Chili!Soft ASP Product Used as a Part of mySAP.com Marketplace.

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 11, 1999--

Chili!Soft Inc., a leader in application hosting solutions, today announced that its Chili!Soft ASP Hosting Edition will be used by SAP AG (NYSE:SAP), the leading provider of inter-enterprise software solutions, in developing the mySAP.com(TM) Marketplace.

mySAP.com provides an open collaborative business environment of personalized solutions on demand. This enables companies of all sizes and industries to fully engage their employees, customers and partners to capitalize upon the new Internet economy. The Chili!Soft ASP platform will be used based on its ability to scale linearly, provide a high degree of reliability, and increase application performance and capacity for mySAP.com. The Chili!Soft ASP Hosting Edition will provide SAP with a platform independent ASP environment to develop web solutions and host applications on a Unix platform.

mySAP.com is comprised of four key elements: mySAP.com Marketplace, an open electronic business-to-business hub that enables inter-company relationships for buying, selling and communicating; mySAP.com Workplace, an enterprise portal that provides users with a personalized, Web-browser-based work environment that offers everything they need to do their jobs; mySAP.com business scenarios, which enable collaborative, role-based, business-to-business and business-to-consumer solutions through SAP and third-party software applications; and Web-based application hosting, which provides a quick, cost-effective delivery mechanism for companies to adopt the full range of mySAP.com solutions.

"Chili!Soft is committed to building robust solutions support to enable large enterprise customers to continue to rapidly expand their businesses without the investment in rewriting existing applications," said Bryan Grummon, president and CEO of Chili!Soft. "We are pleased to work with SAP on such a critical business, and provides strong support of our scalability and reliability. SAP is a customer that demands reliable application hosting solutions, so we're pleased to work with them in delivering this solution. We will continue to push programs like our ASP Hosting initiative to allow companies to address the increased demand by their customers for hosting ASP applications without requiring a large investment in new infrastructure."

Chili!Soft launched its Application Hosting program in March to respond to increased demand for Active Server Pages (ASP) hosting stemming from the growth generated by ASP development over the last two years. ASP has grown to include over 700,000 ASP web developers and 30,000 public web sites. With many companies running their server backbones on UNIX, their choices have been limited to either changing their server infrastructures, or choosing not to provide ASP services. Chili!Soft ASP Hosting Edition is a product designed specifically to host ASP-based Web applications on a variety of Web servers and operating systems including Unix and Windows NT.

Chili!Soft ASP provides platform-independent Active Server Pages. ASP was originally designed as a platform to create powerful, dynamic Internet applications, but limited to running only on Microsoft Internet Information Server on Windows NT. Chili!Soft has expanded the platform support of ASP to include UNIX-based operating systems such as Sun Solaris and IBM AIX, and Web Servers such as iPlanet Web Server, Apache and Lotus Domino. Chili!Soft ASP is also tightly integrated with Java through Chili!Soft's Chili!Beans technology, and Microsoft FrontPage 2000, the world's best-selling Web site creation and management tool.

"mySAP.com Marketplace enables commerce, collaboration, content and community for businesses in different industries across the globe," said Sherry Groover, mySAP.com Leadership and Support Team, SAP America. "The Chili!Soft ASP Hosting Edition offers SAP a platform independent ASP environment that lets us develop web solutions and host applications on a Unix platform."

About Chili!Soft

Chili!Soft, Inc. is a privately held, pioneer provider of enabling technologies and applications for Active Server Pages (ASP). Chili!Soft's award-winning flagship product, Chili!Soft ASP, extends the ASP framework to seven Web server platforms on Microsoft Windows NT and UNIX. The company currently has development partnerships with IBM (NYSE:IBM), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP), Microsoft, Netscape (Nasdaq:NSCP), and Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW), and has licensed Chili!Soft ASP to independent software developers such as Concur Technologies (Nasdaq:CNQR), FileNET Corp. (Nasdaq:FILE), and PC Docs/Fulcrum. Chili!Soft was founded in 1994 with headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. For more information about the company, customers can visit the Chili!Soft Web site at http://www.chilisoft.com or call 425/957-1122.

(c) 1999 Chili!Soft and Chili!Soft ASP are trademarks of Chili!Soft, Inc. SAP, mySAP.com and all SAP product and service names referenced herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG. All other products mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective companies.