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Lee Lorenzen, President
Altura Software, Inc.
408.655.8005
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Altura Software, Inc.

Quasar Knowledge Systems, (QKS) Inc., the leading Smalltalk vendor in the
Macintosh market with a PowerMac version available, announced that it will
release Windows 95/NT version of SmalltalkAgents in Q1 of 1997. This will
make SmalltalkAgents a cross-platform development tool of choice.
SmalltalkAgents is a dynamic, integrated development environment based on
QKS Smalltalk.

Looking for a flat file database engine for your Mac software?

odbEngine is the hierarchical database engine used by
Userland Frontier for its object database. The engine has
a simple C API that allows the creation and access of tables
of arbitrary objects, even tables of tables! Also, Frontier
may be used to create and access data in odb files.

UODBE++ is a C++ wrapper for odbEngine that adds housekeeping
and error handling to the engine.

The best feature about odbEngine is that it works, and has been
tested by every Frontier user.

Press Contacts:

Cynthia Fray
Media Relations
Metrowerks Inc.
512.873.4758
cynthia@metrowerks.com

Jim Welch
Chief Financial Officer
Metrowerks Inc.
512.87.4777
welch@metrowerks.com

METROWERKS TO INCLUDE APPLE’S NEW OS TOOLS IN REGULAR CODEWARRIOR SUBSCRIPTIONS

CodeWarrior Tools for Apple’s New OS to be Delivered in Incremental Releases

AUSTIN, Texas, December 20, 1996.-Metrowerks Inc.

Apple Computer, Inc. Agrees to Acquire
NeXT Software Inc.

CUPERTINO, Calif.–Dec. 20, 1996–Apple Computer, Inc. today announced
its intention to purchase NeXT Software Inc., in a friendly acquisition for
$400
million. Pending regulatory approvals, all NeXT products, services, and
technology research will become part of Apple Computer, Inc. As part of the
agreement, Steve Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Software, will return to
Apple–the company he co-founded in 1976–reporting to Dr. Gilbert F.