WORDPERFECT CORPORATION RENAMES "OFFICE" GROUPWARE PRODUCT TO "SYMMETRY"

OREM, Utah--May 24, 1994--WordPerfect Corporation today announced
WordPerfect Symmetry 4.1, an upgrade to WordPerfect Office 4.0a. The name
of the product has been changed to more closely represent the significance
of electronic messaging and eliminate possible confusion with other
software products named "Office."

"Symmetry means balance, completeness, and harmony in components. We like
the definition as it relates to people working with information and
information systems" said Adrian Rietveld, president and CEO of
WordPerfect Corporation. "With the move toward global communications,
mobile computing and the information superhighway, the expanding
WordPerfect Office product line needed a new name to better represent the
significance of this product."

"The industry should be very receptive to a name change for WordPerfect
Office," said David Coursey, editor of the San Mateo, Calif., based
industry newsletter P.C. Letter. "While WordPerfect Corporation was among
the first to use 'Office,' the name has become associated with product
suites, or bundles of related software. With a new name, the confusion
will end, giving users a clearer understanding of the product line and
electronic messaging."

The new product offers increased capabilities in its electronic mail,
calendaring, scheduling, task management and workflow functions by
bringing these services into a common interface shared across multiple
platforms and operating systems. The result is a powerful, open electronic
messaging system that can be easily scaled across any size enterprise.

WordPerfect Symmetry 4.1 builds on technology initially introduced with
WordPerfect Office 4.0 and 4.0a, and differs from previous versions by
bringing all clients, servers and gateways to the same level of
functionality and consistency. This unique design uses the same core
engine code for clients, servers and gateways.

"Never before has a vendor released 50 completely compatible messaging
products that provide customers with more scalability, openness and
interoperability," said David V. Clare, senior director of marketing for
Workgroup Applications at WordPerfect Corporation. "With the release of
WordPerfect Symmetry 4.1, WordPerfect Corporation is again setting the
standard for the LAN-based electronic messaging industry."

WordPerfect Corporation is a worldwide leader in providing business,
workgroup, consumer and electronic publishing software. Driven by its
vision to help the world communicate, the company develops software for
people to process, share, present and distribute information. The company
is widely recognized for its multilingual and cross-platform software
solutions and is the industry's premier provider of customer support.
Founded in 1979, the company markets software in 28 languages and in 117
countries. Through its merger with Novell, expected to be completed by
mid-summer, WordPerfect will take a leadership role in developing
networked applications.

WordPerfect Corp
1555 N. Technology Way
Orem, UT 84057-2399
801-225-5000,  fax 801-228-5077

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