Contract awarded to the JDS Solutions Corporation to install new Enterprise Management and Point of Sale System.

CARLSBAD, California - July 12, 2004

The JDS Solutions Corporation today announced that it had been awarded the contract to install its WinRetail™ Enterprise Management System at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

After and extensive screening process , the selection committee at the Gallery selected JDS's WinRetail™ to manage both the back office and front end Point of Sale operations throughout its organization. The Gallery also selected The JDS WinRetail™ Communications Manager to control all communications amongst its stores and additionally contracted for The JDS Solutions Corporation’s nationally acclaimed 24/7/365 Customer Support Service. The JDS Professional Services Group will be managing the project, which is set to begin immediately. The Gallery will be installing NCR Dynakey™ Cash Registers supplied by Data Business Systems, Inc. of Virginia.

About the National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art, one of the world's preeminent museums, was created for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of Congress accepting the gift of financier, public servant, and art collector Andrew W. Mellon in 1937, the year of his death. The Gallery's collection of some 106,000 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present.The mission of the National Gallery of Art is to serve the United States of America in a national role by preserving, collecting, exhibiting, and fostering the understanding of works of art, at the highest possible museum and scholarly standards. The Gallery's principal duty is to keep its collections intact for future generations and to pass these on in optimum condition. The Gallery is also dedicated to putting its collections on view in Washington and by loan elsewhere, as well as borrowing works of art for exhibition in Washington.