Dear Xbase++ developer,

 instead of being away on holiday, Alaska
 Research & Development has worked hard
 in the last weeks to make a wish of many
 Xbase++ developers become reality:

   Having Visual Xbase++ PreRelease
            before Christmas.

 We feel it is important to live up promises
 made to the public, so we decided to create
 a special Christmas present for existing
 Xbase++ developers.

 We are happy to announce that any Subscription
 customer of Alaska Software can download
 Visual Xbase++ 2.0 PreRelease for free via
 the Electronic Software Delivery (ESD) service
 of Alaska Research & Development.

 For more details about how to get access to
 Visual Xbase++ 2.0 PreRelease, please send
 an email to esd@alaska-research.com with the
 keyword HELP in the subject line. The ESD
 system will then guide you through the
 authentification process.

 Alaska Research & Development's team members
 will be present over Christmas and New Year
 and will cover all your questions and problems
 encountered with this pre-release software.

 In addition, we set up dedicated newsgroups
 at news.alaska-software.net to consolidate
 all questions, answers, problems and ideas
 related to Visual Xbase++ in general. Subscribe
 now and join the Visual Xbase++ developers
 community!

 We hope that our efforts to make Visual
 Xbase++ PreRelease available is not too
 late for those of you that want to have a
 first look into this forthcoming development
 environment.

 With best regards,
 Alaska Research & Development