Grover Righter Named Vice President of INTERIX Marketing

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 3 NOVEMBER 1997 – Softway Systems, Inc., developer of INTERIX™, a UNIX environment on Microsoft Windows NT, announced today that is has appointed Grover P. Righter as vice president of marketing and business development. Mr. Righter will be responsible for all marketing strategy and programs at the privately held software company.

"Grover has many years of experience in the UNIX marketplace," said Doug Miller, president and CEO of Softway Systems. "He joins Softway Systems as we grow the core market for migrating legacy applications developed on UNIX to the WIndows NT platform. Over the next year, Grover will be executing a series of marketing inititatives with our major partners to expand our base of POSIX compliant systems into the general marketplace."

Grover Righter has held executive positions in marketing and product development at Novell, AT&T, Geoworks and SCO. He has significant experience in financial services, telecommunications, government and security-centric solutions. His development teams designed the secure enterprise object directory at Novell and he headed the Java server technologies initiative at Geoworks, resulting in major sales to global telecom system providers. Grover was a founding member of the POSIX standards group, IEEE 1003, which established a codex for UNIX system behavior.

About INTERIX
INTERIX is a complete software environment enabling UNIX applications to run on Windows NT. The product addresses the needs of users, system administrators, VARs and developers wanting to exploit their existing investment in UNIX applications and tools on Windows NT. Softway Systems has built the INTERIX product line under a long-term agreement with Microsoft Corporation. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Softway Systems is privately held and privately funded with world class Software & Software Engineers. For more information about Softway Systems, Inc., please visit the web site at http://www.interix.com or call either 800 438-8649 or 415 896-0708.

Microsoft, Windows NT and INTERIX are registerd trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the USA and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and elsewhere, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Ltd.

Editor's note: Microsoft acquired the INTERIX properties in 1999