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Year 2000 Integrator Sees 300 Percent Sales Boost With NetVersant Program

Clearwater, Florida, February 6, 2026 -- Can the right toolset help Year 2000 integrators dramatically increase their efficiency and revenue?

Regional powerhouse Lomar Marketing Inc. thinks so. With the help of Clearwater-based NetVersant Technologies Inc., the Houston integrator has selected the sophisticated YEAR2000.EXE toolset to speed up COBOL date-expansion projects at Texas state agencies and 25 major corporate clients in five cities. Lomar anticipates a 300 percent sales boost for its Year 2000 services from the program.

According to John Tate, vice president of marketing for Lomar (www.lomar-mkt.com), "Many of our customers are expressing concerns that there are not enough resources or man-hours available in the time remaining to address their Y2K issues.

"This is why they are so excited by the YEAR2000.EXE product -- its proven track record of taking a project that could last one or two years and providing the tools to complete the task in two to eight months."

YEAR2000.EXE is a complete COBOL toolset consisting of an intelligent COBOL Analyzer and Converter and related Impact Analysis and Validator programs. Date expansion takes place at speeds in excess of 1,500 lines of COBOL source code per minute.

Now in its second generation, the toolset was developed by veteran COBOL developer 21st Century COBOL Conversions Inc., and is currently fixing millions of lines of code per month at corporate and government sites like the Los Angeles Unified School District and Louisville Water Co. YEAR2000.EXE toolsets are available to convert ANSI COBOL for DOS, Microsoft Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT and SCO UNIX.

The deal was the culmination of a three-month intensive search for Lomar, and is the first relationship signed under NetVersant's Year 2000 Support Program. The program is designed to enable systems integrators, value-added resellers and consultants to compete for and win lucrative implementation and service contracts in the Y2K/COBOL market.

The Gartner Group predicts that Y2K readiness will absorb as much as 50 percent of corporate information-technology budgets as the year 2000 approaches.

"NetVersant is offering the best toolset solution for the price in the marketplace. No one is competing at this price point with this quality level toolset. Our strategy is to partner with system integrators and consultants who have strong industry presence in corporate, government and academic markets," said Mike Siewruk, chief executive officer of NetVersant.

He added, "Our Year 2000 Support Program includes a sophisticated sales-lead generation program that brings ultraqualified end users right to our partners, who then provide the total solution, including labor, locally."

Partners in the Year 2000 Support Program will also enjoy geographical exclusivity and a custom-tailored training program designed to help them meet the technical and sales requirements for the YEAR2000.EXE product line. More information is available at www.netversant.com.

Based in Houston, Lomar consists of Lomar Technology Services (LTS), Network Consulting and a Reseller Division. Addressing the needs of the IT community, LTS provides network consulting, design and implementation, providing complete turnkey network solutions with specialization in law-office automation, banking solutions and LAN-to-mainframe integration.

Lomar is located at 10375 Richmond, Suite 975, Houston, Texas 77042; telephone 713/266-5353; fax 713/266-1039; e-mail support@lomar-mkt.com. For more information, visit the Web site at http://www.lomar-mkt.com.

NetVersant Technologies, a privately held company with headquarters in Clearwater, markets select brands of software tools and utilities to IS/IT managers in the corporate, government and educational markets, specializing in site licenses and volume license agreements.

NetVersant is located at 13577 Feather Sound Drive, Building II, Suite 450, Clearwater, Fla. 33762; telephone 800/274-6065; fax 813/299-0444; e-mail info@netversant.com. For more information, visit the Web site at http://www.netversant.com.

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