Claris announces "Get Organized!" Claris Organizer price promotion; Top-selling Macintosh PIM now more affordable for small business and home office users.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 1995--In order to make Claris Organizer available to a greater number of small office and home office users, Claris Corporation today announced the "Get Organized" promotion for Claris Organizer, reducing the price of Claris Organizer to a suggested promotional price of $49.

Claris Organizer is the all-in-one, intelligent personal information manager (PIM) for the Macintosh.

"Organization is critical to the success of small business and home office users who often have limited resources," said Pete Heller, product manager for Claris Organizer. "By reducing the price of Claris Organizer below the magic price point of $50, we can reach a much broader SOHO audience."

Since it first shipped last Fall, Claris Organizer has achieved best-seller status among Macintosh PIM purchasers. Ingram Micro's Best Sellers List has regularly ranked Claris Organizer as the best-selling Macintosh personal productivity program.

The small business and home office market is one of the fastest growing markets today. According to a 1995 BIS Strategic Decisions study on small business and home office, small businesses represent 90 percent of the firms in the U.S., and they will account for more than two thirds of new jobs created through the remainder of the 1990s.

About Claris Organizer

Claris Organizer is the award-winning all-in-one, intelligent PIM for the Macintosh that seamlessly integrates calendar, contacts, tasks, and notes in one easy-to-use, compact application. Claris Organizer is a complete personal organization tool designed to meet the needs of small office/home office users, individual business users, mobile professionals, and higher education students and faculty.

Claris Organizer is distinguished from the other Macintosh PIMs with intelligent features such as automatic linking, drag-and-drop scheduling and linking, smart find, custom views, easy importing, and powerful printing. Claris Organizer provides all these advanced features while still retaining exceptional performance and compact size, with an application requiring only 734K disk space and 1.2 megabytes (MB) of available random-access memory (RAM.)

Pricing and Availability

Claris Organizer is available from authorized Claris resellers in the U.S. for a suggested promotional price of $49 from now through December 31, 1995. Actual street prices may vary.

System Requirements

Claris Organizer requires a Macintosh Plus or later; System 7.0 or higher; 4MB of total RAM; and 1MB minimum available hard disk space, 2MB for full installation with sample files and on-line help. Claris Organizer is also native for the Power Macintosh.

Claris Corporation, a leading worldwide vendor of Windows and Macintosh applications for business, education and home, is a subsidiary of Apple Computer, Inc., with headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif.

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Note to Editors: Claris is a registered trademark and Claris Organizer is a trademark of Claris Corporation.

CONTACT: Claris Corp.

Natalie Lingo, 408/987-7487

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