Delrina Unveils Vision for PC Communications At Your Command

SAN JOSE, CA and TORONTO, ONT -- August 3, 1995 -- As the computer industry
races towards a new era in PC productivity with Microsoft Windows 95,
Delrina Corporation (NASDAQ:DENAF, TSE:DC), the leading supplier of PC
communications software for Windows, is racing towards a vision that lets
you command communications from your desktop as never before.

Imagine working on a spreadsheet while your PC is taking a phone call and
letting you know who it's from.... Imagine a personal computer that will
send a message to your pager when an important fax comes in and you're
out.... Imagine using the Internet like an expert, without having to read
a single book about it.... Imagine 'PC communications at your command'.

Well, you don't have to imagine any more. All of these things are now
possible.

"We see PC communications as the ability to deal with all kinds of
communications activities in a smart way," says Delrina president Mark
Skapinker. "It's more than just dealing with discrete activities like
sending a message by fax, by e-mail or to a pager, connecting to a
mainframe computer from home, accessing information through the Internet,
or having the computer answer the phone. It's about doing all these
activities, but in an integrated manner. And having the computer do things
for you!

An Historical Perspective

"Our vision began several years ago as a product that let you fax a
document directly from your computer, rather than having to print it out
and stand at a fax machine to transmit it. To enhance that product we
began looking at how people used the fax machine, what they expected from
fax technology and how we could use the computer to make things easier. We
realized that for our product to really appeal to a lot of people, we had
to let them do everything they did with a paper fax, plus give them
capabilities that only the computer could do. For example, if they had to
make notes on the fax they received, then sign it and send it back, we
would let them mark up the fax on the computer screen, click a button to
stamp their signature on it, and fax it back. If they preferred to send
the document the next day, we would let them click a button to schedule it
for next day delivery.

"We also realized that people had certain expectations about how the
technology should work. When people send a fax, they want to know that it
went through. They usually stand by the fax machine to witness it. So we
gave them animated pages running through a fax machine on their screens.

"But we also found out that the computer could be used to automate a lot of
cumbersome tasks, like automatically forwarding faxes to another location
when you're out, or automatically sending a price list to a group of
people at a given time, every week.

"Having learned from all of our experience in fax, we began to apply this
knowledge to other areas of communications, with voice, paging, and the
new world of interactive communications, the Internet. Our vision is to
make PC communications software that mirrors what actually goes on in the
real world, but makes it easier and simpler, and adds that extra bit of
wow.

Integrated, Intelligent Communications

"There are people today who, when they come back from lunch, check their
voice messages through the telephone, check their e-mail in an e-mail
package, go on-line to check the stock markets with a data product or
Internet software, and then they pick up the phone and make a few calls to
see what they've missed. Those different functions are built into
different pieces of hardware and software that, traditionally, have not
worked very well together. We envision a single place you can go to do all
these activities as simply and easily as pressing a couple of keys,
clicking a button or dragging an icon across the screen.

"You'll no longer have to worry about what format of message you're sending
- fax, e-mail, voice, or data -- nor will you have to worry about what
format the person receives it in. The PC will send, receive and adapt all
types of messages, leaving you free to think about one thing -- the
content of your message. In addition, you'll be able to direct the
computer to act in your stead. When a phone call comes in from your
spouse, the computer will play them a special greeting, and then page you
to let you know about the call.

"This level of intelligence extends beyond messages and into the world of
interactive communications. For example, the Internet has been a two-fold
problem for people. It's been complicated to get connected, and once
you're on, you don't know where to go or what to do to get you there.
We'll get you on with one click. And we'll take all the mystery out of
getting somewhere with our intelligent software.

"Until now, if you wanted to chat with someone on the Net, you'd need IRC
software; if you wanted to read news, you'd need a USEnet news tool; if
you wanted to retrieve a file or browse the Net, you'd need an FTP product
and a WWW browser. If you were new to the Internet, you wouldn't know that
you could chat with someone or retrieve a file because you wouldn't know
your IRC's from your FTP's. Our vision takes the technical jargon out of
the Internet by treating all these things as activities you can do, and
organizing them into books with a description, just like your TV guide."

Delrina will deliver much of its vision in a software product called
CommSuite 95 (for Windows 95), in the fourth quarter this year.

Delrina Corporation designs, develops, markets and supports innovative PC
software products and services in the fax, data and voice communications,
electronic forms and consumer software markets. Founded in 1988, the
company is recognized as the world leader in PC fax and electronic forms
software. Delrina recently announced a definitive agreement to merge with
Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) of Cupertino, CA. Delrina can be
contacted at 1-800-268-6082.

Delrina Corp
895 Don Mills, 500-2 Park Center
Toronto, Ontario M3C 1W3 CANADA
416-441-3676,  fax 416-441-0774
 
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