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 Framework Technologies and Tech Soft America announce HOOPS Licensing
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Burlington, MA. and Oakland, CA – April 2, 2001 – Framework
Technologies, a leader in c-commerce software, and Tech Soft America, the
industry leader in component graphics technology for the CAD/CAM/CAE
industry, today announced a technology licensing agreement whereby
Framework will incorporate HOOPS graphics technology into upcoming releases
of ActiveProjectTM, Framework’s collaborative product development
software.

“HOOPS’ core visualization tools are clearly best-of-breed and will
immediately accelerate ActiveProject’s graphics.  Our development team has
been able to quickly build a high-performance, customized view/ markup
complement to Active Project, which now includes streaming viewing
capabilities.  Streaming viewing significantly improves the ability to work
with large CAD files over slower Internet connections.  As a result of
working with HOOPS, we can  focus on delivering customers’ the cutting-edge
tools and functions needed to speed products to market and improve their
time to revenue,” said  Dave Halpert, CTO and Co-Founder of Framework
Technologies.

Added Gavin Bridgeman, Co-Founder of Tech Soft “Framework Technologies has
created a very powerful collaborative development solution with
ActiveProject.  Implementing the HOOPS 3D Application within ActiveProject
will enhance its graphics capabilities and reinforce its status as a leading
collaborative product development solution. We’re extremely pleased to be
associated with Framework Technologies and look forward to the upcoming
ActiveProject release.”

About ActiveProject

ActiveProject enables a company, via project centric Web sites, to work
together with its customers, vendors and partners on various product design,
sourcing, and manufacturing issues as they occur in the product development
process. By providing instant access to the latest development information,
and an interactive 24/7 forum for real-time sharing and resolution of
problems, ActiveProject reduces development costs and increases customer
satisfaction while accelerating speed to market and, more importantly, time
to revenue. The bottom-line result is a dramatic impact on profitability,
and market position, fueled by product leadership.

About the HOOPS 3D Application Framework

The HOOPS 3D Application Framework (HOOPS/3dAF) consists of a highly
optimized integrated suite of industry leading software components. The
HOOPS/3dAF provides a flexible architectural foundation, based upon a suite
of modular application components, that enables the rapid development of
design, visualization, and engineering applications for Windows, Unix, Linux
and the Web. With the HOOPS/3DAF the base infrastructure for CAD/CAM/CAE
applications has already been optimally designed and implemented and
includes advanced features such as Large Model Visualization, Web Publishing
and Streaming. Application developers can immediately begin implementing
features using the APIs of the HOOPS/3dAF components, saving significant
time and money while focusing more resources on their true value add.

About Framework Technologies
Framework Technologies is a leader in collaborative commerce software, an
emerging IT sector that, according to recent estimates will be a $16 billion
dollar marketplace by 2003.

ActiveProject, Framework’s collaborative product development software, is
fueled by the vision of a world in which virtual teams, across organizations
and geographies, seamlessly work and interact. ActiveProject allows
customers to build and manage secure dynamic Web sites (project-centric
extranets) that drive information sharing and improve communications across
internal and external project teams.

Using ActiveProject, Framework’s customers can benefit by delivering
products to market faster, reducing product development costs and delivering
more innovative products to market.  ActiveProject is currently used by
global enterprises including General Electric, Moen, and Timex to develop
and deliver product leadership.  Founded in 1995, Framework is headquartered
in Burlington, MA. For further details please visit http://www.frametech.com

About Tech Soft America

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 Application
Framework, HOOPS Streaming Toolkit and HOOPS Collaboration Toolkit, which
dramatically simplify the design, development and maintenance of
high-performance, interactive 2D and 3D applications built for PCs, UNIX
workstations, Linux, Windows CE-based handheld devices and the Web.

HOOPS 3D technology has been incorporated into over 100 commercial software
applications, from such leaders as SolidWorks, SDRC, CADKEY, Fluent,
Tecoplan, SPSS, Minitab and Mechanical Dynamics.

The company maintains corporate headquarters in Oakland, California and can
be reached at http://www.hoops3d.com.

Contacts:

Melle Amade-Vice

Tech Soft America

510.434.7630  ext.214

melle@techsoftamerica.com



Fred Pasche

Framework Technologies

(718) 270-6554

fpasche@frametech.com