Publicon provides an easy-to-use graphical interface for creating publication-quality technical documents that integrate text, searchable typeset equations, graphics, hyperlinks, endnotes, and references. Built-in palettes, templates, and style sheets simplify the creation of documents that conform to established formats but also allow for complete customization.

Designed for engineers, physicists, chemists, bioscientists, and anyone else who needs to create or publish technical documents, Publicon allows files to be exported to HTML, XML, or LaTeX, or saved in Wolfram Research's platform-independent notebook file format. With Publicon , technical authors have a complete system in which to write, while publishers have the convenience of editing submissions in whatever format is best for them.

Publicon 's combined ease of use and cutting-edge technology makes it the first choice for composing structured technical documents for electronic or print publication.

Web Mathematica 2.1 Delivers Web Computations with the Increased Speed and Scope of Mathematica 5

April 27, 2004--web Mathematica now includes the high-performance Mathematica 5, adding more speed and options for real-time, interactive web applications. In addition to introducing a host of innovative features, Mathematica 5 delivers large performance gains in dense numerical linear algebra, support for sparse numerical linear algebra, large-scale linear programming, arbitrary-precision computation, and interprocess communication speed.

web Mathematica 2.1 is also enhanced with powerful new development options and support for additional graphic, web, and matrix file formats. These new formats--including the popular PNG web bitmap format, the vector graphic format SVG, and the medical DICOM standard--give developers more choices in creating their web Mathematica applications.

"We chose web Mathematica for math rendering because it has an unrivaled feature set," says Brandon Lee, CEO of Terra Dotta, a company that provides learning solutions for schools, universities, and businesses. "It does what no other math product can do."

While the new functionality of web Mathematica 2.1 offers authors more options for building applications, the Mathematica 5 speed improvements ensure quick delivery of these applications to users. Support for the latest 64-bit platforms and servers allows substantially faster processing of computationally intensive web Mathematica applications.

Designed to help developers deliver fast, dynamic websites for their users, web Mathematica solves the problem of how to create and distribute technical computing application solutions in today's networked environment. Built on platform-independent standards such as HTML, Java, and Java Servlet technology, web Mathematica 2.1 seamlessly integrates the advances of Mathematica 5 into virtually any infrastructure.

Software Packaging Solution Wins Best Software Packaging Product and Best Application Conflict Testing Tool Second Year Running

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — December 22, 2004—Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq: MVSN ) today announced that AdminStudio™ has won multiple awards in the 2005 Redmond Reader Survey, including Best Software Packaging Product and Best Application Conflict Testing Tool as well as the preferred product in the Best Application Management category. The industry recognition comes directly from end users and reinforces AdminStudio's position as the application packaging solution of choice.

"The level of response, and the passion that our readers exhibited in their comments, was fantastic," said Lafe Low, executive editor for Redmond magazine. "Clearly, our readers feel very strongly about the products they use day in and day out, and the sentiment for Macrovision's AdminStudio was no different. Our readers gave it high marks across the board."

More than 2,000 readers participated in the 2005 Redmond Reader Survey in November. The complete results and additional editorial coverage will be published in Redmond's January 2005 "Best of the Best" issue.

"Macrovision is honored that Redmond readers have selected AdminStudio as the most effective software packaging and application conflict testing solutions on the market," said Steve Schmidt, director product management for enterprise solutions at Macrovision. "It's very gratifying to see the Microsoft IT community recognizing Macrovision's commitment to providing a standardized, independent software packaging solution that enables enterprises to maximize the value of their software."

In recent months, Macrovision has garnered significant industry support through its partnerships with Microsoft®, Novell® and LANDesk® to provide special editions of AdminStudio for IT administrators using Microsoft SMS 2003, Novell's ZENworks® 6.5 and LANDesk Management Suite. These partnerships further validate AdminStudio's place as the leader in pre-deployment application preparation and underscore the company's strength in supporting a range of leading deployment solutions.

AdminStudio provides a complete suite of automated software packaging, customization, conflict resolution, and quality assurance tools that make it easy for systems administrators to prepare reliable applications and software patches for enterprise use. Additional integrated solutions such as AMS and Patch Impact Manager are available to further expand the application lifecycle coverage.

Application packaging is a key component of Macrovision's Software Value Management solutions, which include software installation, updating, packaging and licensing, entitlement management, end user management, and usage optimization.

About Macrovision

Macrovision Corporation is the market leader in electronic licensing, installation, and digital rights management (DRM) technologies. Over 50,000 software publishers and hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies use Macrovision technologies for Software Value Management (SVM). SVM solutions bridge the gap between pricing and packaging software on the developer side, and purchasing and managing that software on the enterprise side. Macrovision's Software Technologies Group markets the FLEXnet™ universal licensing platform and the InstallShield suite of software installation, repackaging and update solutions, which are deployed on more than 500 million desktops worldwide. Macrovision holds more than 700 software licensing, DRM and content protection patents worldwide. Macrovision is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and has offices worldwide.

About Redmond Magazine

Originally founded in 1995 as Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine, the magazine was relaunched as Redmond magazine in October 2004 to reflect an evolution and increasing level of responsibility among the readership. Redmond provides cutting edge product, business, and how-to information to network professionals, IT managers and IT directors focusing on the Microsoft Windows platform.