Folio Announces Folio VIEWS SGML Toolkit for Windows

Toolkit includes Exoterica OmniMark and New Driver for Automating Infobase
Creation

San Francisco, Calif., September 13, 1994 -- Folio Corporation (Provo,
Utah) today unveiled the new Folio VIEWS 3.1 SGML Toolkit for Windows,
enabling publishers and corporations to easily incorporate SGML-based
information into Folio infobase applications. The announcement was made
here at the annual Seybold San Francisco conference.

Designed to support publishers and corporations who use Folio VIEWS to
manage and distribute their electronic reference information, the Folio
VIEWS 3.1 SGML Toolkit features Exoterica' s OmniMark v2r4 (a powerful 4GL
for analyzing and processing text-intensive information) and includes the
new Folio VIEWS 3.1 SGML Driver for Windows. Current users of Exoterica's
OmniMark can purchase the driver separately from Folio. The Toolkit will
be available early in the fourth quarter of 1994.

Tracy Scott, president of Folio Corporation, said, "An increasing number of
commercial publishers and corporations now rely on SGML as a standard way
of producing and organizing electronic documents. Our goal is to support
the SGML-based information of these organizations as seamlessly and simply
as we support their non-SGML information.

At Infobase 94 in June, we announced our reseller agreement with Exoterica,
which was Folio's first step to becoming a one-stop solution provider for
SGML publishers," he said. "The second part of the story, which we're
announcing today, makes it even easier for publishers to create and
deliver updated infobases from SGML-based source information."

Configurable Driver Automates Infobase Creation

The new Folio VIEWS 3.1 SGML Driver for Windows is a Dynamic Link Library
(.DLL) that can be configured to automate the creation of sophisticated
infobases from SGML source files. Once the initial work of creating the
appropriate OmniMark (.XOM) files is complete and the driver is configured
with the appropriate file location information, it then acts like a fully
functional Folio filter that can be used with Folio Create to build new
infobases or to append information to an existing infobase.

After the initial work is done, anyone can repeat the process to keep
infobases up-to-date. For example, a publisher who offers regular updates
to a CD ROM title will find it easy to create successive update infobases.
Likewise, any corporate application which relies on SGML source
information for populating Folio infobases can be administered by any
person in an organization -- or automated with a batch file script to
eliminate human intervention altogether.

Sample .XOM Files To Be Included in SGML Toolkit

In order to assist new users of OmniMark and the Folio VIEWS 3.1 SGML
Driver, the Folio VIEWS 3.1 SGML Toolkit will also contain sample OmniMark
.XOM programs which correspond to popular existing Document Type
Definitions (.DTDs, which describe the rules for valid SGML document
structure). Users will be able to modify these sample programs to quickly
develop .XOM files for the specialized .DTDs of their organization. For
example, one sample .XOM file will convert SGML files based on HTML and
another will convert files based on the popular CALS standard.

As an added benefit, all of the appropriate OmniMark documentation will
also be included in the product as an electronic Folio infobase.

Pricing and Availability

The Folio VIEWS 3.1 SGML Toolkit is scheduled for release in early fourth
quarter 1994 and requires the infobase creation capabilities of Folio
VIEWS 3.1 PIDK (Professional Infobase Development Kit) or Folio VIEWS 3.1
IPK (Infobase Production Kit). Single or multiple copy pricing is
available as follows:

Folio VIEWS 3.1 SGML Toolkit for Windows
(including the Folio VIEWS 3.1 SGML Driver for Windows)
First Copy = $2,995,  Additional Copies = $1,495


Folio VIEWS 3.1 SGML Driver for Windows
First Copy = $495,  Additional Copies = $195

Folio's SGML Toolkit follows the company's July 1994 release of the first
three Windows products in the new Folio VIEWS 3.1 Product Family, a new
generation of commercial electronic publishing technology. Included in the
Folio VIEWS 3.1 Professional Infobase Development Kit is Folio's Rights
Management software which gives publishers unprecedented control over the
distribution and management of electronic titles. In addition, the new
Folio VIEWS Bound Infobase Manager and new Query Template technology allow
publishers to more powerfully enable users to access and adapt published
information.

About Folio VIEWS

Folio VIEWS from Folio Corporation (Provo, Utah) is a family of software
products for creating, managing, and distributing infobase applications.
Conceptually, infobases are similar to databases but are specifically
designed for rapidly accessing, compiling, and adapting large amounts of
frequently changing electronic reference information.

Typical Folio infobase applications include electronic publishing
(commercial and corporate), front-line service (customer support, sales
support, field engineering, help desk, litigation support, etc.), and
research (open source, competitive intelligence, academic, etc.).

It is estimated that Folio Infobase Technology currently resides on more
than 30 million desktops in the form of Folio VIEWS, Novell NetWare Help,
Banyan VINES technical documentation and as the delivery mechanism for
hundreds of titles from more than 200 commercial publishers on CD ROM and
diskette.

Folio VIEWS 3.0 for Windows has recently received the following industry
awards: a 1993 MVP (Most Valuable Product) award from PC/Computing
magazine, a 1993 Award of Distinction from BYTE magazine, a 1994 WIN 100
Award from Windows Magazine, and the 1994 Award of Technical Excellence
from France's PC Expert magazine.

Folio and Mead Data Central

Folio's parent company is Mead Data Central (MDC), Dayton, Ohio, provider
of the LEXIS and NEXIS online information services. MDC is a division of
Mead Corporation, "MEA" on the New York Stock Exchange, with 1993 revenues
of $4.8 billion.

About Exoterica OmniMark

OmniMark is a specialized fourth-generation programming language for
analyzing and processing text-intensive information. It enables the
translation of rich-text information to and from SGML, and its application
across a wide range of software products, viewing and browsing
technologies and composition systems. OmniMark, which is the de facto
standard SGML programming language worldwide, is heavily used by many
leading information publishers such as R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Mead Data
Central, Commerce Clearing House, Microsoft, and Intergraph.

Folio Corp
2155 North Freedom Blvd, Provo, UT 84604
801-344-3700,   800-543-6546

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