Athena Design Joins CI Labs

New York, New York - at PC Expo - June 20, 1995--Athena Design, maker of
the Mesa spreadsheet for OS/2, has joined Component Integration
Laboratories, the open industry association of Apple, Adobe, IBM, and
Novell. Athena Design makes the object-based Mesa spreadsheet application
for OS/2 and the Mesa Developer Object Kit (Mesa DOK) which allows the
integration of spreadsheet functionality into custom applications.

"We're excited to join CI Labs and be part of the industry alliance
defining the new direction for user-level object technology: OpenDoc,"
says Athena Design President David Pollak. "Our membership will allow us
to keep on top of the technology coming out of CI Labs and influence the
direction of this new standard."

Athena Design is adopting the vendor neutral OpenDoc component software
standard by implementing its Mesa spreadsheet as an OpenDoc component.
This will allow end users to benefit from the ease of use and
functionality of Mesa's object-oriented design in the framework of
OpenDoc's interoperability and cross-platform architecture.

"We're excited that Mesa is the first and only OpenDoc spreadsheet
component," says Athena Design, Inc. president David Pollak. "Our running
start is the result of our engineering group's years of experience with
object technology and the objects-to-the-core design of our Mesa
spreadsheet application."

Mesa is a powerful, object-based, full-featured, native 32-bit OS/2
spreadsheet. It takes full advantage of OS/2's multi-threading, object
oriented user interface and Workplace Shell. Mesa supports real time data
feeds, multi-threaded recalculation, and file exchange with 1-2-3 and
Excel. Mesa's SmartFill and Formula Inheritance make building a
maintaining spreadsheets easier and faster. Mesa uses OS/2's REXX
scripting and can be integrated into other applications with the Mesa
Developer Object Kit (Mesa DOK sold separately).

OpenDoc, designed to run software across multiple operating systems from
Macintosh to Windows to OS/2 to Unix, is an emerging industry standard
supported by CI Labs and its members including IBM, Apple, Adobe, Novell,
Lotus, and now Athena Design.

Athena Design Inc
332 Congress T
Boston, MA 02210-1217
617-426-6372,  fax 617-426-7665
Internet: info@athena.com

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