San Jose, Calif., August 8, 2000 --Fujitsu Software Corporation, a leading supplier of COBOL compilers and tools, today announced the general availability of its Dialect Converter services for ICOBOL users.

The Dialect Converter for ICOBOL integrates with the Fujitsu COBOL compiler for Microsoft Windows so that any necessary syntax conversions can be performed at compile time. The Dialect Converter for ICOBOL is also used when it’s time to make the transition to developing solely in Fujitsu COBOL. ICOBOL sources are converted into Fujitsu COBOL compatible sources.

Because of the tight integration between the converter and the Fujitsu compiler, developers can continue developing in ICOBOL syntax, but can compile their programs with both ICOBOL and Fujitsu COBOL compilers. Releases can continue to be made using ICOBOL until all the parallel testing with Fujitsu COBOL has been completed.

Fujitsu's beta customer, Health Data Services (HDS) of Highland Heights, Ohio, is already realizing great improvements in ease of application installation, speed of execution and ease of GUI integration that are expected to yield significant cost savings.

"Our partnership with Fujitsu has been a great experience for us. Our whole organization - from developers to field support to company management - are excited at the results we are seeing as we roll out the Fujitsu COBOL builds of our products," said Ray DelBrocco, Vice President and General Manager of HDS, "Installations are proceeding without interruption, customers are seeing vastly improved performance, and the Crystal Reports integration promises to revolutionize the ad-hoc report generation side of our business. Fujitsu has been highly responsive to our needs and has consistently worked to understand our problems and make us successful."

The converter is offered with consulting services to ensure that migration projects are successful.

"ICOBOL is a compiler with a lot of useful extensions for the PC application developer. We have worked hard to bring together the technology and personnel that ensures we can help companies, that have taken advantage of these extensions, make a successful move to Fujitsu COBOL," said Ron Langer, Director of COBOL Sales and Marketing for Fujitsu Software Corporation. "Fujitsu COBOL is clearly the leader in the marketplace today and we want to make sure that strong COBOL development companies, such as HDS, can continue to reap the benefits from their investment in COBOL."

George Wiley, Manager of Research and Development at HDS said he has been particularly impressed by the responsiveness of the Fujitsu Software migration team and their willingness to work out creative solutions to all of their challenges. "We've found the Dialect Processor and the Fujitsu COBOL compiler to be extremely solid products," said Wiley. "I'm particularly excited by the performance gains. For example, some reporting applications are running in 3 to 4 minutes when they previously took more than an hour. PowerCOBOL has been a bonus to us - giving us integrated GUI's without having to learn a new language."

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About Fujitsu Limited
Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) is a leading provider of Internet-based information technology solutions for the global marketplace. Comprising over 500 group companies and affiliates worldwide-including ICL, Amdahl and DMR Consulting Group - it had consolidated revenues of $49.6 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2000. Fujitsu's pace-setting technologies, world-class computing and telecommunications platforms, and global corps of over 60,000 systems and services experts make it uniquely positioned to harness the power of the Internet to help its customers succeed. Altogether, the Fujitsu Group has 188,000 employees and operations in over 100 countries. Internet: http://www.fujitsu.com/

About Fujitsu Software Corporation
Fujitsu Software Corporation ("FS"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited ("Fujitsu"), was established in July 1991. FS is engaged in software research and development, software product and technology procurement, and software product sales. FS markets and sells the following products: Program Products, such as Fujitsu's network management application package, SystemWalker; Enterprise application server software products, INTERSTAGE; Work Flow products, i-Flow; COBOL language products; and Fujitsu's Japanese-language and translation software products, including Atlas and TransLinGo!. FS achieved $33 million in sales for the 1999 fiscal year and current employs 150 people. 

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