Re: Conversion from Informix-4GL to ORACLE

Mark, Lets try again, I didn't include the information on ReTarGet. Hope this helps. For more information contact: Rankin Tools Group, Inc. Jeff Hartson, Vice President FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE tel: (602) 997-6996 fax: (602) 997-4256 internet: jhart@rankin.com THE RANKIN COMPANIES ANNOUNCE DATA MIGRATION TOOL, ReTarGet; STRATEGIC ALLIANCES. Phoenix, Ariz., August 2, 1995 -- The Rankin Companies today announced a new data migration product, ReTarGet. Based upon a codeless, point-and-click interface, ReTarGet allows a user to extract, re-engineer, scrub and migrate legacy data to RDBMSs. Additionally, the Rankin Companies announced strategic relationships with SHL Systemhouse, Avalon Software, and Migration Software Systems Ltd. ReTarGet, a suite of software tools, based upon industry standards, such as Microsoft Access for its Mapper facility, and C++, for its translation program, was developed to reduce the time, cost and effort associated with moving data from older, non-relational to relational databases. It eliminates the need to write C or COBOL programs to perform conversions. 'We understand our customer's problems, because we face these problems daily as an application re-engineering company' said Douglas L. Rankin, President of the Rankin Companies. Rankin Tools Group markets ReTarGet through direct and indirect channels. End-user pricing is $75,000 for a perpetual license, or a lease option for $10,000/month, providing a highly cost-effective data migration alternative. ReTarGet has been used in a number of data migrations during the last two years by Rankin Technology Group, an affiliated systems integration Company which developed ReTarGet. Rankin Tools Group also announced strategic relationships with: 1. SHL Systemhouse, who will use ReTarGet in data migrations and Data Warehouse applications. SHL is a $750,000,000 systems integration company based in Toronto, Canada. Steve Cranford, Managing Director of SHL's Enterprise Information Group, said 'ReTarGet allows us to bid data transformation tools to a broader set of our customers because of its attractive pricing.' 2. Avalon Software, Inc., who will use ReTarGet and associated conversion services from Rankin Technology Group, to help them migrate their existing and new customers to Avalon 9. Avalon Software provides open-systems-based manufacturing software to such companies as IBM, John Deere and Motorola. Kim Sheridan, founder and Chairman of the Board of Avalon Software, stated "We wanted to provide a migration path for our new and existing customers to move to our new Avalon 9 product. ReTarGet and the associated migration services from the Rankin Companies offered the most flexible, cost-effective, low-risk alternative for us." 3. Migration Software Systems Ltd., who has agreed to use ReTarGet as part of its Rdb to Oracle conversion program developed in conjunction with Oracle Corporation. Migration Software provides software development and migration services to platform vendors and commercial end users who need tools, databases and applications moved to distributed client-server environments. These services are delivered by Migration to companies such as EDS, IBM, Microsoft, Apple and Oracle Corporation. Rankin and Migration will also jointly market to Oracle-based customers. Owen Brown, chairman of MSSL, said 'ReTarGet provides a cost-effective tool which assists our engineers in this essential element of any successful conversion to open systems.' The Rankin Companies are leading suppliers of application re-engineering tools and services to companies migrating to open systems. The company specializes in combining it's methodologies, tools and technical skills to migrate applications and databases from any mainframe to any UNIX-based environment - at extremely competitive rates and often on a fixed-price basis. The Rankin Companies are Value Added Resellers for the FourGen financial systems, Informix Software, and Oracle Corporation. Company headquarters are located at 2432 West Peoria Avenue, Suite 1286, Phoenix, Arizona 85029.