ATTACHMATE AND MICROSOFT JOIN FORCES FOR AS/400 ENVIRONMENTS

"Ready for AS/400" promotion combines Attachmate's RALLY! with Microsoft
software in free trial CD-ROM."

BELLEVUE, WASH. -- Attachmate - The Intranet Company - is now shipping its
"Ready for AS/400" trial kit. Attachmate Corporation, in cooperation with
Microsoft, is offering this kit as part of an aggressive nationwide
promotion aimed at giving customers the opportunity to evaluate the tools
necessary to enhance and extend their AS/400 environments. The Ready for
AS/400 trial kit includes CD-ROMs containing free trial software from
Attachmate and Microsoft, a Microsoft advertising program, and a variety
of support materials for corporate AS/400 customers.

"The Ready for AS/400 free trial kit is another partnering effort by
Attachmate and Microsoft that helps companies access information
regardless of where that information resides." said David Veneski, vice
president, Product Management, Specialty Products at Attachmate. "As
companies expand the scope of their enterprises to include Internet
access, client/server connectivity, and Intranet services, the Ready for
AS/400 kit gives them the tools they need to test desktop-to-AS/400
communications. As companies expand their information systems they need to
evaluate solutions before putting them into production-- the Ready for
AS/400 trial kit lets them do just that."

The Ready for AS/400 trial kit gives companies a CD containing Attachmate's
premier AS/400 connectivity product--RALLY! and another CD containing the
fastest growing operating system--Windows 95, as well as Microsoft's
powerful set of business productivity applications -- Office for Windows
95. The kit helps companies enhance their AS/400 environment through
Microsoft and Attachmate desktop software in a turn-key trial including:
software, information, demonstrations and a complete resource kit
including white papers that answer desktop software-to-AS/400 integration
questions.

"As the AS/400 continues to evolve, we are happy to see industry leaders
such as Attachmate and Microsoft partnering around this platform for
easier integration with desktop systems," said Fritz Hayes, network
manager of Platt Electric in Beaverton, Oregon. "We currently use
Attachmate RALLY!, Microsoft Windows 95 and Office 95 and have many
projects under way which leverage AS/400 data in our PC applications."

"Our customers have insatiable demand for flexible, reliable integration of
AS/400 data with PC applications. Microsoft and Attachmate have the right
idea to deliver a free trial of their latest products to make this
integration a reality," said Rick Gordon, president of AE Business
Solutions in Middleton, Wisconsin. "The Attachmate RALLY! product has
proven to be very easy to install and the highest performing product for
AS/400 connectivity."

With the Ready for AS/400 trial kit, customers receive an evaluation copy
of RALLY! with a 30-day support agreement as well as 90-day trial versions
of Windows 95 and Office for Windows 95. By combining these products,
companies get seamless PC access to their AS/400 information and systems
through RALLY! and the desktop power and flexibility of Windows 95 and
Office for Windows 95. In addition to providing customers with stable,
seamless desktop-to-AS/400 connectivity, RALLY! offers customers
industry-leading customer support and a value-enhancing per-CPU pricing
scheme.

"Attachmate's Ready for AS/400 trial kit gives companies everything they
need to enhance their AS/400 environments through the power and
flexibility of the PC," said Tad Parker, midrange marketing manager at
Microsoft. "RALLY! is a perfect tool to deliver the advantages of Windows
95 and Office for Windows 95 to AS/400 users."

The Ready for AS/400 trial kit is available for a limited time at no charge
by calling Attachmate at 1-800-426-6283 and selecting option #3. In
addition Attachmate has contributed to Microsoft's "Seminar-in-a-box"
which is being distributed to Microsoft's AS/400 Solution Providers and to
the Microsoft field sales offices as an additional resource to help in the
creation and execution of AS/400 seminars.

ATTACHMATE - THE INTRANET COMPANY

Attachmate is a leading provider of high quality universal information
access software and services that help organizations build secure
Intranets. The company's object-oriented client, server, authoring tool
and management software safely link together enterprise systems, Internet
systems and people. These solutions allow desktop and mobile users to
transparently access, manage and share any business information inside or
outside the organization. The Company leverages its 14 years of corporate
expertise in enterprise and Internet technologies by providing
comprehensive and knowledgeable customer consulting and support services
in more than 30 countries to help organizations build high-performance and
secure Intranet client/server systems. The sixth largest PC software
company in the world, Attachmate employs over 2,000 people.

For more information about Attachmate's products, contact Attachmate's
headquarters in Bellevue, Wash. at (206) 644-4010 or toll free (800)
426-6283. Attachmate's World Wide Web address is
http://www.attachmate.com.

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