ECCO(TM) Honored as 1994 MVP Award Winner; PC Computing Lauds ECCO Professional 2.0 for Usability and Value.

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 1994--NetManage Inc., developers of ECCO Professional 2.0, has announced that ECCO has been named a winner in PC Computing's 1994 Most Valuable Product (MVP) awards competition.

ECCO Professional 2.0, the award-winning personal and group information manager, increases standalone and workgroup productivity, and enables workgroup users to easily schedule meetings, collaborate on projects, and access the latest group-related information through its group scheduling, multi-user Shared Calendars, PhoneBooks and Task Outlines, and file replication and synchronization. In addition, ECCO brings numerous advances to the individual user, including Shooter(TM), which allows instant integration with all other Windows applications.

ECCO Professional was selected by the magazine's editors as an MVP Award winner for its overall usability, reliability and value in the business environment. ECCO Professional has also distinguished itself as an MVP finalist for the last two years. In addition to the MVP Award, ECCO has won 12 major industry awards in the past 15 months, including PC Magazine's Editor's Choice Award, PC World's World Class Award, and was inducted into the PC Computing Usability Hall of Fame. In addition, InfoWorld gave ECCO its highest PIM rating, and Forbes Magazine recognized ECCO as its most highly recommended office software.

"We're delighted that ECCO has been named as a winner for PC Computing's 1994 MVP Product Awards, one of the industry's most sought-after recognitions," said Pete Polash, vice president of the NetManage ECCO division. "It's a major honor to win an award that focuses on usability and value," Polash concluded.

Joining ECCO Professional 2.0 as 1994 MVP Award winners are 37 other hardware, software and peripheral products chosen from 114 finalists in a record 38 product categories. To select this winner group, PC Computing's editors spent more than 100 hours in the magazine's usability and performance labs, considering and testing every major product in each of the categories.

"ECCO Professional, like all winners in this year's MVP Awards competition, is a stand-out in two respects," says PC Computing editor-in-chief Jon Zilber. "First, ECCO is a member of a very elite group: fewer than 2 percent of all the products we reviewed got the nod as MVP Award finalists. That's a distinction in and of itself," Zilber commented. "But second," he continued, "since the MVP award is the only computer award that honors usability, durability and functionality, ECCO excels in offering solutions for the way business people use computers today."

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY

ECCO Professional 2.0 lists for $279 (U.S. suggested retail price). The software is available for direct purchase from NetManage, and is also available through key distributors, including Ingram Micro and Merisel, and through major resellers including CompUSA, Computer City, Corporate Software, DellWare, Egghead Software, Micro Warehouse and PC Zones.

NetManage Inc. develops, markets and supports an integrated set of TCP/IP connectivity applications and development tools for Microsoft Windows that facilitate communications and administration of personal computers across dissimilar networking environments. The company's Chameleon product family is the leading corporate LAN solution for internetworking applications and was the first to specifically target Microsoft Windows inter-networking.

NetManage is a public company, whose shares are traded on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol NETM. NetManage is located at 10725 De Anza Blvd., Cupertino, Calif. 95014; 408/973-7171; fax [phone]. -0-

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CONTACT: NetManage Inc.

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