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To: Mark A. Stang who wrote (2607)	7/29/1998 10:32:00 AM
From: Roy F	Respond to of 3115

Rational ChoosesBristol's Wind/U As Cross Platform Development Solution July 29, 1998 10:23 AM DANBURY, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 1998--Bristol Technology Inc. today announced that Rational(R) Software Corporation RATL employed Bristol's Wind/U(R) cross-platform development software to port its market-leading visual modeling tool Rational Rose(R) 98 to the UNIX platform. Rational Rose 98 for UNIX, which began shipping earlier this month, features multi-language capabilities, enterprise development enhancements, including integration with ClearCase, Rational's multi-platform software configuration management (SCM) solution, enhancements to the Rose Extensibility Interface for extending and customizing the Rational Rose 98 environment, and the industry's most comprehensive support for the Unified Modeling Language (UML) v1.1. The product provides code generation and reverse engineering for C++ and Java, and code generation for Ada 83 and Ada 95 on the Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Irix, AIX, and Digital Unix platforms. "Rational is committed to providing its customers with industry-leading development tools for the UNIX environment," explains Pamela Roussos, vice president of product marketing for Rational's Visual Programming business unit. "Bristol's Wind/U facilitated our time to market in porting our award winning Rational Rose product from Windows to the UNIX environment." Bristol's Wind/U family of products enables software developers to use a single source code base for development on multiple platforms, including Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX, OpenVMS and OS/390. This results in shorter development cycles, lower software maintenance costs, and higher return on investment as applications move more quickly to market. "We are very pleased that Rational chose Wind/U to port Rose to the UNIX platform," explains Keith Blackwell, president of Bristol Technology. "Bristol shares Rational's commitment to quality and enterprise development." About Rational Software Corporations Rational Software, creator of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the leading provider of a solution that unifies proven software development principles, tools and services to improve the productivity of project teams and individuals. Rational's products span the critical activities of requirement management, visual modeling, testing and configuration and change management. For more information, visit Rational's Website at www.rational.com. About Bristol Technology Headquartered in Danbury, CT, Bristol Technology Inc. has a European subsidiary in Amersfoort, The Netherlands and a development center in Bangalore, India. Bristol develops, markets, and supports the Wind/U family of Windows and UNIX cross-platform development products. Founded in 1991, the company was listed in the 1997 Inc. 500 as one of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. In addition to Wind/U, its products include HyperHelp(TM), software for creating UNIX-based on-line help systems with WinHelp functionality; Xprinter(TM), software for adding sophisticated printing capabilities to UNIX-based applications; and Jprinter(R), a WYSIWYG network printing system for Java. For more information, please visit Bristol's home page: bristol.com (C) 1998 Bristol Technology Inc. Bristol Technology and Wind/U are registered trademarks of Bristol Technology Inc. The word Rational and Rational's products are trademarks of Rational Software Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.