ALPNET announces WinJoust translation system.

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 1996--ALPNET Inc. (NASDAQ:AILP), the largest dedicated commercial provider of language translation, product localization and language related services to international businesses, Wednesday announced the release of its WinJoust translation system.

According to the company, WinJoust implements a high productivity set of translation tools in a GUI environment, and is available for Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11, Windows 95 and Windows NT.

Thomas F. Seal, ALPNET president and chief executive officer, stated, "ALPNET has been a leader in creating and effectively using computer programs to increase quality and productivity in the translation process. Our proprietary TSS translation system was one of the first commercially utilized systems, and has been continually improved and enhanced since its commercial introduction in 1986.

"With the release of WinJoust, we have taken over ten years of real world experience with translators using computers, and brought that capability to a huge base of translators equipped with any of the Microsoft Windows operating systems.

"With the dramatic growth in demand for translation services, the need to provide state-of-the-art tools to our existing and new translators is a high priority for ALPNET. With WinJoust we can now provide translators working on projects for ALPNET with sophisticated ALPNET tools, on any computer capable of running Microsoft Windows. This dramatically expands the pool from which we can select the highest quality translators."

Russell Rolfe, ALPNET manager of R&D provided further information by stating, "WinJoust is completely file compatible with previous versions of Joust, and TSS. All existing terminology databases and repetition files (translation memory databases) are usable by WinJoust, thereby completely preserving ALPNET's and our client's investments.

"In addition, for ease of use, in addition to making all features available with the mouse and the GUI interface, we have retained the keyboard driven interface from previous versions of TSS and Joust. This reduces retraining time and conversion problems for translators who have used previous versions of TSS."

Rolfe concluded by stating, "WinJoust will run very well on any 486 or better processor, with 8MB of RAM memory, and 20MB of free disk space. We anticipate most of our existing translators will rapidly switch to WinJoust, and all new translators will be trained and equipped with WinJoust."

ALPNET is the largest publicly owned dedicated supplier of worldwide translation and product localization services, with 30 wholly owned offices in 14 countries throughout Europe, North America and Asia.

ALPNET supplies its clients with language translation, product localization, language interpreting, language training, and multilingual desktop publishing and printing services. Additional information about ALPNET is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.alpnet.com.

CONTACT: ALPNET Inc., Salt Lake City

D. Kerry Stubbs, 801/273-6600

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