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Framework Technologies and Tech Soft America announce HOOPS Licensing Agreement 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