O'Reilly & Associates is Official
Technical Publisher for Be, Inc.

RELEASED MAY 10, 1997

For more information contact:

O'Reilly & Associates
Sara Winge, sara@ora.com
(707) 829-0515 x 285

Be, Inc.
Alex Osadzinski, alex@be.com
+1 (650) 462-4126

SEBASTOPOL, CA--Technical publisher O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. is the official publisher of technical documentation for the Be operating system (BeOS), O'Reilly and Be, Inc. announced today at the Be Developers' Conference in Santa Clara, CA. The first title, the two-volume "Be Book," will be published in July when the final version of the BeOS is released. The "Be Book" is the official programmer's reference manual the BeOS, providing developers with direct access to the internals of this revolutionary new operating system. It includes two volumes and two CD-ROMs that contain the entire operating system. O'Reilly will be publishing more titles for Be programmers and users in late 1997 and 1998.

"We're excited about the technological and commercial potential of the BeOS. Our Be publications will be the kind of no-holds-barred, technically rigorous books that have won us loyal readers in the Internet and UNIX worlds," stated Tim O'Reilly, president of O'Reilly
& Associates. "Anyone who has seen the BeOS in action experiences immediate techno-lust. Here is an operating system that speaks multimedia, threading, and multiprocessing as one who was raised speaking them from birth rather than as languages painfully acquired through second-rate schooling. We're planning books that will help high-end graphics and multimedia programmers exploit Be's considerable power to the fullest."

Be, Inc. CEO Jean-Louis Gassee stated, "Serious programmers depend on O'Reilly books to give them the right information in readable prose. When we were considering how to publish the official documentation for the BeOS, O'Reilly was the obvious choice."

Be will be providing O'Reilly with complete pre-release technical information. The two companies will work together to make definitive documentation available as the BeOS and Be software are developed further.

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ABOUT BE, INC.

Be, Inc., founded in 1990 by Jean-Louis Gassée, is a software company focusing on building new foundations for the next generation of digital content and media design tools. With a team of industry-leading engineers and business executives in the United States and Europe, the company is dedicated to removing the limitations of existing computer architectures and delivering a new level of price performance. In 1997, Be is publishing the first public releases of the Be Operating System (BeOS ), the core product of this strategy. Be, Inc. is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. More information about Be and the BeOS can be found online at http://www.be.com/

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