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Project Group Receives Quarter-Million-Dollar Purchase Order From Microsoft
, 09.16.04, 2:05 PM ET

Sep 16, 2004 (financialwire.net via COMTEX) -- (FinancialWire) The Project Group Inc. (OTCBB: PJTG) said it has received a purchase order for additional project management advisory services in the amount of $240,000 from Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT).

CEO Craig Crawford said the purchase order "continues the services begun in late 2003 to design and configure one of the largest Enterprise Project Management Systems (EPM) in the world at a large business and technology solutions company headquartered in the Dallas area.

"Fortune 500 clients are recognizing the critical importance of EPM systems in helping them manage resources, costs, and schedules. This is our fourth consecutive renewal in this long-term assignment and we expect the effort to continue into 2006."

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Originally posted by stemcells:
receives 1/4 million purchase order from Microsoft!!!!!!!!!

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