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ATHENA DESIGN, INC. TO SHOW
WORLD'S FIRST OPENDOC SPREADSHEET PART
JULY 25, 1994, BOSTON, MA P Athena Design, Inc. will show its
advanced object-oriented spreadsheet and associated OpenDoc part at
Object World in San Francisco this month.
*We're wicked excited that Mesa <<TM>> 2 is the first OpenDoc
spreadsheet part,: says Athena Design, Inc. president David Pollak.
*It's a result of our engineering group's years of experience with
object technology and the objects-to-the-core design of our Mesa 2
application."
Cliff Reeves, director of object enabling technology at IBM's
Personal Software Products Division, said *The Mesa 2 spreadsheet
component is noteworthy because it is a high-utility, high-quality
software component that can be exploited in a variety of
applications. We are entering a new era in software development as
innovative developers can focus their skills on high-value areas and
profit quickly without having to build and market monolithic
applications that have more features than most people need."
*I am delighted to see the value that Athena Design is creating for
their customers through the use of OS/2's native, object-oriented
technology,: said Dave Harrington, director of software development
programs at IBM's Personal Software Products Division. *Developing
applications from object-oriented components will likely be the wave
of the future for application development. Athena Design has caught
that wave early and their customers should be the beneficiaries.:
*Athena Design's Mesa 2 OpenDoc spreadsheet part is an excellent
example of how quickly developers are adopting the OpenDoc philosophy
of componentized applications and object-oriented environments,:
comments Jed Harris, executive director of Component Integration
Laboratories (CI Labs).
OpenDoc, designed to run software across multiple operating systems
from Macintosh to Windows to OS/2 to Unix, is an emerging industry
standard supported by IBM, Apple, WordPerfect, Novell, Lotus,
Borland, Oracle, Taligent, and now Athena Design.
Mesa 2 and the spreadsheet part can be seen at the IBM booth (booth #
807) at Object World in San Francisco's Moscone Center July 27-29.
Athena Design, Inc. will be launching the Mesa 2 Personal Edition
<<TM>> at the special introductory price of $99. This offer, good for
a limited time only, will include a discount on upgrades and 90 days
of free technical support via e-mail or fax. The Mesa 2 introductory
offer includes on-line help, and users who would like to order
printed documentation may purchase a manual for an additional $19.95.
Mesa 2 for OS/2 includes all of the features which made its
award-winning counterpart, Mesa for NEXTSTEP <<R>>, the best-selling
object-oriented spreadsheet. Mesa for NEXTSTEP received the 1992
*Best of Breed: award from NEXTWORLD Magazine for data modeling
tools. As a native application, Mesa 2 takes advantage of OS/2
features including SOM, OpenDoc, multi-threading and the
object-oriented user interface. In addition, Mesa 2 includes MOLI
<<TM>> P the Mesa Object Library Interface P so that customers can
integrate Mesa objects into their own line-of business applications.
Athena Design, Inc. was founded in 1989 by David Pollak to
manufacture and sell spreadsheet software for 32-bit operating
environments. For more information about Athena Design or Mesa
spreadsheet software, contact the company at 1.617.734.6372, fax at
1.617.734.1130 or by e-mail at info@athena.com.
Mesa and MOLI are trademarks of Athena Design, Inc. OS/2 is a
registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Corporation. Other
trademarks which apply belong to their respective companies.