Or-Yehuda, Israel, December 11, 2000, --- Mutek Solutions, Ltd., a leading provider of software solutions that improve the availability and reliability of business-critical applications for servers and clients, announces that the portfolio solutions group of Thomson Financial has selected Mutek's Black Box Flight Recorder software solution to maximize the availability of their trading application used by money managers around the globe.

Black Box Flight Recorders for business critical applications
Mutek's Black Box Flight Recorder for software operates like a "flight recorder" for business critical applications on servers and client machines. With no modifications required to the applications or the system, the Black Box Flight Recorder transparently records the online operation of applications and delivers alerts before failures occur. Application activity is recorded at multiple levels, from the user's experience, through the system level operations and down to the program's code lines executed by the running process. When crashes or other errors occur, system and development personnel access the Black Box Flight Recorder through the network, playback the failed scenario and pinpoint the root cause of the problem. Mutek's Black Box Flight Recorder solutions include Black Boxes for servers and clients, with front-end consoles for configuration, root cause analysis and Black Box management.

"Our mission-critical PORTIA software portfolio management application is used by money managers around the world to automate the trading, analysis and financial operations of their firms" said Stephen Packard, a software engineer "Mutek's Black Box flight recorder solution has proven to be invaluable in both the development and real-time support of the PORTIA application given its unique ability to pinpoint problems in the application that otherwise would have had enormous down-side effect on the productivity of our customers. Rather than relying on guesswork and experimentation, support personnel can immediately pinpoint the cause of problems, dramatically reducing downtime."

"The availability and reliability of business critical software has become a major concern of companies around the world" said Yochi Slonim, President and CEO, Mutek Solutions. "We are proud that Thomson Financial, a world leader in providing e-information services and solutions to the worldwide financial community, has selected our software to improve the availability of their trading applications."

About Thomson Financial
The Portfolio Solutions division of Thomson Financial is a worldwide provider of investment management software products and consulting services. An industry leader for more than a decade, the Thomson Financial division offers flexible, workflow solutions that leverage advanced and proven technologies, enabling over 400 clients worldwide to achieve their business goals. For more information, visit http://www.tf-softwaresolutions.com/. Thomson Financial is a US$1.44 billion provider of e-information services and integrated work solutions to the worldwide financial community. Through the widest range of products and services in the industry, Thomson Financial helps clients in more than 70 countries make better decisions, be more productive and achieve superior results. Thomson Financial is part of The Thomson Corporation, a leading e-information and solutions business with annual revenues of more than US$5.8 billion. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the Toronto and London stock exchanges.

About Mutek Solutions, Ltd.
Mutek Solutions LTD develops and markets software solutions that improve the availability of business critical software applications. The Company's Black Box Flight Recorders for Software provide online alerts prior to system failures; record and playback software malfunctions and pinpoint the root cause of crashes and other errors in software applications on servers and clients. Mutek's customers include e-business and traditional blue chip companies in the computer and software industry, financial services, telecom and cellular operators, manufacturing and industrial companies.

Mutek Solutions is headquartered in Or-Yehuda, Israel. The company markets and supports its products in the US, Europe and rest of the world through its sales offices and distributors.

For more information on Mutek's Black Box Flight Recorders for Software, go to http://www.Mutek.com/, or contact Mutek USA at telephone +1-919-878 3717.