Allaire Announces Partnership with Unwired Planet to Deliver Web Applications to Wireless Internet Devices; Allaire's Cold Fusion Web Application Development Tool will Support Unwired Planet's UP.Link Software Platform for Wireless Web Devices such as AT&T's PocketNet Cellular Phone.

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 1996--Allaire Corp. today announced that Cold Fusion Professional 2.0, Allaire's leading Web application development tool, will now support Unwired Planet's platform for delivering interactive content to wireless Internet devices including cellular phones and pagers.

As a result of this partnership Web developers can use Cold Fusion to easily create Internet and Intranet applications for Unwired Planet's UP.Browser, a micro-browser and messaging engine embedded in wireless devices such as AT&T's PocketNet Phone.

Combining the Web application development functionality provided by Cold Fusion with Unwired Planet's UP.Link wireless software platform and AT&T's "wireless IP" also known as Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) service, and next-generation cellular phones, offers a complete solution for corporations that want to create interactive Internet and Intranet applications that extend to wireless handheld devices.

Applications developed with the technology can service a wide range of remote application needs such as customer directories, real-time pricing, product ordering, fax and e-mail messaging on demand, project management and workgroup collaboration.

"The unique opportunity of the Internet as a platform is that Web applications can run in a browser on any device," said Jeremy Allaire, director of technology strategy at Allaire Corp. "Unwired Planet and AT&T have made this opportunity a reality by putting the browser into your pocket on your phone or pager. By integrating Cold Fusion with this technology we are giving existing Web developers the tools to extend database-driven Web applications to this new generation of Internet devices."

Wireless Internet devices represent the next wave of growth for the Web. The technology to seamlessly deploy applications across multiple client platforms, including devices such as cellular phones and pagers, is creating major new opportunities for both small and large corporations.

"Because AT&T PocketNet Phone applications and services operate on off-the-shelf Web servers and are compatible with existing Web applications, we have seen tremendous interest in our PocketNet initiative," said Kent Hellebust, director of product management for AT&T PocketNet Service with AT&T Wireless Services, Wireless Data Division.

"We are pleased that a leading Web application development tool vendor like Allaire is providing customers with the tools they need to build applications for the next generation of Internet devices like the PocketNet Phone."

How the Technology Works

Cold Fusion is an innovative application development tool designed to meet the unique needs of Web developers. Cold Fusion gives developers a way to quickly build sophisticated Web applications that integrate with key server technologies such as relational databases and SMTP e-mail. It offers a powerful application server, a complete application framework, and the Cold Fusion Markup Language (CFML), a straightforward server-side markup language for application development.

Unwired Planet's UP.Link platform is a groundbreaking open software platform for wireless devices. The UP.Link platform includes a server, micro-browser, and the Handheld Device Markup Language (HDML), a markup language optimized for interactive Web access from wireless handheld devices. UP-enabled cellular phones, such as the AT&T PocketNet Phone, transmit information via the AT&T wireless IP network.

CFML and HDML integrate seamlessly, giving developers the best environment to create sophisticated database-driven applications for wireless Internet devices. Because Cold Fusion can automatically detect the browser type, Web developers can build applications that work with both traditional Web browsers on PCs and Unwired Planet's micro-browser on wireless devices.

"We based the UP.Link development environment on a markup language (HDML) because of both the incredible success of HTML and the opportunity to leverage the existing network model," said Andrew Laursen, vice president of engineering at Unwired Planet. "CFML, Cold Fusion's server-side markup language, provides a natural and powerful way to create applications for HTML desktops and HDML mobile devices with a common tool."

Pricing and Availability

Integration with Unwired Planet's HDML and the UP.Link platform is supported by the current version of Cold Fusion Professional 2.0.

A full software development kit will be available from Allaire in January 1997. Cold Fusion 2.0 is currently available from Allaire for $495 or $595 with an annual software subscription. Product information, a free 30-day evaluation version, a list of sites using Cold Fusion, and a wide array of developer resources can be found at the Allaire Web site: www.allaire.com. Cold Fusion can be ordered directly from Allaire at 888/939-2545.

Cold Fusion is based on industry standards and protocols. It runs on Windows NT and Windows 95 servers and works with every major Web server and all ODBC-compliant databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Access and Paradox.

About Allaire Corp.

Allaire Corp. is a leading provider of Web application development tools for Windows Web servers. Allaire's products include Cold Fusion Standard, Cold Fusion Professional and Allaire Forums.

Customers include Fortune 500 firms, small and medium sized business, major universities, government agencies, and Web presence providers worldwide. Allaire was founded in 1995 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information contact Allaire Corp. directly at 617/761-2000, by e-mail at [e-mail], or visit Allaire's Web site at www.allaire.com.

About AT&T Wireless Services

AT&T Wireless Services, formerly McCaw Cellular Communications, is the leading provider of wireless communications services in the U.S., serving more than 6 million cellular and 980,000 messaging customers, and is a world leader in air-to-ground communication services.

The Wireless Data Division of AT&T Wireless Services is a recognized leader in the development of wireless data communications, offering solutions designed to meet the entire spectrum of business data communications requirements, from short transactions, such as messaging, data entry and dispatch, to longer sessions typical of file transfers and interactive computing.

For additional information, contact the Wireless Data Division at 800/552-3373. The Wireless Data Division's World Wide Web address is www.airdata.com.

About Unwired Planet

Unwired Planet was founded in 1994 to deliver an open software platform for wireless Internet appliances. Unwired Planet brings the power of network computing to pocket-size devices such as cellular phones and pagers, allowing these devices to become part of the global Internet and to access information and services hosted on standard web servers quickly and cost-efficiently.

UP is working with the top wireless carriers, including Ameritech, AT&T Wireless, Bell Atlantic NYNEX Mobile, Comcast Cellular and GTE Mobilnet, as well as device manufacturers including Mitsubishi, PCSI and Samsung, to deploy UP's technology. UP is headquartered in Redwood Shores, Calif. For more information visit UP's website at www.uplanet.com -0-

Note to Editors: Cold Fusion is a U.S. registered trademark and Allaire is a trademark of Allaire Corp. Unwired Planet, UP.Link and Handheld Device Markup Language are trademarks of Unwired Planet, Inc. PocketNet is a trademark of the AT&T Corporation. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other company names, brand names and product names are trademarks of their respective holder(s).

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