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Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: greg@afs.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Anderson Financial Systems Acquires PasteUp(tm) Date: 30 Sep 1993 22:00:58 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 72 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28g30q$bvb@digifix.digifix.com> Reply-To: Greg_Anderson@afs.com Anderson Financial Systems Inc. 909 Sumneytown Pike, Suite 207 Springhouse, PA 19477 215 653 0911 215 653 0711 fax Contact: Greg Anderson 215 653 0911 Greg_Anderson@afs.com For Immediate Release ANDERSON FINANCIAL SYSTEMS ACQUIRES RIGHTBRAIN SOFTWARE'S PASTEUP(tm) APPLICATION, ANNOUNCES UPGRADE STRATEGY SPRINGHOUSE, PA, September 30, 1993 -- Software developer Anderson Financial Systems Inc. (AFS) today announced that it will acquire PasteUp(tm), a desktop publishing application for the NEXTSTEP operating system, from RightBrain Software of Palo Alto, California, effective October 1. *PasteUp is a great application that we are proud to add to our product line,: said Gregory H. Anderson, Chairman and CEO of AFS. *We have succeeded using NEXTSTEP to build custom trading systems for our Wall Street clients, and we hope to extend that success into the shrink-wrapped market.: *We're proud of PasteUp, and I'm extremely pleased that Anderson Financial will continue its development. AFS brings a great deal of expertise to the table, and I'm confident they'll add incredible value to the product,: said Glenn Reid, President and founder of RightBrain Software. *Traditional desktop publishing applications are targeted only at design professionals,: said Anderson, *but PasteUp has the potential for much broader appeal. It can be difficult and time-consuming to generate business reports with sophisticated PostScript output. We intend to enhance PasteUp with an inter-application programming interface and markup language that will make it the rendering engine of choice for custom NEXTSTEP applications.: PRICING AND UPGRADE STRATEGY PasteUp 2.0 is now available as a multi-architecture binary (MAB) for both Motorola and Intel processors. Registered users of version 1.0 can upgrade to version 2.0 for $25. New users can purchase version 2.0 directly from AFS for $495 ($249 academic). All orders placed by December 1, 1993, will include a free copy of WriteUp(tm), a word processor derived from PasteUp that is scheduled for shipment by the end of 1993. PasteUp 3.0, scheduled for release at the 1994 NeXTWORLD Expo, will include a programming API, an enhanced markup language, additional document import formats, and numerous other improvements. If Frame Technology does not announce a NEXTSTEP upgrade for Frame 4.0 in early October, PasteUp will be extended to manage long-form documents and import native Frame data formats. In addition to the complete product, PasteUp 3.0 will be available as a low cost rendering engine, similar to the NeXT-supplied Preview.app. With this engine, users of custom applications will be able to print and save--but not alter--documents. ABOUT ANDERSON FINANCIAL SYSTEMS Anderson Financial Systems Inc. is a privately held software development company based in Springhouse, Pennsylvania (suburban Philadelphia). Founded in 1982, the company's primary business has been designing customized trading software for more than 60 Wall Street firms on IBM PCs and NeXT workstations. Representative clients include Citicorp, First National Bank of Chicago, PaineWebber, American Capital Management, Delaware Management Company, Oppenheimer Management Corp. and Texas Commerce Bank. Since adding NeXT to its roster in 1991, AFS has made a substantial commitment to building applications that leverage the unique capabilities of the NEXTSTEP operating environment. ###
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