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<p>ZAT FULFILLS PROMISE OF CROSS-PLATFORM AUTHORING<br />
FOR INTERNET APPLICATIONS WITH SPIN FOR MACINTOSH</p>
<p>PORTLAND, OR - February 25, 1999 - Zat, Inc., a provider of<br />
standards-based visual development environments and authoring tools,<br />
today announced Macintosh support for Spin, the company's premier<br />
Internet application authoring tool. Spin 1.0 for Macintosh makes it<br />
possible for teams of content developers to use a mix of Windows and<br />
Macintosh machines when authoring Internet applications. Spin 1.0 for<br />
Windows 95/98/NT was announced earlier this month.</p>
<p>"Cross-platform authoring has long been a dream of content<br />
developers," said Wm Leler, chief technology officer and a founder of<br />
Zat. "With Spin, you can develop content that transparently runs on<br />
dozens of platforms without alteration. In addition, the authoring<br />
tool itself runs on multiple platforms, so content developers don't<br />
have to purchase multiple versions to author for multiple platforms."</p>
<p>"The Zat product provides the best implementation I have seen to<br />
date," said Bill Stewart, project lead of Quicktime for Java at Apple<br />
Computer. "Based on our knowledge of existing and emerging tools, we<br />
believe that Zat's product has the potential to become a dominant<br />
authoring tool for the Internet."</p>
<p>Spin 1.0 is the first authoring tool for Internet applications that<br />
enables development of both server- and client-side applications by<br />
non-programmers. The new product leverages the simplicity of the<br />
JavaBeans architecture and a revolutionary authoring technology to<br />
make it possible for professionals such as web designers and<br />
businesspeople to create interactive, distributed applications for<br />
Ecommerce, intranets, entertainment, and education.</p>
<p>"Spin is written in Java, so we are able to use the same code for our<br />
Macintosh and Windows products," said Philip Goward, VP of<br />
Engineering and a founder of Zat. "With the identical application<br />
running on both Macintosh and Windows, Spin provides a stable and<br />
robust solution for what has been a real stumbling block for content<br />
developers."</p>
<p>Price and Availability</p>
<p>Spin Developer Release is priced at $495 and is available<br />
immediately. Purchasers of the developer release will receive a free<br />
upgrade to Spin 1.0, available in late summer, 1999. The estimated<br />
retail price of Spin 1.0 is $1,495. Multi-user licenses for Spin 1.0<br />
are also available. Spin Developer Release 1.0 for Macintosh requires<br />
MRJ (Macintosh Runtime for Java) 2.1, freely available from Apple.<br />
Spin 1.0 supports Win95, WinNT, and Macintosh as development<br />
platforms. Applications developed with Spin can be deployed on<br />
virtually any operating system that<br />
includes a Java Virtual Machine.</p>
<p>Zat, Inc.</p>
<p>Zat, Inc. is a provider of standards-based visual development<br />
environments and development tools for non-programmers and software<br />
developers. Zat was founded in 1997 by Dr. Wm Leler and Mr. Philip<br />
Goward. Dr. Leler is a former software developer and manager at<br />
Autodesk, Tektronix Research Labs, Cogent Research, and Texas<br />
Instruments. Mr. Goward is a former manager at ParcPlace Systems and<br />
Presidio Systems and developer of several successful software<br />
products. The company is privately funded and headquartered in<br />
Portland, OR. Zat can be contacted at 503-228-6225, <a href="mailto:info@zat.com">info@zat.com</a>, or<br />
at <a href="http://www.zat.com" title="http://www.zat.com">http://www.zat.com</a>. Screen shots of Spin are available on the Zat<br />
web site.</p>
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