INTERSHOP Communications Supports Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 11.5.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 1997--INTERSHOP Communications today announced support for Sybase Inc.'s new Adaptive Server(TM) Enterprise 11.5 database server.

Adaptive Server Enterprise 11.5 is an on-line transaction processing and decision support database optimized to deliver predictable high-performance in unpredictable, mixed-workload environments. With Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 11.5, INTERSHOP Communications is able to provide its customers with powerful, complete and secure electronic commerce solutions.

INTERSHOP's eCommerce applications have set standards for flexibility, scalability and functionality relying on the strength of Sybase SQL Server 11 and now the new Adaptive Server Enterprise.

"INTERSHOP recognized early on the importance of optimized transaction processing for eCommerce, and was one of the first to develop electronic commerce systems on the Sybase platform," said Jeff Watts, VP of Marketing at INTERSHOP. "We have been shipping our standard products INTERSHOP Online and INTERSHOP Mall with Sybase SQL Server 11 and will include Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 11.5 in the future, because it provides an ideal environment for demanding electronic commerce applications."

Adaptive Server Enterprise 11.5, the successor to Sybase SQL Server 11, is designed to provide organizations with predictable high-performance in unpredictable mixed-workload OLTP and DSS environments. -0-

Product features include:

--  Logical Memory Manager and Logical Process Manager for
    application- and user-specific dedicated resources;

--  Scalability for very large databases (VLDB) through
    parallel operations for maximum utilization of system
    resources;

--  Common services for management and administration, data
    access/movement security and Web access.

--  Support for specialty datastores including geo-spatial,
    time series, multimedia/imaging and text;

--  New security features for Internet transactions and
    multi-tier applications.

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"The partnership between INTERSHOP and Sybase brings together two technology leaders," said Terry Stepien, vice president of database marketing for Sybase Inc. "The early adoption of Sybase database know-how by INTERSHOP has put both companies into the spotlight of electronic commerce, one of the fastest growing segments of the business software market."

Sybase Inc.

Headquartered in Emeryville, Calif., Sybase Inc. is a worldwide leader in distributed, open computing solutions with record revenues in 1996 of over $1 billion. The company provides customers and partners with the software and services to create business solutions for strategic, competitive advantage. These high-performance, end-to-end solutions encompass client/server, Internet and intranet transaction processing and datamart and data warehousing applications.

The company's Adaptive Component Architecture enables rapid design, development and deployment of distributed multi-tier business applications. The company's product lines include Sybase high-performance database servers; EnterpriseConnect distributed data access and connectivity products and Powersoft(R) enterprise application development tools. The company's Internet addresses are http://www.sybase.com and http://www.powersoft.com .

INTERSHOP Communications Inc.

INTERSHOP Communications Inc. is the world's paramount provider of electronic commerce software. Privately held, INTERSHOP Communications is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Germany, France and the UK. Founded in Germany in 1992, INTERSHOP develops, publishes and distributes standard and custom software, offering a full spectrum of electronic commerce solutions. INTERSHOP Communications markets to Fortune 500 enterprises such as Hewlett-Packard and Siemens Nixdorf.

Value Added Resellers, and large Internet Service Providers such as Deutsche Telekom select INTERSHOP as their core-technology to build thousands of online stores for small and mid-size merchants. INTERSHOP's standard products, single-store INTERSHOP Online and multi-store INTERSHOP Mall, include all components to design, maintain and run complete front-to-back electronic commerce solutions. INTERSHOP applications are proven in key markets including business-to-business, business-to-consumer, supply-intranets, or extranets. For more information, call INTERSHOP at 800/736-5197, send e-mail to [e-mail] or visit http://www.intershop.com . -0-

Note to Editors: INTERSHOP Online and INTERSHOP Mall are trademarks of INTERSHOP Communications Inc. All other company and product company names mentioned may be trademarks or registered trademarks of the companies with which they are associated.

CONTACT: INTERSHOP Communications

Lara Abrams, 415/229-0066

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or

The Weber Group for Sybase Inc.

Simon Eastwick, 415/463-8650

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