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 plots, robust regression plots, QQ plots, binomial
     histograms and hi-low open-close plots. Axum 6 now offer, complex,
     logical, date and factor data, -panel graphs. In addition, an enhanced
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     exactly as they choose by giving them more control over graph
     properties such as line weight, font, color, axes and symbol type
     and makamming language.

--   Interoperates with more software packages--Axum 6 enables users
     to more easily exchange data with Mathcad, plus import from Excel
     and Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets, MathSoft's S-PLUS statistical and
     data analysis software, dBase, SAS and Matlab programs or via
     ODBC. Users can then share their data with others by pasting
     graphics into word processing applications, exporting graphs into
     Excel, dBase, SPSS, SAS and Matlab programs, or converting them
     into PowerPoint slides.

-0- Pricing and Availability

Axum 6 is available today for Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0 or higher at an SRP of $349.95 for a single-user license. Special academic pricing is available for $129.95. Axum 6 will be available through the MathSoft Web Store at http://www.mathsoft.com and through reseller and mail order channels. Volume licensing, upgrade pricing and academic pricing are available by calling 1-800-MATHCAD.

About MathSoft

Founded in 1984, MathSoft is the provider of the broadest line of technical calculation and analytical software for business and academia. With MathSoft's products, users can deploy technical calculations and exploratory data analyses across their entire organizations. The company has more than one million users of its Mathcad(R), StudyWorks(R), S-PLUS, StatServer(R) and Axum software worldwide. Users include technical professionals worldwide at more than 90% of the Fortune 1,000 companies and over 500 government installations, and students and faculty at over 2,000 colleges and universities.

StudyWorks, Axum, S-PLUS, StatServer and Mathcad are registered trademarks and the MathSoft logo is a trademark of MathSoft, Inc. All other names or marks may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.