Austin-Hayne Develops Software for Netscape Appfoundry Collection of Intranet Applications; Job Listing Center, a broad business application for the Intranet, lets applicants and managers access hiring information on-line.

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 1996-- Austin-Hayne Corporation, a leading publisher of human resources software tools, Today announced its participation in Netscape AppFoundry with an Intranet application for human resources.

Austin-Hayne's Job Listing Center, a web-based system to automate job postings over a company's Intranet, can be downloaded from Netscape's Internet site for trial and further customization.

"We were delighted to participate in Netscape AppFoundry," said David Whitney, President & CEO of Austin-Hayne. "Now corporations have an opportunity to see how a critical but time-consuming process, such as hiring and applicant tracking, can be dramatically improved through an Intranet."

"Austin-Hayne's Job Listing Center enables IS professionals to rapidly deploy a vital Human Resources solution on their Intranets that solves real business problems and maximizes return on investment," said Srivats Sampath, Vice President of Servers, Applications and Tools at Netscape.

"With Netscape AppFoundry applications such as Job Listing Center, developers can quickly and easily build enterprise applications that integrate customers, suppliers and partners into business processes."

The Job Listing Center automates the process of posting job openings on a company's Web page and manages applicant information. By placing job listings on an Intranet, companies expand the availability of open positions internally, move the process from a paper-based to an electronic based system, and reduce the time needed to fill the position. A job listing can be posted the same day it is available instead of waiting for the next publishing cycle.

With the Job Listing Center, human resources can post job listings and applications without learning HTML or other programming languages. The Job Listing Center lets candidates review open positions, apply on-line, and submit resumes to the hiring manager. Once the resumes are in, hiring managers and human resources staff can quickly find the best candidate by generating a sort for specific skills and qualifications. Progress updates can also be accessed directly by the hiring manager without human resources involvement.

Netscape AppFoundry is a collection of reusable business applications, powerful new enterprise development tools and an innovative new online community dedicated to IS professionals building corporate solutions on their Intranets. Developed in conjunction with world-class Java developers, enterprise tools vendors and systems integrators, Netscape AppFoundry enables rapid deployment of Intranet applications based on the Netscape ONE TM open network equipment.

Netscape AppFoundry makes it easy for enterprise developers to use Java(TM), JavaScript(TM) and other Netscape ONE technologies to create customer business applications on their Intranets that cross corporate departments and firewalls to integrate customers, suppliers and partners into business processes such as sales automation, project management and customer service.

Visit www.austin-hayne.com to view demonstrations of the Job Listing Center and two additional Web-based business applications, Company Directory and Employee Self-Service Center. A downloadable version of the Job Listing Center is available on the Netscape internet site at http://home.netscape.com.

In addition to providing human resource software tools for the Internet, Austin-Hayne publishes the market share leader in performance evaluation software, Employee Appraiser, which has been used by customers, such as Hewlett-Packard, MCI, and Chrysler. Based in San Mateo, California, Austin-Hayne was founded in 1993 by David Whitney and Gary Hendrix.

Note to Editors: Netscape, Netscape Communications, Netscape Enterprise Server and Netscape One are trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are those of their respective companies. The text of this release as well as additional Austin-Hayne background information may be obtained from our website at http://www.austin-hayne.com.

CONTACT: Austin-Hayne Corporation

Dee Dee Pare, 415/655-3800

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Netscape Communications

Andrea Cook, 415/254-1900