SHENG LABS ANNOUNCES NEW COMPILER FOR BORLAND'S PARADOX 4.0

Beaverton, Orgeon, May 16, 1993 -- Sheng Labs Inc. today announced the
addition of BestPAL, a highly compatible compiler for Paradox 4.0, to its
PC application-development compiler family. Priced at $795 and available
in the summer of 1993, BestPAL provides Paradox application developers a
familiar user interface, a powerful and complete development environment,
and a secure, royalty-free way to distribute their applications.

"Developers are always looking for ways to speed up their applications,"
said Richard Sheng, president of Sheng Labs. "BestPAL's compilation
process gives developers exactly what they are asking for: SPEED, SPEED
and SPEED. Furthermore, optimized for 386, 486 and Pentium processors,
BestPAL compiled applications will run up to 200% faster compared to
running under Paradox or runtime."

"The new release of Paradox 4.0 is built for speed," said Daniel Klaussen,
Paradox DOS product manager for Borland International. "BestPAL users will
undoubtedly note the improvement." Paradox 4.0 sets new standards for
DOS-based relational database management systems. With a Windows-like user
interface, tremendous power and performance gains, enhanced network
performance and expanded Paradox Application Language, PAL, Paradox is
ideal for a wide range of users. It includes the industry-standard Query
By Example (QBE) for fast interactive database querying. Paradox can also
store and retrieve Binary Large Objects (BLObs) in memo fields. BLObs can
contain any type of binary data including graphics, sound and multimedia
files.

BestPAL is designed for fast learning and efficient operation, supporting
Query By Example, multi-user operations, mouse, pulldown and popup menus,
dialog boxes, event-driven programming, and memo fields. BestPAL also
supports not only extended memory, but also virtual memory, allowing PAL
programmers to create as many variables and procedures as needed, without
regard to end-user systems' actual RAM.

According to Sheng, BestPAL's unusually high level of PAL compatibility is
a key feature. "Except for the rare case where an existing script modifies
Paradox Report/Form/Graph on the fly, programmers can use BestPAL without
any modification of their code," Sheng said. "With this single exception,
BestPAL adheres 100 percent to standard PAL, which we believe makes it the
most compatible PAL compiler yet developed."

Similar to Borland's Turbo C and Turbo Pascal, BestPAL not only includes a
script compiler, editor, and linker but also provides a complete and
integrated environment for developing and debugging applications. For
increasing the productivity of both novice and power users, the
environment supports symbolic debugging, regular and conditional break
points, watch points and procedure call stack.

Combining the best features of Paradox Runtime and Paradox Engine, adds
Sheng, BestPAL also fits in the gap between the two. "With BestPAL,
developers can produce standalone, executable object code that's both more
secure than source and faster than applications developed under Paradox
Runtime," he explains. "Like Paradox Engine, BestPAL lets programmers
include C and assembly functions in their code for faster execution. But
unlike Paradox Engine, BestPAL doesn't require that programmers work in
any language besides PAL."

Supporting also the distribution side of developers' work, BestPAL includes
a utility that bundles Paradox objects, thus reducing the total number of
files in an application. Additionally, because BestPAL frees developers
from releasing source code, it lets them distribute product without paying
royalties or submitting to any other distribution limitation.

BestPAL is priced at $795 retail and including a 60-day money-back
guarantee. For more information on BestPAL, contact Sheng Labs, Inc., 4470
S.W. Hall St., Suite 282, Beaverton, OR 97005; phone 800/548-1270 or
503/646-3691; fax 503/641-8822.

Paradox 4.0, available from Borland, has a suggested retail price of $795.
The Paradox 4.0 LAN Pack, which adds one additional user to the network,
retails for $395. Registered owners of Paradox (version 2.0 and higher)
can upgrade for $199.95. All suggested retail rpices are in U.S. dollars
and apply to the United States and Canada.

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