Type of Article: MacTech News Article

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

STARBASE ANNOUNCES NON-EXCLUSIVE BUNDLING
AGREEMENT WITH ORACLE

Inclusion of StarBase’s Version Control Product Expands Market
Opportunity

Irvine, California, March 27, 1997 – StarBase Corporation (Nasdaq: SBAS)
today announced the completion of a non-exclusive bundling agreement with
Oracle to ship StarBase’s version control product, Versions 2.0, with
Oracle’s Developer/2000 product at no additional charge to the customer.
Oracle [Nasdaq: ORCL] is a major vendor of developer tools with the company
exceeding $5.2 billion in annual revenue.

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CLARIS SETS ANNUAL SOLUTIONS CONFERENCE FOR MAY 12-15 IN SAN JOSE

Three day conference to focus on integrating Claris software for the
Internet for “simply better solutions”

Santa Clara, Calif., March 31, 1997 – Claris Corporation has announced
that online registration is now open for its second annual Claris
Solutions Conference May 12-15, 1997, at the San Jose Fairmont, in San
Jose, Calif at http://www.claris.com/solutions conference .

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Press Contacts:
Ryan James
Waggener Edstrom
(503) 245-0905
ryanj@wagged.com

Joscelyn Zell
Waggener Edstrom
(503) 245-0905
jzell@wagged.com

Cynthia Fray
Metrowerks Inc.
(512) 873-4758
cynthia@metrowerks.com

MICROSOFT AND METROWERKS ANNOUNCE FREE REDISTRIBUTION OF VIRTUAL MACHINE
FOR JAVA AND JIT COMPILER FOR THE MACINTOSH

Fast, Robust, Small-Footprint Way to Run Java on the Macintosh Now
Available to Any Developer

SAN FRANCISCO-April 2, 1997-Today at Software Development West and JavaOne,
Microsoft Corp. and Metrowerks Inc.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Press Contacts:
Cynthia Fray
Metrowerks Inc.
(512) 873-4758
cynthia@metrowerks.com

METROWERKS ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR MICROSOFT AFC JAVA CLASSES

AUSTIN, Texas-April 2, 1997-At the Software Development West Conference and
JavaOne, Metrowerks Inc.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

XPLAIN AND BYSE LAUNCH DevDepot JAPAN

Westlake Village, CA and Sapporo, Japan — April 2, 1997 — Xplain
Corporation who operates DevDepot, today announced that it is
launching DevDepot Japan with noted Japanese marketing and sales
organization, BYSE, Inc.

Until today, Japanese MacOS developers have had to work hard to find MacOS
development tools. In fact, they had to work twice as hard because all of
the literature about the products was in English — battling a language
barrier.