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EDS Automotive Retail Group Completes New Dealer System

11 February 1999

EDS Automotive Retail Group Completes New Dealer System Using SEAGULL Tool

    ATLANTA, Feb. 11 -- EDS' Automotive Retail Group (Troy,
Mich.) announced the general availability of Advanta, a fully graphical,
browser-based dealer management system designed to support the in-house
computing needs of automotive retailers. The Advanta system is a total
business solution for automotive dealerships, a suite of applications that
runs all aspects of an automotive retailer's business: sales, service, parts
and accounting.
    Advanta was enhanced with SEAGULL's J Walk(TM), the software industry's
leading developer's toolkit for building Java and Windows GUI clients for
AS/400 applications.  J Walk enables applications to connect to the Web,
integrate with other applications and add new functionality at the desktop --
without altering the application's underlying source code.
    "EDS plans to feature Advanta at the NADA trade show," said Linda Judd,
EDS Automotive Retail Group division vice president. "We developed Advanta to
meet the needs of dealerships of all sizes. And the dealers who have previewed
Advanta have been impressed by its graphical user interface, Web browser look
and feel, and overall intuitiveness."
    Advanta uses the power of desktop PCs and IBM's AS/400 -- the industry's
most powerful server -- to bring unprecedented ease of use and a user-friendly
graphical interface to a functionally robust application suite. Advanta is
fully integrated with all of EDS' powerful product offerings, including
Executive Assistant, EZforms(TM), Parts Imager2(R), Scheduling and Dispatching
System, SalesLink(TM), Vehicle Inventory Navigator, and full-featured GM and
DaimlerChrysler factory-to-dealer communications.
    EDS joins a growing number of AS/400 software application vendors who use
SEAGULL's application enhancement and extension tools. "A significant
percentage of our customers are software vendors," said Kim Addington, SEAGULL
vice president of marketing. "These ISV partners -- like EDS -- are taking
their applications farther, adding functionality and real value for thousands
of end users around the globe. Their accomplishments are strong testimony to
the power, completeness and ease of use of SEAGULL tools."
    EDS will unveil the new offering to automotive retailers this week at NADA
(the National Automotive Dealers Association's annual conference) 1999 in San
Francisco.
    SEAGULL provides industry-leading developer's tools for enhancing existing
applications and extending the return on investment in those applications. The
company's products include GUI/400(TM),  providing two-tier client/server GUI
access to existing AS/400 applications via Windows clients; J Walk(TM),
providing n-tier, network-centric GUI access to existing AS/400 applications
via Windows or Java clients; ZeroFix(TM), a full lifecycle AS/400 developer's
workbench for Year 2000 compliance projects; and WinJa(TM), providing n-tier,
network-centric GUI access to existing mainframe applications via Windows or
Java clients. SEAGULL is headquartered in Dordrecht, The Netherlands, with
Americas headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. The company was established in 1990
and has direct operations in the United States, Canada, The Netherlands,
Germany, Italy, France and the United Kingdom, as well as 30 distributors
supporting its operations in 50 countries. SEAGULL is publicly traded on the
Amsterdam Exchange under the symbol SEAGULL.
    EDS has been a leader in the global information services industry for over
35 years. The company delivers systems and technology expertise, management
consulting, business process management and electronic business leadership.
EDS offers solutions to improve the performance of more than 9,000 business
and government clients in about 50 countries. The company's stock is traded on
the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange.