NEON Systems' Shadow Technology Receives Government Technology Conference Exhibitor Best Solutions Award

Business Wire, Nov 20, 2002

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SUGAR LAND, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 20, 2002

Web-Enabled Solution Connects Students to Florida

State's Mainframe Data

NEON(R) Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:NEON), a leading provider of Software to Liberate the Mainframe(TM), received the Government Technology Conference (GTC) Exhibitor Best Solution award for its Web-enabled solution for Florida State University (FSU). NEON's award was for facilitating the development of FSyou! Information Central, an online system that provides student affairs services using Web-enabled solutions from NEON Systems' Shadow technology. The award was presented by Larry Singer, chief information officer for the State of Georgia, at the 2002 Southeast GTC in Atlanta, Nov. 12, 2002.

Every year, GTC, the largest tech conference/expo dedicated to state and local government, recognizes vendors for developing successful customer solutions that result in significant benefits for a specific customer. FSU wanted to create an eBusiness Web site through which students and staff could effectively communicate and conduct student affairs. To accomplish this, the University needed to provide new applications with access to DB2 data while simultaneously Web-enabling many of its existing mainframe applications.

Working together, NEON Systems' Shadow division and FSU's Technology Development Group determined that implementing Shadow Technology and custom application modules would meet FSU's requirements. This combination of technology allowed FSU to Web-enable 26 applications in eight months. Today, FSU students, faculty and administration all make use of the new and existing applications, resulting in millions of hits a month on the Web server, significant productivity improvements among administrative staff members, and increased responsiveness to students' needs.

About GTC Events

Government Technology Conferences are the largest intergovernmental events in the U.S., attended by over 47,000 public sector professionals. GTC provides a forum for government professionals to meet with technology leaders to develop solutions for the public sector. Held annually in Atlanta; Sacramento, Calif.; Albany, N.Y., and Austin, Texas, the shows feature nationally known speakers, relevant workshops and seminars, and exhibits from hundreds of computer and telecommunications firms showcasing information technology solutions for state and local government. Top government leaders from each region are actively involved in all phases of conference and seminar design.

About Shadow

NEON Systems' Shadow technology is the leading software technology for application platform suite to mainframe integration. ShadowDirect provides customers with an infrastructure of unbundled mainframe adapters for systematic integration projects, delivering maximum performance and scalability with complete management, monitoring and control. ShadowConnect delivers the same industrial strength integration on a one-to-one basis through individual unbundled mainframe adapters packaged and priced for opportunistic integration projects.

About NEON Systems

NEON Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:NEON) is a leading provider of enterprise software to help businesses get greater value out of their existing IT infrastructure. By improving application development and performance, maintaining the availability of critical data, and creating secure, real-time communications between IT service management systems and personnel, solutions from NEON Systems help you be more responsive to customer and business needs. Through its Shadow(R) technology, NEON is the market leader in application platform to mainframe integration, providing out-of-the-box value and rapid return on investment. For more information, visit www.neonsys.com or call 800/505-NEON.

NEON, Shadow and ShadowDirect are registered trademarks and ShadowConnect and the NEON logo are trademarks of NEON Systems Inc. in the U.S.A. and in other select countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.