Item 4711601 93/01/27 15:27 From: CONRAD_GEIGER@NEXT.COM@INET# Internet Gateway Subject: Announcing NoteBook:Information Processing Application for NeXTSTEP Millennium Software Labs Defines Emerging Application Category on NeXTSTEP Computers Contact: Jayson Adams, CEO, or Scott Love, President Millennium Software Labs 1010 El Camino Real, Suite 300 Menlo Park, CA, 94025 (415) 321-3720 Phone (415) 321-3650 Fax Email: info@millennium.com Company introduces NoteBook, an object-oriented software application that improves information processing productivity for individuals MENLO PARK, California, January 27, 1993 - Millennium Software Labs announced today that NoteBook, its new breakthrough software application for the NeXTSTEP operating system, shipped last week. The product defines information processing, an emerging application category for personal productivity and information management on commercial desktop systems. Jayson Adams, Millennium's CEO, Chief Scientist and co-founder, remarked, "We met our original goal of first customer ship by January, 1993 and we're very proud of this achievement. NoteBook marks an important milestone in the NeXTSTEP marketplace as well. NeXTSTEP's outstanding object-oriented architecture allowed us to develop and deliver a high-quality commercial application with just over 9 person-months of development time, an impossible accomplishment under any other software development environment available today. NoteBook for NeXTSTEP clearly demonstrates that NeXT holds an important commercial lead over Microsoft, IBM, Apple and the rest of the software industry in delivering on the promise of object-oriented technology. It's worldclass and it's available today." NoteBook is a new product for an emerging application category that Millennium defines as information processing. Scott Love, Millennium's President and co- founder explains, "Individuals have a great need to store, organize, and retrieve unstructured information, and yet no real tools exist to directly assist them with this task. For example, electronic mail inundates users with information of varying importance, and no simple way exists to clip and store portions of messages, and then later retrieve them. The beauty of NoteBook is that rather than forcing users to conform to computer-oriented information management, such as a typical database system, NoteBook presents users with very familiar metaphors so that storing and organizing information is simple, and then works with a user's associative memory processes to help them retrieve the stored information." NoteBook has been designed for users seeking a convenient way to manage and organize the everyday flow of information and ideas. It's a revolutionary application whose power comes from two breakthroughs. First, NoteBook uniquely combines an outline processor for creating lists of information with a visual notebook metaphor for managing these lists. Together, they make storing and organizing information simple and elegant. Second, NoteBook employs "Dynamic Index Views technology" (Patent Pending 1992), allowing users to instantly view "cross-sections" of their information. It's like having the power of a sophisticated database query system without the complexity. NoteBook's simplicity and flexibility make it applicable to a wide range of information processing tasks. Users can create intelligent notepads for jotting notes and ideas; clip and store important electronic mail messages for fast retrieval; or even organize fax documents, news clippings, project tasks, agenda outlines, to-do lists, meeting notes and diagrams. Whenever users start a new project or plan, chances are they'll use NoteBook to help manage their information flow. NoteBook is truly a productivity application for individuals. "We ran an extensive test drive program to determine what NoteBook applications users would create and why," said Mr. Adams. "The results indicate that NoteBook has several key productivity applications, and that our customers will continually discover unique uses. The response from key NeXTSTEP customers has been very positive and enthusiastic. We fully expect users and large organizations to add NoteBook to their application suites immediately." In addition to helping individuals manage personal information, NoteBook is a powerful tool for publishing and sharing information within a group. Groups can store and display electronic libraries of images, charts and graphs. They can create telephone directories, company policy handbooks and briefing books, accessible through network file libraries. And individuals can easily distribute NoteBook-stored information just by clicking and dragging. Whether an individual or an enterprise- wide team, NoteBook promises to dramatically improve the way people access and utilize information. NoteBook Release 1.1 has a suggested retail price of $495.95 and runs on NeXTSTEP Release 2.1 and higher. Engage! Release 1.1 is also shipping, and has a suggested retail price of $99.00. Millennium products are sold direct to qualified corporate customers as well as through authorized resellers. Customers can order products today by calling 800 732-9009, or by contacting Millennium at their offices in Menlo Park, CA at (415) 321-3720. Millennium Software Labs, Inc. is a privately-held startup founded by Jayson Adams and Scott Love, former employees of NeXT Computer, Inc. Millennium develops and markets personal productivity software for NeXTSTEP-based computer systems. The company's mission is to develop state-of-the-art applications for information management. Product design and architecture are based entirely on NeXTSTEP, the most advanced object-oriented software technology available today. For more information about this press release, contact Jayson Adams, CEO, or Scott Love, President. Millennium Software Labs is located at 1010 El Camino Real, Suite 300, Menlo Park, CA, 94025. Phone: (415)321-3720, Fax:(415) 321-3650, Email: info@millennium.com. Keywords: computers, technology, software, Millennium Software Labs, NoteBook, NeXT, NeXTSTEP c 1993 Millennium Software Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Dynamic Index Views, Engage! and the Millennium logo are trademarks of Millennium Software Labs, Inc. NeXT and NeXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. Any and all other brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.