Be® Presents BEOS® Developers with Masters Awards

RELEASED NOVEMBER 10, 1998

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Scott Paterson, scott@be.com
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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 (November 18, 1998) -- Be, Inc. announced 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 dual-processor Intel Pentium based personal computers.

"An operating system all by itself is useless. It's the applications that make the OS shine," said Scott Paterson, director of marketing at Be. "These awards single out developers willing to take the risk to bring innovation from vision to product."

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/masters/).

The November 1998 Masters Awards Winners:

Commercial Winner
Final Scratch: N2IT (http://www.xs4all.nl/~markjan/BeOS/)
Real-time disc jockey digital audio control and sequencing with vinyl-on-turntable interface.

Honorable Mention:
Red: EarthSoft (http://www.be.com/beware/Development/Red.html)
Edits and creates node and type icons.

Shareware/Freeware Winners
ArtPaint: Heikki Suhonen (http://www.helsinki.fi/~hsuhonen/artpaint/)
Comprehensive paint tools including image processing operations with real time previews and unlimited number of layers.

Boo: Attila Mezei (http://w3.datanet.hu/~amezei/Boo/)
Real-time image morphing and texture generating tool.

SoundPlay: Marco Nelissen (http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcone/soundplay.html)
Multi-format audio control including pitch, multi-sample simultaneous playback, and automatic cross fade.

Honorable Mentions:
NetPenguin: Zeid Derhally (http://lonestar.texas.net/~camel/netpenguin/)
Graphical FTP client with resumable downloads, drag and drop, and recursive downloads of files and directories.

Student
Postmaster: Kenny Carruthers, Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada
Lightweight POP3 email client with support for multiple accounts, virtual groups and folders, and integrated with the BeOS people database.

Honorable Mentions:
Behaviour: Johan Jansson, Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden (http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~d96-jja/) Physical mechanics simulator with OpenGL front-end and the ability to export to the POVRay format.

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.