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Data Privacy Compliance

NEW YORK, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- To comply with European Union (EU)
restrictions on the import of personal data to and from the U.S. and
in anticipation of the November 1, 2000, opening by the
U.S. Department of Commerce of a registry of companies certifying
compliance with data privacy "Safe Harbors," the law firm of Proskauer
Rose LLP has developed a "Safe Harbor Team," within its iPractice
Internet law group, that is assisting companies and organizations to
come into compliance with the standards necessary for inclusion on the
Department of Commerce list, and will assist them in getting listed

see www.PROSKAUER.com

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2000

digiMine, Inc., today announced it won the "Best of Show" award at
Upside Preview Fall, held on October 24, during Fall Internet World
2000.

The company was selected from a field of over 50 exhibiting
vendors. Based in Kirkland, WA, digiMine provides fully managed and
hosted data warehousing and data mining services for eBusiness
Intelligence.

see www.digimine.com

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November 1, 2000 -- MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/

SGI (NYSE: SGI) today announced that Desh R. Urs has been appointed
vice president of Business Intelligence, SGI. He will report to
Kenneth L. Coleman, executive vice president of Global Sales, Service
and Marketing, SGI.

Urs, 43, is responsible for leading SGI's efforts to provide business
intelligence solutions to the marketplace. He will also manage the
MineSet(TM) data mining product organization and the FISC
center. MineSet is an integrated suite of software tools for data
mining and data visualization.

see www.sgi.com

-- SAN FRANCISCO, CA and BRACKNELL, BERKSHIRE, UK -- October 3, 2000
WhiteCross Systems announced that it has signed nine new
customers to its ASP service. The company will be conducting a number
of unique analyses projects for these companies to better understand
their customers' behavior.  WhiteCross will be providing analytical
ASP services to customers whose businesses span the
telecommunications, interactive television, and online media and
Internet sectors.  The data analysis projects cover a number of
different business objectives including anticipating and identifying
customers that might 'churn' or leave a service, understanding usage
patterns, improving revenue generation, and increasing customer
satisfaction.