TelcoSoft announces the availibility of Extensys, a communications applications development environment

Date: August 2, 2000,
Cary, NC, USA.

On behalf of TelcoSoft, I am pleased to announce the availability of our flagship product Extensys for the Linux x86 and Sco Unixware 7 operating systems.

Extensys is a powerful and complete environment for developing and deploying production-grade communications applications in a distributed environment. Using Extensys, a C++ software developer can develop complex and robust communications applications at a rapid pace without a
deep understanding of the underlying devices, protocols and practices. When these applications are deployed, the services provided by these applications can be accessed by the end-users (or subscribers) either from a telecommunications network (via phone) or from the service providers web site. For more information on Extensys and TelcoSoft, please visit our web site at:

        http://www.telcosoft.com

We want programmers to embrace Extensys for developing communications applications. Hence we are making the platform freely available to the developer community. You can download a free version of the software from our web site to check out its capabilities and to develop
applications using it. We are also developing some reference applications ourselves which we are making it available for free from our web site along with the source. Currently, the only application that is available is an E-mail reader. This application allows subscribers to listen to their e-mail messages over the phone.

We are still in an early stage in the development of Extensys. We have put most of the telecommunications services in place but we currently support only a few devices. Also our web access services are at an early stage of implementation. Remember, this is just the beginning. We will come up with new releases of this software in quick succession to expand the basic infrastructure and add new devices and protocols. We were debating whether to announce the product at this stage of development. But we decided to go ahead with it anyway since we are excited about the capabilities of this product and want people to know about it.

The current release is a beta version and still under system test. If you decide to wait till we release the software for a general release, please send us an e-mail (info@telcosoft.com) and we will send you a notification when we are ready with the release. If you are planning to check out the telecommunications capabilties of the system, you must own one or more supported voice boards. Please check out our web site
for details. In a future release, we will support virtual devices that simulate telephony devices without requiring the actual hardware.

You can contact us at info@telcosoft.com for further information. You can also contact our sales team at sales@telcosoft.com.

Thanks.

Amit Chatterjee
CTO,
TelcoSoft, Inc.