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                                                        Exhibit 99.1


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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                                              CONTACTS:
                                              Brad Poynter
                                              NEON Systems, Inc.
                                              (281) 491-4200 (U.S.)
                                              brad.poynter@neonsys.com

               NEON Systems, Inc. Holds Annual Stockholder Meeting

                  ADJOURNS MEETING TO RECONVENE APRIL 5, 2002


     SUGAR LAND, TX (March 26, 2002) - NEON(R) Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq: NESY),
held its Annual Meeting of Stockholders today. The Company adjourned the meeting
in order to permit additional proxies to be received from stockholders on the
proposals as set forth in the Proxy Statement previously sent to all
stockholders.  The Meeting of Stockholders will reconvene on Friday, April 5,
2002, at 10 a.m. CST, to be conducted in Sugar Land, Texas, at the company's
offices located at 14100 Southwest Freeway, Suite 500, Sugar Land, Texas 77478.
Stockholders who have not yet voted are urged to do so as soon as possible. If a
stockholder has not received a proxy statement and proxy card or wishes to
change its vote, they should contact Brad Poynter, Chief Financial Officer, NEON
Systems, Inc., at brad.poynter@neonsys.com or call 800-505-6366.

ABOUT NEON SYSTEMS

NEON Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NESY) is a leading provider of powerful data access,
legacy renewal, and OS/390 enterprise system management solutions. Today, many
of the Fortune 100 are using NEON Systems' Shadow solutions to enable
transparent access to System/390 data and transactions for the Internet,
application servers, or distributed computing environments - all without custom
coding. NEON's IMS/CICS utilities enhance and maintain high availability,
integrity, and performance while consistently outperforming competitor products.
NEON's iWave(R) Helpdesk Integrator product provides a powerful integration
solution for organizations with multiple helpdesks. For more information, visit
WWW.NEONSYS.COM or call 800-505-NEON.

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     This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning
of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act") and Section
21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"),
which are intended to be covered by the safe harbors created thereby and the
Safe Harbor Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
Such statements regarding, among other things, the additional revenue
opportunities and improvement of overall productivity of operations, are based
on the current expectations and beliefs of management, and are subject to a
number of factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. The following
factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from
those described in the forward-looking statements: development by competitors of
new or competitive products or services, the entry into the market by new
competitors, the ability to recruit and retain qualified personnel, the ability
to retain customers or attract customers from other businesses, the
uncertainties of whether new software products and product strategies, will be
successful, the sufficiency of NEON Systems' working capital and market and
general economic conditions. Please refer to the risk factors described in NEON
Systems' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its
Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on June 29, 2001 and its Quarterly Report on
Form 10-Q filed on November 13, 2001, for a detailed description of these risks
and others that could cause actual results to differ materially from the
forward-looking statements.

     NEON and Shadow are registered trademarks and iWave Helpdesk Integrator,
iWave, and the NEON logo are trademarks of NEON Systems, Inc. in the USA and in
other select countries.  All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.