Item    1506702                 94/05/25        12:04
From:   DARREN_SMITH@NEXT.COM@INET#     Internet Gateway
Subject: GS Corp and Industry Partners Release Solutions Suite CD-ROM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Don Gallagher, VP Sales
415.257.4700
415.257.4707 FAX
info@goldleaf.com

GS Corp and Industry Partners Release Solutions Suite CD-ROM

New Distribution Channel Concept Integrates Multimedia Literature,

Demos and Products

San Francisco-May 10, 1994-GS Corporation announced today that it

will begin mass distribution of the Solutions Suite CD-ROM at

NEXTSTEP Expo, June 20-23.  The Solutions Suite CD-ROM is an

interactive magazine that presents information from NeXT Computer,

Inc. and product offerings from Canon, HP, Sun, GS Corp. and

NEXTSTEP third-party vendors to provide robust desktop

enterprise-computing solutions to Fortune 1000 corporate and

government customers.  Copies of the Solutions Suite CD-ROM will

be available at NEXTSTEP Expo, held at Moscone Center in San

Francisco.

In seeking to define a cutting-edge marketing strategy as

innovative as NEXTSTEP's object-oriented frameworks, Solutions

Suite was designed so that "the literature is the demo is the

product is the distribution channel," says Lauren Flanegan, GS

president and co-founder.

"The Solutions Suite CD-ROM provides a demonstration of some of

the best products in their categories available on the NEXTSTEP

platform," said Warren Weiss, vice president of worldwide sales

and services for NeXT Computer, Inc.  "Using innovative solutions

such as these, corporate and government customers can gain the

benefits of productivity and custom applications on their

desktop."

Solutions Suite, to be published quarterly, leads users through an

interactive slide show that showcases the interoperability of

NEXTSTEP applications, including GS' Products, eXTRAREAD,

eXTRASCAN, eXTRAPRINT, eXTRASLIDE, eXTRASET and eXTRACOLOR; Altsys

Virtuoso, Anderson Financial Systems' WriteUp; Athena Design's

Mesa spreadsheet; RDR's @Image; and Conextions' 3270 Interface

Builder, 3270Vision, 3270Toolkit, 5250Vision, 5250 Palette,

5250Toolkit and CoaxAccess-PC.  GS Corp.'s Collaggi Palette

provides the unifying interface and aids interoperability among

the applications. Products are demonstrated in sessions built with

Otherwise's WatchMe.  Disabled product versions are contained on

Collaggi Palette, allowing users to "try before they buy".

Each edition will look at enterprise re-engineering in industries

making the transition from mainframes to client/server solutions

based on NEXTSTEP. These solutions include a combination of

custom, shrinkwrapped and modular software.  Users will be able to

purchase, unlock and install software directly from the CD-ROM.

Customers using Macintosh- and Windows-based computers can view a

MacroMedia Director movie or view pages from the Solutions Suite

presentation that are stored on the CD-ROM in the cross-platform

Adobe Acrobat format.

After NEXTSTEP Expo, subscriptions to Solutions Suite will be

available for $40 a year or $10 for individual issues. It will be

available through GS, Canon and third parties.

About GS Corporation

GS Corporation develops and markets object-oriented software

designed to meet the needs of enterprise customers for modular and

customizable solutions for document processing, database

publishing, and graphic arts.





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