Some words about the status of shapeTools-1.4pl6. This distribution (1.4) will be the last major release of ShapeTools to be distributed freely. Our time at the Technische Universitaet Berlin is over by end of the year ('93) and no further funding is in sight. Nevertheless, support for ShapeTools will go on. We founded a company with the goal to provide consultancy, training, and hotline service for ShapeTools users and for Software Configuration/Quality Management in general.Our market for consultancy and training will primarily be Germany. An electronic mail based hotline service and an update service for ShapeTools-1.4 will be available world-wide. We will start with that in Spring '94. Be prepared to pay money for these services then. We will work out a flyer describing our services and prices. You can receive this from lampen & mahler, software engineering Postfach 100509 10565 Berlin, Germany Tel./FAX: +49-30-2189199 Have fun, Andy Lampen and Axel Mahler