FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Pencom Announces Initial Release of co-Xist for HP PA-RISC
Special Beta Offer to Satisfy High Customer Demand


AUSTIN, Texas, October 28, 1994 - Pencom announces a new release of
co-Xist for NEXTSTEP on the Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC.  co-Xist is
Pencom's market leading implementation of the industry standard X11R5
windowing system.  With co-Xist, NEXTSTEP users have access to the
hundreds of X-based UNIX applications.  Within the corporate
computing environment, NEXTSTEP users can run any legacy or
custom-developed, X-based software already used within an
organization.  A complete development environment also allows the
porting of X clients to the native NEXTSTEP processor.

SPECIAL BETA OFFERING  -- Due to the extremely high customer demand
HP PA-RISC support, co-Xist 3.3 for NeXT, Intel, and Hewlett-Packard
systems is being offered initially as beta software.  According to
Frank King, president of Pencom Software, "With the number of large
end-user organizations already utilizing co-Xist that had requested
the HP release, we had a more than adequate beta program in place."
"However," King continued, "with the extremely high demand for this
product, we chose not to limit its initial release to only those
preferred customers.  Instead, we are making this offer of co-Xist
beta at a special price to all NEXTSTEP for HP PA-RISC users."  Those
users who purchase the beta release will not only benefit from using
the product immediately, but will also receive the final release
automatically at no cost and avoid the subsequent price increase.
The final release of co-Xist 3.3, is scheduled for December 1, 1994.

NOW ACCEPTING PRE-ORDERS  -- Pencom is also now accepting pre-orders
for the new release of co-Xist.  By pre-ordering co-Xist 3.3 before
the December 1st ship date, NEXTSTEP users on NeXT and Intel systems
can also take advantage of current pricing and avoid scheduled price
increases.

co-Xist allows users to:

- Eliminate costly development efforts with the ability to run and
develop standard X applications on local or remote platforms.
- Exchange data easily between NEXTSTEP and other windowing
environments with full cut-and-paste capability.
- Work with preferred window manager environments including Tab,
Motif, and NEXTSTEP.
- Rapidly search through X and Motif documentation with Digital
Librarian.
- Edit and launch frequently-used X applications with a single
point-and-click.

co-Xist also includes:

- A Multi-Architecture Binary for easy and efficient network
installation accessible by all supported platforms.
- GUI-based Installation simplifies installation and set-up by
eliminating the need for running scripts in the installation process.
- Release 1.2.3 of the Open Software Foundation's Motif.
- A collection of public domain X-based applications are included,
pre-compiled for both architectures in binary and source formats.
These include the NCSA's popular Mosaic, xv, xrn, a selection of
games and many others. (Final release only.)


FOR SALES INFORMATION -- call 1-800-PENCOM-4 or e-mail
co-Xist_info@pencom.com (please confirm if you can receive NeXT Mail
and specify platforms of interest). Or, point your WWW client to;

http://www.pencom.com/co-Xist/


For press information, contact Matthew Waters, Pencom Software,
9050 Capital of Texas Highway North, Austin, Texas, 78759. Ph:
512-343-6666. Fax: 512-343-9650. e-mail:  matthew@pencom.com.

Pencom Systems Incorporated is a $50 million technical recruiting and
software services firm focused solely on open systems computing.
Pencom is unique in it's ability to provide the entire suite of
services necessary for open systems computing, including:  technical
staffing, systems integration services, and products.

co-Xist is a trademark of Pencom Systems, Inc. NEXTSTEP is a
registered trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc.  All other brand names
mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners.

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