QUARTERDECK TO PREVIEW WEBSTAR COMMERCE TOOLKIT AT MACWORLD EXPO

Toolkit Provides Flexible and Easy-to-Use Commercial Solution for Secure
Transactions

MARINA DEL REY, Calif., January 8, 1996 -- Quarterdeck Corp (Nasdaq: QDEK)
will preview it's forthcoming WebSTAR Commerce Toolkit based on the
company's revolutionary Open Payment Framework (OPF) at Macworld in San
Francisco this week. The WebSTAR Commerce Toolkit is designed to make it
easy for Webmasters to support commercial transactions using the Macintosh
version of WebSTAR. The product will ship with a robust CGI application
based on OPF which allows the Webmaster to use any of the currently
supported payment systems or easily modify the server to support new
Internet payment systems as they become available.

Out of the box, the Toolkit supports the First Virtual Payment System,
Tellan Software's MacAuthorize credit-card processing system, ListSTAR
(for Email-based order processing), as well as any AppleScriptable
database or accounting application. In addition, the Toolkit comes with
the Commerce Builder application which lets Webmasters design transactions
based on HTML forms using a point and click interface. Used in conjunction
with the WebSTAR SSL Security Toolkit, the WebSTAR Commerce Toolkit
customers will be able to provide secure and automated commercial
transactions.

"There's a huge struggle in the Internet community over the future of
electronic commerce on the net, but Webmasters can't wait to start
marketing goods and services from their sites TODAY," commented David
Thompson, senior product manager for WebSTAR at Quarterdeck. "The WebSTAR
Commerce Toolkit offers maximum flexibility so you can begin making money
with your site today without being tied to a particular net payment scheme
that's obsolete tomorrow."

About Quarterdeck

Quarterdeck Corporation is a pioneer in the development of software
products in four strategic business areas: Utilities, Internet
Applications, Internet Services, and Telecommunications and Collaborative
Computing. The company has led the industry in bringing utilities
solutions to the Windows and DOS environments with its award-winning QEMM
memory management software. The company also recently shipped three
Windows 95 products: MagnaRam 2.0, CleanSweep 95, and WinProbe 4.0 and the
first product in the Telecommunications and Collaborative Computing area,
WebTalk.

The company also offers an entire line of powerful, next-generation
Internet tools for corporate, small business and individual users,
including WebCompass, which was awarded Best of Show by the editors of
BYTE magazine at fall Comdex, as well as Quarterdeck Mosaic,
InternetSuite, WebStar, WebAuthor, Quarterdeck IWare Connect, and IWare
InternetSuite for Novell Netware.

Quarterdeck's StarNine Technologies division is the leading developer of
Internet server software and email connectivity products for the
Macintosh. WebSTAR (formerly MacHTTP) Web server software is the most
widely used Web server on the Internet. StarNine Technologies, Inc. is a
wholly owned subsidiary of Quarterdeck Corporation based in Berkeley,
Calif. StarNine can be reached by calling (510) 649-4949 or by sending
email to info@starnine.com or via the Web at
<URL:http://www.starnine.com/>. Quarterdeck Corporation's address is 13160
Mindanao Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292. The Dublin, Ireland office serves
as its European headquarters, with offices in England, France, Germany,
and Australia. Further product availability and pricing information can be
obtained by calling (310) 309-3700, by accessing Quarterdeck's Internet
Web site at http://www.quarterdeck.com/, or by sending a mail request to
info@quarterdeck.com.
 
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