Hutchings Software Anncounces Caterpillar Component Library for BeOS

Hutchings Software Anncounces Caterpillar Component Library for BeOS

RELEASED NOVEMBER 11, 1998

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Hutchings Software
Brad Hutchings, brad@hutchings-software.com
(949) 470-1520

Hutchings Software Anncounces Caterpillar Component Library for BeOS

Danville, CA (November 11, 1998): Hutchings Software today announced their "Caterpillar" HS Component Library for Be®, Inc.'s Be Operating System (BeOS®). A Caterpillar Software Developers Kit (SDK) for developers is available December, 1998.

Using applications developed with Caterpillar technology users can mix and match media with consistent human interface for arranging and embedding media viewers, drag and drop linking with live updating - ("not your father's publish and subscribe"), simultaneously edit the same data with tools from different vendors! (No need to close a document in one application and open it in another to switch editing tools.)

Caterpillar's "intrinsic content editing" allows users to edit embedded content in separate windows with tools of their choice. "Context sensitive editing" makes menus and palettes available based on the kind of media being edited. Caterpillar's multi-window documents let users save how they work along with what they're working on.

Founder Brad Hutchings said, "The BeOS is fresh, modern, buzzword compliant, and a lot of fun for software developers. It's support for add-ons and multi-threading have made Caterpillar easily explandable and very crisp. I'm confident and hopeful that the BeOS will continue to gain momentum in the marketplace. Porting Caterpillar to a legacy OS would be a nightmare."

About Hutchings Software
Hutchings Software (HS), of Danville, CA, was founded in 1991 and is a leader in component software development. Hutchings Software is very familiar with the business and engineering issues faced by component developers. HS's mission is to eliminate those issues. For more information, visit http://www.componentx.com.

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.