MBFoster Associates and Marxmeier Software AG are pleased to announce an
agreement for MBFoster to provide software distribution, support, training and
consulting for Eloquence for the North American Market.

"This fits well with our distribution and support experience. As a distributor
we can provide a unique value proposition with full service and software
support including migration expertise and experience. We have been helping
customers with data migration for more than 20 years and provide a complete
solution with the UDA family of products especially UDACentral our data
migration console." said Birket Foster Chairman and Founder of MBFoster. " This
should significantly reduce cost,  learning curve and time to migration for the
HPe3000 market. We will be helping to implement the Eloquence Partner Program,
which provides a free copy of Eloquence to assist and to encourage ISVs and
Consultants to familiarize themselves with Eloquence. We know this will be an
important option of our Migration Practice"

Inquiries can be made via the MBFoster website See http://www.MBFoster.com
First classes are being arranged please indicate preference for the training
method: Webinar, on-site or "factory training".

MBFoster has developed interfaces for its UDALink data access and delivery
software to work with Eloquence on HP-9000, Linux and NT platforms. Customers
who want to have the new versions of UDALink can request an update at the
MBFoster website.

"We are extremely pleased to have MBFoster on the Eloquence team, and expect
that they will serve the HPe3000 market in North America with the same focus
and attention to detail that they have always demonstrated" said Michael
Marxmeier, President of Marxmeier Software AG. "We have been working with
MBFoster for some time now, and they have demonstrated a excellent technical
understanding of the concepts and technology behind Eloquence. We are looking
forward to a longterm relationship between our two companies."

Eloquence includes an Image database for the HP-UX, Linux and NT platforms
compatible with Image/3000 databases.

For more information please contact MBFoster via their website or at
1-800-ANSWERS (1-800-267-9377)

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Birket Foster
M. B. Foster Associates .. the 1-800-ANSWERS people!
Supplying UDALink w/cross-platform ODBCLink Option (3000,9000&NT)
See how DataExpress has evolved www.MBFoster.com
EC/EDI(3000,9000,NT) Phone (613) 448-2333 or (613) 448-2588(FAX)

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