Item 3695719 94/06/17 09:47 From: DAVID_SPITZLER@NEXT.COM@INET01# Internet Gateway Subject: Frame Technology Announces FrameMaker on NEXTSTEP for Intel Cc: darren_smith@NeXT.COM FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Frame Technology Kate Lynch (408) 954-3964 Copithorne & Bellows Kristin Vais (408) 988-2100 FRAME TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION ANNOUNCES FRAMEMAKER 3 ON NEXTSTEP FOR INTEL Reseller agreement with Lighthouse Design announced SAN FRANCISCO, June 21, 1994 -- Frame Technology Corporation today announced plans to introduce FrameMaker 3.2 on NEXTSTEP for Intel. FrameMaker, an award-winning writing, design and publishing package, was ported to NeXT workstations in 1989. This new version is being developed to meet customer demand for FrameMaker on the NEXTSTEP platform, and is based on FrameMaker 3 for the NeXT MC 68000 workstation. "We're pleased that Frame has decided to continue supporting NEXTSTEP," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "We will work closely with Frame and our mutual customers to ensure that FrameMaker integrates seamlessly with the NEXTSTEP environment." "We see the decision to support the NEXTSTEP marketplace as strategic for the company," said William R. Pieser, vice president of marketing for Frame Technology. "The combination of customer interest and NeXT's new technology makes NEXTSTEP an ideal platform for FrameMaker." "We already have significant interest in this port from our federal government customers," said Bob Reddick, director of Frame's federal group. "We're happy that we'll be able to deliver FrameMaker to them on the NEXTSTEP platform." FrameMaker Product Features FrameMaker combines word processing, page layout, graphics, equations editing, conditional text, "intelligent" cell-based tables and tools for creating a wide range of documents, from lengthy technical manuals to reports, newsletters, and presentations. Plans for advanced features in FrameMaker for NEXTSTEP include integration with NEXTSTEP's Digital Librarian, and the Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus. FrameMaker software offers integrated, multifile book-building facilities, including automatic table of contents and index generation; font, spelling, and hyphenation support for 13 languages; and sophisticated cross-reference and indexing tools. New Reseller Relationship In adjunct news, Frame Technology announced the appointment of Lighthouse Design, Ltd. of San Mateo, CA, as an intended strategic reseller of FrameMaker for NEXTSTEP. Under the current agreement, Lighthouse Design will be authorized to directly sell a FrameMaker for NEXTSTEP product. Frame Technology is demonstrating a pre-release version of the software in Lighthouse Design's booth at the NEXTSTEP EXPO tradeshow, running this week at Moscone Center in San Francisco. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP's advanced object environment to rapidly develop and deploy custom, enterprise-wide, client/server applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo. Lighthouse Design, Ltd. Lighthouse Design is dedicated to delivering high quality, well-integrated productivity solutions to the enterprise desktop. Lighthouse Design is located at 2929 Campus Drive, San Mateo, CA 94403. Frame Technology Corporation (NASDAQ: FRAM) provides award-winning authoring and publishing software for writing, design, and print/electronic distribution of critical documents. Frame Technology is located at 1010 Rincon Circle, San Jose, California 95131. -30- =END=