MICROSOFT POSTS FMS PAPER TO THEIR YEAR 2000 RESOURCE CENTER WEBSITE

VIENNA, VA — May 17, 1999 — FMS is proud to announce that Microsoft ^® (NASDAQ: MSFT) has posted our Year 2000 white paper "Preparing Office Solutions for the Year 2000" in their Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure and Resource Center. One of the most popular Year 2000 sites in the world, the Microsoft Year 2000 site prominently displays the research conducted by Dan Haught, FMS Vice President for Product Development. Microsoft is also including the FMS work as part of its Office Developer 2000 product.

As the world’s leading developer of developer tools for Microsoft Access, FMS led the research into Year 2000 issues affecting the Microsoft Office applications. A few years ago, most people assumed Year 2000 did not affect desktop applications. Our papers have revealed significant risks in improperly designed applications and solutions for fixing them. As a result, developers around the world are using our research to address their Year 2000 risks before the end of the year.

"We are extremely gratified that Microsoft thought so highly of our research to include it so prominently on their web site," said Luke Chung, president and founder of FMS. "We were the first company to research and discover Year 2000 issues in Access and Office, and want to make sure the entire developer community is prepared for Year 2000. Even today, many developers still don’t know how to create Year 2000 compliant desktop applications. Our paper and Microsoft’s efforts should help educate them on the proper techniques. After all, there’s nothing preventing a developer from creating non-Year 2000 compliant applications well into the next century!"

In addition to using FMS’ Year 2000 article, Microsoft is demonstrating the popular Microsoft Access Year 2000 program from FMS, TOTAL ACCESS INSPECTOR 2000, at Microsoft TechNet briefings this summer and fall. Over 130 sites are included in the tour for Year 2000 and TOTAL ACCESS INSPECTOR 2000 is the only Microsoft Access tool to be showcased.

For more information on TechNet and TOTAL ACCESS INSPECTOR 2000, click here.

Web Resources

• The FMS white paper at Microsoft is available at this URL: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/year2k/white/offsol/offsol1.htm
• The Microsoft Year 2000 Resource Center: http://www.microsoft/com/y2k
• The FMS Year 2000 Resource Center: http://www.fmsinc.com/y2k

About FMS

Founded in 1986, FMS, Inc. is a privately held software development firm and the world’s leading developer of Microsoft Access and Visual Basic related products. FMS currently has 12 products in its award-winning Total Access and Total VB family of products, including TOTAL ACCESS INSPECTOR 2000, a Year 2000 diagnostic tool for Microsoft Access databases.

Experts in the Microsoft Access and Visual Basic communities, FMS developers are frequently called upon to speak at conferences and user group meetings throughout the United States and Europe. FMS developers have spoken on the Year 2000 issues affecting Microsoft Office at major Microsoft sponsored events such as TechEd, Advisor DevCon, and Microsoft Office and VBA Solutions conferences.

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