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   Warpstock 98 in Chicago, Illinois USA. October 17-18, 1998. 
           Full details at http://www.warpstock.org. 
                    We'll be there, will you?

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Moderator: Trevor Smith (editor@os2ezine.com)
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Contact:  		Gwen L. Veneskey, Director
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              		(412)488-9730 glvenes@ibm.net

Friday, August 18, 1998

AVIAR ANNOUNCES the release of OS/2 CMMS software.

Pittsburgh, PA -- Aviar announced today that it has released the Oz.
of Prevention System for the OS/2 and WorkSpace on Demand platforms.
Oz is the first fully voice-activated and speech-driven CMMS
(Computerized Maintenance Management System) available. This new
product has all of the capabilities of Aviar's award-winning DOS
CMMS, OOPS! The Ounce of Prevention System., which will run under
OS/2, but in addition, Aviar has tapped into the wealth of
cutting-edge technology available through the OS/2 operating system
to make this package "software for the next millenium." 

Oz, under development for almost three years, was written in Object
REXX, uses DB2 and was designed specifically to utilize OS/2's
built-in speech. "Oz. is 'quality software, built with quality tools,
for a quality operating system. Businesses of all sizes need software
which is reliable, stable, powerful, flexible, convenient and ready
for real-life mission-critical application. We believe Oz. fills that
need in the CMMS area." says John J. Urbaniak, Ph.D., President and
founder of Aviar, Inc. "Since Oz is fully customizable and fully
internationalizable, it can be used anywhere maintenance is performed
to help companies, large and small, track labor, parts, costs,
equipment history, downtime and more." 

Oz is featured on Aviar's web page:

  http://www.oops-web.com/ 

and is being sold as a turnkey system directly through Aviar's Sales
Department.

Aviar, Inc. was founded in 1984 by Dr. Urbaniak to provide
top-quality PC software for commercial and industrial users. Aviar's
OOPS! was first released more than 10 years ago and is still in use
by companies around the world.

Aviar is an OS/2 shop and development by the company during the past
several years has been mainly in the area of "voice-activated,
speech-driven" systems. In addition to Oz. they have also developed
several other voice-activated systems, including: a database query
package, V Trex: Information . . . at your COMMAND!; a drug review
and analysis testing package for use by MROs (Medical Review
Officers) to track employee drug test recording procedures, and a
billing software package for Octel-based voicemail systems. Aviar
also published "Object REXX by Example" (331 pages), ISBN Number
0-9652329-0-5, a book on the object-orientd programming language,
Object REXX.

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