MapInfo Corporation Launches MapInfo for Power Mac v.4

ENHANCED PERFORMANCE, IMPROVED USABILITY AND MAPBASIC DEVELOPMENT
ENVIRONMENT DELIVER THE POWER OF DESKTOP MAPPING TO MACINTOSH PLATFORM

Troy, N.Y.--May 13, 1996--MapInfo Corporation (NASDAQ: MAPS), the
recognized leader in desktop mapping software for nearly a decade, today
announced MapInfo for Power Mac, the highest performing desktop mapping
software package designed specifically for the Power Macintosh.

MapInfo for Power Mac provides Macintosh users with the power of desktop
mapping to spatially view and analyze data for highly efficient and
informed decision-making. Developed to fully leverage the memory manager
in Power Macintosh, the new product delivers industry leading performance
and response times that are up to five times faster than the previous
version. The product ships bundled with more than 90 data products,
including worldwide maps and statistics to optimize a wide range of
applications. It offers improved usability, new labeling capabilities,
seamless map sheets, improved digitizing and new tools and sample
applications.

Mac users are always looking for ways to better manage and analyze volumes
of data to make effective day-to-day decisions," said Jeanie Doty, product
manager for MapInfo for Power Mac. "This latest version is a
start-to-finish native Power Mac desktop mapping package that enables
users to take full advantage of Power Mac performance for spatial analysis
of data. Users will immediately benefit from enhancements in key functions
such as intensive database operations and thematic mapping.

MapInfo for Power Mac is the premier product for data presentation and
analysis, particularly for users in academic and scientific fields.
MapInfo for Power Mac is a critical tool in our HUD-supported project to
manage, plot and analyze water main breakage data throughout the City of
Greensboro," explained Dr. Emmanuel Nzewi, associate professor of civil
engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. "The software takes
full advantage of the Macintosh platform enabling our team to accurately
determine the spatial distribution and frequency of breakages within
Greenboro's water distribution system. With the advanced digitizing and
autotrace capabilities available in the new product, digitizing operations
can be completed faster--nearly 300% faster--allowing us to more
efficiently pinpoint areas with significant pipeline vulnerabilities,"
continued Nzewi.

COMPREHENSIVE DATA SETS

MapInfo for Power Mac is bundled with the industry's highest quality and
most comprehensive data sets for "out-of-the-box" use in a wide range of
applications. The product will ship with more than 300 Mbytes of worldwide
data and maps including: U.S. ZIP Code, county and state boundaries;
Claritas Trendline demographic data; business data from Market Statistics;
a high quality U.S. raster map; North American, European and Asian Pacific
administrative boundaries; international road networks and much more.

CUSTOMIZED APPLICATIONS WITH MAPBASIC

MapInfo will also ship MapBasic for Power Mac v4, MapInfo's development
environment for custom applications. Using MapBasic, resellers and
developers can easily create custom desktop mapping applications for a
wide range of vertical markets, or integrate mapping capability in
existing applications.

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY

MapInfo for Power Mac, available for Power Macintosh users only, is priced
at $695 and will ship in May. The MapBasic development environment for
Power Mac is priced at $395 and will ship concurrently with MapInfo for
Power Mac. Special upgrade pricing of $99 for MapInfo for Power Mac and
$99 for MapBasic for Power Mac will be offered to current MapInfo for
Macintosh customers through June 25. After June 25, standard upgrade
pricing will be $149 for MapInfo for Power Mac and $149 for MapBasic for
Power Mac.

ABOUT MAPINFO

MapInfo Corporation (Troy, N.Y.) is the worldwide leader in desktop mapping
solutions with products in use by 150,000 customers in virtually every
industry, to organize, arrange and analyze information in a highly visual
way. The company's products are available in 58 countries and 16 languages
and are sold through multi-channel distribution involving direct sales,
resellers and distributors. MapInfo's software runs on Power Macintosh,
Macintosh, Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 3.1.x, , Sun and
Hewlett-Packard platforms. MapInfo Corporation is on the World Wide Web at
http://www.mapinfo.com.
 
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