Japan orders new Office software from China

Internet Telephone Co. to sell Japanese edition of Evermore Integrated Office

WUXI, CHINA and TOKYO, May 18, 2004 -- China's Wuxi Evermore Software Inc., www.evermoresw.com, has struck a deal with Japan's Internet Telephone Co. Ltd., www.internettel.co.jp, to jointly develop the Japanese language version of Evermore Integrated Office (EIOffice).

Under the agreement, Internet Telephone also becomes the exclusive sales agent for the Japanese version of EIOffice, the "First Real Office," designed and priced to liberate enterprise, small business and individual computer users from the Microsoft® Office monoculture.

The development and marketing deal in Japan comes as China's leading developer of Office software makes the innovative suite of desktop software available to computer users in the United States and China.

"EIOffice is a major innovation in data integration and software design," said Shigemasa Shigaki, president of Internet Telephone, which markets hardware, software and Voice over IP services to distributors, corporations, government agencies and schools in Japan.

"EIOffice delivers the power of a conventional Office suite, plus new capabilities, such as Paste Link. When people get accustomed to using EIOffice data integration, which makes correct links between text documents, spreadsheets and presentations, Microsoft will be imitating EIOffice," said Shigaki.

Guangnan Ni, cofounder of Lenova, China's leading PC maker, formerly known as Legend Group Co., and now a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of the Information Processing Society of China, called the event a milestone for the Chinese software industry.

"Cooperation between Evermore Software in China and Internet Telephone Company in Japan is a great step forward for China's software industry," said Ni. "Instead of just importing software, China is now entering the overseas market with innovations and mature technology."

EIOffice 2004 is written in Java and runs under Windows® and Linux, making it ideal for users moving back and forth between open-source and proprietary operating systems. It integrates into one program, with one unified user interface, spreadsheet, word processor and business graphics functions that conventional Office suites force users to launch and run as separate applications. And it includes an array of productivity tools for working with and migrating from worksheets, documents and presentations produced with conventional Office suites that monopolize the desktop.

This approach to integration replaces multiple file formats with one file format -- .eio – thatstores all text, worksheets, graphics, audio, video and slides – and one “EIOffice binder” that stores up to 255 related spreadsheets, 64 text documents and 64 presentations.

To organize all related data, EIOffice 2004 uses the Data Object Oriented Repository System (DOORS). This patent-pending technology developed by Evermore also powers the new “Paste Link” command, which makes synchronizing an entire project as easy as cut and paste, without the complex hyperlinking and embedding needed to link data in other Office suites.

For example, as a user changes quarterly financial results in a spreadsheet, the Paste Link command automatically applies that update to all other memos, reports, presentations, worksheets, text and graphics with the same source data.

No extra training is needed when users make the switch to EIOffice 2004. The software imports and exports Microsoft Office xls, doc and ppt files, including graphics, slides, charts and tables. Users may even insert Word documents directly into active EIOffice text documents – and copy, rename and delete paragraph and document styles from and to Word’s “Normal” template. In addition, users may save EIOffice 2004 documents in pdf, rtf and txt formats – and automatically compress files. Floating-point, font-resolution, text-wrapping, layout and other technologies ensure that converted documents resemble the original as closely as possible.

The English and Chinese editions of EIOffice 2004 are available immediately.

In the United States, EIOffice 2004 is priced at $398 with five years of free upgrades and unlimited support. Alternatively, EIOffice is priced at $149 for one year of free upgrades and support – and users may extend this shorter license for $99 for each additional year. Corporate, educational, senior citizen, family and other licensing terms are also available. Evermore also offers special competitive conversion pricing terms.

About Evermore:

Wuxi Evermore Software Inc., www.evermoresw.com, is China’s leading developer of Office software. The company is a privately-held joint venture with the Wuxi New District Economic Development Corporation. Evermore was founded in 2000 and employs over 200 software engineers. Evermore is committed to working with and seeks worldwide distribution, reseller and OEM agreements, corporate and educational site licenses.

US offices:

Evermore Software
1101 Northridge Place
Monterey Park, CA. 91754
323-264-0737
fax: 323-267-1266
www.evermoresw.com

Contacts:

Gus Tsao
President
Evermore Software LLC
tsao@evermoresw.com

Japan contact:

Shigemasa Shigaki
President
Internet Telephone Co. Ltd.
shigaki@internettel.co.jp

US PR contact:

Steve Leon
President
Technopolis® Communications Inc.
512-288-0950
sl@technopolis.com