"Thank you so much for your continued support of DashAmerica, Inc. (dba Pearl Izumi) helping to secure the systems foundation which has allowed us to again achieve greater than 20% sales growth for 1997.

This letter is to let you know how much of a positive impact ODS has made at Pearl Izumi over the last 16 months. As you may recall, our former system, a UNIX based package, was literally falling apart beneath our feet and causing us serious data integrity issues. Due to this scenario, our search process was very quick, very intense and allowed for an extremely short implementation period."