Banyan teams with Incognito to enhance the Internet capability of VINES.

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 19, 1996--Association of Banyan Users International--Banyan today announced the signing of a joint development agreement with Incognito Software to integrate World Wide Web and other Internet services into VINES servers.

Under the terms of the agreement, Incognito, a Banyan third party developer, will optimize the TCP/IP and Internet capabilities of VINES to deliver more robust and seamless access to Internet services. This development work will make it easier for companies using VINES to leverage Web and other Internet services into their businesses through higher performance and security.

According to Ed Cloutier, Banyan's vice president of marketing, "Banyan has been working hard to develop strong partnerships with our third party vendors. We believe that this type of partnership is important to our customers because it will deliver a more Internet capable networking environment and a closer integration with exciting new third party products, such as Incognito's Web Server."

Patricia Steadman, vice president of marketing and sales from Incognito, agrees, "By providing a tighter integration between Incognito and Banyan, we will be able to deliver significant enhancements within a month or so and then continue with further improvements over the rest of the year. The improvements to the VINES TCP/IP stack allows Incognito's web server to receive hundreds of requests at the same time, making it one of the fastest web servers on the market today. Incognito will showcase it new WebServer for VINES at the ABUI conference in Chicago, March 11, 1996."

Incognito's WebServer allows VINES users to run a web server on their native VINES servers to be accessed for either Internet or internal use. The WebServer takes advantage of VINES' multi-threaded operating system, StreetTalk security, and ease of use. In late Q2, Incognito will release its Enterprise WebServer, which incorporates a scripting language that can make calls to StreetTalk, ODBC and SQL databases. This development allows companies to streamline the process for collecting and displaying information from the Internet by using only one application. The Enterprise WebServer provides VINES users with tools needed to quickly develop multi-faceted web sites.

-0- About Incognito Software Inc.:

Incognito Software Inc. is the leading software developer of Internet and TCP/IP connectivity software for VINES. Since 1992, Incognito has gained a reputation in the networking industry as a leader in the development of innovative and feature-rich software for the Internet. Incognito can be reached on the World Wide Web at http://www.incognito.com.

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