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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Stone Design Announces Database and Graphic Design Services for NEXTSTEP Reply-To: katie@stone.com Organization: Next Announcements Approved: sanguish@digifix.com News For Immediate Release For more information, contact: Katie Graunke Stone Design 505-345-4800 katie@stone.com Stone Design Announces Database and Graphic Design Services SAN FRANCISCO, May 24 - Stone Design, a pioneer in the NEXTSTEP market and maker of DataPhile, Create and 3D Reality, announced at the NeXTWORLD EXPO this week that it has begun offering database-design and graphic-design services. "Using our own, extensively tested database and graphics software, we're designing custom database solutions and artwork," said Andrew Stone, founder and CEO of the Albuquerque, New Mexico-based company. "It's a natural extension of our established business. And because we're a developer, it's always been our job to get the most out of NEXTSTEP and our apps." On the information-management side, Stone Design will use DataPhile, a flatfile database system, to produce custom database applications for NEXTSTEP sites and users. DataPhile was recently named the "best database application of 1992" by respondents to a Usenet survey. "What it comes down to is, we believe in our products enough to start a new business that depends entirely upon them. Our customer-service staff uses DataPhile all day, every day, to maintain our customer database and to produce great-looking invoices, labels and envelopes," said Katie Graunke, who is coordinating the start-up of Stone's design services. "Likewise, our technical staff assists customers with every aspect of database design and is skilled in creating the most intuitive, flexible and attractive database templates I can imagine on any platform." Stone Design will use Create, its 2.5-dimensional, full-color drawing package, and 3D Reality, its 3D modeling and rendering software, to produce everything from business graphics, ad designs, newsletter and business-document layouts to 3D product-design sketches and logos. "The best part is, we developed these products. Technical support for our designers is a desk away," Stone said. According to Stone, the company assembled an in-house production system to answer its own need to produce high-quality PostScript images and 3D renderings for advertisements and other graphics projects. "We're hoping we can use what we've learned from experience to save our customers some of the headaches usually associated with print production," he added. Stone Design is in Booth #408 at the NeXTWORLD EXPO, which is being held in San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center, May 25-27. Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1984, develops a variety of business-productivity applications for NEXTSTEP. # # # Create, DataPhile and 3D Reality are trademarks of Stone Design Corporation. NEXTSTEP is a trademark of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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