WebXi, Inc. Announces New Enterprise Edition Solution.

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 1999--

Technology Leader's Internet Data Acceleration Technology Sets

New Standard For High-Speed, Enterprise-Class Web Applications

WebXi, provider of high-speed data acceleration technology for the Web, announced at the Internet Commerce Expo (ICe) in Boston the release of the beta version of the company's new flagship products, WebXi Enterprise Edition and WebXi Developer Edition. WebXi's new product line is an open, standards-based framework designed expressly for the Web that provides companies the ability to turbo-charge e-business and e-commerce enterprise applications.

Organizations use WebXi Enterprise Edition to create, deploy and manage data-intensive Web applications that can gracefully handle millions of database requests per day. A three-tier architecture, patent-pending networking protocol, multi-threaded engine, sophisticated database connection optimizations, and load balancing combine to accelerate performance and scalability. This allows companies to install web applications that respond quickly to rapidly changing data access workloads.

"Organizations will need scalable data access, connection optimization and security capabilities to deploy robust, scalable, web applications," said Dave Kelly, Vice President of the Hurwitz Group. Kelly continued, "While there are an increasing number of development tools and application servers that can help organizations create complex, transaction-oriented Internet applications, few are focused on one of the key bottlenecks and vulnerabilities - access to data sources in a secure and scalable way."

WebXi Enterprise Edition consists of three components: WebXi Data Accelerator, WebXi Extender and WebXi Management Console.

The WebXi Data Accelerator is a multi-threaded engine that runs on Windows NT and several versions of UNIX. It connects to web servers utilizing a patent-pending, high-speed streaming protocol (HSSP) running over TCP/IP, which is optimized for the low bandwidth, high latency environment of the Web. The engine establishes connections to multiple databases including Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Informix, SQL Server, Teradata, and Model 204, and manages the users interactions with the data. A flexible security system allows administrators to control access to data behind the corporate firewall based on the user's IP address, domain, or by challenging the user with a username and password.

"WebXi Enterprise Edition represents a quantum leap in a company's ability to accommodate millions of database requests from the Internet, thus allowing organizations to service their customers or business partners faster and easier," said Robert Craig, WebXi Vice President of Marketing. "Our scalable Data Accelerator engine, combined with our innovative HSSP software that consolidates data request packets, optimizes the flow of data traveling over the unique architecture of the Internet."

WebXi Extender is an open, vendor-neutral solution which links web applications, regardless of the development tool or programming approach, with WebXi Data Accelerator. The Extender supports HTML, Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) with ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), or Java Servlets running on the web server. Scripting languages, including an embedded JavaScript engine, CGI, ISAPI, NSAPI or Apache APIs, as well as OLE DB, JDBC and native database drivers, let programmers select the programming approach and tools that best suit their specific application requirements.

WebXi Management Console enables centralized management of the WebXi environment. The Java-based Management Console offers a comprehensive tool for remotely monitoring and configuring applications. It is used to establish security policies, and define runtime parameters, such as database connections, inactivity timeout, and the maximum number of threads to manage. Complete runtime-logging tracks the number of web hits, database requests, rowsets returned, and other data that is essential for tracking performance and capacity requirements.

Web Xi Developer Edition is a development system optimized for development, testing and QA. It is designed to operate with major integrated development environments (IDE's) for HTML, ASP and Java. WebXi has a development wizard that generates HTML pages that can then be enhanced with any HTML editor. The wizard is seamlessly integrated with Microsoft FrontPage.

About WebXi

WebXi, Inc., (formerly WebEngine, Inc.) founded in 1996 and based in Burlington, Mass., is a leading provider of Web-enabled high-performance data access technology solutions. WebXi's multi-tier application framework technology enables companies to install fast, scalable, robust e-business applications that link the enterprise with customers, distributors, or other corporate stakeholders. WebXi business partners include Intersolv, Data General, Computer Corporation of America, Pilot Software, and Repository Technologies. For more information, call WebXi at 781-272-1111 or visit WebXi, the WebXi logo, and "Data Acceleration for the Web" are trademarks of WebXi, Inc.

- See WebXi at the Internet Commerce Expo in Boston, MA, Booth 417, March 22-25 -