Transoft Moves the Technology at Lakeshore Learning Materials from the '80s to the 21st Century

ATLANTA, April 6, 2004 - Transoft, a leader in enabling companies to evolve new solutions from existing applications, announced an agreement with Lakeshore Learning Materials to migrate and update the applications and data of the company's order processing system to an open-system architecture.

Based in the Los Angeles area, Lakeshore Learning produces and sells school supplies and educational toys. After more than 20 years of using an order processing system on a Data General (DG) MV system, and given the dwindling support available for it, Lakeshore Learning decided to update the system to today's open-system standards.

The company has been a longtime user of Transoft's technologies, namely the company's B32 programming language. For this project, Transoft offered its U/BL programming environment to replace the B32-based applications and migrate them onto HP-UX. Simultaneously, Transoft plans to move Lakeshore Learning's data from the DG MV system's INFOS structure to its own U/FOS database management system.

Over time, Lakeshore Learning's order processing system will run on a Hewlett-Packard server using the open-system HP-UX environment.

"Our message to companies like Lakeshore Learning is 'don't just move - improve,' said Paul Holland, CEO of Transoft. "This means that we go beyond a migration by giving customers the option to move their applications into new technologies - moreover, they can be transitioned without risk and at a fraction of the cost of redeveloping them."

The migration process is expected to conclude in the summer of 2004.

"Transoft has delivered everything it has promised," said Irl Cramer, Vice President of Lakeshore Learning. "We are thrilled with this cost-effective technology proposition, which will give us cutting-edge systems and plenty of room to grow and serve schools, teachers and students for many years to come."

About Lakeshore Learning Materials

Founded as a single toy store in the 1950s, Lakeshore Learning Materials is today a multimillion-dollar company with a growing network of retail stores and a successful mail-order business that serves teachers, parents and children all over the globe. Based in Carson, Calif., Lakeshore Learning offers a wide variety of top-quality educational products, from furniture and art materials to puzzles, hands-on learning kits, and products that focus on multiculturalism and special needs.

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