Corporate Profile for NEON Systems Inc., dated October 2, 1998

Business Wire, Oct 2, 1998

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Published Date:   October 2, 1998

Company Name:          NEON Systems Inc.

Address:          14100 Southwest Freeway, Suite 500
                  Sugar Land, Texas  77478

Main Telephone
 Number:          281/491-4200

Internet Home
 Page Address
  (URL)           www.neonsys.com
Chief Executive
 Officer:          Joe Backer

Chief Financial
 Officer:          John Reiland

Investor Relations
 Contact:          John Reiland
 Business number: 281/634-8304
Public Relations
 Contact:          Jonathan Reed
 Business number: 281/634-8310
Industry:          High Tech

Company description:

NEON Systems Inc., is a leading provider of software solutions that provide access, availability and control to enterprise data. NEON Systems Inc. was founded in 1991 to develop products that allowed access to the legacy mainframe data from a variety of sources and tools, simply and efficiently, without the rewriting and debugging of application or system code. Shadow Direct and Shadow Web Server provide high-performance, highly scalable Web and N-Tier access to DB2 for OS/390-MVS with production quality and excellent support.

NEON Systems has successfully implemented a suite of products that provide access and availability solutions across the Enterprise. Unique to NEON Systems' products are superior and comprehensive control and monitoring facilities and advanced security systems. NEON's product mix includes:

-- direct access to DB2, VSAM, and IMS -- internet access to DB2, VSAM, and IMS -- integration with transaction processing systems (CICS, IMS) -- secure internet and intranet access to mainframe data -- source driver application access to LAN-based DBMSs

NEON Systems Inc. is based in Sugar Land, Texas and has offices in Washington, D.C., England and Germany and has representatives around the world. NEON is privately held.