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Contact: Christi Westphal

950 Patterson St., Eugene, OR 97401

800-645-3729, 541-344-2235, or fax 541-344-2459

or write

Sax Software Announces Sax mPower for Exchange

Brings the power of Visual Basic to Microsoft Exchange and

creates zero-administration enterprise applications.

EUGENE, Ore. — January 15, 1997 — Sax Software today announced the release of
Sax mPower for Exchange, the first development platform that allows developers to create
both 16- and 32-bit Exchange e-forms applications in the familiar Visual Basic environment.
Included with Sax mPower are the Sax mPower Enterprise Solutions: powerful,
customizable Exchange applications — including Help Desk, Fax Annotation, and Voice
Mail — that include complete Visual Basic source code and give corporate developers
instant value.

With Sax mPower, mail messages are no longer passive items of information: Instead,
they’re intelligent, interactive applications that travel across the enterprise and help increase
your productivity. Sax mPower distributes applications automatically, including ActiveX
controls and other dependent files, so distributing an application is as easy as sending an
e-mail message.

Because Sax mPower applications are developed in Visual Basic, corporate developers
can maximize their investments in training and third-party custom controls and more easily
convert existing Visual Basic applications into groupware.

"Sax mPower combines the multiple-platform support and easy administration of Intranet
technology with the maturity and extensive database support of traditional client-server
computing, " says Mike Sax, president of Sax Software. "Corporate developers can use
their existing code and favorite development tools while enjoying the advantages of
zero-maintenance applications and instant deployment of their applications across the
enterprise."

Sax mPower has been received enthusiastically by the ActiveX component industry. The
industry’s leading ActiveX control vendors have pledged support for Sax mPower, and
sample applications that ship with Sax mPower demonstrate the use of such third-party
controls. Sax mPower Component partners include Apex Software, LEAD Technologies,
Seagate Software, Sheridan Software, and VideoSoft.

Because Sax mPower can create both 16-bit and 32-bit e-form applications, the
applications created can be used in all current Exchange e-mail client software: the 16-bit
and 32-bit Exchange mail clients, and the new Microsoft Outlook 97 client. By merging the
Visual Basic development environment with Microsoft Outlook 97, Sax mPower provides
Outlook with full database connectivity, advanced scripting and debugging capabilities, and
support for sophisticated workflow routing.

For more information, write to info@saxsoft.com, visit http://www.saxsoft.com, call (800)
645-3729 or (541) 344-2235, or fax (541) 344-2459.

About Sax Software...

Sax Software, based in Eugene, Ore., offers several application-development tools,
including Sax Basic Engine, Sax Webster Control, Sax Setup Wizard, and Sax Comm
Objects. All tools are designed to meet Sax Software’s goal of making it easier and more
affordable for developers to build powerful, flexible applications.

Sax Software developed part of the Windows 95 communications API and wrote the
communications controls in the Professional Edition of Microsoft Visual Basic. Microsoft
also includes the Foundation Edition of Sax Basic Engine in its Visual C++ 4.1 package.

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Sax mPower, Smarter Components, and all Sax Software product names are trademarks of Sax Software Corp.
All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

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Š Sax Software Corp. • 950 Patterson St. • Eugene, OR 97401
800-645-3729 • 541-344-2235 • FAX 541-344-2459
e-mail info@saxsoft.com