Diamond Head Software pledges support for Microsoft's enterprise development tools.

RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 1997--Diamond Head Software, Inc., a leading developer of software components for document imaging, document management, COLD, workflow and optical storage management, today pledged its support for Microsoft's enterprise tools strategy. Diamond Head's ImageBASIC is an integrated suite of ActiveX Controls that provide everything a developer needs to develop powerful enterprise information management systems.

With the new enterprise tools that are forthcoming from Microsoft, Diamond Head is extending its ImageBASIC environment to take complete advantage of the Internet. Since ImageBASIC is already presented as a suite of ActiveX Controls, it already works with the development tools in Visual Studio 97, including Visual Basic, Visual C++ and Visual J++. These new tools from Microsoft will enable Diamond Head's current customer base to leverage their existing client/server technology investments and easily extend support for their ImageBASIC-built applications to the Internet, using the Microsoft programming language(s) they prefer.

"Microsoft has done a phenomenal job in continuously anticipating and exceeding developers' needs and objectives," says Bill Burke, president of Diamond Head. "Diamond Head made the right decision in standardizing on Microsoft development tools since we started the company. As a result, Diamond Head has been able to fully leverage the growing momentum and acceptance of software components. This means that with very little effort, and no pain, Diamond Head's customers inherit all the benefits of Microsoft's Internet and ActiveX strategy."

Diamond Head started offering VBXs for document imaging application development in 1993. Since then it has been named Product of the Year by Imaging Magazine for the last four years in a row. In 1996, Diamond Head released version 3.0 of ImageBASIC, a completely new version employing a brand new architecture which includes foundation applications and 16- and 32-bit ActiveX Controls. It has also introduced components that provide native, integrated support for the leading imaging and workflow systems from FileNet, IBM and Plexus.

"Diamond Head architected Version 3.0 of ImageBASIC to work seamlessly and take maximum benefit of Microsoft's ActiveX platform and the Internet Information Server built into Windows NT," says Richard Esmond, Diamond Head's chief technology officer. "As a result, ImageBASIC has the ideal architecture for customers that want to integrate their business applications with Web servers and to provide access to these applications using Internet Explorer."

The next version of ImageBASIC, version 3.1, has already been tested and proven to work with version 5.0 of Microsoft Visual Basic. Diamond Head plans to demonstrate its Internet product, integrated with Internet Information Server, at the annual AIIM conference to be held this year in New York City starting on April 15. Diamond Head Software can be reached at [phone] and has a web site at http://www.dhs.com . -0-

Diamond Head Software, Inc. is based in Richardson, Texas and is the developer of ImageBASIC, an award winning development environment that offers integrated software components and foundation applications for document imaging, document management, COLD, workflow and optical storage management. Applications developed using ImageBASIC include DOCS Imaging (sold by PC DOCS), and are currently in use by tens of thousands of users around the world. Diamond Head's customers include leading systems integrators, corporate and government developers, OEMs and vertical software developers. Diamond Head has offices in New York and San Francisco, as well as a European support office in the Netherlands.

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