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NEWS - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information please contact:
Xanthus USA
David Peter
Phone: +1-619-730-0370
Fax: +1-619-730-0373
Email: info@xanthus.com
Xanthus International
Jesper Lundh
Phone: +46-8-635 30 62
Fax: +46-8-98 70 67
Email: info@xanthus.se
XANTHUS ANNOUNCES $149 COMPETITIVE "UPGRADE TO OPENWRITE" PROMOTION
Special Offer to users of WriteNow, WordPerfect, WriteUp and Pages
San Diego, CA, December 17, 1994 -- Xanthus International today
announced that there are only two weeks left to take advantage of
the company's special "Upgrade to OpenWrite" promotion for its
powerful new word processor for NEXTSTEP(tm). Users of any word
processor for NEXTSTEP, including WriteNow(tm), WordPerfect(tm),
WriteUp(tm), Pages(tm), FrameMaker(tm) or PasteUp(tm), may purchase
a single-user license of OpenWrite(tm) for only $149. The offer is
good through the end of the year.
"Not only are we providing a powerful migration solution to users
of WriteNow and WordPerfect, which are no longer available for
NEXTSTEP, but we strongly feel that every current user of a word
processing product on NEXTSTEP will benefit from upgrading to
OpenWrite." said David Peter, Vice President of Sales for Xanthus
USA. "OpenWrite provides the functionality, familiarity, and features
of Microsoft Word, at an affordable price. It's what the NEXTSTEP
market has needed all along." Peter added.
The product's advanced import and export capabilities allow it to
open a company's existing WriteNow and WordPerfect documents, as
well as those from virtually any popular word processors for the
Mac or PC. "The integration is seamless" noted Jesper Lundh,
President of Xanthus, "users can simply double-click to open their
existing files in OpenWrite, then save them as OpenWrite documents
or in a format that can be shared with other users on their network,
not matter what type of computer and word processor they have on
their desktop."
OpenWrite is currently compiled tri-fat and will run on Motorola,
Intel and HP PA-RISC based computers. A release for Sparc processors
will be available in Q1, 95. Xanthus is fully committed to supporting
every hardware platform that NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP run on.
TRY BEFORE YOU BUY
A fully licensable version of OpenWrite is available via FTP from:
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/next/demos/editors/OpenWrite_README_1.0
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/next/demos/editors/OpenWrite_1.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/next/demos/editors/OpenWrite_Converters_1.0.tar.
gz
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/next/demos/editors/OpenWrite_Extras_1.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/next/demos/editors/OpenWrite_Developer_1.0.tar.gz
OpenWrite_README_1.0 Info about this release of OpenWrite
OpenWrite_1.0.tar.gz The OpenWrite application
OpenWrite_Converters_1.0.tar.gz File conversion filters for OpenWrite
OpenWrite_Extras_1.0.tar.gz OpenMerge and OOE demo applications
OpenWrite_Developer_1.0.tar.gz Demos and source for OW API and OOE
DETAILS OF THE OFFER
- One single-user license per customer
- Orders must be received no later than December 31, 1994
- Tax will be added to orders shipped within California
- Shipping charges are $10 per order in the U.S. ($30 international)
- OpenWrite is shipped on CD ROM or available via ftp
To qualify for the competitive upgrade price, the following must be submitted
with your order:
- A copy of the cover of the user manual of your current word processor
or
- The serial number of your NEXT computer
To request an order form, please contact Xanthus USA directly:
Xanthus USA
800 Grand Ave., Suite A20
Carlsbad, CA 92008
Ph. (619) 730-0370
Fax (619) 730-0373
Email: sales@xanthus.com (NEXTMAIL Accepted)
OTHER SPECIAL OFFERS
Xanthus also announced that it will begin shipping its Open Office
Suite, which includes: OpenWrite; Questor(tm), the company's high-end
spreadsheet application; and Graphity(tm), a 3D presentation charting
and graphing application. The Suite, which has a retail price of
$895 will be available at a special introductory price of $695
through December 31.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Xanthus International AB, with offices in Stockholm, Sweden, and
San Diego, California, is a privately owned software development
company that specializes in productivity software for the NEXTSTEP
platform. Xanthus is 49% owned by the Swedish networking company
Upnet (Upnod Networks AB). Upnet is one of Sweden's most successful
and expanding networking companies with offices located in Sweden
and Norway. The Upnet Group includes 12 companies, has a total of
151 employees and expects sales in excess of $48 million this fiscal
year.
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