Dan Bricklin of Trellix and Bob Frankston To Receive Engineering's Prestigious Washington Award.

Business/Technology Editors

CONCORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 2001

VisiCalc Marked Start of Bricklin's Life-Long Commitment

to Developing Usable and Life-Changing Technologies for the Masses

Trellix Corp's Founder and Chief Technology Officer Dan Bricklin, along with co-inventor Bob Frankston, will join the likes of President Herbert Hoover, Orville Wright, Henry Ford and Neil Armstrong on February 22, when they receive engineering's prestigious Washington Award, for developing the first electronic spreadsheet, VisiCalc. The Washington Award was founded in 1916 and is given to engineers whose professional attainments have preeminently advanced the welfare of humankind. The Western Society of Engineers presents the Award on behalf of a number of leading engineering organizations, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the National Society of Professional Engineers. The Award is being presented on Thursday evening, February 22, at a black tie banquet held at the Union League Club in Chicago.

Bricklin has devoted much of his career to bringing easy to use, useful technologies to millions. In addition to co-developing VisiCalc, Bricklin helped develop one of the first word processing systems in the mid 1970s; programmed the most popular prototyping tool of the MSDOS world; and helped introduce the capabilities of electronic ink on pen computers. Currently in his role as CTO of Trellix, Bricklin is again developing revolutionary, life-changing technology - in this case browser-based web site publishing software - for millions. Trellix' software, available through leading destination sites like About, iVillage, Terra Lycos and ZDNet, enables individuals and small businesses to create rich, multi-page web sites.

"I'm honored and humbled to receive this year's Washington Award with my friend and colleague, Bob Frankston," said Bricklin. "My passion in life is developing useful technologies that are highly usable so that they have a direct and substantial impact on people's daily lives. I realized the true impact the spreadsheet was having when it entered into people's everyday routine. As I look ahead, I'm excited that the web site publishing technologies we're working on at Trellix have a similar opportunity to transform the way people communicate everything from the passionate to the mundane."

About Trellix

Trellix Corp. is the leading private-label provider of web site publishing software and management services for top consumer destination sites and small business providers. As a key infrastructure provider, Trellix enables premier sites like About, Inc., BizLand, iVillage, Terra Lycos' Tripod, and ZDNet to increase user acquisition and retention, revenue and brand affinity, while containing costs. As web site publishing emerges as the next form of mass communication on the Internet, Trellix provides the richest, most technologically superior, most customizable and easiest to use tools and services available. Massachusetts-based Trellix is privately held, with world-class investors. For more information visit http://www.trellix.com.

Trellix is a registered trademark of Trellix Corporation.