Chili!Soft ASP for Linux Brings Microsoft FrontPage Applications with Database Connectivity to Exploding Linux Marketplace.

Business Editors

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2000

Thousands of Web Applications are Instantly Available

on the Fastest-Growing Server Operating System 

Chili!Soft(TM) Inc., the market leader in platform-independent Active Server Pages (ASP), today announced Chili!Soft ASP for Linux--a solution that enables developers using Microsoft(R) FrontPage(TM) to build and deploy robust, database-driven Web applications on Linux servers. Users of leading Web development tools, including JavaScript, Macromedia(R) Drumbeat(TM), Microsoft FrontPage 2000, and Visual InterDev(TM), and VBScript, can now easily develop and maintain dynamic Web applications, using Active Server Pages for live database connectivity, that leverage the rapidly-growing installed base of Linux servers at both ISP and corporate sites.

Web applications, based upon Active Server Pages, have historically been deployed only on Microsoft Internet Information Servers running on Windows NT(TM). Today, Chili!Soft ASP extends this leading Web application platform to include support for Linux. Chili!Soft previously announced ASP support for other Unix platforms, including HP-UX, IBM AIX, and Sun Solaris.

&uot;Chili!Soft ASP for Linux brings the millions of Visual Basic, FrontPage and Active Server Pages developers to the rapidly-growing Linux marketplace, helping our customers accelerate development and decrease costs,&uot; said Bryan Grummon, Chili!Soft's president and CEO. &uot;We recognized that FrontPage has been adopted by millions of Web page builders of all levels of sophistication. However, they lack database connectivity and the ability to manipulate other information on the Linux server. Our technology links FrontPage with these critical server components, leveraging the growing popularity of the Linux operating system.&uot;

Chili!Soft ASP can access middle-tier business logic written in C++ or Java(TM), and connect with major databases, while running on a Linux server. Complex business problems are minimized as Web developers build and implement Web applications faster and easier while protecting existing and future IT investments.

&uot;Customers are eager to incorporate database functionality into their Web sites and Chili!Soft ASP allows customers in a Linux environment to take advantage of the exciting new database functionality in FrontPage 2000,&uot; said Tom Bailey, Microsoft FrontPage product manager. &uot;Chili!Soft's platform-independent ASP will also help ensure that FrontPage continues to be the Web site creation and management tool of choice for people looking to create rich database functionality in their websites.&uot;

Product Availability

Chili!Soft ASP for Linux is priced at $995 per server with a four CPU maximum and will be available in March 2000. Interested customers can receive the beta version immediately at http://www.chilisoft.com. The first release of Chili!Soft ASP for Linux will be available for the Apache Web server on Red Hat Linux 6.0 and 6.1.

About Chili!Soft ASP

Chili!Soft ASP enables Active Server Pages on leading Web servers and operating systems, making it the first Web application platform based on the ASP framework running in multiple runtime environments. Chili!Soft ASP is supported by industry leading Web development tools, such as Allaire HomeSite(TM) (NYSE:ALLR), Macromedia Drumbeat(TM) (Nasdaq:MACR), Microsoft Visual InterDev(TM) and FrontPage(TM) (Nasdaq:MSFT), and NetObjects ScriptBuilder(TM) (Nasdaq:NETO). Chili!Soft ASP is compatible with a broad range of databases including those from Computer Associates(R) (NYSE:CA), IBM, Informix(R) (Nasdaq:IFMX), Microsoft, Oracle(R) (Nasdaq:ORCL), and Sybase.

About Chili!Soft

Chili!Soft, Inc. is a privately held, pioneer provider of enabling technologies and applications for Active Server Pages. Chili!Soft's award-winning flagship product, Chili!Soft ASP, extends the ASP framework to major Web servers and operating systems including Microsoft Windows NT, UNIX, and Linux. The company currently has partnerships with Cobalt (Nasdaq:COBT), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), Netscape (Nasdaq:NSCP), and Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW). Chili!Soft was incorporated in 1997 with headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. For more information about the company, 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. All other products mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective companies.