O'REILLY ANNOUNCES PRICE RESTRUCTURING FOR WEBSITE & WEBSITE PROFESSIONAL

Second Generation Server to be Released in June; WebSite 1.1 Software
Downloadable at No Charge; WebBoard Price Also Drops

Sebastopol, CA, April 26, 1996 - O'Reilly & Associates, publisher of the
award-winning server WebSite(TM), has announced a complete restructuring
of its prices for the popular server and its soon-to-be-released high-end
product WebSite (TM) Professional, as well as its product WebBoard(TM).
WebSite Professional, featuring cryptographic security, now has a
suggested list price of $499 (down from the previous price of $1499), and
will be released in June.

Effective April 30, WebSite 1.1 will be freely available to anyone
downloading it from O'Reilly's web site (http://software.ora.com). Three
chapters of the acclaimed book "Building Your Own WebSite" will also be
available for downloading. Unlike the full WebSite 1.1 product, the
downloadable version does not contain the HotDog HTML editor, Mosaic
browser, book, or technical support. Any web site a customer creates using
the downloadable software can be easily transferred to the full purchased
product.

The company has also announced an aggressive upgrade program. Customers who
purchase WebSite 1.1 between April 30 and the time WebSite Professional
ships will receive a free upgrade to WebSite Professional. Customers who
buy the full WebSite 1.1 after WebSite Professional ships, or who
purchased WebSite 1.0 or 1.1 before April 30, can upgrade to WebSite
Professional for $99.

"In the rapidly changing web server marketplace, getting the customer's
attention is half the challenge," says Gina Blaber, Director of the
O'Reilly Software Products Group. "Offering freely downloadable software
is a great way to let prospective customers try out our product. We're
confident that when people try WebSite and compare its features (not its
marketing hype) to that of the competition, they will become WebSite
customers. And with WebSite Professional, now they can have a web site
with secure transactions and a host of features unmatched by any other
shipping server at a moderate price."

WebBoard, O'Reilly's web conferencing system software, and PolyForm(TM),
the web forms construction kit, are now offered at $149 suggested list
price (WebBoard's price is reduced from the previous price of $249).
WebBoard has been shipping since mid-February; PolyForm will ship May 7.

WEBSITE PROFESSIONAL: MOST FLEXIBILITY OF ANY WINDOWS SERVER; FIRST SERVER
TO SUPPORT MULTIPLE API'S

WebSite Professional offers numerous significant upgrades from WebSite 1.1
including:

* support for two major Web cryptographic security systems, Secure Sockets
Layer (SSL) and Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (S-HTTP);

* WebSite's Application Programming Interface (WSAPI) with Microsoft
Internet Server API Internet Server Application (ISAPI-ISA) compatibility,
and a complete software development kit (SDK) with examples and online
documentation;

* a server-side Java programming software development kit, including
comprehensive Java class library, examples, and online documentation;

* the Win32 perl 5 package pre-installed for Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
and API use, plus software development kit;

* API-integrated version of Cold Fusion(TM) Standard, a powerful ODBC/SQL
database integration package with templates and software development kit.

The product also includes comprehensive documentation in three volumes,
extensive online help, 90 days of free technical support for registered
users, and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

"There's a theme that runs through the WebSite Pro product: choice. Other
companies offer one security protocol, we offer two," says Blaber. "We
support WebSite's API, Microsoft's API, Windows CGI, Standard CGI, and
even a DOS CGI for 16-bit applications. We offer several different
software development toolkits. We offer both Windows NT or Windows 95 in
one product. It all adds up to offering the most freedom and flexibility
of any Windows-based server."

WebSite Professional gives site administrators two security options for
confidential web-based transactions such as credit card purchases,
internal sales strategies or employee records on corporate Intranets. SSL
provides connection security, while S-HTTP authenticates the contents of
specific documents. WebSite Professional's built-in Certificate Wizard
simplifies registration with a Certification Authority.

WebSite API provides a high-speed alternative to CGI and includes a
comprehensive set of tools for adding custom extensions, such as enhanced
logging, pre- and post-processing, document generation, and
authentication. WSAPI also supports Microsoft ISAPI-ISA extensions, making
it the first server to have multiple API support.

Web developers can choose from four methods of dynamic page generation:
Server-Side Includes (SSI) for simple creation of real-time HTML
documents, Common Gateway Interface (CGI) for live information-sharing
between the server and other applications, WSAPI for the most demanding
applications, and API-integrated Cold Fusion Standard for ODBC/SQL
database integration with templates.

Cold Fusion Standard enables users to create interactive, dynamic web
content drawing from any ODBC datasource. It lets WebSite users easily
incorporate into Web documents database information such as customer
feedback, online ordering and technical support, without the need for
complex programming.

WebSite Professional contains all of WebSite's award-winning features,
including remote administration, virtual servers (multi-homing) for
creating multiple home pages, wizards to automate common tasks, the
popular Visual Basic and Windows CGI software development kit,
WebIndex(TM), a search tool for indexing web sites, and WebView(TM), a
graphical tool for managing web documents and links. WebSite Professional
also supports client and server-side Java programming.

WebSite developer Robert Denny codeveloped WebSite Professional with
Enterprise Integration Technologies (EIT/Verifone), the inventors of
S-HTTP. O'Reilly & Associates has worked with Denny and EIT on WebSite for
the past 18 months.

UPCOMING RELEASE: STATISTICS PROGRAM

O'Reilly will release a web statistics program in Q3, '96. The product, as
yet unnamed, will work initially on the Windows NT and 95 platforms, and
will extend O'Reilly's software into cross-platform development.
O'Reilly's software also includes WebSite 1.1, WebBoard, WebSite
Professional (June, 1996), and PolyForm (May 7, 1996). O'Reilly's software
product family provides web developers with powerful tools to create
interactive, compelling sites easily, efficiently and cost-effectively.

ABOUT O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES

O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., is a major developer of software for the
Internet and Intranet. The company has long been recognized worldwide for
its definitive books on the Internet and UNIX, and more recently for its
development of online content and software. O'Reilly developed the Global
Network Navigator (GNN), a pioneering web-based publication which it later
sold to America Online. Songline Studios, an affiliate of O'Reilly &
Associates, specializes in developing innovative, interactive online
content such as Web Review. O'Reilly & Associates' planning and review
cycles link together software developers, authors, computer vendors, and
technical experts throughout the industry in a creative collaboration that
mirrors the strengths of the "open systems" philosophy itself.

O'Reilly & Associates
103A Morris St., Sebastopol, CA 95472
707/829-0515, Fax 707/829-0104, http://www.ora.com/
 
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