RALEIGH-- July 15, 1992 -- Pioneer Software and WordPerfect Corporation
announced today that WordPerfect Corporation will incorporate Pioneer
Software's database technology in future releases of their Windows word
processing products. Pioneer's technology will allow WordPerfect to
provide direct database access to fourteen databases including: DB2,
Ingres, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Netware SQL, XDB, EE DBM, SQL Base,
Btrieve, and Excel files.

"We are very impressed with Pioneer's multi-database technology," said Dave
Moon, Vice President, WordPerfect Corporation. "Pioneer's technology will
allow future WordPerfect releases to seamlessly integrate database
information from almost any major database system into WordPerfect for
Windows documents. "

"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, Chief Technical Officer,
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.

WordPerfect Corporation, founded in 1979, is located in Orem, Utah, and
manufactures the world's best-selling word processing software,
WordPerfect, as well as WordPerfect Office
(E-mail/scheduling/calendaring), and DrawPerfect, presentation graphics
software. The privately held company develops software for DOS, Windows,
OS/2, Macintosh, UNIX, VAX, AS/400, NeXT, Data General, Pen, and System
370 platforms.

Pioneer Software, the multi-database technology company, has shipped over
3,000,000 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.

Pioneer Software
5540 Centerview Dr, Suite 324, Raleigh, NC 27606
919-859-2220

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