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Attachmate Continues Tradition of Putting Customer Needs First with EXTRA! New version of 16-bit EXTRA! for Windows is Year 2000 ready.


BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 1998--Attachmate, the world's leading provider of host access managen, Attachmate is committed to providing customers with the solutions they need when they need them. For organizations migrating to Windows 95, EXTRA! for Windows 5.1 has been tested to run seamlessly on this 32-bit platform, assuring customers that they can migrate one step at a time.

Customers' needs change. Organizations are faced with a varied computing landscape -- different departments standardizing on different operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , IT wanting centralizedd-winning EXTRA! family. EXTRA! Personal Client is Attachmate's flagship client product and has both 16- and 32-bit multihost connectivity as well as the EXTRA! Objects, completely distributed objects Software modules that are designed to work together but reside in multiple computer systems in a private network or on the global Internet. A program in one machine sends a message to an object in a remote machine to perform some processing.  developers can use to create their own unique, specialized host access applications. In addition to EXTRA! for Windows and EXTRA! Personal Client are EXTRA! for Windows 95 and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. , a 32-bit only mainframe connectivity product, and the EXTRA! Bundle for TCP/IP TCP/IP
 in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances.
, for those environments standardizing their networks on TCP/IP.

Year 2000 Ready. As the Year 2000 approaches, customers are focused on protecting the integrity of their mission-critical data and demanding software that is Year 2000 ready. Attachmate's customer-centric approach to development anticipated these needs and ensured that EXTRA! for Windows 5.1 was tested to guarantee the date change would have no adverse effect on the product.

Maximum flexibility. With the pervasiveness of mixed environments, customers rely on vendors to support multiple client desktops including Windows 3.x Windows 3.x can refer to either an individual or all of the following versions of Microsoft Windows:
  • Windows 3.0
  • Windows 3.1x
These should not be confused with the first three releases of Windows NT, which were also given "3.x" version numbers, i.e.
 and Windows 95. EXTRA! for Windows 5.1 has been tested for stability under the beta 3 of Windows 98 for those organizations who will be evaluating Microsoft's updated operating system operating system (OS)

Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs.
. All the manuals for this product are available on the product CD, as are hard copies with the same content, allowing customers the freedom to choose the format most suitable for their envWindows, is Year 2000 ready and thoroughly tested to run under the most recent beta of Windows 98. In addition, for customers who want to do customization work, the resellers, retailers, and VARs, as well as thrlude management software, development tools, remworldwide and off ices in 30 countries.

For more information about Attachmate's products, contact Att and ActiveX are either registered trademarks ountries. UNIX UNIX

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CONTACT: A tiffanya@attachmate.com dkober@nealemay.com
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