Bentley Announces Commitment to IBM's OS/2 Warp

Company Expands Its Lead in Platform Choices, Demonstrates MicroStation for
OS/2 at International Users Group

Huntsville, AL - May 8, 1995 - Bentley Systems, Inc., the leader in
professional computer-aided design products and services to engineers,
architects, drafters, and organizations whose overall success relies on
CAD, today announced that its MicroStation Version 5.5 product will
support IBM's OS/2 Warp operating system. Demonstrations of MicroStation
for OS/2, the first major CAD product for OS/2, are being held at this
week's International Intergraph Graphics Users Group (IGUG) in Huntsville,
where over 2,000 MicroStation users are expected to convene.

MicroStation and OS/2 are well-matched products whose users share similar
enterprise-wide computing requirements. MicroStation for OS/2 is expected
to strengthen Bentley's position at IBM stronghold accounts and to
proliferate the use and standardization of OS/2 in engineering
organizations. As IBM's award-winning 32-bit operating system, OS/2 offers
existing MicroStation users an important choice in planning
enterprise-wide automation strategies.

Bentley CEO, Keith Bentley, says, "The increasing popularity of OS/2
demonstrates that our users need and want platform choices." Mr. Bentley
continues, "OS/2 offers companies and organizations important,
enterprise-wide information capabilities. Information management of this
type is fast becoming a top priority for our users, as they typically use
MicroStation for large-scale engineering projects, such as designing and
maintaining airports, telecomm and electrical utility networks, roadways
and complex mechanical products."

"Combining the power of OS/2 and MicroStation is a significant announcement
for all CAD users," said Jim Gant, vice president, solution developer
operations, IBM. "Engineering organizations with enterprise-wide
information needs will especially benefit and find the professional CAD
capabilities of MicroStation and the 32-bit client/server capabilities of
OS/2 a perfect match."

User and Industry Quotes

Manager of computer resources Richard Blalock of Seamons Whiteside and
Associates, a land planning and civil engineering firm in Mt. Pleasant,
South Carolina, comments, "Our company standardized on OS/2 because of its
reliable multi-tasking and networking capabilities. Up to now, there have
been no acceptable CAD solutions on OS/2 that meet our civil engineering
needs. MicroStation for OS/2 holds the promise of letting us escape from
our AutoCAD 'DOS box'."

More on Range of Platform Choices

The expeditious availability of MicroStation for OS/2 confirms Bentley's
ongoing leadership in offering users the widest range of operating system
choices. MicroStation now runs on a full range of PC and workstation
platforms including DOS, Windows (TM), Windows NT (TM) for Intel-based and
DEC Alpha AXP (TM) computers, the Macintosh (R) and Power Macintosh (TM),
Sun SPARC (TM), HP RISC, SGI, IBM's RS/6000 (TM) series machines, and now,
OS/2 platforms.

As it is doing today with OS/2, Bentley made an early and unwavering
commitment to Windows NT in 1993 -- an investment that paid off handsomely
for users and the company. In fact, the company shipped over 5,000 copies
of MicroStation for Windows NT in 1994 and believes itself to be the
number one supplier of technical applications for that operating system.
This leadership again points out the growing enterprise-wide needs and
sophistication of Bentley's professional CAD user base.

MicroStation is engineered so users on all platforms can work together and
seamlessly share project data, custom workspaces, and third party
applications. Users can work with a Windows or Motif user interface.

MicroStation also offers applications developers "platform independence."
MicroStation applications developed using the MDL environment can quickly
support any of MicroStation's platforms. For instance, when MicroStation
for OS/2 is released, an MDL application can support OS/2 after a simple
MDL recompilation. Consequently, Bentley expects many existing
MicroStation applications to be available on OS/2 without delay.

Availability and Pricing

MicroStation for OS/2 will be available for general release later this year
at a U.S. list price of $3,950.00. Subscribers of MicroStationCSP (SM),
Bentley's comprehensive support program for users, can switch from
MicroStation on any platform to MicroStation for OS/2 at no charge.

For demonstrations or more information on the MicroStation range of
products, please contact Bentley at 800/778-4274, via the Internet at
family@bentley.com, or on the World Wide Web at http://www.bentley.com/ .

About IBM's OS/2

OS/2 is IBM's award-winning advanced operating system for 32-bit personal
computers. OS/2's robust platform offers superior technology, including an
easy-to-use graphical user interface, true multitasking capabilities and
Crash Protection. OS/2 Warp is the latest version of OS/2. It features
impressive new usability features, slimmed-down system requirements and
comes with a BonusPak of more than a dozen exploitive OS/2 applications,
including easy access to the Internet and CompuServe. OS/2 Warp comes
preloaded on systems from the IBM PC Company, Toshiba, ComuAdd and 200
other PC manufacturers, and Dell offers Warp as a preloaded option to
customers when they order PCs.

More on Bentley

Bentley Systems, Inc. is the leader in professional computer- aided design
products and services to engineering organizations where CAD is
mission-critical. The company's MicroStation product range is relied upon
by over 180,000 professional users and over 700 commercial application
developers worldwide in the architecture/engineering/construction (AEC),
geographic information systems (GIS), and increasingly in mechanical
design markets. Founded in 1984, Bentley has now become one of the world's
fastest growing software companies.

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