FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For product information, contact: Robin Shields 415/570-7736, ext.10 robin@lighthouse.com For press information, contact: Angela Grady 415/570-7736, ext. 30 angela@lighthouse.com Lighthouse Design Ships Quantrix 1.0 for NEXTSTEP Powerful multi-dimensional spreadsheet includes API for custom application developers, and is compatible with Lotus Improv DECEMBER 15, 1994 - SAN MATEO, CA - Lighthouse Design, Ltd. today announced that it has shipped Quantrix 1.0, a multi-dimensional spreadsheet application, to the object-oriented NEXTSTEP, operating environment. "Quantrix is an extraordinary addition to Lighthouse's product family," said Jonathan Schwartz, president of Lighthouse Design, Ltd. "The application presents an industrial strength framework for the development of custom analytical applications, and a uniquely approachable interface to spreadsheet analysis. Quantrix has already been successfully deployed in several large-scale enterprises across the globe." "Lighthouse developed Quantrix in under one year, demonstrating the advantage our object environment provides to application developers," said Steven P. Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "This is just the kind of competitive edge forward thinking corporate and shrink-wrapped developers can expect from the software industry's only shipping object environment." Quantrix allows users to describe and manipulate data in terms of categories, rather than rows and columns. This approach allows users to write plain English formulas such as "Gross Revenue = Product Revenue + Service Revenue," rather than "$a27=b17+$c$31." Coupled with data tabs for fast navigation, unlimited undo and redo, multiple views and smart cells, Quantrix makes complex financial models and reports easy to create and share with others. Quantrix is compatible with Lotus Improv for NeXT and Windows, as well as ParaSheet, Lighthouse Design's traditional rows and columns spreadsheet. Quantrix includes a fully object-oriented application programmer's interface (API) that supports NEXTSTEP distributed objects (DO), and provides complete programmatic access to all aspects of the application. The Quantrix spreadsheet framework is optimized for large data sets and substantially reduces the development effort required to build and deploy custom financial applications. Quantrix is a key addition to Lighthouse Design's growing line of products, which now includes Diagram!, a drawing program for information graphics; Concurrence, a presentation and outlining package; ParaSheet, a traditional rows and columns spreadsheet; WriteUp, a general-purpose word processor; VarioData, a multi-user workgroup database; TaskMaster, a project and resource management application; WetPaint, a painting and image manipulation program; and the Foundation Classes, a library of reusable objects for custom developers. Lighthouse is also an authorized reseller of Frame Technology Corporation's FrameMaker, 3.2 on NEXTSTEP for Intel, the industry's premier document publishing package. Quantrix is available now for the Intel-, Motorola- and HP PA-RISC-based versions of NEXTSTEP 3.2 or later. Quantrix is priced at $895. Site licenses are available as well as academic discounts. Lighthouse Design is dedicated to delivering unsurpassed productivity to enterprise developers and end-users of NEXTSTEP and OpenStep. The company is located at 2929 Campus Drive, San Mateo, CA 94403. For further information on Lighthouse Design and its products, contact Lighthouse Design, Ltd. directly at 1-800-366-2279 or 1-415-570-7736, or send electronic mail to info@lighthouse.com, or see Lighthouse Design's World Wide Web page at http://www.lighthouse.com/. -30- Lighthouse Design, Ltd., Quantrix, Diagram!, Concurrence, ParaSheet, VarioData, TaskMaster, WetPaint, the Foundation Classes and the Lighthouse logo are trademarks of Lighthouse Design, Ltd. NeXT and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. Improv is a trademark of Lotus Development Corporation. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. FrameMaker is a registered trademark of Frame Technology Corporation. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.