ATHENA DESIGN ANNOUNCES A SHORT DELAY IN SHIPPING THE NEW VERSION OF ITS
MESA SPREADSHEET for OS/2

OCTOBER 13, 1995 -- BOSTON -- Last week Athena Design announced that,
beginning yesterday, its latest version of the Mesa spreadsheet
application was going to be available free to its registered users and
would be released at a sale price of $95 for new customers. However, due
to a bug in the handling of keyboard actions during multithreaded
operations, Athena Design has removed Mesa 2.0.3 rev101 from production.
Athena Design is currently working on a solution to the bug and expects to
release an updated version early next week. Athena Design has notified the
moderators of the following forums and asked them to remove rev 101: the
CompuServe OS2AVEN forum? America OnLine, and various FTP sites. 

"While we are obviously embarrassed to have to delay release at the last
moment, we hope that our quick response has limited the impact of this bug
on our users," said David Pollak. President of Athena Design. "We
apologize for any inconvenience this has caused to any of our users. We
urge all of our current users to make sure that they are using the most
recent version 2.0.2 of Mesa until the new version is available. " 

Mesa is a full-featured, 32-bit spreadsheet offering huge, three
dimensional workbooks. The application also provides unlimited undo/redo,
multi-threaded recalculation and Workplace Shell interaction with OS/2's
color and font palettes. Mesa for OS/2 uses OS/2's REXX scripting
language. Mesa includes many unique usability features including
SmartFill, Formula Inheritance and drag and drop color and fonts. Mesa
also supports real-time data feeds from any source including financial
markets. 

Mesa for OS/2 can be purchased directly from Athena Design by calling
1.800.315.MESA or from major OS/2 resellers f or a sale price of $95 for
commercial customers and $70 for educational users. Mesa comes with 90
days of technical support via fax, and email. An additional 12-month
support contract which includes phone support is also available at a
suggested retail price of $99. 

The updated version of the Mesa for OS/2 application will be placed in the
following ftp sites upon release:

   ftp://ftp.athena.com:/pub/Mesa2/mesa203.zip
   ftp://ftp-os2.nmsu.edu/os2/demos/mesa203.zip

The updated version of Mesa will also be available on CompuServe through
the OS2AVEN forum and through America Online. Users who are unable to ftp
the software should contact their local reseller for information on
obtaining the update on floppy disks*. For more information contact the
company directly at 1.617.426.6372, or at info@athena.com.

*Local resellers should have updates by October 20, 1995. Cost of media and
shipping may be charged.

Athena Design
332 Congress St., 5th Pl.
Boston, MA 02210-1217
617-426-6372,  fax 617-426-7665
e-mail: info@athena.com
 
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