MAKE SYSTEMS CHOOSES TOM SAWYER SOFTWARE

Top product in market category licenses the Graph Layout Toolkit

BERKELEY, Calif, April 17, 1995 - "Tom Sawyer Software is continuing to
make strong strides towards establishing the Graph Layout Toolkit as the
corporate standard for network visualization in application software by
licensing network mapping technologies to industry leader Make Systems,"
said Brendan P. Madden, President and CEO of Tom Sawyer Software.

Make Systems has integrated the Graph Layout Toolkit Circular,
Hierarchical, and Symmetric Libraries as a separately sold component of
its NetMaker XA suite of network decision tools. The Graph Layout Toolkit
is helping NetMaker XA to automatically generate Demand based Symmetric
Layout, Link based Symmetric Layout, Geographic Campus Layout and Internet
Campus Layout. These features enable network managers to quickly and
easily define and visualize physical and logical network maps, diagrams,
and schematics for moderate to large scale networks.

"Network management application developers are realizing that with
explosive network growth, automated network mapping software is essential
to help ease the process of managing a complex network" said Mr. Madden.

The Graph Layout Toolkit supports three unique layout styles. The Circular
and Symmetric libraries have been designed specifically for the network
management, design and simulation markets. It enables network management
applications to map large computer networks automatically. It also
provides sophisticated navigation features that help network applications
developers to build programs that navigate between many different views
into a network.

The Hierarchical library has numerous network related applications such as
visualization of call routing, visual scripting languages for telephony
applications, graphical query and display, and various other forms of
network visualization. It is also ideal for use with project management
software, compiler and software development tools, data inspection
software, work-flow software, and reverse engineering applications.

The Graph Layout Toolkit is specifically designed to provide portable,
automated, graph layout services through a family of class libraries
written in C++ that include ANSI C API's. The Graph Layout Toolkit's
sophisticated technology is the result of more than seven years research
and development into automated layout technologies. Additional family
products are already underway that will provide for a wider set of layout
styles for different market segments.

Tom Sawyer Software, based in Berkeley, California, is a development tools
company that produces portable graph layout systems, portable graph
editors, and finished applications for specific market segments.

Tom Sawyer Software
1824B Fourth St
Berkeley, CA 94710
510-848-0853,  fax 510-848-0854

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