IOWA CITY, IA - December 5th, 2003. Today MetaCommunications, Inc. announced major upgrades to its Virtual Ticket(tm) and Job Manager(tm) product lines for creative, publishing, and prepress organizations. The new Virtual Ticket 6.0 and Job Manager 4.0 releases will add native support for the Mac OS X environment and include dozens of new features and improvements. Virtual Ticket 6.0 is expected to ship in early 2004 with Job Manager 4.0 following shortly thereafter. "Although our products have been optimized and run very well in Mac OS X classic, we are excited to add native support for the Mac OS X platform. In development for over a year, these new releases will offer our customers a cross platform solution running under Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, and Windows." says Robert T. Long, Executive Vice President of MetaCommunications. ABOUT VIRTUAL TICKET Virtual Ticket is a powerful integrated solution that enables organizations to centralize information, eliminate paper job tickets, manage production files, traffic and schedule jobs, notify and alert users to changes in production information, manage digital assets and automatically archive files. Used as a stand-alone system or seamlessly integrated with other management and enterprise software, Virtual Ticket is the only product available today to combine electronic job ticketing, workflow, digital asset management, and archiving in one scalable and customizable production platform. ABOUT JOB MANAGER Job Manager is an award-winning, cross-platform electronic job tracking, costing, estimating, and billing solution for the graphic arts industry. Job Manager lets organizations capture, track, and manage employee time and materials usage in real-time - allowing users to obtain instant job status, activity reports, and cost analysis; and generate invoices automatically and distribute invoice transactions to third-party accounting systems. PRICING AND AVAILABILITY Virtual Ticket 6.0 and Job Manager 4.0 will be available directly from MetaCommunications or through certified partners worldwide. Virtual Ticket 6.0 and Job Manager 4.0 will be a chargeable upgrade with costs based on the number of concurrent users licensed. Customers on Software Assurance and Support (SAS) will receive the upgrade free of charge.