our alliance with Omega Research demonstrates our continuing commitment to our customers to provide them access to some of the best investment tools available." Omega Research's 2000i line of software products is compatible with the following real-time Internet and broadcast data services: Data Broadcasting Corporation's (Nasdaq:DBCC) Signal Online (Internet), StockEdge Online (Internet), InSite (Internet), DBC Signal (Broadcast) and BMI (Broadcast); Data Transmission Network Corporation's (Nasdaq:DTLN) DTN Real Time and DTNstant (Broadcast); and PC Quote, Inc.'s (Amex:PQT) Hyperfeed(TM) (Internet and Broadcast). Agreements are also in place to add, later this year, as compatible real-time data services, FutureSource Information Systems, Inc.'s MDS network and stand-alone datafeeds, and Standard & Poor's ComStock's Xpressfeed(TM).