MetaWare to Resell HockWare's VisPro Family of OS/2 Visual Builders

NEW ORLEANS, LA, May 22, 1995--Developers building OS/2 applications may
now combine the functionality and power of HockWare's VisPro OS/2 visual
builder tools for C, C++, and REXX, with MetaWare's High C/C++ Toolset for
OS/2 in a new software bundle offered by MetaWare beginning June 1, 1995.
The bundle will be priced at $995. The announcement of the new bundling
strategy was made by MetaWare President Bennett C. Watson during the IBM
Technical Interchange Conference at the Morial Convention Center, May 22 -
25.

"The bundling of VisPro with High C/C++ means OS/2 application developers
now have a superior environment for creating applications," said Watson.
"VisPro/REXX is an excellent tool for rapid prototyping. Combining the
strengths of VisPro/C and VisPro/C++ with MetaWare's High C/C++
DirectToSOM Toolset for OS/2 means the application prototype can easily be
implemented in either C or C++. When the target language is C++, SOM
objects will be created by High C/C++ without the additional steps
required by SOM's Interface Definition Language (IDL). Taken together,
this bundle has the potential for significantly reducing the time and
effort required to build SOM-enabled applications."

"HockWare is pleased to appoint MetaWare as a reseller of the VisPro
family," said David Hock, president of Cary, North Carolina-based Hock
Ware Incorporated. "We believe the bundling of our products will provide
the market with a superior visual development toolset for OS/2."

The VisPro visual programming environment allows developers to quickly
build OS/2 Warp and PowerPC GUI programs using a rich selection of
programming objects, including buttons, entry fields, notebooks,
containers, business graphics, spreadsheets, and more. The OS/2 Workplace
Shell integrated development environment eases development by providing
multiple development views and drag and drop programming techniques.

Using VisPro/REXX as a prototyping tool, programmers can rapidly create GUI
prototypes using REXX to control the linkage of windows and notebook
pages. The project structure, panels, menus, bitmaps and icons can then be
automatically migrated to VisPro/C or VisPro/C++, allowing development to
continue using High C/C++.

VisPro/C and VisPro/C++ when used in conjunction with MetaWare's High C/C++
Toolset for OS/2, provide a graphical development environment for
SOM-enabled OS/2 applications. While IBM's announced Visual Age for C++
Toolset provides a visual builder environment, it does not support REXX
for rapid prototyping. Nor does Visual Age support generation of native
OS/2 Presentation Manager C code.

"VisPro REXX can save considerable time and energy when used as a
prototyping tool," Watson explained. "It allows programmers to quickly
validate the visual appearance and flow of new applications. Once the user
interface is designed, the application can be implemented in C, C++, or
REXX."

VisPro also includes a DB/2 database designer tool that provides an
entity/relationship diagramming tool that allows users to quickly create
DB/2 applications, or reverse-engineer existing DB/2 databases. The tool's
SQL builder uses a point-and-click interface to generate syntax error-free
SQL statements.

High C/C++ DirectToSOM Toolset for OS/2, version 3 .3 2, began shipping at
the end of May. The new release has added support for distributed SOM, or
DSOM, objects. DSOM makes it possible to access SOM class objects across a
network thus providing for easier creation and reuse of SOM objects across
platforms and operating systems that are SOM-aware. Combined with
MetaWare's industry-first implementation of DirectToSOM C++ compilation,
support for distributed objects is now greatly simplified and more
practical for corporate application developers.

Additional information on the VisPro/MetaWare High C/C++ bundle may be
requested by calling MetaWare technical sales at 408-429-6382, by fax at
408-429-9273, or via Internet e-mail at techsales@metaware.com.

MetaWare Incorporated, founded in 1979 with headquarters in Santa Cruz, CA,
is a leading supplier of multi-platform essential tools and enabling
technology for professional programmers and software developers.

MetaWare Inc
2161 Delaware Ave
Santa Cruz, CA 95060-5706
408-429-6382,  fax 408-429-9273

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