Waterloo Maple Software Announces Support for OpenDoc

New York - PC EXPO - June 20, 1995 - Waterloo Maple Software (WMS) is
announcing today that it plans to market its current and future products
for mathematics as OpenDoc containers and parts. Waterloo Maple Software's
support for the OpenDoc standard is part of its overall strategy to
provide technology for symbolic mathematics, numeric computation, and data
visualization as modular components.

Through Waterloo Maple Software's OpenDoc components, their customers can
use the power of symbolic computation in any OpenDoc-compliant application
they prefer, as well as in WMS's flagship product, Maple V. WMS will be
producing OpenDoc parts for computations with symbolic equations, equation
editing, and 2D and 3D graphing. In addition, the Maple V worksheet will
evolve into an OpenDoc container capable of including OpenDoc parts from
any other software package.

"We are taking a leading role in producing OpenDoc components for the
market for technical professionals,'' states Dieter Hensler, President and
CEO of Waterloo Maple Software. "Trying to increase the number of
customers by increasing product features ad infinitum just doesn't make
sense. It's our strategy to concentrate on our core strengths and to make
them widely available. Our support for OpenDoc is a continuation of our
commitment to interoperability, open systems and partnerships with other
software producers."

Producing and licensing components has already been a part of Waterloo
Maple Software' s plans for two years. It provides some of the leading
providers of scientific and mathematical software including The MathWorks,
Visual Numerics, TCI Software Research and MathSoft, with components for
high-end mathematical computations. Recently, through its MathOffice
product, WMS supplied users of Microsoft Word with a component engine for
mathematics that supported in-place symbolic computations and mathematical
graphs. The adoption of OpenDoc is an important next step for WMS's
component technology strategy.

"OpenDoc is a part of our product plans for several other important
reasons," remarks Chris Howlett, Director of WMS's R&D Division. "It will
be available for multiple platforms, including Windows, Mac OS, and UNIX.
This will be a big advantage in helping our developers consolidate their
efforts as well as providing our institutional customers with software
that will behave the same way on all important platforms. It will also
give technical professionals tremendous flexibility. Currently we are
working with developers at other software companies to offer the combined
strengths of different programs working together. With OpenDoc, users
won't have to wait for our joint teams of developers to put these products
together; they can do it themselves."

Subhashis Mohanty, a developer at Waterloo Maple Software, agrees. "It will
be dead easy for endusers to perform integration of applications that took
people like myself weeks or months to accomplish by writing C code. As an
end-user myself, I find OpenDoc very powerful and flexible. Moreover, as a
developer I found the OpenDoc development environment much easier to use
than any other component development environment." Within a few days of
participation at a developers workshop sponsored by Cl Labs, Mohanty was
able to convert a large portion of the Maple V product into an OpenDoc
part that provided high end computational services to other applications.

Waterloo Maple Software plans to make its OpenDoc components for
computation, equation editing, and graphics available to other software
developers by the end of this year. The release of future versions of its
products, Maple V, Theorist and Expressionist, in 1996 will include both
OpenDoc containers and OpenDoc parts.

Waterloo Maple Software is a global leader in developing mathematical
software for technical professionals and for the education market. Its
core technologies are built upon world-class research in symbolic
mathematics at the University of Waterloo and at ETH, Zurich. The
company's product line includes Maple V, Theorist, MathEdge, Expressionist
and MathOffice. Waterloo Maple Software's technologies are also integrated
into products by The MathWorks (MATLAB), Visual Numerics (PV-Wave), TCI
Software Research (Scientific WorkPlace), and MathSoft (Mathcad). Its
corporate headquarters is in Waterloo, Ontario and its international
headquarters is in Heidelberg, Germany.

Waterloo Maple Software
450 Phillip St
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 5J2
519-747-2373, 800-267-6583,  fax 519-747-5284
Internet: info@maplesoft.on.ca

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