Apple's Feature-Complete OpenDoc Software Released to 50,000 Developers

Momentum Grows As Developers Pledge Commitment

SAN JOSE, California--May 8, 1995--Apple Computer, Inc. today announced
that it is releasing the first feature-complete version of its OpenDoc
component software toolkit for Apple Macintosh personal computers to
50,000 developers worldwide.

Today, at Apple's week-long Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose,
California, over 3,500 attendees will receive the OpenDoc Developer
Release 2 CD for Macintosh. In addition, Apple is mailing the CD, which
includes comprehensive documentation, to its large base of registered
developers, and both MacTech Magazine and Develop, The Apple Technical
Journal, are distributing the CD in their July and June issues,
respectively. The OpenDoc DR 2 for Macintosh can also be obtained by
developers through the Internet.

OpenDoc is a component software architecture that reduces the complexity
and increases the flexibility of software for both users and developers.
With OpenDoc, developers can easily modify and reuse the same building
blocks of code for multiple platforms, including Macintosh, Windows, 0S/2
and UNIX. This capability provides developers with expanded options and
reduces their development time.

"This is a very important milestone for developers," said David Nagel,
senior vice president for Apple's Worldwide Research and Development
division. "The distribution of a full-featured, stable version of OpenDoc
marks the beginning of a new era of software development. Developers can
now begin to add OpenDoc support to existing applications and create new
OpenDoc-based software."

Developers Commit to OpenDoc

"For us, OpenDoc is the immediate future," said Michel Bouyges, project
manager at Abvent R & D, a Paris-based developer of high-end 3D modeling
and rendering software. "It is a major step for the software industry, and
for the first time, gives us a real possibility for constructing software
with the idea of reusability, therefore increasing our productivity."

"OpenDoc enables the software industry to bring innovative new products to
the market and is the most important software breakthrough of the 90s,"
said Mark Butje, sales and marketing director for Route 66 Geographic
Information Systems, developer of route planning software and hardware
products. "With OpenDoc, a user will be able to integrate all kinds of
powerful software parts, from different vendors, in one document. OpenDoc
is key for next generation personal computers."

Among the growing list of international developers who are currently
supporting OpenDoc are: Symantec Corporation, Quasar Knowledge Systems,
Metrowerks, Inc., Heizer Software, Pictorious Incorporated, Route 66
Geographic Systems, Paperfree Corporation, Theta Group, Swift Software,
Something Good, Inc., Neuron Data, Modular Software Ltd., Big Chief
Software, B&E Software, Appropriate Solutions, Faustino Forcen, Frank
Lefebvre, Koshin Graphics Systems, Interactive Media Corporation, Minds in
Motion, OpeNBook Co., Ltd., AETIS - Protections Locicielles, Diwan-Science
& Information Technology Ltd., Jovian Systems, Inc. Oberon Microsystems,
Inc., Abvent R & D, Maris Multimedia Ltd., Pole Position Software, TSE
International, Hogia Ledarstod, Alsoft srl, and Interstudio S.r.l.

Benefits of Component Software

With OpenDoc, developers can now focus on specific areas of development
expertise, because applications created with OpenDoc can be mixed and
matched seamlessly with other software components, across vendors and
platforms--on the desktop and over the network. OpenDoc provides the
industry-wide compatibility developers need to build tailored solutions
that work quickly and easily.

OpenDoc technology is sponsored by Component Integration Laboratories, Inc.
(CI Labs), an independent association whose members include Adobe Systems
Inc., Apple Computer, Inc., IBM Corporation, Lotus, Novell, Inc., Object
Management Group (OMG), and Taligent. In addition to Apple's development
of OpenDoc implementations for Macintosh, IBM is developing OpenDoc for
OS/2 and AIX, and Novell for the Windows platform. Apple plans to ship
final OpenDoc software developer kits in the fall.

Developers interested in obtaining the OpenDoc component software toolkit
for Macintosh can request a CD at Internet address:
opendoc@applelink.apple.com.

Apple Computer, Inc., a recognized pioneer and innovator in the information
industry, creates powerful solutions based on easy- to-use personal
computers, servers, peripherals, software, on- line services and personal
digital assistants. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple (NASDAQ:
AAPL) developers, manufactures, licenses and markets products,
technologies and services for the business, education, consumer,
scientific & engineering and government markets in over 140 countries.

Apple Computer Inc
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
408-996-1010

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