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Press Release

Announcing Support for

For Immediate Release

NORTHWEST INDIANA/CHICAGOLAND, October 2000--DDL Systems, Inc. announces immediate support for Nextel i500, i700, i1000, and i2000. These products combine the power of a digital cellular phone and an alphanumeric two-way pager into one device that provides you with a more efficient way of working. With these compact phones, manufactured by Motorola®, you can receive and reply to System i messages over Nextel's Integrated all-digital network.

Nextel's two-way messaging and text/numeric paging service gives you all the advantages of a pager and more. Nextel messaging will take your messages even if you are unavailable, your phone is turned off, or if your are busy on another call. If your receive a message while outside your coverage area, Nextel will store the message and deliver it as soon as your come back into coverage.

		For more information, visit Nextel's web site at http://www.nextel.com or call Nextel Customer Care toll-free by dialing 1.800.NEXTEL.9 Click to Demo Nextel i1000 features All-Digital cellular phone Two-way messaging Text/numeric paging Voice mail Two-way radio Internet ready On-screen icon, audio, and vibrate alerts you of new messages Stores up to 16 messages and numeric pages Guaranteed message delivery

		Note: ACO PAGER™ is compatible with all cellular phones that utilize the TAP alphanumeric protocol, e-mail, or two-way messaging services.

System Requirements

Your system may require installation of IBM PTF’s to ensure proper operation of the ACO products. Several important IBM PTF’s are required to properly run certain SQL statements based on the installed version of IBM i 6.1 (and i5/OS). These PTF’s are included in the latest version of the database group PTF for each respective release.

IBM i 6.1 required PTF's (not included in cumulative package)
SI38393	See APAR SE41176

IBM i5/OS 5.4 required PTF's (not included in cumulative package)
None

We STRONGLY recommend that you put in place a process to regularly obtain (and apply) the latest cumulative PTF, HIPER group PTF, and database group PTF packages to your System i (and AS/400) system(s).

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Hardware Requirements
Requires one standard System i V.24 SDLC communications line and one ECS (or Hayes® compatible) modem (or a properly configured SMTP e-mail connection to the Internet). Works with all alphanumeric and two-way pagers, properly equipped cellular phones, and smartphones (like BlackBerry®).

Software Requirements
ACO PAGER™, ACO NET™, ACO ESI™, and ACO CLIENT™ execute on System i® systems (all models) running V5R4M0 (or higher). ACO Client™ requires WebSphere® Application Server 6.1 (or higher), WebSphere® Application Server - Express, or any Java 1.4 (or higher) compliant web application server like Apache. ACO ESI™ requires a separately licensed copy of ACO PAGER™ and a separately licensed copy of one of the following enterprise systems; IBM Tivoli® Monitoring 6.2 (or higher) or IBM Tivoli® Netcool/OMNIbus 7.3 (or higher).

Notice: The enterprise system software may also require the purchase of other hardware and licensed software. This hardware and software is available from IBM (or other business partners) at an additional fee and is not included in the purchase of the ACO ESI™ software product.

ACO ESI™ optionally monitors your network connected Windows® servers using a Windows compliant software agent. The Windows® agent software is available for purchase (at a nominal fee) from one of our business partners. Monitoring your Windows servers does not require the installation (or use) of an enterprise system software product.

Contact a sales representative at 866-559-0800 option 1 or send e-mail to sales@ddlsystems.com for more information.

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