Year: 1998

For Immediate Release

Tangent Systems Announces BuildSim 2.0 is Now Shipping and Ready for Download

OCEAN BEACH, Calif.– January 23, 1998 — Tangent Systems announced today
that it is now shipping BuildSim 2.0 for the PowerMacintosh and Macintosh
Computers. It can be downloaded for free directly from the company ftp
site.

BuildSim 2.0 delivers:

— DirectConnect, a node to node connection interface for fast model
contstruction.

— BuildBlocks, more than 50 to choose from to make model development easy
and fast.

A free information resource is now available to system analysts and
software designers at http://www.excelsoftware.com. The newly designed web
site contains over a hundred pages of information on software models,
design methods and software engineering tools for Macintosh and Windows
95/NT computers.

The Software Models area includes descriptions and examples of class, data,
object, process, state, structure, screen and task models.

January 22, 1998

Mac OS Software and Hardware Guide

Now available as an extensive online database of Mac OS third-party
products. Recent enhancements have increased its usefulness and popularity.

Apple strongly encourages third parties to list their product information
in this database.

To submit a product or product update, simply click the “Submit a Product”
title in the left column of the web page:

http://www.macsoftware.apple.com/

Visual MacStandardBasic $ 29.95 special offer extended through May 31st

INDIANAPOLIS, IN, January 22nd, 1998 : ZCurve Software has announced that
it has extended its special offer of $29.95 for Visual MacStandardBasic
through May 31st, 1998. 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.

Apple is quietly overhauling its websites. There’s a new end user website
for Java:

http://www.apple.com/macos/java

Apple will continue to run applejava.apple.com for the developer information
until we can migrate the rest of the developer content to its new home.