Year: 1997

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Susan Whitney
DevDepot
805-494-9797 x 105
marketing@devdepot.com

DevDepot Launches Worldwide Campaign

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA — December 5, 1997 — Xplain Corporation, the parent
company of DevDepot, announced today it is launching the next step
in its worldwide campaign for the catalog.

When DevDepot was introduced to the Mac market in May 1996, the
clear goal was to become the premier source for Macintosh development tools
and related products.

Macintosh users can get new Visual MacStandardBasic 3.1 just $29.95

INDIANAPOLIS, IN, December 4th, 1997: ZCurve Software has announced Visual
MacStandardBasic 3.1 has been released and that, for a limit time,
Macintosh users can get their own copy for just $29.95. Visual
MacStandardBasic normally has a retail price of $99.

Professional Macintosh applications can be visually created in
minutes.Visual MacStandardBasic uses and extends BASIC’s easy to learn
format to utilize the power of the Macintosh.

THE ASSOCIATION OF MACINTOSH TRAINERS

(Newport News, VA) — We are pleased to announce the establishment of the
Association of Macintosh Trainers. The purpose of the association is to
establish an international network of Apple Macintosh computer trainers,
instructors and educators that is easily accessible to end users and to
help facilitate and improve upon the quality of Macintosh computer support.

The association was founded in 1991, has a current membership roster of
over 100 members and has received over 3,500 inquiries from all over the
world.

WebSTAR users,

StarNine and Sophisticated Circuits are proud to announce the release of
the WebSTAR PowerKey Pro Ticker Plug-In, now available for download at
(ftp://ftp.starnine.com/pub/extending_webstar/powerkey_pro_tickler.sea.hqx). W
ebSTAR PowerKey Pro Tickler is a WebSTAR Plug-In that periodically sends a
USER TIMER AppleEvent to the PowerKey Pro powerstrip from Sophisticated
Circuits.

METROWERKS ANNOUNCES FIRST QUARTER 1998 REVENUES OF US$6.2 MILLION

Company Records Profit of US$237,000, or $0.02 per Share, for Quarter

AUSTIN, Texas-December 1, 1997- Metrowerks Inc. (NASDAQ: MTWKF,
TSE/ME:MWK), a provider of software development tools, today announced its
results of operations for the first quarter of its fiscal year ending July
31, 1998 (Q1FYJuly98).

Revenues for Q1FYJuly98 totaled US$6.15 million, an increase of 65% over
revenues of US$3.77 million for the corresponding Q1FYJuly97. Revenues for
Q4FYJuly97 totaled US$6.23 million.