SAQQARA AND OPEN MARKET PARTNER TO CREATE COMPLETE ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
SOLUTION

Open Market's OM-SecureLink to be Embedded into SAQQARA Step Search to
Build Online Catalogs with Transaction Capabilities

SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- MAY 15, 1996 -- SAQQARA Systems, creators of advanced
Internet search technology and catalog authoring software, today announced
a partnership with Open Market, a leading provider of Internet software
for business, to bring electronic transaction capabilities to interactive
online catalogs. Under terms of the agreement, Open Market's SecureLink
technology will be embedded into SAQQARA Systems Step Search software.
Step Search enables companies to build a customized electronic catalog at
their Web site. OM-SecureLink is commerce-enabling technology that
connects a merchant's storefront to a back-office transaction management
system. Together Open Market and SAQQARA can provide businesses the means
to create a complete online marketplace.

SAQQARA has integrated the OM-SecureLink software into its Step Search
product to automatically generate "Digital Offers" from a Step Search
catalog. Step Search enables merchants to author and publish on-line
catalogs as part of a Web site store front design. In cooperation with
Open Market's Internet Commerce Initiative, Saqqara serves as an
Independent Software Vendor that has integrated OM SecureLink to provide
tools for Internet Service Providers and Web developers alike to create
commercial marketplaces on the Internet.

With Step Search, Web sites can now include a cost- effective and easily
maintained catalog delivery system. Step Search Builder allows businesses
to host a catalog for a merchant and provide authoring tools to allow a
merchant to create and maintain a catalog remotely.

"Electronic commerce can only succeed if online customers can easily
identify the exact item that fits their needs and then purchase it through
an easy-to- use and secure transaction system," said Sherif Danish,
chairman and CEO of SAQQARA Systems. "With Open Market's OM-SecureLink
embedded in Step Search, businesses can create catalogs that not only
guide a user to a buying decision but actually complete the transaction at
the same time."

ACTIVE COMPUTING

Step Search takes online catalogs beyond marketing storefronts or static
information repositories and enables companies to help individual
customers in comparing features and benefits of a product line. Step
Search brings "active computing" to the Web, filtering information and
guiding the user toward real-world answers as catalog pages are generated
"on the fly" from a database of information.

AVAILABILITY

An evaluation copy of Step Search is available now on the SAQQARA Web site
at www.saqqara.com. For more information and product sales, call SAQQARA
sales directly at (408) 738-4858.

ABOUT SAQQARA SYSTEMS

SAQQARA Systems aims to be the leading provider of World Wide Web tools and
technologies to provide businesses with solutions to create online
catalogs. As a result of several years of experience managing and
delivering online product information for Fortune 500 companies, SAQQARA
Systems created Step Search to help businesses develop efficient,
systematic and customer-responsive catalogs, while providing a
predictable, graphical interface for customers on the World Wide Web. Web
sites employing Step Search, SAQQARA's patent-pending catalog authoring
and publishing software, offer customers accurate and up- to-date product
data, instantaneous feedback and online sales guidance. For more
information and a demonstration of Step Search, explore SAQQARA on the
World Wide Web at http://www.saqqara.com or call (408) 738-4858.

SAQQARA Systems, Inc
1230 Oakmead Parkway, Suite 314
Sunnyvale, California, 94086
Telephone: 408.738.4858.
 
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