MINDLINK INTRODUCES INNOVATION TOOL FOR WINDOWS

MindLink Problem Solver Corporate Edition Combines Industry-Proven
Creativity Methodology with Relational Database

NORTH POMFRET, Vermont (May 16, 1995) -- MindLink Software Corporation
today announced MindLink Problem Solver Corporate Edition, a business tool
for creative problem solving and innovative thinking for personal
computers operating under Microsoft Windows. Offering a relational
database feature called Thought Warehouse, MindLink Corporate Edition
provides users with knowledge management capabilities previously
unavailable in creativity software.

MindLink Corporate Edition gives users an industry-researched and tested
methodology for developing innovative strategies, ideas and solutions, as
well as a database for organizing, retrieving and managing the resulting
knowledge base. The product offers enhanced features of MindLink's
original product such as Idea Generation, the Gym (for training users to
think creatively) Problem Solving and customized Reports. The Guided
Problem Solving feature can now be used for facilitating work group
meetings and enhancing standard brainstorming sessions by taking
participants from problem identification all the way to solutions with
outlined action steps.

"We believe we can further the market acceptance of creativity software by
offering an easy-to-use application for a range of innovative thinking
tasks along with the information management capabilities of a relational
database," said MindLink Chief Executive Officer Michael Shattow. "Now
that users are accustomed to personal computing for standard business
tasks, they are ready for new applications such as computer-aided
thinking."

MindLink Corporate Edition Offers More Critical Analysis; Flexible Options

MindLink Corporate Edition offers expanded idea triggers: Hundreds of
specially designed exercises that help users overcome mental blocks and
significantly increase their range of possible ideas and solutions. The
exercises incorporate graphics, literature, humorous writing games, word
associations and techniques such as imaging and improvising.

Users can now pre-select favorite triggers or let MindLink randomly choose
one. The triggers include an extensive array of objects that change each
time they are used to continuously stimulate new thinking.

Evaluate and Refine is a new feature that enables users to objectively view
and enhance their potential ideas and solutions through exercises that
address concerns or take thinking in new, more productive directions. This
feature is ideal for corporate cultures that emphasize idea and suggestion
programs or employee empowerment: Employees benefit from a tool that helps
them critically think through their suggestions, while management can more
effectively evaluate suggestions by seeing the analysis behind them.

Thought Warehouse helps users recapture thinking, ideas and solutions
whether they were generated last week or last year. It helps individual
users or work groups create a database of their most interesting and
innovative work, which can later be used to solve new problems or to
stimulate thinking. Import/export capabilities allow users to work either
together or independently on a problem and then consolidate their thinking
later. 

Developed for Industry by Innovation Experts

The processes behind MindLink Corporate Edition are based on over 30 years
of research by Synectics, an international consulting firm based in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, specializing in the management of innovation and
change. The methodology has been used by hundreds of the world's most
innovative companies.

LAN Market

MindLink Software Corporation plans to market a network version of
Corporate Edition in the third quarter that will provide simultaneous
shared database access for a work group allowing users to interactively
participate in problem-solving and brainstorming sessions across a local
area network.

Environments, Support, Pricing and Availability

Developed for Microsoft Windows, MindLink Corporate Edition is now a native
Windows application compatible with Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and OS/2.
Features of the new architecture include full color, standard Windows
navigation and drag-and-drop selection and editing facilities. MindLink
uses Microsoft Access as its underlying database and Microsoft's Open
Database Connectivity standard (ODBC) to allow the use of a wide range of
databases. Thoughts generated with MindLink can be exported into a Rich
Text Format (RTF) file for any other Windows program.

Technical support will be available to registered users from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. EST, Monday through Friday by calling 802-457-2025. 

MindLink Corporate Edition will be available within 30 days through retail
channels and VARs or direct from the company. Priced at $299 with Thought
Warehouse, MindLink Corporate Edition also is available as an upgrade for
MindLink Problem Solver Version 2.x users for $79. For more information on
MindLink Corporate Edition availability call 800-253-1844, or if outside
the U.S.A, call 802-457-2025.

MindLink Software Corporation, founded in 1990, is a privately held company
that develops applications to promote innovation and creativity in
business for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh environments. The
company is headquartered in North Pomfret, Vermont, with offices in
Newton, Massachusetts.

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