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For more information, contact: Karen Cassel BeatWare, Inc. (650) 556-7906 karen@beatware.com Elizabeth Safran/Robin Lutchansky Lutchansky Communications (408) 938-9050 Elizabeth@Lcomm.com Robin@Lcomm.com Beatware Announces e-Picture Animation Software For The BeOS Digital Media Platform e-Picture Uses Objects to Streamline And Simplify Animation Design NEW YORK, NY-June 22, 1999 - BeatWare, Inc. today announced that e-Picture™, a professional web graphics program, is available on BeOS®, the operating system designed for digital media applications on desktop computers and Internet appliances. e-Picture simplifies and streamlines the creation of animated web graphics with a simple point and click process. With e-Picture, web developers are able to create graphic objects with both the editable properties of vectors and the photographic properties of bitmaps. Animated GIFs are designed by moving objects across a single layer rather than by copying images across multiple layers, simplifying the animation process and making it easy to edit any element of the graphic at any time. e-Picture also imports and manipulates 3D models, offering a full range of graphics functionality in a single application. e-Picture is available for download from the BeatWare website at www.beatware.com and at www.bedepot.com. e-Picture 1.0 is available for $199, and works with BeOS 4.0 or higher. "What is so exciting about the release of e-Picture is that it eliminates the tedium and guesswork involved in creating animations," said Marc Verstaen, CEO of BeatWare. "The level of animation design control e-Picture delivers reduces production time. In today's Internet-paced business environment, reduced time-to-market is a significant competitive advantage." "As the Internet continues to permeate our lives as a vehicle for communications and commerce, and as electronic media becomes prevalent, digital content design becomes a critical component for a successful presence on the Internet," said Jean-Louis Gassée, founder of Be Incorporated and creator of the Be operating system. "We are delighted to have e-Picture available on BeOS." # # # About BeatWare™ BeatWare is dedicated to providing the most powerful and easy-to-use web media software for today's professional web designer. An unusual combination in today's marketplace, BeatWare's product line will provide robust functionality in animation, video and audio that allows web designers to focus on creativity rather than on technology. In response to customer demand for its technology solutions developed for the BeOS, BeatWare will make its first animation product, e-Picture, available on the Macintosh and Windows platform in the second half of 1999. For more information, contact BeatWare at www.beatware.com or (650) 556-7906. About Be® Be Incorporated, founded in 1990 by Jean-Louis Gassée, is a software company focused on delivering an operating system designed for digital media applications and Internet appliances. 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 for digital media applications on both personal computers and Internet appliances. Additional information on Be and BeOS is available online at http://www.be.com/. Be is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. BeatWare, the BeatWare logo and e-Picture are trademarks of BeatWare, Inc. Be and BeOS are registered trademarks of Be Incorporated. Other brand product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders. All rights reserved.

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