RALEIGH-- May 11, 1992 -- Pioneer Software and PageAhead Software
Corporation announced today that PageAhead will incorporate Pioneer
Software's database technology in future releases of InfoPublisher and
InfoPublisher Developer's Kit. Pioneer's technology will allow PageAhead
database publishing tools to provide direct database access to DB2,
Ingres, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Netware SQL, XDB, EE DBM, SQL Base,
Paradox, Btrieve, dBase, ASCII text files, and Excel files.

InfoPublisher allows customers to use Windows or DOS word processors to
automatically produce professional-quality catalogs, price lists,
financial statements, directories and other reports directly from their
database without any special database or word processing knowledge. Users
can easily turn out many different versions of the same publication, and
once a document is set up it's simple to publish updated versions fast.
The InfoPublisher Developer's Kit allows developers, value added resellers
(VARs), and consultants to create royalty-free applications for an
unlimited number of users.

"Incorporating Pioneer's multi-database technology allows PageAhead
InfoPublisher to support Paradox and Microsoft SQL Server, significantly
expanding its support for mainframe, mini, and microcomputer database
management systems," said Mike Satterfield, president of PageAhead
Software Corporation. "We intend to use Pioneer's technology in future
InfoPublisher releases to continue to add to the number of major database
systems InfoPublisher supports."

"Pioneer Software has successfully provided its customers with
multi-database technology tools in the Windows and OS/2 environments for
the past three years," said George Woltman, President, Pioneer Software.
"So it is natural for software vendors in complementary markets to license
our technology for database access and use their development resources for
other product enhancements . "

Pioneer Software's multi-database access is available to corporate
customers in its retail package Q+E Database Library (QELIB). Q+E Database
Library provides Windows developers with programmatic access to a variety
of database management systems. Q+E Database Library is a collection of
Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL) that provide a common call level interface
for database access from any application or tool capable of calling a DLL.
Q+E Database Library can be called from the macro, script, or programming
languages of any Windows product. Products such as spreadsheets, word
processors, hypercard development systems, 4GL development tools,
object-oriented languages, and traditional programming languages can all
use Q+E Database Library to directly retrieve and manipulate database
information.

Q+E Database Library uses the SQL database language to access data stored
in local, server, and remote databases. This data can be stored on a PC,
LAN, mini computer, or mainframe. Since Q+E Database Library uses the same
SQL language for all database systems, developers don't have to learn a
different interface for each database system. A single application can be
written to simultaneously access multiple databases or an application can
be developed using one database system and then run on other database
systems. This is a tremendous benefit to the application developer faced
with building an application that works on multiple database systems.

PageAhead Software Corporation is a Seattle-based software company
specializing in products for database publishing. The company has
strategic relationships with Microsoft Corporation, Aldus Corporation, and
Oracle Corporation. PageAhead is working with Microsoft to develop various
DBMS drivers for Microsoft's Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), a database
connectivity API (application programming interface). Aldus packages a
PageMaker-specific version of InfoPublisher 1.0 called Aldus PageMaker
Database Edition. Oracle and PageAhead are working together on several
end-user and reseller co-marketing programs. PageAhead Software is
headquartered at 2125 Western Avenue, Suite 301, Seattle, WA 98121.
Telephone is (206) 441-0340 or (800) 967-9671.

Pioneer Software, the multi-database technology company, has shipped over
2,000,000 copies of Windows and OS/2 database access products for
end-users and developers. Pioneer Software was recently cited as the
fourth fastest growing application publisher in the 1992 Software Industry
Factbook, published by the Digital Information Group. Pioneer Software,
founded 1986, is a privately held company based in Raleigh, North Carolina
and has a European office in Rotterdam, Holland.

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