CONTACT: Teknekron Software Systems, Inc. 530 Lytton Avenue, Third Floor Palo Alto, CA 94301 Voice: 1-800-842-4636 Fax: 1-415-321-3176 E-mail: rv-info@tss.com rv-support@tss.com Teknekron Software Systems releases Rendezvous TM Software Bus for NEXTSTEP PALO ALTO, Calif. - December 6, 1994 - Teknekron Software Systems, Inc., is proud to announce the availability of the Rendezvous Software Bus, the industry's most advanced communications toolkit for building scalable distributed applications, for the NEXTSTEP platform. The Rendezvous Software Bus is a communications software package that makes it easy to create distributed applications. The Rendezvous Software Bus lets your applications exchange data across a network transparently, using powerful publish and subscribe technology, and Teknekron's Subject Based Addressing. It gives you all the software support you need for network transport and data representation. The Rendezvous' object kit is efficient and easy to use. Versions of the Rendezvous Software Bus for different hardware and software platforms let your applications communicate seamlessly between different kinds of computers on a network. "We think that Teknekron's Rendezvous Software Bus offers NEXTSTEP customers an innovative and valuable Publish and Subscribe capability for use in their distributed computing environments," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "Teknekron and NeXT are working closely together to offer NEXTSTEP customers state-of-the-art products like Rendezvous." The Rendezvous Software Bus: - eliminates the applications need to locate clients or determine network addresses. - allows seamless interoperability across heterogeneous platforms. - simplifies the development of distributed application systems by hiding the networking details. - lets you share data without doing network programming. - makes it easy to develop resilient systems because redundant data publishers are transparent to data subscribers. - allows the introduction of new, independently developed applications to running distributed systems without modifying existing code. Rendezvous Applications: - can publish broadcast messages to distribute information quickly and reliably to many subscribers. - can provide request/reply interactions, such as queries or transactions. - are platform independent. The Rendezvous Software Bus includes: - Tekenekron's patented Subject Based Addressing technology, which allows users to exchange data by name without reference to network location. - Self-Describing Data, which eliminates the need for applications running on different platform to agree on data formats. - High-performance, reliable, connectionless data delivery. - Small footprint, simple API, low cost The Rendezvous Software Bus is a derivative of the Teknekron Information Bus TM (TIB) technology. Teknekron Software Systems developed the TIB software technology as a base for building decoupled distributed systems. TIB software is at the heart of high-performance systems serving the financial services and manufacturing industries. The Rendezvous Software Bus makes this technology available for general use. Customers, Teknekron and third party developers will now be able to take advantage of NEXTSTEP's object-oriented environment and rapid development tools. The Rendezvous Software Bus is available now for Motorola, Intel and HPPA-RISC based systems running NEXTSTEP 3.2 via anonymous ftp at ftp.cs.orst.edu. The Rendezvous Software Bus is list priced at $495. ISV's please contact Teknekron for volume pricing arrangements. About Teknekron Software Systems, Inc. Teknekron Software Systems, Inc. is a subsidiary of Reuters Holding PLC (NASDAQ symbol: RTRSY). A systems integrator and software supplier, Teknekron specializes in distributed systems technology. In financial services, Teknekron is the global market leader in digital trading systems with over 150 client sites worldwide. The Teknekron Information Bus (TIB) middleware, the backbone of Teknekron's digital trading systems, is also being used to build distributed systems in the manufacturing, construction and telecommunication industries. Teknekron offers a full spectrum of products and services including consulting, software development, systems integration and project management. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Teknekron has branch offices in the United Kingdom, Japan, Switzerland, Canada, Hong Kong and Australia. # # # # Rendezvous and Teknekron Information Bus are trademarks of Teknekron Software Systems, Inc. TIB is a registered trademark of Teknekron Software Systems, Inc. NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.