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Xanthus International         Xanthus USA
Jesper Lundh                  David Peter
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XANTHUS HIRES DAVID PETER AS VP OF SALES FOR NORTH AMERICA
Establishes Office in United States


Stockholm, June 15, 1994 - Xanthus International AB today announced
it has hired David Peter, formerly of HSD as its new Executive Vice
President of Sales for North America. Mr. Peter will be responsible
for all Xanthus operations in the U.S. and will be working out of
the company's' new office located in San Diego, California.

Mr. Peter was founder and President of HSD Microcomputer U.S. Inc.,
another well know developer of products for NEXTSTEP. Founded in
1989, HSD quickly became one of the largest developers of NEXTSTEP
software and peripherals. Mr. Peter said "I'm extremely excited
about building the Xanthus organization in the U.S. Xanthus will
offer an entire suite of mainstream applications that are ideally
suited for the large customers that are deploying NEXTSTEP."

President and co-founder of Xanthus, Jesper Lundh said "We're
excited to have David on board. He's well known, and well respected
within the NEXTSTEP community, and has just the skillset we were
looking for to expand operations in North America."

At NEXTSTEP Expo, Xanthus will introduce Questor 3.0, OpenWrite
and Open Object Embedding (OOE). OpenWrite is a powerful new word
processor that includes all the features expected in a high-end
word processor, and many features found only in high-end desktop
publishing applications, such as character kerning, tracking and
free-floating text blocks. OpenWrite also supports all of the
advanced features of NEXTSTEP, such as object linking and a robust
API, as well as the new OOE standard from Xanthus. OOE is a new
compound document standard from Xanthus that allows objects (drawings,
graphs, tables, worksheets etc.) in a 'client application' document
(like a word processor document) to be edited by the correct 'server
application' (drawing program, spreadsheet application etc.) in a
seamless manner.

Commenting about new Open Object Embedding (OOE) standard from
Xanthus, Lundh said, "All of Xanthus' products take advantage of
the new OOE standard and have been dubbed the Xanthus Open Office
product suite. "The level of integration of these applications,
actually pre-empts the [Apple] OpenDoc standard - it's here today".

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.