CRiSP's Visual Editing Environment For UNIX And Windows Platforms is Now Available to the OEM Marketplace.

PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 1999--

Vital, Inc., makers of the CRiSP text editor are now expanding their focus to include integration and bundling with OEM software and hardware manufacturers, as well as IDE developers.

CRiSP is a multi-platform development tool which provides a very powerful, yet user friendly, interface for software developers and other office personnel. Vital, Inc. is now offering partnership opportunities for system manufacturers, as well as software manufacturers, who are searching for a user friendly development environment to integrate or bundle with their products.

Until recently, Vital, Inc. has focused on end user sales to market its products. This has proven to be a successful approach, giving the company a reputation for excellence with companies such as Sun Microsystems, AT&T Bell Labs, AT&T Communications, Xerox, Motorola, Alcatel, and many other Fortune 500 customers around the world. With constant input from the thousands of CRiSP users, Vital has continuously improved the CRiSP product over the years with features such as code beautifying, cut & paste, searching, syntax highlighting, macro editing, columnar editing and many more features too numerous to list. In addition, CRiSP has complete emulation modes for brief, vi. emacs, wordstar, and edt, thus eliminating the need to learn a new keyboard layout.

Now, Vital, Inc. is establishing a presence in the OEM marketplace through long term relationships with companies such as Credence Systems Corporation. Credence, a leading manufacturer of electronic test equipment, currently includes CRiSP with all of their electronic testers. They have been extremely pleased with the positive responses that they have received from their customers as a result of the increased utility provided by CRiSP. Bob Saunders, Sr. Marketing Applications Engineer for Credence Systems Corporation says, "I was given the job of finding the best UNIX programming editor on the market to include with our product. I installed and worked with all the packages I could find. Crisp was easily the best solution available."

Since 1991, Vital, Inc. has been providing high productivity development tools for thousands of programmers around the world. In addition to the CRiSP text editor, Vital also offers other software products including Trudger, an offline Web site browser, as well as LMCRISP, the company's proprietary license manager software, which is used to manage network software licenses. You may find out more about Vital, Inc. and it's current product lines by visiting the company's Web site at http://www.vital.com. To explore the possibilities of integrating CRiSP, or any of Vital, Inc.'s products, with your current product line, please contact Michael Lyon at 972/612-2684 or send email to [e-mail] for further information.