San Rafael, California -- September 29 1998 Christopher Herron, Managing Director of Nexgen Asia/Pacific, Inc., announced that Bristol-Myers Squibb, Tokyo has successfully completed the Year 2000 conversion of 13 legacy BPCS® applications, thanks to the combined efforts of AS/400 experts from Bristol-Myers and Sanwa Comtec KK (Tokyo), Nexgen's Japanese business partner. Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global health and personal care company with FY 1997 revenue of $510 billion.

"A special Y2K team converted all six-digit date codes in 3,700 RPG and CL programs to eight digits using Nexgen's Focus/2000 automated conversion tool," reports Herron.

Focus/2000 was specifically designed by BPCS® experts at Nexgen to automate the century-date correction of System Software Associates' ERP system, BPCS® . Focus/2000 is in use at hundreds of sites worldwide, and dozens of companies have already completed their millennium conversions due to the speed, precision, and reliability of the software. Bristol Myers Squibb used the special double byte version of Focus/2000 to deal with the Japanese language requirements.

"Bristol-Myers Squibb had modified all of their BPCS® applications since they were first installed in 1993," comments S. Kakizawa at Sanwa Comtec. "Modifications of 7 of the 13 applications were complex; 3 were moderately complex, and three were simple modifications. Focus/2000 helped us convert all of the modified code, too."

"All of our 870+ users are very pleased with the conversion," reports M. Uchida, Information Manager at Bristol-Myers Squibb. "Our Y2K team was led by Business System Development Manager Y. Kitagawa. Four AS/400 programmers worked on the project with him: T. Kashiwagi and N. Higuchi from Bristol-Myers Squibb Japan and M. Shimoyasiki and C. Tanaka from Sanwa Comtec. They completed the conversions and thoroughly tested the system within eight monthsùon time and within budget. Without Focus/2000 it would have taken them much longer and cost more."

Sanwa Comtec is a leading supplier of Year 2000 products in Japan. Contact S. Kakizawa in Tokyo by telephone at +81 (03) 3583 2386; via fax at +81 (03) 3583 2387, or via e-mail to sct@mx2.nisiq.net.

Contact Christopher Herron, Managing Director of Nexgen Asia/Pacific, Inc., in San Rafael, California, by telephone at +1 (415) 453-1925; via fax at +1 (415) 453-0780, or via e-mail to info@nexgeninfo.com.

About Nexgen and Focus/2000

Nexgen Software Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in Naperville, Illinois, in the Chicago suburb's High Technology Corridor. Since 1990, Nexgen has focused on providing implementation and custom modification services to BPCS® and PRMS users. Nexgen markets its millennium solutions for the BPCS® and PRMS marketplace through its affiliated companies Nexgen 2K, Inc., Nexgen Asia/Pacific, Inc., and Nexgen Europe, Inc. Nexgen's Focus/2000 is a completely automated software conversion tool specifically designed to correct century problems in older versions of two venerable AS/400 software packages: BPCS® from System Software Associates, Inc. and PRMS from the Acacia Technologies division of Computer Associates International, Inc. These two ERP systems are licensed to more than 10,000 companies around the world. For more information on Nexgen and its products, visit www.nexgeninfo.com.

Focus/2000 is a trademark of Nexgen Software Technologies, Inc.
BPCS® is a registered trademark of System Software Associates, Inc.
PRMS is a trademark of Computer Associates International, Inc.