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Subject: Announcing NoteBook: Information Processing Application for NeXTSTEP
Keywords: Millennium Software Labs, NoteBook, NeXT, NeXTSTEP
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Date: 27 Jan 93 23:22:41 GMT
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Millennium Software Labs Defines Emerging Application Category on
NeXTSTEP Computers

Contact:
    Jayson Adams, CEO, or Scott Love, President
    Millennium Software Labs
    1010 El Camino Real, Suite 300
    Menlo Park, CA, 94025
    [phone] Phone
    [phone] Fax
    Email: [e-mail]

Company introduces NoteBook, an object-oriented software application
that improves information processing productivity for individuals


MENLO PARK, California, January 27, 1993 - Millennium Software Labs
announced today that NoteBook, its new breakthrough software
application for the NeXTSTEP operating system, shipped last week.
The product defines information processing, an emerging application
category for personal productivity and information management on
commercial desktop systems.

Jayson Adams, Millennium's CEO, Chief Scientist and co-founder,
remarked, "We met our original goal of first customer ship by
January, 1993 and we're very proud of this achievement.  NoteBook
marks an important milestone in the NeXTSTEP marketplace as well.
NeXTSTEP's outstanding object-oriented architecture allowed us to
develop and deliver a high-quality commercial application with just
over 9 person-months of development time, an impossible
accomplishment under any other software development environment
available today.  NoteBook for NeXTSTEP clearly demonstrates that
NeXT holds an important commercial lead over Microsoft, IBM, Apple
and the rest of the software industry in delivering on the promise of
object-oriented technology.  It's worldclass and it's available
today."

NoteBook is a new product for an emerging application category that
Millennium defines as information processing.  Scott Love,
Millennium's President and co-founder explains, "Individuals have a
great need to store, organize, and retrieve unstructured information,
and yet no real tools exist to directly assist them with this task.
For example, electronic mail inundates users with information of
varying importance, and no simple way exists to clip and store
portions of messages, and then later retrieve them.  The beauty of
NoteBook is that rather than forcing users to conform to
computer-oriented information management, such as a typical database
system, NoteBook presents users with very familiar metaphors so that
storing and organizing information is simple, and then works with a
user's associative memory processes to help them retrieve the stored
information."

NoteBook has been designed for users seeking a convenient way to
manage and organize the everyday flow of information and ideas.  It's
a revolutionary application whose power comes from two breakthroughs.
First, NoteBook uniquely combines an outline processor for creating
lists of information with a visual notebook metaphor for managing
these lists.  Together, they make storing and organizing information
simple and elegant.  Second, NoteBook employs "Dynamic Index Views
technology" (Patent Pending 1992), allowing users to instantly view
"cross-sections" of their information.  It's like having the power of
a sophisticated database query system without the complexity.

NoteBook's simplicity and flexibility make it applicable to a wide
range of information processing tasks.  Users can create intelligent
notepads for jotting notes and ideas;  clip and store important
electronic mail messages for fast retrieval;  or even organize fax
documents, news clippings, project tasks, agenda outlines, to-do
lists, meeting notes and diagrams.  Whenever users start a new
project or plan, chances are they'll use NoteBook to help manage
their information flow.  NoteBook is truly a productivity application
for individuals.

"We ran an extensive test drive program to determine what NoteBook
applications users would create and why," said Mr. Adams.  "The
results indicate that NoteBook has several key productivity
applications, and that our customers will continually discover unique
uses.  The response from key NeXTSTEP customers has been very
positive and enthusiastic.  We fully expect users and large
organizations to add NoteBook to their application suites
immediately."

In addition to helping individuals manage personal information,
NoteBook is a powerful tool for publishing and sharing information
within a group.  Groups can store and display electronic libraries of
images, charts and graphs.  They can create telephone directories,
company policy handbooks and briefing books, accessible through
network file libraries.  And individuals can easily distribute
NoteBook-stored information just by clicking and dragging.  Whether
an individual or an enterprise- wide team, NoteBook promises to
dramatically improve the way people access and utilize information.

Millennium products are sold direct to qualified corporate customers
as well as through authorized resellers.  Customers can order products
today by calling 800 732-9009, or by contacting Millennium at their
offices in Menlo Park, CA at [phone].

Millennium Software Labs, Inc. is a privately-held startup founded by
Jayson Adams and Scott Love, former employees of NeXT Computer, Inc.
Millennium develops and markets personal productivity software for
NeXTSTEP-based computer systems.  The company's mission is to develop
state-of-the-art applications for information management.  Product
design and architecture are based entirely on NeXTSTEP, the most
advanced object-oriented software technology available today.

For more information about this press release, contact Jayson Adams,
CEO, or Scott Love, President.  Millennium Software Labs is located
at 1010 El Camino Real, Suite 300, Menlo Park, CA, 94025.

Phone: [phone], Fax:[phone], Email: [e-mail].


Keywords:  computers, technology, software, Millennium Software Labs,
NoteBook, NeXT, NeXTSTEP

c 1993 Millennium Software Labs, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.  Dynamic
Index Views, Engage! and the Millennium logo are trademarks of
Millennium Software Labs, Inc.  NeXT and NeXTSTEP are trademarks of
NeXT Computer, Inc.  Any and all other brand names are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective owners.