InterCAP Graphics Systems and Nereus Technologies Announce OEM, Distribution and Licensing Agreement.

ANNAPOLIS, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 1998--InterCAP Graphics Systems, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intergraph Corporation, and Nereus Technologies Inc, today announced an agreement to license and integrate InterCAP's ActiveCGM viewing technology within the Nereus Multimedia Publishing System.

Nereus is a powerful networked publishing system used to create and maintain Knowledge Management Systems, Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS), Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETMs), and Computer-Based Training (CBT) solutions.

With the ActiveCGM Browser(tm), InterCAP Graphics Systems, the world leader in computer graphics metafile (CGM) technology, has produced an easy-to-use product for viewing "intelligent graphics" published on the World Wide Web a corporate intranet, or within other applications like Nereus.

Nereus Technologies Inc. is an information technology company providing tools and applications that enable media-rich content to be more effectively produced, managed, stored and distributed as well as offering a full range of video and multimedia services. The agreement and technology integration bring together two enterprise publishing industry leaders that now offer a formidable standards-based solution.

Nereus is a multimedia creation tool set that allows multiple authors to work simultaneously on the same project. It is also the only tool that can handle Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) - an ISO standard for text document markup in multimedia production.

By using the Nereus system users are able to incorporate their existing SGML material into fully interactive structured multimedia. With SGML, documents are portable, revisable, and easily managed. Because Nereus can understand the structure of SGML, all the advantages of authoring in an SGML environment are preserved.

"We're really excited about the capabilities that InterCAP's ActiveCGM technology will add to our product line," said Lyle Emmott, Applications Product Manager for Nereus. "Like InterCAP, we've been committed to open standards publishing solutions for some time and this partnership will help us continue delivering long-lasting solutions that satisfy our customers' needs."

"With the integration of our ActiveCGM Browser technology into the Nereus multimedia applications, it will offer users true graphics interactivity inside their SGML and other multimedia documents," said Dr. John Gebhardt, InterCAP's Chief Technical Officer. "It is another important InterCAP partnership."

CGM is the international standard interchange format for 2-D graphical data. It is an open, platform-independent, graphic file format that permits the user to apply, store, and exchange technical illustrations and other graphic images regardless of vendor, application or hardware.

Its structured format works smoothly with other graphics formats, while highly efficient, graphic-encoded primitives provide the "parts" to construct illustrations.

ActiveCGM is a family of profiles for CGM. The ActiveCGM profile family defines a methodology for adding hyperlinks, animation and other intelligence to standard CGM graphics. It is intended to leverage the extensive existing support for the CGM standard by defining how to "activate" CGM graphics so they can be easily published to the WWW.

About Nereus

Nereus Technologies Inc (http://www.nereus.net), now headquartered in Boston Massachusetts, has received a major capital investment from several key investors, including OSHAP Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:OSHSF)- a growth-oriented software group that focuses its investments on companies with advanced technologies that have the potential to become market leaders in high growth, worldwide software markets.

Nereus products were originally developed and launched by Vicom Multimedia Inc., a Canadian company with 20 years of experience creating technology-enhanced training and communications products.

Nereus is a powerful networked publishing system used to create and maintain Knowledge Management Systems, Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS), Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETMs), and Computer-Based Training (CBT) solutions.

Nereus customers are found in leading corporate and government organizations in key industry sectors such as aerospace, the military, and process manufacturing. Key customers also include Lockheed Martin, Weyerhaeuser, Booz Allen & Hamilton, Newbridge Networks Corp., and EDS.

About InterCAP

InterCAP Graphics Systems, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intergraph Corporation, develops and markets the world's leading technical illustration software, Illustrator2 and Quik Edit, and the ActiveCGM Publishing Suite, a complete range of graphics software for the authoring and presentation of graphics content on the World Wide Web.

Founded in 1987, the company has been a leader in the development of graphics software for electronically creating, editing and managing technical graphics, and is a driving force in providing international standards-based solutions services for technical publishers.

InterCAP is a major supplier of graphics software to a wide range of companies that include Caterpillar, Freightliner, Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, Hill-Rom and Boeing.

InterCAP is also a major supplier of software for the DOD JCALS standard publishing solution, as well as for Northrop/Grumman's J-STARS, Boeing-Bell-Allison V-22, and Lockheed Martin F-22 interactive electronic manuals (IETMs) for field maintenance.

InterCAP, the InterCAP logo, and ActiveCGM are registered trademarks of InterCAP Graphics Systems, Inc.