KL Group Launches Olectra Components For Windows

Olectra Chart Offers Advanced 2D & 3D Controls

(Toronto, Ont. -- April 15, 1996) KL Group Inc., today announced Olectra, a
new product line of Windows based GUI components. The Olectra line joins
KL Group's award winning XRT family of GUI components, a standard
throughout the Unix development community. The first release in the new
line is Olectra Chart, which brings KL Group's advanced charting
technology to Windows developers, in both OCX and DLL formats.

Olectra Chart contains a 2D and 3D OLE/ActiveX control that lets Windows
developers add sophisticated charts such as area graphs, X-Y plots, bar
charts, pie charts, combination graphs, financial graphs, logarithmic
scientific charts, 3D bars and surfaces, and contour plots to their
applications. Olectra Chart supports a wide variety of end-user
interactions such as rotating, zooming and scaling. Users can reach all
chart properties through a tabbed folder interface. Applications built
with Olectra Chart can be distributed free of any run-time fees or
royalties.

"We've been using Olectra Chart to build a network management application
and have found the quality to be rock solid. The advantage for us is the
ability to quickly build a powerful interface with minimal investment on
our part. The performance is great, and the technical support has been
awesome," enthused Gerry Claflin, an R&D project manager at
Hewlett-Packard, and a beta user of Olectra Chart.

"Charting is an important differentiator for our applications," said Kevin
Koenig, director of development at StonyBrook Software. "We found that
Olectra Chart had features the competition couldn't touch. Its fast
performance and overall flexibility are unmatched. The built-in zooming
and rotation features provided us with functionality we didn't think
possible."

Olectra Chart supports functionality never before available to Windows
developers including:

* Two OCXs and Two DLLs - Hundreds of well-structured properties, methods
and events in Olectra Chart enable construction and control of virtually
any graph.

* Fast Updates and Double Buffering - Developers can build scrolling strip
charts and easily add real-time updates.

* Robust and Flexible Axis Labels - Developers can create great looking
charts no matter how users resize them, with robust and flexible axis
labels including dynamic time/date labels.

* Unlimited Chart Labels - Annotations can be added anywhere with Olectra
Chart's flexible chart labels.

* Dynamic Response - Built-in hit detection enables programmers to define
dynamic responses to user events, such as zooms and drill downs.

* 3D Contouring and Charting - Auto/custom contouring and zoning,
auto/custom axis labels, projections and many other features are included
with Olectra Chart's 3D control. 4D surface graphs and bar charts are also
supported.

Olectra Chart will begin shipping to customers on June 21, 1996 for an
introductory price of $249 US, and comes with a 30-day satisfaction
guarantee. Olectra Chart will be demonstrated at the KL Group booth at
Microsoft Tech Ed '96, April 15 - 19 in Los Angeles, CA.

About the Companies

KL GROUP develops and markets the XRT family of GUI components for Motif,
Olectra components for Windows, and JClass components for Java. Founded in
1989, KL Group has posted an operating profit for more than 20 consecutive
quarters, while maintaining a yearly growth rate of 50% or higher. KL
Group's products are sold from their corporate offices in Toronto, and
internationally through a world-wide channel of qualified resellers. For
more information telephone (416) 594-1026 or info@klg.com. Visit KL Group
on the world wide web at http://www.klg.com.
 
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