Be® Presents BeOS™ Developers
With Masters Awards

RELEASED MARCH 20, 1998

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BE® PRESENTS BEOS™ DEVELOPERS
WITH MASTERS AWARDS
Developers Win Dual Intel® Pentium® Based Personal Computers for Outstanding Applications

MENLO PARK, Calif. (March 20, 1998) -- Be, Inc. announces today the winners of its most recent Masters Awards competition. The Masters Awards is an ongoing contest presented by Be to recognize developers of innovative BeOS applications. Winners in Commercial, Shareware and Freeware, and Student categories were each awarded two processor Intel Pentium based personal computers.

"Many platforms have been validated by the creative, nimble developers that can embrace new technology.", said Jean-Louis Gassée, CEO of Be. "With these awards, we gratefully take off our hat to the innovators and the risk takers."

Honorable mentions were also named in all categories. For more details on the Be Masters Awards, see the Be Internet web site http://www.be.com/developers/ma sters.html.

The March 1998 Masters Awards Winners

Commercial Winners

• Image Elements: Adamation, Attila Mezei http://www.adamation.com/
  Image editing, processing, compilation, and real-time effects.

• Gobe Productive: Gobe Software, Inc. http://www.gobe.com/
  Integrated productivity suite including word processing, spreadsheet, graphics, and charting.

Honorable Mention:

• Pe: Hekkelman Programmatuur, Maarten Hekkelman http://www.xs4all.nl/~hekkel/
  Programming, text, and HTML editor.

Shareware/Freeware Winners

• Epson Stylus Color Printer Drivers: Matthias Agopian
  Printer drivers for the Epson Stylus color printer.

• 3D Starchart: Kloss Software, Joe Kloss: http://www.users.deltanet.com/users/axly/
  3D astronomy viewer utilizing the Third Catalog of Nearby Stars.

Honorable Mentions:

• Stamina and Charisma: Sylvain Demongeot
  Automated web site download and offline browsing.

• Boo: Levent Levai & Attila Mezei http://w3.datanet.hu/~amezei/Boo/
  Real time image morphing and texturing.

Student Winners

• BeInformed: Dirk Olbertz, University of Dortmund, Germany
  NNTP newsreader.

Honorable Mentions:

• Nelson: Ben Winnick, University of Arkansas
  Neural network applied to photographic images.

• HitRun: Samuel Andersson, Lund University, Sweden
  Hot key application and document launcher.

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.