MathSoft Announces Axum 6 Technical GraphingSoftware.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 1999--

Major Upgrade Supports Expanded Range of Plot and Data Types, Offers Additional Formatting Features and Provides More High-End Data

Analysis Capabilities

MathSoft, Inc. (NASDAQ:MATH), the provider of the broadest line

of technical calculation and analytical software for business and academia, today announced Axum(R) 6 graphing and data analysis software. Axum 6 offers statisticians, financial analysts, engineers, scientists and medical professionals the advanced graphing tools they need to share data visually in highly customized, publication-quality plots. Axum 6 is available immediately from MathSoft and through the MathSoft Web Store at http://www.mathsoft.com.

Axum 6 allows a new level of support for exploring and presenting complex data. By offering 90 plot types, Axum 6 ensures that users have the best available options for analyzing, communicating and presenting results. In addition to supporting more plot types than its previous version, Axum 6 can import and export data from more sources, includes new formatting features and provides more advanced data analysis tools. New interoperability improvements, including a built-in link to MathSoft's Mathcad(R), make Axum 6 work seamlessly with a wider range of software packages, including Microsoft Office applications, Matlab, SAS and SPSS programs. Together, the new capabilities make Axum 6 the most complete, full-featured application available for producing technical graphs.

"The breadth and depth of Axum's new capabilities give customers an unprecedented degree of control over their graphs and, for the first time, sophisticated data analysis tools," said Chris Randles, vice president of sales and marketing at MathSoft, Inc. "By enabling them to explore their data through a range of views, Axum helps users identify trends that they might otherwise have missed. The wide selection of display options for creating 2D and 3D plots enables users to then present their data in the way that clearly communicates the results of their work."

New Features of Axum 6

Axum 6 delivers the following new features and capabilities to assist users in better understanding and presenting their data:

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--   Supports more graph types--Users can create scatterplot matrices,
     levels