ACI Acquires StarNine Technologies, Inc. April 11, 2000 ACI SA, ACI US' parent company and publishers of the 4th Dimension RAD/RDBMS Environment, announced on Mar 15, 2000 that they have acquired StarNine Technologies Inc., makers of WebSTAR Server Suite, from Platinum Equity Holdings. StarNine has been a leader in the development of Internet server software, content creation tools and email connectivity products for the Mac OS. They have been awarded numerous honors for their WebSTAR Web server software which is considered a de facto standard within the industry. "The acquisition of StarNine provides ACI with a tremendous resource of technology and people," said Laurent Ribardiere, president, ACI SA, Inc. "The engineering and support teams have created a powerful web application that complements the 4D line of products wonderfully." For further query on ACI's 4D, please feel free to contact their local distributor B.E.L. About ACI: ACI ( http://www.aci-4d.com ) was founded in 1984 to develop and distribute 4th Dimension (single-user RDBMS) and 4D Server (client/server), and a complete range of development tools. 4th Dimension is present in over 50 countries via a network of distributors and is used extensively by over 55,000 professional database developers and 4 million end-users worldwide. The 4D product range is available on Windows (95, 98, NT) and Mac OS. ACI's products is distributed by B.E.L. Distributions Ltd. in Hong Kong.  For more information, please contact B.E.L. at Voice: 2187-3113, Fax: 2493-1153, email: info@belhk.com  or visit our website at http://www.belhk.com.