**DataPhile 2.1 and Mesa 1.5B Now Available as A Bundle**

NEWS
For Immediate Release

At Athena Design Contact:                At Stone Design Contact:
Tracy Kugelman                           Katie Graunke
1.617.734.6372                           1.505.345.4800


DataPhile 2.1 and Mesa 1.5B Now Available as A Bundle


BOSTON - AUGUST 26, 1994 -  Athena Design, Inc. and Stone Design
Corporation, two premier NEXTSTEP developers, are jointly announcing
today that they will offer their respective best-selling productivity
applications, Mesa and DataPhile, as a bundle at discounted prices.

In a show of support and commitment to the NEXTSTEP community, the
bundle is offered for a limited time at $995 plus shipping.  The
products are sold separately at $695 each.

"This bundle offers NEXTSTEP users the core functionality of office
productivity software, for a great price," says Andrew Stone,
President of Stone Design.  "Stone Design and Athena Design have
been working together to provide seamless interoperability between
DataPhile and Mesa, and the results are fantastic!"

David Pollak, President of Athena Design, concurs.  "Athena and
Stone have been staunch supporters of the NEXTSTEP community for
years.  I'm really psyched about working with Stone to offer our
complementary products together in one discounted package.  This
offers NEXTSTEP users the most popular spreadsheet and database
packages for NEXTSTEP in one convenient bundle."

The bundle can be ordered now by contacting Katie Graunke at Stone
Design, Inc. and will be available soon through NEXTSTEP reseller
channels.

Mesa is the best-selling NEXTSTEP spreadsheet and the winner of
NeXTWorld Magazine's "Best of Breed: award for Data Modeling Tools."
Mesa includes the features and performance level that users of
other traditional spreadsheets expect, along with unique features
that take advantage of the power of NEXTSTEP.  Mesa accepts real-time
feeds from a variety of sources, contains palletized objects,
accepts 1-2-3, Excel, and SYLK file formats and runs on Motorola,
Intel and HP PA-RISC.

DataPhile is a flat-file database manager designed for people who
need flexibility without the complexities of a rigid, relational
system.  Using DataPhile's intuitive front end, anyone can build
and manage a database, modifying it and generating reports easily.
DataPhile also comes with a number of useful template databases so
you can begin using it right out of the box.  DataPhile requires
no additional servers; it functions alone or in a networked
environment, on Motorola, Intel and HP PA-RISC processors.

Athena Design, Inc. was founded in 1989 by David Pollak to manufacture
and sell Mesa spreadsheet software for 32-bit operating environments.
For more information about Athena Design or Mesa spreadsheet
software, contact the company at 17 St. Mary's Court, Boston, MA,
02146, 1.617.734. 6372, fax at 1.617.734.1130 or by e-mail at
info@athena.com.

Stone Design's mission is to make it easy for anyone to unleash
the power of NEXTSTEP and have a great time doing it.  Incorporated
in 1984, Stone's programmers were among the first developers in
the NeXT environment.  For more information about Stone Design, or
DataPhile, contact the company at 3725 Rio Grande NW, Albuquerque,
NM  87107-3041, 1.505.345.4800, fax at 1.505.345.3424 or by e-mail
at info@stone.com.

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Mesa is a trademark of Athena Design, Inc. DataPhile is a trademark
of Stone Design, Inc. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT,
Inc. Excel and SYLK are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation  Motorola
is a trademark of Motorola, Inc. Intel is a trademark of Intel
Corporation. Other trademarks which apply belong to their respective
companies.