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From: "Jeff Diamond" <jeff.diamond@ZeroG.com>
To: <letters@lwn.net>
Subject: Please post to News Section
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:17:15 -0700


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ZERO G SHIPS INSTALLANYWHERE(R) 3.5 LATEST EDITION OF AWARD-WINNING
MULTI-PLATFORM SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION

InstallAnywhere Upgrade Delivers Industry’s Most Extensive Platform Support
and Full Java 2, version 1.3 Compatibility

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (September 13, 2000) - Zero G, the leading provider of
multi-platform software deployment solutions, today announced the immediate
availability of version 3.5 of the InstallAnywhere product line.
InstallAnywhere 3.5 features many new enhancements, such as full Java 2,
version 1.3 compatibility and Linux support, extending Zero G’s leadership
in the multi-platform software deployment market.

InstallAnywhere 3.5 provides commercial and enterprise software producers
with the industry’s most powerful solutions for the complex process of
installing and configuring software across multiple platforms.

"With this release, InstallAnywhere solidifies its position as the most
powerful, most flexible and most intelligent multi-platform software
deployment solution available. It offers the most complete platform support
of any software deployment solution on the market," said Eric Shapiro, CEO
of Zero G. "As our customers’ needs become more sophisticated,
InstallAnywhere will continue to deliver the features they count on to
deploy their mission critical applications."

The InstallAnywhere Family

The InstallAnywhere 3.5 family – Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, and
Now! – streamlines the complexity of performing complicated, multi-system
deployment with an easy-to-use interface. This gives software producers a
single solution that can handle the intricacies of deploying software across
different platforms.

- InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition 3.5, the world’s most powerful software
deployment solution, solves complex multi-platform deployment problems and
provides maximum customization, along with full international support for 29
different languages

- InstallAnywhere Standard Edition 3.5, the industry standard for
multi-platform software installation, offers more features and
customizability than any product in its price class

- InstallAnywhere Now! 3.5, the easiest, quickest, and most inexpensive way
to build multi-platform software installers



"In today's client/server environments, configuring applications across
multiple platforms is a complex procedure. Prior to InstallAnywhere,
software producers were forced to hand-author custom installation procedures
for every operating system," said Greg Maletic, co-founder and executive
vice-president of Zero G. "Our customers need an extremely flexible, yet
full-featured deployment solution that deploys software on multiple
platforms – one that can install any application or data file, and one that
is extremely easy to use. InstallAnywhere was created to be that solution."

Making Anytime, Anywhere Deployment a Reality

InstallAnywhere builds professional, multi-platform installers capable of
installing and configuring software on virtually any client or server
platform – all the more important as the number of computing platforms
increases. Each installer that is created by InstallAnywhere recognizes the
platform under which it is operating. The installer then tailors its
installation to the target system, whether by creating shortcuts in the
Windows Start Menu, setting custom icons on the Mac OS, starting Windows
NT/2000 services, setting Unix environment variables, or modifying file
permissions on Unix systems. This approach saves software producers the time
and expense of building separate installers for each platform and ensures
that the end-user’s experience is consistently positive.

InstallAnywhere’s Market-leading Feature Set

The industry's leading commercial and enterprise software developers use
InstallAnywhere to simplify the process of deploying software. They rely on
InstallAnywhere’s unique ability to:

- Quickly create universal installers that can deploy software to multiple
platforms via the Internet or CD-ROM

- Build installers for more platforms than any other solution, including:
Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000 and NT, Mac OS, Solaris, Linux, AIX, HP-UX, and
virtually any other Java-enabled platform

- Install a Java virtual machine (VM) as part of an application’s install,
ensuring that the target system has the best VM for the application being
installed

- Build installers eight times quicker, 40% smaller, and that, once
deployed, run twice as fast as any alternative solution

- Automatically build Web Installer HTML pages for easily deploying software
via intranets and the Internet

Pricing and Availability

InstallAnywhere 3.5 is licensed on a per-developer, per-system basis,
allowing for the creation of an unlimited number of installers.
InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition is currently available direct from Zero G
for USD $1,995, Standard Edition is available for USD $995, and Now! is free
of charge. Special pricing is available for site licenses and volume
purchases. For more information, please contact Zero G sales at (415)
512-7771, extension 4, or email sales@ZeroG.com.

About Zero G

Founded in 1996, Zero G is the leading developer of multi-platform software
deployment and updating solutions for software producers. Best known for its
award-winning InstallAnywhere line, the company’s solutions have become the
de facto standard for multi-platform deployment and installation, creating
professional installers for virtually any operating system. Some of the
blue-chip software producers who count on Zero G are Adobe, AT&T, FedEx,
IBM, Intel, Novell, and Sun Microsystems. Privately held, Zero G is
headquartered in San Francisco, California, and can be contacted at (415)
512-7771 or found on the Internet at http://www.ZeroG.com.

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Zero G, Zero G Software and InstallAnywhere are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Zero G Software, Inc. Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems,
Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.



Jeff Diamond
Zero G Software, Inc.
Sr. Mgr., P.R.
cel 510 913 9549

San Francisco, CA  94103
514 Bryant Street

jeff.diamond@zerog.com