METRO INFORMATION SERVICES

Metro provides a wide range of IT consulting and custom software development services through 24 offices in the United States and Puerto Rico. The Company's approximately 1,300 consultants, 65% of whom are salaried, work with clients' internal IT departments on all aspects of computer systems and applications development. The Company believes its experienced consultants and proprietary systems allow it to deliver high-quality, on-schedule services to its clients in a cost-effective and efficient... manner. Services performed by Metro include application systems development and maintenance, IT architecture and engineering, systems consulting, project outsourcing and general support services. The Company supports all major computer technology platforms (mainframe, mid-range, client/server and network environments) and supports client projects using a broad range of software applications. For example, the Company implements SAP's client/server software, custom develops Oracle, Informix, DB2, VisualBasic and C++ applications, implements and supports Windows NT, Novell and UNIX based network environments and supports numerous other application environments.More