SciTech Announces Watcom 11.0c Beta Release
Update Paves the Way for Massive Open Source Effort

Chico, Calif., September 27, 2001 -- SciTech Software, Inc. today announced
the beta release of the 11.0c update to the popular Watcom� C/C++ and Fortran
compilers. The patch includes a number of eagerly anticipated fixes and
enhancements and can be downloaded, free of charge, from the Open Watcom web
site at www.openwatcom.org. Support for the update will be handled exclusively
through the Open Watcom web site.

�This binary update will immediately aid thousands of active Watcom
developers,� said Rob Veitch, Director of Business Development at Sybase�,
�This release shows Sybase�s commitment to its customers and it demonstrates
that SciTech Software is up to the task of assuming the leadership role in the
Open Watcom development effort.�

Jointly developed by Sybase, SciTech and a core team of Open Watcom
developers, the 11.0c update is the first new release of the Watcom compilers
in over three years. The Watcom 11.0c release is a prelude to the to the
forthcoming Open Source release.

�We�re honored that Sybase selected SciTech to lead the Open Watcom effort.
This step represents a major milestone in that process,� said Kendall Bennett,
SciTech�s Director of Engineering.

About Open Watcom
The Watcom C/C++ and Fortran products will be the first mass market,
proprietary compilers to be Open Sourced and, weighing in at nearly three
million lines of source code, will represent one of the largest pools of
comme rcial source code of any type ever released under an Open Source
license. Sybase, Inc. developed the original Watcom code and SciTech Software,
Inc. is the official maintainer of the project.

The Open Watcom project has stirred tremendous interest among developers
worldwide. Thousands have already joined the Open Watcom community at
www.openwatcom.org in order to use Open Watcom and contribute to its
further development.

Watcom supports software development in Windows, DOS, OS/2, Netware, QNX, and
other operating systems (a Linux version of Open Watcom is planned). The Open
Watcom web address is http://www.openwatcom.org.

About SciTech Software, Inc.
SciTech Software, Inc. is the leading supplier of PC graphics utilities,
drivers, and tools for high- performance graphics applications, including
computer games. SciTech�s products help users fix graphics hardware problem s
and allow software developers to achieve maximum performance from PC graphics
hardware. SciTech�s products include SciTech Display Doctor, the only
universal display driver, SciTech GLDirect, an OpenGL to Direct3D driver and
SciTech MGL, an Open Source, professional graphics library used to develop
some of today�s most popular software programs.
SciTech products support the Windows, Linux, OS/2, DOS, QNX, and SMX operating
systems. Many major software companies and hardware companies license portions
of SciTech�s technology for incorporation in their
products. SciTech is privately held and the company's Web address is
http://www.scitechsoft.com.

Watcom and Sybase are trademarks of Sybase, Inc.

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