Year: 1997

Apple Delivers Public QuickTime 3.0
Developer Preview Release

CUPERTINO, California–Dec. 1, 1997–Apple Computer, Inc. today announced
it has reached a major milestone in the development of QuickTime 3.0 with
the public availability of the QuickTime 3.0 Developer Preview Release.
QuickTime 3.0 is the latest version of the Company’s award-winning,
industry-standard software architecture for creating and publishing digital
media for Mac OS and Windows.

Apple Announces WebObjects 3.5

Premier Internet Development Environment Enhances Ease-of-Use, Java
Support, Leverages Customer Experience to Better Develop and Deploy
Mission-Critical Applications over the Web

CUPERTINO, California–Dec. 1, 1997–Apple Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)
today announced WebObjects 3.5, the latest enhancement to Apple’s
market-leading web application development platform. The newest version of
WebObjects dramatically enhances ease-of-use with its Direct-to-Web
technology, and improves Java support.

Roaster Technologies Licenses ObjectSpace Voyager(TM) As Primary Java
Interface For Distributed Computing

— mobile agents with CORBA and DCOM communication provide customers core
development infrastructure for distributed Java applications–

Cambridge, MA – December 1, 1997 – Roaster Technologies today announced
that it has licensed ObjectSpace Voyager(TM), the Agent ORB for Java from
ObjectSpace, Inc., as the core Java interface for distributed programming
using the Roaster Technologies Java development environments.

Apple, BLaCKSMITH Offer Classes On Creating Dynamic Web Applications

CUPERTINO, California–Nov. 25, 1997–Apple Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)
and BLaCKSMITH, Inc., an object-oriented software development and services
company, have joined together to deliver training programs on Apple’s
market-leading web development platform, WebObjects. Geared for corporate
programmers and analysts, the WebObjects programming course is designed to
make it easier for attendees to create dynamic web applications. The first
five-day session is scheduled to be held Jan.

VISUAL CONCEPT ENGINEERING (VCE, INC.) ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF “PYROMANIA!
PRO” CD-ROM TITLE: Third in a Series Provides Super Charged Explosions for
Multimedia, Broadcast Video and Game Developers

Hollywood, CA., November 15, 1997 — Visual Concept Engineering, Inc.
(VCE), one of Hollywood’s leading special effects houses, releases the
third in a series of CD-ROM titles depicting super-charged explosions,
entitled “Pyromania!