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Item 4711601 93/01/27 15:27
From: CONRAD_GEIGER@NEXT.COM@INET# Internet Gateway
Subject: Announcing NoteBook:Information Processing Application for NeXTSTEP
Millennium Software Labs Defines Emerging Application Category on NeXTSTEP
Computers
Contact: Jayson Adams, CEO, or Scott Love, President Millennium Software Labs
1010 El Camino Real, Suite 300 Menlo Park, CA, 94025 (415) 321-3720 Phone
(415) 321-3650 Fax Email: info@millennium.com
Company introduces NoteBook, an object-oriented software application that
improves information processing productivity for individuals
MENLO PARK, California, January 27, 1993 - Millennium Software Labs announced
today that NoteBook, its new breakthrough software application for the
NeXTSTEP operating system, shipped last week. The product defines information
processing, an emerging application category for personal productivity and
information management on commercial desktop systems.
Jayson Adams, Millennium's CEO, Chief Scientist and co-founder, remarked, "We
met our original goal of first customer ship by January, 1993 and we're very
proud of this achievement. NoteBook marks an important milestone in the
NeXTSTEP marketplace as well. NeXTSTEP's outstanding object-oriented
architecture allowed us to develop and deliver a high-quality commercial
application with just over 9 person-months of development time, an impossible
accomplishment under any other software development environment available
today. NoteBook for NeXTSTEP clearly demonstrates that NeXT holds an
important commercial lead over Microsoft, IBM, Apple and the rest of the
software industry in delivering on the promise of object-oriented technology.
It's worldclass and it's available today."
NoteBook is a new product for an emerging application category that Millennium
defines as information processing. Scott Love, Millennium's President and co-
founder explains, "Individuals have a great need to store, organize, and
retrieve unstructured information, and yet no real tools exist to directly
assist them with this task. For example, electronic mail inundates users with
information of varying importance, and no simple way exists to clip and store
portions of messages, and then later retrieve them. The beauty of NoteBook is
that rather than forcing users to conform to computer-oriented information
management, such as a typical database system, NoteBook presents users with
very familiar metaphors so that storing and organizing information is simple,
and then works with a user's associative memory processes to help them
retrieve the stored information."
NoteBook has been designed for users seeking a convenient way to manage and
organize the everyday flow of information and ideas. It's a revolutionary
application whose power comes from two breakthroughs. First, NoteBook uniquely
combines an outline processor for creating lists of information with a visual
notebook metaphor for managing these lists. Together, they make storing and
organizing information simple and elegant. Second, NoteBook employs "Dynamic
Index Views technology" (Patent Pending 1992), allowing users to instantly
view "cross-sections" of their information. It's like having the power of a
sophisticated database query system without the complexity.
NoteBook's simplicity and flexibility make it applicable to a wide range of
information processing tasks. Users can create intelligent notepads for
jotting notes and ideas; clip and store important electronic mail messages
for fast retrieval; or even organize fax documents, news clippings, project
tasks, agenda outlines, to-do lists, meeting notes and diagrams. Whenever
users start a new project or plan, chances are they'll use NoteBook to help
manage their information flow. NoteBook is truly a productivity application
for individuals.
"We ran an extensive test drive program to determine what NoteBook
applications users would create and why," said Mr. Adams. "The results
indicate that NoteBook has several key productivity applications, and that our
customers will continually discover unique uses. The response from key
NeXTSTEP customers has been very positive and enthusiastic. We fully expect
users and large organizations to add NoteBook to their application suites
immediately."
In addition to helping individuals manage personal information, NoteBook is a
powerful tool for publishing and sharing information within a group. Groups
can store and display electronic libraries of images, charts and graphs. They
can create telephone directories, company policy handbooks and briefing books,
accessible through network file libraries. And individuals can easily
distribute NoteBook-stored information just by clicking and dragging. Whether
an individual or an enterprise- wide team, NoteBook promises to dramatically
improve the way people access and utilize information.
NoteBook Release 1.1 has a suggested retail price of $495.95 and runs on
NeXTSTEP Release 2.1 and higher. Engage! Release 1.1 is also shipping, and
has a suggested retail price of $99.00. Millennium products are sold direct
to qualified corporate customers as well as through authorized resellers.
Customers can order products today by calling 800 732-9009, or by contacting
Millennium at their offices in Menlo Park, CA at (415) 321-3720.
Millennium Software Labs, Inc. is a privately-held startup founded by Jayson
Adams and Scott Love, former employees of NeXT Computer, Inc. Millennium
develops and markets personal productivity software for NeXTSTEP-based
computer systems. The company's mission is to develop state-of-the-art
applications for information management. Product design and architecture are
based entirely on NeXTSTEP, the most advanced object-oriented software
technology available today.
For more information about this press release, contact Jayson Adams, CEO, or
Scott Love, President. Millennium Software Labs is located at 1010 El Camino
Real, Suite 300, Menlo Park, CA, 94025.
Phone: (415)321-3720, Fax:(415) 321-3650, Email: info@millennium.com.
Keywords: computers, technology, software, Millennium Software Labs,
NoteBook, NeXT, NeXTSTEP
c 1993 Millennium Software Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Dynamic Index
Views, Engage! and the Millennium logo are trademarks of Millennium Software
Labs, Inc. NeXT and NeXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. Any and
all other brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective owners.