HERZLIA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 29, 2002-- Crystal Systems Solutions (Nasdaq:CRYS - News) announced today that its subsidiary, Mainsoft Corporation, the software porting company, began shipping a new product last week that enables companies to develop enterprise-class C++ applications using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and rapidly deploy them to multiple Unix platforms. The product, Visual MainWin 5, delivers an unprecedented level of multi-platform performance, security, and scalability for today's enterprise-class applications, while providing a solid XML foundation for building Web services. Visual MainWin 5 supports the vision of interoperable XML Web services based on Microsoft .NET technology.

"We appreciate Mainsoft's continued support of Visual Studio and our Web services vision," said Tom Button, vice president of Developer Marketing and Enterprise Tools at Microsoft Corporation. "Mainsoft technology enables Microsoft Visual Studio .NET developers to create Windows applications that also target the Unix platform."

Developed in close cooperation with Microsoft through the Visual Studio .NET Integration Program (VSIP), Visual MainWin 5 extends the Visual Studio .NET development environment to deploy C++ applications on multiple flavors of Unix.

"Visual MainWin 5 is the result of our long-term and mutually beneficial relationship with Microsoft," said Yaacov Cohen, president and CEO of Mainsoft Corporation. "This new product demonstrates Mainsoft's commitment to delivering a cross-platform Web services infrastructure."

At the core of Visual MainWin 5 is significantly enhanced performance, scalability and reliability. To achieve this, Visual MainWin 5 has been designed from the ground up for linear scalability and process isolation, enabling non-stop operation. Validated by around-the-clock testing at throughput rates of over 1,500 transactions-per-second, the new product achieves tremendous linear performance and scalability compared to its rivals. For example, on multi-processor machines, the core Microsoft XML engine in Visual MainWin 5 is 7 times faster than the widely available Apache Xerces XML.

Since world-class security is another vital component of all enterprise applications, Visual MainWin 5 leverages industry-leader RSA's BSAFE encryption engine to provide cross-platform security.

Finally, making key Microsoft .NET technologies cross-platform capable will entice more Independent Software Vendors and enterprises to migrate to Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. Visual MainWin 5 provides a solid foundation for successive Mainsoft releases containing additional technologies including XML4, SOAP Toolkit V3.0, ATL Server and MFC7, thus enabling a smooth transition to Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.

For the last several months, Visual MainWin 5 has been evaluated by beta customers with great success.

"We were delighted with the performance of our DxDesigner suite using Visual MainWin 5, and we've found it easy to use Mainsoft's new product to extend DxDesigner to the next generation of .NET solutions," said Jared Gaillard, Engineering operations manager, Innoveda Corporation.

About Mainsoft Corporation
Mainsoft Corporation, the software porting company, enables businesses to develop applications once on Windows and deploy them rapidly to multiple Unix environments. Mainsoft is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. and has offices in Chicago, London and Israel. The world's largest independent software vendors and Fortune 1000 IT departments have relied on Mainsoft technology and expertise to deploy more than $1 billion in software on Unix since 1993. Crystal Systems Solutions Ltd. (Nasdaq:CRYS - News) is a major Mainsoft shareholder. For information and a free evaluation, visit www.mainsoft.com/vmw5.

About Crystal Systems Solutions
Crystal Systems Solutions Ltd. is a global provider of software products and tools for the modernization of existing legacy applications. Crystal's solutions enhance the software functionality within the corporate environment while efficiently deploying updated business processes and technologies. Crystal Systems Solutions is a member of the Formula Group (Nasdaq:FORTY - News), the largest Israeli IT group. For more information, please visit www.crystal-sys.com.

Note: (c)2002 Mainsoft Corporation and "the software porting company" are trademarks, and Mainsoft and MainWin are registered trademarks of Mainsoft Corporation. All other products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarked, registered, or copyrighted by their respective owners.

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Crystal Systems Solutions
Iris Yahal, +972-9-9600233