FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

First 3rd party plug-in to make use of new extended plug-in API of FileMaker 7!

Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands, March 12th, 2004--Troi
Automatisering today announced the availability of its Troi Text
Plug-in 2.7, for FileMaker Pro 7. Troi Text Plug-in 2.7 is the first
third party plug-in to make use of the new extended plug-in API of
FileMaker 7. Calls to the plug-in's functions can now support Unicode
and more parameters.

At the same time Troi is releasing Troi Text Plug-in 2.1.6. This
version makes use of the 'classic' plug-in API. Users that upgrade to
FileMaker 7 but don't want to rewrite their scripts calling the Text
Plug-in functions can use this version. The 2.1.6 version also runs
on FileMaker 6 and 5.x.

What is Troi Text Plug-in?

Troi Text Plug-in is a very powerful tool for for dealing efficiently
with text in your FileMaker Pro database. It adds the following
functions to FileMaker Pro:
- Combine sets from 2 text fields:
* get all lines that are the same
* get all lines that differ
and other combinations
- Get (unique) lines and sort words and lines
- Make a text sum from a related file that even updates without a script
- Parse XML text into fields

Peter Baanen, company president, states: "We are very proud to be
able to release this first plug-in for FileMaker 7. We are working
hard to adapt the other Troi Plug-ins for FileMaker 7 too and expect
to be able to release them successively."

New Features

Troi Text Plug-in 2.7 has these improvements:
- Converted to the new External Function API of FileMaker Pro 7.
- Each function can now handle longer texts than the previous limit of 64000.
- Each function now supports Unicode characters.
- (Mac) Registration now also works if the registration file has a
".txt" extension at the end.
- New and updated example databases, which illustrate the use of each
of the functions.
- Updated user guide and function overview.

Troi Text Plug-in 2.1.6 has these improvements:
- (Mac) Registration now also works if the registration file has a
".txt" extension at the end.
- Updated example files.
- Fixed a memory leak.

Suggested Uses

- Present portal information horizontally
- Create an index for a book, which is updated automatically
- Find all addresses you want to send an email to, without sending duplicates
- Keep track of your client relations by generating a dynamic history
of activities
- Receive client information in XML format and parse it easily into
your database

Pricing & Availability

Fully functional versions of Troi Text Plug-in 2.7 and Troi Text
Plug-in 2.1.6 are available for downloading at Troi's web site at:
(http://www.troi.com/software/textplugin.html).

Troi Text Plug-in 2.7 works with FileMaker Pro 7. The plug-in is
available for Mac OS X (10.2.8 or later), and for Windows 2000
(Service Pack 6) or Windows XP.
The plug-in should also run without problems with runtimes from
FileMaker Developer 7.

Troi Text Plug-in 2.1.6 works with FileMaker 5 and later. The plug-in
is available for Mac OS 9.1 or later, including Mac OS X (10.1.5 or
later), and for Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4), or Windows XP. The
plug-in should also run without problems on any machine that is able
to run FileMaker Pro 4.0, FileMaker Pro 4.1 and runtimes from
FileMaker Developer Edition 4.0 and later.

Licenses cost US$ 39 per user. The registration you receive after
paying the license fee will work with version 2.7 as well as with
version 2.1.6.

Product updates from version 2.0 and later are free: the new versions
work with the 2.x registration string. Upgrades from older versions
are available from US$ 15 per user. Details on developer licenses and
multi-user discounts can be found on our web site. You can order
licenses from our web site.

About Troi Automatisering

Troi Automatisering is leading developer of cross platform FileMaker
Pro plug-ins and winner of the FileMaker Pro Excellence Award 2001.
For more information, visit our web site at:
(http://www.troi.com/).

Contact information

Diana Budding,
Troi Automatisering
Vuurlaan 18
2408 NB Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands
Telephone: +31-172-426606,
Fax: +31-172-470539

Newsroom: (http://www.troi.com/news/)