LAVA and J.D. Edwards Forge Joint Marketing Agreement

LAVA Systems To Offer Full LAVA Capabilities To All OneWorld Customers

Toronto, ON - 1997-06-09 - J.D. Edwards and LAVA Systems Inc. (TSE: LVA) today announced a joint marketing agreement under which LAVA Systems' industry-leading document management solutions will be offered to J.D. Edwards OneWorld software customers through the certification of LAVA Link for integration with OneWorld applications. This certification will provide seamless integration of LAVA's award-winning document management, imaging, workflow and COLD capabilities with existing OneWorld line-of-business applications. LAVA Link provides this enhanced information access through OneWorld's MediaObject facility.

"J.D. Edwards is known for its commitment to delivering working solutions to its customers," said Peter Hamilton, president and CEO of LAVA Systems. "We have united the information management capabilities of LAVA with the advanced client/server technology of OneWorld. This means LAVA can now bring a comprehensive information management solution to every J.D. Edwards customer in the multiple-platform OneWorld environment in a simple, easy-to-use custom interface."

C. Edward McVaney, president and CEO of J.D. Edwards, said, "Continuing to add real value to our customers' solutions to help them remain competitive is what drives us in our alliances with companies and technologies. We want to give our customers every opportunity to take advantage of the best technologies. Providing custom integration with LAVA's award-winning information management solutions means our customers can now seamlessly incorporate document management, imaging, workflow and COLD into any J.D. Edwards' OneWorld environment on any platform."

OneWorld is the first network-centric, multi-national Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) package to provide a true distributed object architecture and an advanced business rules engine. It moves beyond traditional client/server technology in a J.D. Edwards environment to a variety of platforms, expanding upon the Windows-based environment of WorldVision and the traditional "green-screen" of WorldSoftware .

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