Evermore Integrated Office dominates independent tests

Moving to put an end to use of pirated software,
China evaluates 5 domestic Office productivity programs

BEIJING, Oct. 08, 2004 – China’s leading developer of Office software dominated its four domestic competitors in anindependent test organized by China’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), which is tasked with fostering technology development and building a software industry in China.

“The results are clear, establishing that Evermore Integrated Office is far superior to software based on OpenOffice,” said Gus Tsao, president, chief executive officer and founder of Evermore Software LLC, developer and marketer of Evermore Integrated Office.

“Cities and provinces must comply with orders from the central government to help put an end to the use of pirated software,” said Tsao. “They are required to buy and deploy only legal software copies by the end of 2005. We think the test results establish Evermore Integrated Office as the ‘First Real Office’ and clearlya better choice than OpenOffice as an alternative to Microsoft Office – in China, obviously – and globally, for the Japanese and English-language versions of Evermore Integrated Office.”

MOST commissioned three independent organizations to evaluate “domestic” Office productivity software that runs under both Windows and Linux. These requirements eliminated Microsoft Office and StarOffice, while permitting Office productivity suites developed in China that are based on OpenOffice, the open source, multi-platform productivity suite.

Five products were submitted – Evermore Integrated Office 2004, developed entirely from the ground up in China, and four Office productivity suites based on OpenOffice:

• Co-create Office from Co-create Open Source Software.
• Evermore Integrated Office 2004 from Evermore Software.
• Hurricane Office from Kingsoft.
• NeoShine Office from China Standard Software.
• Red Office 2.0 from Beijing RedFlag Chinese 2000 Software.

The three expert testing organizations included the Military Equipment Assessment and Research Center of the People’s Liberation Army, the China Software Testing Center and the Beijing Software Testing and Quality Assurance Center.

Testing between 18 May and 12 Aug. 2004 covered 14 major criteria, including frequently-used functions, powerful functions shared by applications, word processor, spreadsheet, presentation graphics, compatibility with Microsoft Office data files, security, reliability, performance, scalability, usability and overall application performance.

MOST consolidated scores from the three testing organizations and posted these overall results:

Evermore Integrated Office scored first in nine of 14 categories, with a 137.26 point lead over its nearest competitor. The testing organizations concluded “Evermore Integrated Office is superior to the four other products, which are all based on Open Office, especially in the categories of powerful functions shared by applications, spreadsheet, presentation graphics and overall application performance.”

“This is a landslide win for Evermore Integrated Office,” said Tsao. “Not only did Evermore Integrated Office win, the margin of victory is more than double the 61.5 points that separated the four competitors. Also, we have been developing Evermore Integrated Office in China for just four years. In contrast, OpenOffice as a development platform is at least 10 years old. This proves that home-grown Chinese technology is world class, able to compete globally. And MOST didn’t even have a category to score all the innovations we built into Evermore Integrated Office, innovations that no competitor offers.”

About Evermore Integrated Office

Available in Chinese, English and Japanese-language editions, Evermore Integrated Office 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.

About Evermore:

Evermore Software LLC, 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 LLC
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

US PR contact:

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