IBM RELATED NEWS & PRESS RELEASES



IBM PERSONAL SOFTWARE RECEIVES ITAA YEAR 2000 CERTIFICATION

On January 21, the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) announced that IBM's Personal Software group in Austin, Texas, has received ITAA*2000 certification. ITAA*2000 is the industry's century date change certification program. This program examines processes and methods used by companies to perform their Year 2000 software conversions.

Rigorous evaluation was conducted of IBM's approach to date conversion with extensive analysis in eleven discrete areas. Certification means that IBM Personal Software has the core capabilities required to tackle the Year 2000 challenge. Products developed with these certified processes and methods include OS/2 Warp V4, OS/2 Warp V3, PC-DOS V7, OS/2 Warp Server V4, OS/2 Warp Connect V3, OS/2 LAN Server V4, Directory and Security Server for OS/2 Warp V4, DCE/DFS Client for OS/2 Warp, and others.

For more information on the ITAA, the industry's leading trade group on the Year 2000 software conversion issue, please visit http://www.itaa.org/ on the Internet.

For more information on Year 2000 issues from IBM, please visit http://www.ibm.com/year2000.

- Timothy Sipples
Internet Usenet Newsgroups - NNTP
January 23, 1998

WorkSpace - A PC WEEK 1997 MILESTONE PRODUCT

PC Week recently named IBM's new WorkSpace On-Demand as a 1997 "product milestone."

Only ten products were so honored by the editors of PC Week.

IBM's WorkSpace On-Demand provides true network computing capabilities on Intel-compatible PCs. With its fast, complete, certified Java(TM) engine, WorkSpace On-Demand provides an easy foundation for modern, web-ready applications. Yet WorkSpace On-Demand provides access to nearly all legacy PC applications without the high costs and complexity traditionally associated with PCs. Get the full power and capabilities of a PC with a total cost of ownership that resembles a simple terminal.

For more information on WorkSpace On-Demand, please visit http://www.software.ibm.com/workspace on the Internet.

- Timothy Sipples
Internet Usenet Newsgroups - NNTP
January 21, 1998