From: joes@lpi.liant.com (Joe Stewart)
Subject: Template Graphics Software (TGS) Now Independent
Keywords: PHIGS
Reply-To: joes@tgs.com
Organization: Template Graphics Software (TGS)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:20:07 GMT

On December 4, Template Graphics Software announced that it had
emerged from Liant Software Corporation as an independent corporation.
The text of the press release follows:

Contact:

	Robert J. Weideman
	Marketing Manager
	Template Graphics Software
	Voice: (619)457-5359
	Fax:   (619)452-2547
	email: robert@tgs.com

Press Release 

	Template Graphics Software (TGS)
	Now An Independent Company

San Diego, Calf., December 4, 1992 -- Template Graphics Software (TGS)
announced today its ownership has been sold to a group of investors
represented by Landmark Ventures, Inc., an investment company based in
Simsbury, Conn.  TGS, formerly operated as Liant Software Corporations
Graphics Business Group, is now an independent corporate entity wholly
owned by Landmark's affiliates and operated as a separate organization.

"As an independent organization, TGS can better focus its efforts on the
fast-paced graphics software tools market.  The transition also fulfills
our strategy to secure additional investment for the company, enabling
us to be better positioned for the growth opportunities in the emerging
open system based graphics software market," said Terry Baker, Chief
Operating Officer of Template Graphics Software.  Baker was formerly
Vice President and General Manager of the Corporate Graphics Business
Unit at Liant Software.

Landmark Ventures, the investment management company acquiring TGS,
focuses on high growth, technology-based companies.  Stanley Alfeld,
chairman of the board and CEO of Landmark Ventures, is also chairman 
of the board of TGS.  Alfeld recently resigned as chairman and 
director of Liant Software Corporation.

"The Template Graphics Software acquisition is a perfect portfolio fit
for Landmark Ventures.  This also makes great sense for TGS because it
will enable the company to concentrate all its energies in the graphics
industry.  This market presents an exciting opportunity.  TGS is well-
positioned to capitalize on the market shift from proprietary to
open tools such as those based on PHIGS and PEX," said Alfeld.

Landmark has investments in areas such as networking and optical data
base systems, integrated circuits and design software, imaging systems
and a wide range of computer aided software engineering (CASE) tools.

Template Graphics Software, headquartered in San Diego, Calif., produces
open systems based graphics software tools for application developers in
Fortune 500, government, academic and ISV organizations.  TGS was the
first supplier of standards based portable graphics tools and is the
leading independent software vendor of products based on the PHIGS
(Programmers Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System) ANSI/ISO standard.
TGS specializes in providing PHIGS based tools on all systems, from PC's
to supercomputers and mainframes.

The PHIGS graphics standard is recommended and endorsed by the 
MIT X Consortium, the Open Software Foundation (OSF), the Petrotechnical
Open Software Foundation (POSC) and other open software organizations.
PHIGS is licensed at over 10,000 locations worldwide and was the model
used in the development of the PHIGS Extension to X (PEX), the graphics
extension for the X Window System.

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 Joseph Stewart
 Senior Applications Engineer (FIGARO+, FIGt, FIGraph)
 Template Graphics Software (TGS)
 959 Concord Street 
 Framingham MA 01701-4613 (USA)
 508-872-8700 x340
 joes@tgs.com -- tgs!joes
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