Innovax Wins Microsoft R.A.D. Award for Grocery Category; Safari Point-of-Sale Solution Wins Retail Application Developer Award

Business Wire, June 16, 1998

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 1998--Innovax Concepts Corporation, a provider of supermarket point-of-sale (POS) software, today announced that its Safari(tm) POS Solution has been selected as the winner of the third annual Microsoft(R) Retail Application Developer Award (R.A.D.) in the grocery category. The R.A.D. Awards recognize application developers who demonstrate industry leadership by creating best-of-breed solutions that maximize retailers' business benefits.

"Our industry was once dominated by the methodologies and technologies of the '70s and '80s. It needed a fresh, modern approach from the basics of architecture through the latest advances in user interfaces," says Robert Johnson, Vice President at Innovax. "This meant adopting a variety of superior, new techniques and exploiting a wide range of technologies. The result is Safari, a truly revolutionary product that combines today's most powerful tools providing business solutions that are, at once, both practical and innovative; the product for which we are proud to have earned this year's R.A.D. Award."

Safari is a suite of point-of-sale software component objects and applications designed around Microsoft's(R) Component Object Model (COM) architecture. It is compliant with the Microsoft lead OPOS specification, and is poised to take advantage of Microsoft ActiveStore guidelines. Key features of Safari include its in-store Web site, which provides information for cashier and customer at checkout, as well as inclusion of components from applications such as Microsoft(R) Internet Explorer 4.0, Microsoft Front Page(R) 98, Microsoft Excel(R) and Crystal Report Writer(tm) 6.0.

"Microsoft was very impressed with Innovax's Safari application," said Judy Dulcich, retail industry marketing manager at Microsoft. "Innovax continues to develop innovative products for the retail industry, helping retailers configure scaleable POS systems that improve business functionality. It's that kind of forward thinking that Microsoft looks for in the R.A.D. awards and we were pleased to reward them for their accomplishment."

For more information on Innovax solutions, visit the Innovax web site at http://www.innovax.com or visit them at the Microsoft's booth #800 at Retail Systems 98, June 16-18 in New Orleans.

Please call Kenneth C.P. Leung at 972/550-8371 for more information.

Innovax is a leading provider in retail automation and point-of-sale solutions for the supermarket industry. Its products are marketed in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Asia Pacific region.

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    CONTACT: Innovax Concepts Corporation, Dallas
              Kenneth Leung, 972/550-8371
              E-mail:  kleung@innovax.com