Item    6260947                 93/05/14        12:10 
From:  CONRAD_GEIGER@NEXT.COM@INET#    Internet Gateway 
Subject: Announcing the 1993 NEXTSTEP Best of Breed Award Nominees

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Dan Ruby NeXTWORLD Magazine 415/978-3191


NeXTWORLD MAGAZINE ANNOUNCES NOMINEES FOR 1993 NEXTSTEP BEST OF BREED AWARDS

Stiff Competition Shows Vitality of NEXTSTEP Environment

San Francisco, May 12, 1993 - NeXTWORLD Magazine today announced the finalists
for the 1993 Best of Breed Awards, which honor outstanding accomplishments in
NEXTSTEP product development. Three products were nominated in each of 14
categories. The winners will be announced at NeXTWORLD's Best of Breed Award
ceremony on Monday, May 24, and at a special conference session at NeXTWORLD
EXPO, held here May 25-27.

"In many categories, the judges had a difficult time narrowing the field to
just three contenders," said Daniel Ruby, editor in chief of NeXTWORLD
Magazine. "This reflects the wealth of outstanding products available to
NEXTSTEP users, and demonstrates the vitality of NEXTSTEP as a market for
third-party products."

The nominees are:

Document Creation category: Pages, Pages Software PasteUp, RightBrain Software
WordPerfect for NEXTSTEP, WordPerfect Corporation

Business Graphics category: Concurrence, Lighthouse Design Create, Stone
Design Diagram! 2, Lighthouse Design

Financial Modeling category: Mesa, Athena Design Questor, Xanthus
International Solution, Appsoft

Graphic Arts category: 1VISION, tms GmbH Image, Appsoft Virtuoso, Altsys
Corporation

ObjectWare category: 3270Palette, Conextions BarCodeKit, Hot Technologies OT
Palettes, Objective Technologies

Utilities category: Engage! Desktop, Millennium Software Labs MetroTools,
Metrosoft SafetyNet, Systemix Software

Information Management category: Mathematica, Wolfram Research NoteBook,
Millennium Software Labs Pencil Me In, Sarrus Software

Peripherals category: Goldleaf Imagesetter/eXTRASET, Goldleaf Systems Scan-X
Color/PowerScan, HSD Microcomputer US Talus T-1 Film Recorder/ImageMate, Talus
Corporation

Database Management category: Complete Access, Ocean Software DataPhile, Stone
Design Parabase, Parabase Software Corporation

Content and Information category: Birds of Europe, Expert Center for Taxonomic
Identification Sex, Lies, and CD-ROM, Bay Area NeXT Group The Electronic
AppWrapper, Paget Press

Communications and Emulation category: co-Xist, Pencom Software NXFax, Black
and White Software SoftPC, Insignia Solutions

Emerging Markets category: Screen Machine, d'ART Computersysteme GmbH
TaskMaster, Lighthouse Design VirtSpace, Pinnacle Research

3-D and CAD category: Frontface, nPoint solidThinking, Gestel Italia ZZVolume,
Ares

Development and Authoring Toolscategory: Callisto, Imagine Multimedia
CraftMan, Xanthus International GNU C Compiler, Free Software Foundation

In addition to the product-category winners, special awards will be presented
for exemplary service to the NeXT community, most innovative NEXTSTEP
application, and out-standing use of NEXTSTEP at a customer site. Nominations
will not be announced in these categories.


All NEXTSTEP products that were in wide-release beta testing by April 24 with
announced plans for an Intel 80486 version were eligible for consideration.
The judging panel consists of 12 NeXTWORLD editors and contributing product
reviewers.

NeXTWORLD, a publication of the International Data Group, the world leader in
information services on information technology, is based in San Francisco,
where it publishes a monthly magazine and newspaper for users of NEXTSTEP
computers.


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