Contact: 	Gwen L. Veneskey, Director
         		Marketing Communications
         		(412) 488-9730   glvenes@ibm.net

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                            May 13, 1997

AVIAR ANNOUNCES 
V Trex: Information. . . at your COMMAND!
for IBM's DB2 Universal Database

DB Expo 1997 -- Aviar announced today new cutting-edge software 
which enables users of IBM's DB2 Universal Database to access their 
information with spoken, natural-language commands. V Trex is 
available immediately at an introductory price of $119.95.

Queries can be performed and reports generated by people with 
little or no SQL expertise. V Trex analyzes database tables to 
determine field names, types and sizes. Users can build dictionaries 
referencing these fields with their own natural-language words and 
phrases. V Trex contains a built-in condition builder and expression 
builder to help novices with dictionary construction. On-line help 
and a tutorial are included. V Trex is fully internationalizable; 
queries can be performed in languages other than English.

"Science Fiction has long promised the ability to speak to your 
computer and receive the results," says John J. Urbaniak, Ph.D., 
President and founder of Aviar, Inc. "IBM's advances in speech 
recognition and database technology have given us this capability 
today. We are especially pleased with the performance and 
flexibility of the database. IBM's Object REXX programming language 
simplified the integration with VoiceType Dictation."

"Just think," Dr. Urbaniak continues, "an Inventory Manager, can 
say 'Computer, do we have any fan belts in stock?' or an executive 
can say 'Computer, what were the product sales last quarter?' With 
DB2's powerful scalability, the data might be stored on a PC, a 
mainframe or even the Internet."

V Trex requires a PC running OS/2 Warp Version 4 or higher with 
at least 133 MHz processor, 32 MB RAM, VoiceType Dictation installed, 
DB2 and Object REXX as the default REXX.

V Trex is available immediately through retail channels. It can 
also be ordered directly from Aviar. For more details and ordering 
information, connect to http://www.oops-web.com/vtrex/

Aviar, Inc. was founded in 1984 by John J. Urbaniak to provide 
top-quality PC software for commercial and industrial users. Other 
Aviar products include "Object REXX by Example", ( 331 pages),  
ISBN Number: 0-9652329-0-5,  and "Drug Review, Analysis and Testing 
System" (DRAT), a DB2 for OS/2 product for employee drug test 
recording procedures. 

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PRESS ONLY: For interviews with John J. Urbaniak or an evaluation 
copy of V Trex, please contact Gwen L. Veneskey at (412) 488-9730
or glvenes@ibm.net. Shots of V Trex screens are available in .bmp, 
.jpg, or .tif formats upon request.