FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Alembic / Object Technologies, Inc. 14 Inverness Drive East, Suite G-228 Englewood, Colorado 80112 Toll Free: 1-800-452-7608 Phone: 1-303-799-6223 Fax: 1-303-799-1435 E-mail: info@alembic.com Alembic / Object Technologies Offers Pentium OpenStation for NeXTStep ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO - December 1, 1994. Alembic / Object Technologies, Inc. announced today the release of the first of its new Alembic OpenStations for NEXTSTEP / OpenStep. "This hardware portion of our bundled NEXTSTEP Complete Solution Systems (NCSS) provides a means to bring NEXTSTEP to even the most budget conscious consumer", says Jim Pratt, President of Alembic / Object Technologies, "We now have a robust Pentium machine which provides a economical solution for NEXTSTEP in addition to our line of Canon object.stations and Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC workstations". The Basic OpenStation is a 90 MHz Pentium based system designed as an inexpensive deployment workstation while still providing the performance necessary to operate in a NEXTSTEP networking environment. The Basic Development OpenStation is built around the need for multiple threads and extensive object libraries and development tools. The OpenStation is also designed with expandibility in mind, and can be converted for use as a low-cost server. Alembic provides a complete line of hardware as part of their NEXTSTEP Complete Solution Systems (NCSS). Bundle configurations exist for all needs as well as customized indiviudal and network systems. Alembic, in addition to offering the new OpenStation, has arrangements in place to offer several solution specific software bundles ranging from a Basic Student Package which includes both NEXTSTEP User and Development environments (including Enterprise Objects Framework) and over 600 Mb of software on three CDs, to a fully loaded Internet Graphics Package which includes all the software for applications development, Internet access, and Graphics / Presentation Design. Users may choose to go for a more science oriented product which is why Alembic also supplies an Internet Science Package which includes all the latest software for Graphics / Presentation Design, Mathematical and Statistical Modelling, as well as the Internet Connectivity Tools. For the commercial user, Alembic, also has specially packaged Basic User, Basic Developer, Advanced Developer , and Power Development Systems. Leasing is available for commercial and institutional clients. All systems are pre-configured to run directly out of the box, and requires only minimal adjustments to activate the Internet functions according to the user's environment. "The OpenStation is the latest chapter in bringing NEXTSTEP to the everyday user. We believe NEXTSTEP is an operating system which should be acceptable to both indivduals as well as companies. With the support of our vendors, the NEXTSTEP advantage will become more than just leverage, it will become accessability. We have dedicated ourselves to this task, and in addition to the dedication our strategic partners have shown to servicing the NEXTSTEP community, we will provide the highest level of support and service available anywhere." ############### Alembic / Object Technologies, Inc., with access to vendors, consultants, and hardware manufacturers, is the largest distributor of NeXTStep Complete System Solutions (NCSS) in the world with resellers in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Pretoria, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emeriates, United States, and the United Kingdom. Customer service is directly available in English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese from our Englewood, Colorado office.