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ViewSonic to Pre-Load MindManager for Tablet PC Software

Posted on: Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 06:00 CST

LARKSPUR, Calif., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Mindjet, the leading provider of visual tools for brainstorming and planning, today announced a marketing partnership with ViewSonic Corporation to pre-load its MindManager for Tablet PC software onto the manufacturer's V1250 Tablet PC.

"With a simple rotation of its LCD screen, the V1250 transforms from an ultraportable notebook computer to a Tablet PC with strong digital ink capabilities," said Dan Coffman, senior product manager, ViewSonic Corp. "Mindjet has provided a terrific pen-driven interface that significantly improves the way people capture, organize and share information."

MindManager for Tablet PC's visual-organization capabilities and tight integration with Microsoft Office enable information workers to quickly capture, organize and share unstructured information typical of meetings and brainstorming sessions. Moments after the end of a meeting or planning session, notes can be shared with stakeholders as PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, Project charts or Web sites. Productivity of both individual note takers and their business teams improves as a result of the rapid dissemination of clear, concise information.

"We have seen from our customers how MindManager shortens the time it takes to go from initial information sharing to final decisions and actions," says Bill Mitchell, vice president of the Tablet PC division at Microsoft. "The key to MindManager's usefulness is the way it helps users place unstructured information into a visual hierarchy. As a result, notes become not so much personal records of meetings, but information that is readily accessible and understandable to all interested parties."

ViewSonic is shipping trial copies of MindManager for Tablet PC with each Tablet PC V1250 sold in North America. Users can purchase licensed copies of MindManager for Tablet PC by using a hyperlink built into the trial software, or from the ViewSonic V1250 Tablet PC web site (http://www.viewsonic.com/tabletpc).

The multi-year agreement will also allow ViewSonic to ship new MindManager X5 products, the first of which is scheduled for release in early 2004. New versions of Mindjet's first XML-enabled mapping tool will extend the company's "Smart Map Parts" technology to Tablet PCs This XML technology will allow mobile workers to pull into the map environment data retrieved from desktop programs, application databases, Web services, search engines and online news organizations into a map by using XML, XSL and Web Services technologies.

"We are, of course, gratified that ViewSonic understands the value our software brings to Tablet PC usage," said Chris Holmes, Mindjet vice president for business solutions. "These days, people attend meetings not so much as individuals but as emissaries of larger work groups or departments. MindManager brings value by reducing the time and effort needed to communicate the content of meetings to these larger audiences -- and in a way that it can immediately be used as the basis for decisions and actions."

Pricing and Availability

MindManager 2002 for Tablet PC is available now for ViewSonic's Tablet PC V1250 in both Business ($189) and Enterprise ($269) versions. MindManager 2002 for Tablet is available online at http://www.mindjet.com/us/products/tablet_pc/tablet_pc.php.

About Mindjet

Mindjet LLC (http://www.mindjet.com/) is the leading provider of visual tools for brainstorming and planning, with more than 350,000 customers worldwide, including 60 of the Fortune 100 companies. Founded in 1993, the company has offices in the San Francisco Bay Area; Frankfurt, Germany; and Birmingham, UK. Mindjet is a Microsoft Certified Partner and a member of the Microsoft Project Solution Providers Program and the Citrix Business Alliance. MindManager(R) is a Mindjet LLC trademark. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Press Contact:

Hobart Swan

Mindjet External Affairs Manager

Phone: +1 (415) 925-3120 ext. 134

Mobile: +1 (415) 250-1178

Fax: +1 (415) 925-3110

E-Mail: hobart.swan@mindjet.com

Mindjet LLC

CONTACT: Hobart Swan, External Affairs Manager of Mindjet,+1-415-925-3120, ext. 134; Mobile, +1-415-250-1178; Fax, +1-415-925-3110; orhobart.swan@mindjet.com

Web site: http://www.mindjet.com/

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