AIMTECH AND SONY ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING TO LINK MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING TOOLS

Sony's Full Text Retrieval and AimTech's IconAuthor Soon Compatible

NASHUA, N.H., March 30, 1993 -- AimTech Corporation and Sony Electronic
Publishing Company today announced plans to develop multimedia authoring
software which will combine two powerful applications. The combination of
Sony Electronic Publishing's FTR Advanced Hypermedia Software Tools,
marketed by its Publishers Data Service Corporation (PDSC) and AimTech's
IconAuthor, will provide complete authoring capabilities to multimedia and
CD-ROM publishers, and will be one of the most powerful software authoring
tools available.

"The real beauty of this announcement is that two great development tools
just got better," says Rick Fisher, national sales and marketing manager,
PDSC. "Our full text retrieval software provides one of the most powerful
search and retrieval engines available. And AimTech's IconAuthor visual
programming environment is unrivaled. The combination provides developers
with the ability to easily create training or educational CD-ROM
applications that can still offer sophisticated search and retrieval
capabilities."

"Now, our customers can take advantage of Sony's lightning-fast search and
retrieval technology to access large volumes of information on CD," said
Usman Ismail, AimTech's president and CEO. "The net result is a more
integrated learning environment that helps seamlessly integrate CBT
courseware with electronic books to create very robust applications."

PDSC's FTR/Build and FTR/API (Application Program Interface) is a
full-featured hypermedia software toolset designed to meet the data
indexing and retrieval needs of multimedia CD applications. FTR provides
maximum flexibility in developing multimedia applications/hyperlinks
between a variety of media forms; and user interfaces that best fit the
user's application requirements, as well as provides essential feedback
during the development process. FTR allows you to search up to 280,000
pages of hierarchically organized, cross-referenced text information with
hyperlinks to multiple multimedia elements such as audio, images,
animation and motion video.

AimTech's IconAuthor is a comprehensive multimedia authoring tool that
nonprogrammers choose to create highly sophisticated interactive
multimedia applications on Windows, Modular Windows, and UNIX platforms
running OSF/Motif. Featuring built-in editors, database and unlimited
user-defined variables, IconAuthor provides full support for both analog
and digital full-motion video. As applications are developed, they can be
run, tested, and edited in real time.

AimTech will be showing a prototype of these combined technologies at the
intermedia '93 Show in San Jose, California, March 30-April 1 (booth
#1516).

Publishers Data Service Corporation provides authoring software and
comprehensive technical support to assist companies in becoming electronic
and optical publishers. Sony Electronic Publishing Company creates,
produces, and distributes multimedia software products for the business,
entertainment and educational markets. Sony Electronic Publishing,
together with Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment, is
a subsidiary of Sony Software Corporation, a subsidiary of Sony USA Inc.

AimTech Corporation, a privately held company with offices in Nashua, N.H.,
Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Denver, Colo., and London, England, develops
and markets multi-platform software products for creating interactive
multimedia applications.

AimTech, 20 Trafalgar Square, Nashua, NH 03063-1973
603-883-0220;  800-289-2884;  603-883-5582

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