Barr Enterprise Print Server Incorporates Additional Datastream Transformation.

GAINESVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 1999--

Today, Barr Systems, Inc., an innovator of high-performance print management and communications products, announced a new alliance with Elixir Technologies Corporation, the leading provider of electronic document production software.

This alliance will enable both companies to enhance their enterprise-wide document and data solution offerings. Under the agreement, both companies will have the ability to resell each others' products and integrate them into comprehensive solutions that address document composition, printing management, and datastream conversion.

"As a total solution provider for printing and connectivity, we seek industry partners with reliable, high-quality products," said Rana Ayoub Schafer, Director of Sales & Marketing at Barr Systems, Inc. "The Elixir Transformation Suite complements the Barr Enterprise Print Server. Now, we can offer our customers everything they need for a complete enterprise system. Elixir is an excellent choice for datastream conversion from Xerox Metacode and LCDS to HP-PCL, PostScript, and Adobe's PDF. It easily integrates with the Barr Enterprise Print Server."

"At Elixir, we're constantly striving toward customer-centric document workflows that enable customers to focus on their communications goals rather than on learning new technologies," said Denise Davert, Vice President of Marketing Elixir Technologies. "By teaming up with Barr, we can now provide our customers with seamless workflows that include Barr's state-of-the-art technologies for managing and delivering printstreams over client/server networks, mainframes, and the Internet."

Barr Enterprise Print Server is a powerful file & print management solution designed to receive data from diverse sources - mainframes, AS/400s, TCP/IP hosts, network users - and print to multiple destinations including parallel, serial, network-attached, & channel-attached printers connected to the PC.

Elixir's family of integrated software offers solutions ranging from document composition and editing to document viewing, proofing, distribution, and production.

About Barr

Barr Systems' software and hardware products provide enterprise-wide printing and connectivity solutions to organizations ranging from Fortune 1000 corporations to small businesses. Incorporated in 1978, the company serves an international customer base that has installed more than 35,000 products. Experts in print management and mainframe connectivity, Barr Systems works in alliance with other communications and networking vendors to offer complete systems integration. Thousands of financial, government, and education groups have turned to Barr for their print and file management solutions. These products help those businesses print on demand more than 300 billion pages each year. For more information about Barr Systems and its full range of network communications and printing solutions, call 800-227-7797, or visit the Barr Web site at www.barrsys.com.

About Elixir

Founded in 1985, closely held Elixir Technologies Corporation develops electronic document production software that enables companies to turn ordinary information into "communication." Companies all over the world, representing a wide range of industries such as insurance, banking, billing, healthcare, government, and manufacturing, use Elixir solutions to develop, print, and present documents that are tailored to meet individual customer needs. These documents include billing statements, loyalty cards, insurance policies, benefit booklets, and marketing letters, among others. In addition, clients rely on Elixir's Professional Services Group to implement client/server workflows for document production and management systems, corporate Internets/Intranets, and customized print-on-demand applications. For additional information on Elixir Technologies Corporation, visit the Elixir web site at http://www.elixir.com, or send e-mail to [e-mail].