Be Announces Appointment Of Frank Boosman As
Vice President, Developer Relations

RELEASED JANUARY 6, 1998

BE ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF FRANK BOOSMAN AS
VICE PRESIDENT, DEVELOPER RELATIONS

MENLO PARK, Calif. (January 6, 1998) -- Be., Inc. today announced the appointment of software industry veteran Frank Boosman as Vice President, Developer Relations, effective immediately. Mr. Boosman brings with him ten years' experience in product development and product marketing roles at a variety of software businesses, ranging from small start-ups to established corporations. In his role at Be, Mr. Boosman will be responsible for all aspects of the company's relationship with companies and people developing software for the Be Operating System (BeOS).

"Of course, we're delighted to have Frank join the Be team," said Alex Osadzinski, Be's Vice President of Sales & Marketing. "We're obsessed with developing and maintaining excellent, productive relationships with our developers, and Frank clearly shares this mindset and has the experience necessary to be successful."

"I consider it to be a privilege to be asked to join the people at Be," said Mr. Boosman. "They have jaw-dropping technology and a superstar executive team. My job is to ensure that we have a suite of world-class third-party products for the BeOS. Given the awesome performance of the operating system and the innovative marketing and distribution methods we offer, I am looking forward to adding developers of all types to Be's already impressive stable of third parties."

Prior to joining Be, Mr. Boosman was Vice President, Product Development at Red Storm Entertainment of Morrisville, North Carolina. Red Storm Entertainment, whose Chairman is world-renowned author Tom Clancy, is developing next-generation entertainment software for the Windows 95 and Java environments. In his role there, Mr. Boosman was responsible for both long-term product direction and day-to-day product management. Red Storm Entertainment was spun out from Virtus Corporation of Cary, North Carolina, where Mr. Boosman served as Vice President and General Manager of Virtus Studios, a business unit formed to create entertainment software titles using Virtus 3-D tools and technologies. Prior to being spun out, Virtus Studios created Tom Clancy SSN, a submarine simulation for Windows 95.

Mr. Boosman's career also includes time at Adobe Systems of San Jose, California, where he served as Senior Product Marketing Manager for Adobe Acrobat, a document communications system spanning multiple products across a variety of operating systems.

About Be

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 July 1997, Be published the first public release of the Be Operating System (BeOS), the core product of this strategy. Additional information on Be and the BeOS is available online at http://www.be.com/. Be, Inc. is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.