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Microsiga and FairCom Announce Strategic Technology Agreement

With the partnership in place, Microsiga’s solutions realize performance gains, enhanced scalability, and support for different platforms in a variety of installation configurations.

Contact:

Grant Robbennolt, FairCom Corporation (573) 445-6833

Marcus Pepe, Depto. de Marketing Microsiga - Núcleo de Comunicação e Imprensa (Mtb. 32.344) (55-11) 3981-7185

Janaina Tobita, Depto. de Marketing Microsiga - Núcleo de Comunicação e Imprensa (55-11) 3981-7078

São Paulo, Brazil — July 12th, 2005 — Microsiga, a Brazilian leader in Management Software, and FairCom Corporation, a leading provider of high performance database technology, announced the completion of an agreement to utilize FairCom’s c-tree Server in Microsiga ’s Protheus installation.

Protheus is a sophisticated ERP system with two main components, the application server and the user interface. The Application Server is responsible for managing client connections, running application logic, and controlling database access, while the thin client application is responsible solely for the User Interface. To customize the application logic, a proprietary language, AdvPl, was developed for use within this sophisticated system. Internally, the Application Server now exclusively uses the c-tree Server to control the data dictionary.

Almir Fernandes, Operational Director for FairCom Brazil, explains, “Microsiga has used FairCom technology as their data dictionary for several years, and we now allow all Microsiga users, from small firms to enterprise installations, to use our most advanced technology. The performance, scalability, and cross-platform support provided by FairCom enables Microsiga to support a wide variety of platforms. ”

Besides the basic model available to all Microsiga clients, customers requiring more sophistication will also benefit from the new Enterprise model being released. This model, with multiple Application Servers sharing the same database, uses a Master Server where the local database dictionary is stored and maintained on disk. Each Application Server has one additional c-tree Server linked as a dynamic library (DLL or shared object), operating with the dictionary data in memory for fast retrieval.

Updates are done in the Master Server and a notification schema handles keeping the database in sync. Wilson de Godoy Soares Jr, Microsiga’s Technology, System and Services Vice President, explains, "c-tree's notification system allows us to provide distributed data access, bringing significant scalability enhancements to our solution. "

About FairCom

FairCom created Access Manager for Digital Research in 1979 and released its first true application development tool, the original c-tree file handler, that same year. Today c-tree Plus is running in over 100 CPU/OS environments in more than 100 countries worldwide. FairCom technology is embedded in the software utilized by Federal Express, Computer Associates and Sharp Corporation. For more information, contact FairCom Corporation in the US at 573.445.6833; Europe at +39.035.721.321; Japan at +81.0592.29.7504; Brazil at +55.11.3872.9802, or see www.faircom.com.

About Microsiga (www.microsiga.com.br)

Founded in 1983, Microsiga is part of the largest Latin American software development group, TOTVS. Besides providing ERP/CRM solutions to companies of different sizes, Microsiga operates in vertical markets like education, government, health, and retail. They are one of the main system suppliers for the lowrange, midrange and high end sectors, as well as providing solutions for business intelligence, human resources and supply chain. With the Microsiga brand name, there are over 31 offices in main Brazilian cities as well as in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Puerto Rico and Uruguay. In 2004, Microsiga’s growth was 40%, while the market growth was 15%.

About TOTVS

TOTVS is a virtual holding company that represents the largest Latin-American software development group, composed of Microsiga and Logocenter. In 2004, the two companies combined had sales of R$380 millions, over 3,000 employees, 8,000 customers in Brazil, and 300 customers in Latin America. The sales expectations for 2005 for the combined companies total R$420 Million (~US$160 Million).

For further information regarding Microsiga, visit their Web site at www.microsiga.com.br.

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