LEEDS, UK 28th October 2003 - Mike Weightman, a senior IT manager with Hays Logistics, is joining Luminary Solutions - the fast growing specialist in bespoke systems integration, mobile solutions and Ingres. Weightman joins as General Manager with particular responsibility for commercial management and sales.

Weightman, a 15 year IT professional, was a Development Manager at Hays. Prior to that he was a Consulting Manager for CA Services, UK and Ireland, and was for five years a business manager for Apertus Systems Limited. Apertus was acquired by CA in 2000.

Neil Warnock, founding Director of Luminary, commented "This is excellent news for Luminary. Mike brings excellent commercial and management skills to the organisation. We will be looking to Mike to lead on our commercial relationships with customers and partners. His experience in this area brings strength in depth to our management team".

Weightman said "The quality of service that Luminary provides to its customer base is second to none. When the opportunity presented itself I did not hesitate in agreeing to join the management team. Our programme of controlled organic growth means our focus on customer satisfaction and the quality of our deliverables will not be compromised as we develop the business".

Weightman joins the board of Luminary in November, 2003.

Luminary is a systems integration company that combines existing corporate systems to produce new, integrated applications delivered to multiple display technologies - such as browsers, PDAs and mobile phones.

The template architecture developed by Luminary ties together different data sources and application sources and presents it to new back office and mobile interfaces. The architecture provides secure and efficient access to underlying databases and applications, whilst existing operational systems remain unchanged.

In addition, the company works with Computer Associates (CA), one of the largest software companies in the world, to provide services to the worldwide installed base of Ingres RDBMS and OpenROAD customers.

About Luminary Solutions

Luminary is a supplier of leading expertise in the area of Systems Integration and mobile enablement. Luminary has two key areas of service - the integration of disparate data sources presented by an integration layer to new generation devices and the provision of specialist services to the Ingres marketplace in conjunction with Computer Associates, one of the world's largest software companies.

Website: www.luminary.co.uk