NS BASIC ANNOUNCES NEW PRICING, OPTIONS

Summer Special and Enterprise bundle make buying NS Basic easy

July 9, 2001. With the release of NS Basic/Palm 2.0, NS BASIC Corporation announced new pricing for its NS Basic/Palm and NS Basic/CE products.

The single user license price will now be $149.95. Until the end of August, 2001, the company is running a Summer Special, reducing the price to just $99.95. Customers buying both NS Basic/CE and NS Basic/Palm will be able to do so at a special price of just $249.95. The Summer Special on the combined package is $179.95.

In addition, the company has announced new Enterprise licenses. For $449.95, a company can buy a license for an unlimited number of programmers at a single site, with a Summer Special of just $399.95. NS Basic/Palm and NS Basic/CE can be purchased together for $749.95, with a Summer Special of $699.95. A single user license can be upgraded to an Enterprise license for $299.95.

As always, there is no charge to distribute applications created using NS Basic.

"More and more of our sales are coming from larger corporations", said George Henne, President of NS BASIC Corporation. "This new pricing structure will allow enterprises to more easily obtain NS Basic on the terms they require."

NS Basic allows developers who program with tools such as Visual Basic to use their experience to program Palm OS devices. It is a complete, powerful development environment enabling the development of applications with a true Palm look and feel. NS Basic includes features such as databases, serial and IR communications, signature capture and more.

About NS BASIC
After CodeWarrior, NS Basic/Palm is the most widely used commercial Palm OS development tool. NS BASIC Corporation has been a leading creator of development tools for handheld devices since 1993. More than 14,000 users in over 60 countries use NS BASIC's development tools for Palm OS, Windows CE and Newton.

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