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Xanthus Announces Open Object Embedding (OOE) for NEXTSTEP
New standard for compound documents

Stockholm, June 16, 1994 - Xanthus International AB today announced
Open Object Embedding (OOE), its new standard for compound documents
on the NEXTSTEP computing environment.

Aimed at everybody that easily wants to create compound documents
on the NEXTSTEP platform that contain different types of objects,
OOE allows objects to be created, edited by a suitable application,
and stored within the working document.

OOE allows objects created in a 'server' application (drawing
program, spreadsheet etc.) to be stored, or embedded, in the document
of a 'client' application (word processor, presentation program
etc.). Double-clicking on the embedded object will open it with
the correct 'server' application for immediate editing.

President and co-founder of Xanthus, Jesper Lundh said "OOE allows
you to be very productive, for example, create a Questor spreadsheet
from within your OpenWrite document in a matter of seconds. You no
longer need to create a dummy spreadsheet document to 'paste and
link' from."

OOE is an open standard, and Xanthus will support other third-party
developers to make their products OOE compliant. "We want as many
third-party developers as possible to support OOE", says Jesper
Lundh.

OOE designer and co-founder of Xanthus, Bjorn Backlund said "OOE
is based on standard NEXTSTEP tools, like the pasteboard and
distributed objects, and is very easy to implement. We made the
NEXTSTEP demo application Draw OOE compliant in just two hours."

The following products from Xanthus supports OOE: OpenWrite, Questor
and Graphity.

OOE will be shown in the Alembic booth at NEXTSTEP Expo and in the
Xanthus Suite at the San Francisco Marriott near Moscone Center.

Xanthus International, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, is a
privately owned software development company that specializes in
the NEXTSTEP platform. Xanthus was founded in 1990, and shipped its
first product, CraftMan, an award-winning multimedia programming
tool for NEXTSTEP in 1992. The product line now includes Questor,
a spreadsheet; Graphity, a 3D charting program that supports
RenderMan; the new  OpenWrite word processor, and OpenBase, a
flat-file database.