TOWER TECHNOLOGY TO DEVELOP SOM & OPENDOC ENABLED VERSIONS OF TOWEREIFFEL
FOR OS/2 AND AIX

Austin, Texas -- February 19, 1996 -- Tower Technology Corporation, a
leading international provider of Eiffel development tools and related
educational/consulting services, announces that it has entered into
agreement with the IBM Corporation to develop SOM and OpenDoc enabled
commercial versions of their TowerEiffel flagship development system for
OS/2 and AIX. Under terms of the agreement Tower will develop and market
the product while IBM provides Tower with technical and marketing
support.

Tower specializes in the utilization of engineering and object-oriented
approaches for developing complex scalable systems. When released,
software developers creating distributed object-oriented applications for
OS/2 and AIX will have a robust and powerful Eiffel development
environment at their disposal. They will be able to exploit an object-
oriented language and tool set specifically developed for designing and
implementing complex scalable systems.

TowerEiffel is a superior quality product which has proven itself and is
used in the finance, telecommunication and engineering industries on a
daily basis. It is an object-oriented high-level application development
system which reduces the accidental complexity inherent in software
development and enhances the overall productivity of development
resources. TowerEiffel is available today on a wide range of platforms
including: Windows NT, Windows 95, OS/2, HP/UX, SOLARIS, SunOS, SGI Iris,
Linux, and Nextstep. The TowerEiffel Development System excels in
performance, openness, and native platform support and consists of:

- Tower's proprietary implementation of an Eiffel 3 compiler which
  supports direct interoperability with C/C++.
- Tower's Integrated Development Environment.
- Programming Tools: Browsers with Class Inspector, Automated
  Documentation Generation, Team Development Support, Automated
  System Builds and more.
- Reusable software components for GUI, database, client / server,
  and numerical calculation support.
- A run-time which provides automatic memory management via user
  configurable garbage collection, and assertion and exception
  handling.
- Other key features include fast executable code, global system
  optimization, clear and precise error messages, built in support
  for testing and debugging, and serialization and persistence
  support.

Prerelease versions of the new products are scheduled to be available
during the second quarter 1996 with final release of both Standard and
Professional versions by year end. Organizations interested in early
release program information should contact Tower Technology directly at
512-452-9455 or 800-285-5124.

According to Madison Cloutier, Vice President of Marketing at Tower, "A SOM
and OpenDoc enabled version of TowerEiffel will provide a powerful and
flexible tool for developing multi-platform distributed applications.
Using the inherent strengths of the Eiffel language, companies will be
able to reduce the risks and costs associated with complex client / server
systems.

"The addition of TowerEiffel support for SOM and OpenDoc will significantly
broaden developer choices for building complex, object-oriented
applications," said Cynthia McFall, IBM Manager of Object Deployment.
"Sophisticated tools in the object environment are in high demand and
Towers' Eiffel support of our technology is a welcome addition to the
market. In addition, this new technology will further strengthen the open
industry standards that IBM promotes."

Eiffel is a non-proprietary object-oriented programming language which has
been gaining popularity among early adaptor object-oriented developers.
Eiffel is unique in that it is both a design specification and
implementation language. This allows developers to use a single language
for defining application architectures, developing reusable software
components and assembling those components. Because Eiffel has built in
support for correctness, it also provides a "Safety Net" for developers.
This boosts the overall productivity of teams developing complex systems
which will have frequent modifications and/or extensions during their
life-cycle.

SOM provides a CORBA-compliant, language-neutral environment for defining,
manipulating, and releasing binary class libraries. SOM objects are
language-neutral in the sense that they can be implemented in one
programming language and used by applications or objects written in
another programming language. SOM also provides a CORBA-compliant Object
Request Broker that allows transparent access to objects that are
distributed across address spaces or different machines.

OpenDoc allows developers, large or small, to take a modular approach to
development and maintenance. Its component-software architecture makes the
design, development, testing, and marketing of integrated software
packages far easier and more reliable. Developers can make incremental
improvements to products without a complete revision cycle and can get
those improvements to users far more rapidly than is possible today.
 
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