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To: george eberting who wrote (507)	5/3/1999 1:43:00 PM
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StarBase to Offer Increased Customization of Line of Business Solutions Through Microsoft VBA 6.0 Leading Development Language Integration with StarTeam Enterprise Delivers Increased Customization and Collaboration to Corporate Users SANTA ANA, Calif., May 3 /PRNewswire/ -- StarBase Corporation (Nasdaq: SBAS - news), a leading provider of Internet and intranet based technical collaboration products for web site application production and software configuration management (SCM), announced today that it will integrate Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - news) Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) version 6.0 into its products. StarBase's integration of Microsoft VBA into StarTeam 4.0 and the Enterprise Suite will provide a powerful and widely used development environment, increasing the customization and programmability of StarTeam solutions. The use of VBA will allow StarBase customers, service providers and industry partners to modify user interfaces, extend current functionality and easily connect StarTeam with other line-of-business applications to create fully integrated business solutions. StarTeam products are designed to increase the efficiency, productivity and collaboration of development teams no matter their size, location, platform or existing tool sets. VBA developers and programmers will soon find it possible to create a customized enterprise-wide solution that utilizes StarTeam as the foundation for enterprise-wide collaboration and configuration management. The combination of StarTeam and VBA supports the creation of enterprise solutions that are built from accepted corporate business models thereby gaining wider acceptance of newly deployed solutions. William R. Stow III, chairman and chief executive officer of StarBase stated, ''Microsoft VBA is a development environment of choice for programmers worldwide. VBA has also become an industry standard for easily creating customizable user interfaces and for connecting complementary applications. StarTeam was designed to take advantage of industry leading standards and Microsoft technology. Ease of use is a hallmark of StarTeam and in keeping with this, we designed StarTeam 4.0 so that our customers will be able to use Microsoft VBA to customize StarTeam and connect StarTeam to other products. It is our philosophy that our customers should be able to use other industry leading products to complement their use of StarTeam. Additionally, with over 3 million developers using Visual Basic, this integration opens a much larger marketplace for StarBase.'' ''We are delighted that StarBase is integrating VBA to bring a higher degree of customization and functionality to its solutions,'' said Neil Charney, group product manager for VBA and Office 2000 Developer, Microsoft Corp. ''StarBase delivers to its customers the ability to easily integrate and connect multiple VBA-enabled applications to create entire line of business solutions.'' When used in the preceding discussion, the words ''believes, expects, or intend to'' and similar conditional expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties and actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any of the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, (i) conditions in the general economy or the software industry, (ii) the timely development and market acceptance of products and technologies, (iii) competitive factors, (iv) demand for team productivity software products, (v) sell-through of products in the sales channel, (vi) and other risks described in StarBase Corporation's SEC reports and filings. About StarBase StarBase Corporation, with headquarters in Santa Ana, California, offers a complete family of advanced Internet and Intranet-based technical collaboration products for web site production, e-commerce application development and software configuration management for mission critical applications. StarBase products were designed to improve development team productivity throughout the enterprise, centralized, decentralized and remote development, including Year 2000 and Enterprise Program Management Office applications. StarTeam has won several awards including being named the 25th fastest growing ISV for Windows by Microsoft and CMP Media in April 1999, InfoWorld's 1997 ''Best of the Test Center,'' PCWeek's 1996 Analyst's Choice and PC Week's 1996 IT Excellence Award. Leading organizations such as Hollywood Entertainment, Bank of America, Boeing, Dell Corporation, Intel Corporation, Sprint, and Xerox have chosen StarTeam to aid in their development projects. StarBase is located at 4 Hutton Centre Drive, Suite 800, Santa Ana, CA 92707. Tel: 714-445-4400. Fax: 714-445-4404. Visit StarBase's web site at starbase.com. StarBase and its product names are trademarks of StarBase Corporation. All other product and company names herein are trademarks of their respective owners. SOURCE: StarBase Corporation