10.04.2002 IOSPIRIT founded, take-over of Innovative-products
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   At the end of the year 2000, fxSCAN 3.0, the first program for optical
   character recognition (OCR) for the AMIGA for a long time, has been
   officially presented. The program AMIGA-users longed for for such a
   long time was ordered that often within the first few weeks of
   availability that the infrastructure of Innovative couldn´t keep pace
   any more.

   Felix Schwarz, author of such powerful and popular graphics
   applications like fxSCAN, fxPAINT, Ultraconv and VHI Studio, made the
   decision to create an own company from Innovative, the AMIGA-division
   (led by Felix Schwarz) of the software-company of his father, renew
   the whole internal infrastructure and organisation, expand the
   business areas and to further extend and improve the customer service.
   On the 2nd of January 2002 IOSPIRIT was founded by Felix Schwarz in
   Herzogenaurach. The enterprise has two main fields of business
   activity:

     * Software development
       IOSPIRIT develops powerful graphics applications for the most
       different tasks and target audiences. In development special focus
       is put on the support of the latest technologies and easy
       usability while still offering maximum power, flexibility and
       expandibility. IOSPIRIT also develops new, innovative technologies
       whereof the user directly profits.

     * Software distribution
       Thanks to a unique infrastructure IOSPIRIT has the possibility to
       distribute software online and offline.

       Online distribution is done via a self-developed
       online-application for "Electronic Software Delivery" (ESD). In a
       first step the customer puts the desired articles into the basket
       and then orders them. After an incoming payment via creditcard or
       pre-payment the download of the product is unlocked for the
       customer - mostly at the same day the order was placed. As this
       type of order is automatically handled by the central IOSPIRIT
       server, cost savings can be passed on directly to the customer in
       the form of price reductions.

       Of course "hard stuff" (so called "package versions" like e.g.
       CD-ROMs) can also be ordered, which then, thanks to a well thought
       through and work step optimized infrastructure, can be delivered
       very quickly. The customer is kept up-to-date on the status of the
       order via EMail and can get an overview over his orders (including
       their status) anytime via IOSPIRIT´s website.

   IOSPIRIT takes over the whole product range of Innovative. Our
   customers in future will profit from the extended abilities and the
   excellent infrastructure of IOSPIRIT. fxSCAN, fxPAINT and VHI Studio
   will be intensively developed further and maintained in the future.
   More information on this will be made public shortly in seperate press
   releases.


IOSPIRIT Felix Schwarz
Am Gründla 3
D-91074 Herzogenaurach
Germany

EMail: info@iospirit.de
WWW:   http://www.iospirit.de/
Phone: +(0)049 (0)9132/732844
Fax:   +(0)049 (0)9132/732843

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