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SUN SUES MICROSOFT FOR BREACH OF JAVA(TM) CONTRACT

Microsoft fails Java compatibility tests for Internet Explorer 4.0

PALO ALTO, Calif. — October 7, 1997 — Sun Microsystems, Inc. today
announced that it has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against
Microsoft Corporation for breaching its contractual obligation to deliver a
compatible implementation of JavaTM technology on its products. Sun is
seeking an injunction to prevent Microsoft from improperly using the Java
Compatible logo.

October 5, 1997 — New York, NY. — DAS Works, maker of ListTable(TM),
announces the release and shipment of Jovis(R) Version 1.0.4, an XCmd
database engine, and the only fully scriptable database engine available
for the Macintosh. It allows users to create single-user, and/or
client/server applications with any scriptable application such as
HyperCard, SuperCard, Oracle Media Objects, Frontier, and others. With
Jovis, data is kept in database files external to the application.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Lightsoft is pleased to announce the release of the demo of Fantasm 5, a
Macintosh assembly language development environment.

Fantasm 5 is a major upgrade produced over the last two years.

This release addresses four major areas:
1. Flexibility.
2. Ease of use.
3. Speed.
4. Modularity.

Fantasm 5 is designed to allow the creation of most any kind of high speed
Mac application, code resource, fragment, control panel, extension, shared
library etc.

From: Gordy Davies (gdavies@austin.metrowerks.com)
Subject: Metrowerks Embedded Strategy

In our mad scramble at Embedded Systems Conference West (which was a great
success for us), you may not have had access to the press releases we had
at the show and that were released to the Business Wire (23 of them!!)…
Below is the summary release…

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METROWERKS ROLLS OUT EMBEDDED STRATEGY
AT ESC WEST/97 IN SAN JOSE

CodeWarrior Support for Embedded Systems Development Greatly Expanded

SAN JOSE, California – Metrowerks Inc.

We are forwarding this for you to see. This is not specifically an
endorsement of the letter below nor of Microsoft’s practices/policies — it
is for your information and for you to make up your own mind. If we are
sent an equivalent letter to support Microsoft, we will distribute that as
well.

MacDev-1 Team

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From: David Schargel, davids@aportis.com

Dear friends,

I am writing you this message to ask for action.

A few short days ago, Microsoft released the final Win95/NT version of the
Internet Explorer 4.0 web browser.