Boca Raton, Florida, 11 April 2001

Solution Technology and Serenity Systems Joint Press Release

As part of the agreement, Solution Technology and Serenity Systems will evaluate additional device driver development for both TWAIN and USB.

"Applause is an excellent entry level image utility (please see http://www.stiscan.com/imaging/applause.html) which includes STi's Consumer Driver Pack with support for "family" drivers for SCSI scanners from HP, Fujitsu, and EPSON scanners.", said Bob St. John, Director of Serenity Systems. "From a value perspective ... if the eCS user is interested in supporting a scanner this is an excellent value. The Applause Image Utility has a suggested retail price of approximately $85."

The various TWAIN for OS/2 (SM) driver packs being refreshed and updated to the TWAIN 1.8 specification. The current version is compliant to the TWAIN 1.6 specifcation. STi has also stabilized the product and updated the various TWAIN Data Sources (scanner drivers) with some newer scanner models:

Hewlett-Packard:

• Scanjet 62xx, 63xx (SCSI)
• Scanjet 5300 (Parallel) [1]

Fujitsu:

• ScanPartner M4097D (SCSI)
• ScanPartner M3091DC (SCSI)
• ScanPartner 10C, 15C, 600C (SCSI) - color added

EPSON:

• Stabilization of current driver operation
• Current support to the Expression 636 (SCSI)

The Applause Image Utility (TM) has been refreshed and updated to the TWAIN 1.8 compliance For more and updated information on currently supported devices please visit http://www.stiscan.com/drivers/drivers.html on our web site.

STi is pleased to add these features to eComStation (TM) because we believe that more and more users desire the ability to do image and document management on their PCs, getting images ready for use on web sites and html documents. It is the perfect complement to PMView, which has significant features for editing these images.

"Adding our scanner drivers and a simple imaging utility to eComStation certainly rounds out the extensive support currently provided by eCS. It's great news for eCS users. Now scanning and imaging will be sold as part of operating environment.", said Leon Zetekoff, Product Manager of Solution Technology. "We will release the next production versions of Applause, the TWAIN for OS/2 driver packs, and ReView 2000 (TM) as close to the eCS GA as possible which will make all of our existing and new users very happy."

Here are the details of STi's Software:

• TWAIN for OS/2 Scanner Drivers
• Barcode Anywhere (TM)
• Review 2000 Document Manager

The flagship document management system, Review 2000, has substantially extended flexability, uses the best database available - DB2, and centralizes management in complex multi-user environments. Review 2000 can migrate Review 1.x and 2.X databases into Review 2000 without requiring Btreive indexes, making conversion simple.

TWAIN for OS/2 Scanner Drivers - GA May 2001, Release Candidate April 2001

New Products

• -->VisualInfo to TWAIN Driver Adapter
• -->HP 62xx/63xx support
• -->Fujitsu 3091 duplex color support
• -->Fujitsu 4097 duplex high speed support

Driver Core upgraded for:

• -->upgrades for improved multi-platform portability
• upgrades for using core in nonstandard environments
• upgrades for scan ahead
• upgrades for TWAIN 1.8 specification compliance

HP Driver:

• dual mode core upgrade
• -->Added HP 6300 support
• Regression Tested earlier models
• HP parallel support in development (5300)

TWAIN Scanner Drivers - Work In Progress:

Fujitsu drivers:

• -->Support for 4097 duplex bw/gray ADF/flatbed scanner
• -->Support for 3091 duplex bw/gray/color ADF only scanner
• -->Update of current Fujitsu support (10c/15c/600c) to include color
• Regression Testing of earlier models

EPSON Drivers:

• -->Stabilization of current family driver
• Upgrade to new dual mode core

BarCode Anywhere - GA Q2 2001

New 6.0 core engine

• Sets new standards for read accuracy
• Read speeds are still the fastest in industry (over 250pg/min 667Mhz)
• Core engines multiplatform for OS/2, WinNT and Win2K.
• Retains unzoned - all angle reading at production speeds
• -->Color/gray scale preprocessor (in progress)
  1. Automatically suppresses *any* color backgrounds
  2. Image enhancement processes to extend barcode reads down to 150 dpi (See Kodak 9590C and similar new Kodak's)
• -->Barcode/Patch code resolver upgraded
• -->Code-39 read reliability significantly enhanced forlow resolution images

ReView 2000 Document Manager - Release Candidate in April, Public GA release in May, 2001

Upgraded optical jukebox support for:

• Volume management (in progress)
• Offline Volume storage
• Storage Disk Arrrays

New Tables/Data window display support:

• Adds adjustable column widths
• Adds sortable columns by clicking on column button
• Adds user selectable display fonts
• Upgraded DB backend access classes
• Completed user access groups properties management
• Moved all DB Admin functions from client to Admin program
• New flexible store document manager
• New and improved search engine
• Certified on DB2 UDB 5.2, 6.1 and 7.1
• Updated DB2 install information

Joint Development Efforts Planned

While lowering the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for user organizations the new products actually improve the ability to execute tasks associated with document and imaging management. These products will be marketed to consultants and fee service providers who can resell the products to users, or provide these line of business applications as part of the Serenity Systems channel partner program.

Serenity Systems is working with Jacaranda Business Systems, Toronto, Canada, to recruit qualified consultants and technical professionals to market these vertical applications as products or as fee service contracts. Programs will be focused on the needs of large and small users alike, with a range of image and document management equirements.

An important feature of the relationship between the two companies will be the intent to create imaging and document management networks utilizing imaging technology from Solution Technology and workstation management features from eComStation. The resulting document management networks will feature powerful document and image management running in an extremely cost effective computing environment.

An example of these products can be seen as part of a contract recently awarded to STi by a small county government which will use STi's ReView 2000 Document Manager supporting a 10 seat eComStation environment with IBM's Warp Server for eBusiness network and IBM's DB2 for a "Document Records Imaging System". As part of this contract, STi will enhance Review 2000 to add fee processing and accounting as well as aiding in the reconciliation process.

ReView 2000 will have certain additional enhancements performed to add the capability to charge for page printing from publicly accessible document search and viewing stations.

Solution Technology, Inc.

For more information, contact Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE, Product Manager, 1101 South Rogers Circle, Suite 14, Boca Raton, FL 33487 or visit our Web site at http://www.stiscan.com.

Serenity Systems International

For more information, contact Bob St. John, Director, 765 Juniper Lane, Lewisville, TX, 75077 or visit our Web sites at http://www.serenity-systems.com and http://www.ecomstation.com.

Marketing and Press Contacts:

Bob St. John, Director New Business Development Serenity Systems International
Tel. (214) 222-3414, ext. 101
Fax: (214) 222-3414
Email: BStJohn@Serenity-Systems.com