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Contact Information

Ron Fritz

Business Development

Tech Soft America

1301 Marina Village Parkway, Suite 300

Alameda, CA 94501

(510) 769-2301 (ph)

(510) 769.2302 (fax)

ron@tsoftamerica.com

http://www.hoops3d.com 
September 3, 1999
TECH SOFT AMERICA ANNOUNCES SUPPORT
FOR LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM IN HOOPS® 3D GRAPHICS SYSTEM 
Alameda, CA – September 3, 1999 - Tech
Soft America (TSA), developer of the popular HOOPS 3D Graphics System today
announced support for the Linux Operating System LIBC6 in their 4.5 release.
This announcement further expands HOOPS’ already extensive platform coverage
and will enable high-end 3D applications to be built for Linux using HOOPS
- a robust graphics development component with a proven track record in
the Scientific Visualization, CAD/CAM/CAE, GIS, and Geophysical application
markets. 
Linux is an operating system that brings
Unix-like scalability, efficiency and reliability to PC’s. Over the past
three years Linux has seen dramatic growth, with recent strong inroads
into corporate installations. Linux is particularly popular among former
Unix Workstation users who are now migrating to PC’s and are looking for
the power and stability of the Unix operating systems. 
HOOPS is graphics subsystem component that
delivers advanced graphics performance and functionality in applications
from companies such as Parametric Technology Corp (PTC), SDRC, Mechanical
Dynamics, MicroCADAM, Tecnomatix, Fluent, ITI, ANSYS/Centric, Pam Systems,
Minitab, and over 150 other organizations worldwide. In addition to Linux,
HOOPS supports Windows 95/98/NT, Dec Alpha, HPUX, IBM AIX, SGI IRIX, SUN
SOLARIS, as well as numerous other platforms through obfuscated source
code.
Haavard Nord, CEO of Troll Tech AS commented,
“Qt, our cross-platform UI tool has been successfully used on the Linux
platform for some time and we are pleased to see other tool providers moving
toward Linux as well. The Linux development community will certainly be
excited about this announcement because for the first time there is a high-level,
market-proven tool for delivering advanced graphics.” 
Jim Merry, Director of Marketing for TSA
states, “Developers have always been attracted to the cross-platform nature
of HOOPS and we are pleased to continue our tradition of helping our customers
run their HOOPS-based applications everywhere.  Tech Soft America
is at the forefront of providing advanced development components for Linux,
and we look forward to enabling truly advanced graphics applications for
the engineering marketplace on that platform.”
“We have been keeping an eye on the rapid
growth of Linux for a couple of years. As Linux has continued to see wider
acceptance in corporate installations it was only natural for us to provide
HOOPS on this platform. We have customers who are beginning to explore
Linux versions of their applications and it is always our intention to
be one step ahead of their needs”, said Rob Mazeffa, Director of Engineering
for TSA. 
About Tech Soft.

Tech Soft America (TSA) provides premier
customer driven development tools, consulting and support services enabling
their partners to rapidly deliver world-class technical software. 
TSA develops the HOOPS 3D Graphics System,
a high-level, object oriented application framework that dramatically simplifies
the design, development and maintenance of high-performance, interactive
2D and 3D graphics applications built for PCs and UNIX workstations. 
HOOPS encapsulates highly optimized data structures and algorithms for
the creation, editing, storage, manipulation, querying, rendering and printing
of the 3D graphical information needed for the rapid production of advanced,
commercial-grade graphics applications.
Many of the world’s leading technical software
applications, including; Pro/Mechanica, CADDS5, Optegra Visualizer, ICEMSurf,
and EPD.Connect from PTC, CAMAND from SDRC, Helix Design System from MicroCADAM,
ADAMS from Mechanical Dynamics, Fluent5, Rampant and Cortex from Fluent,
Excaline from Tecnomatix, IGES/Works and STEP/Works from ITI, the PAM_SYSTEM
series of applications from PAM System International are currently shipping
with HOOPS. Globally, over 100 commercially shipped applications rely on
the HOOPS Graphics System as their core graphics subsystem.
The company maintains corporate headquarters
in Alameda, CA. and can be reached via the World Wide Web at http://www.hoops3d.com
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Linux is a registered trademark of Linus
Torvalds in several countries.  HOOPS is a registered trademark of
Autodesk.