BeatWare to Release First Creativity Suite for the BeOS

RELEASED AUGUST 4, 1997

For more information contact

Karen Cassel
karen@beatware.com
415-322-7253

BeatWare Inc.
1150 Chestnut Street
Menlo Park, CA 94025
http://www.beatware.com

BEATWARE TO RELEASE FIRST CREATIVITY SUITE FOR THE BEOS

Menlo Park, California -- August 4, 1997 -- BeatWare Inc. announced today that Be Studio, the first creativity suite created specifically for the BeOS, will make its public debut at MacWorld Boston in August.

Be Studio provides digital artists with an alternative to the sluggish, resource-hogging graphics programs currently available. The suite includes both an image-editing program as well as a vector-based drawing program and requires less than two megabytes of hard drive space.

"By capitalizing on the speed and efficiency of the BeOS, we have been able to pack a lot of power into a little package," said Karen Cassel, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for BeatWare, Inc. "Be Studio's small size combined with the strength of the BeOS provide digital artists with the most responsive, most stable graphics platform to date."

Be Studio provides users with additional time-saving capabilities. These include the ability to manipulate multiple images simultaneously without degrading performance, view updates from a variety of perspectives in real-time and export images easily to the World Wide Web.

Be Studio will sell for an introductory price of $99 and will be available both on CD-ROM and via electronic download from BeatWare at www.beatware.com.

BeatWare Inc. is the first software developer to create essential design and personal productivity applications specifically for the BeOS. Additional information on BeatWare and its products is available on the company website at http://www.beatware.com, via e-mail at info@beatware.com, or by calling BeatWare's Menlo Park headquarters at (415) 322-7290.