Netscape Announces Netscape Application Builder 3.0 to Speed Development of Applications for Netscape Application Server

MOUNTAIN VIEW Calif. (September 22, 1998) - Netscape Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: NSCP) today announced Netscape Application Builder 3.0, a powerful new web development environment for building multi-tier distributed applications deployed on Netscape Application Server software. With Netscape Application Builder 3.0, developers can quickly and easily build different tiers of an application that leverage the rich application and infrastructure services delivered by Netscape Application Server - including industry-leading performance and scalability features, 24x7 availability services, and high-performance enterprise application integration capabilities - to build sophisticated, business-critical Internet-based applications.

Netscape Application Builder 3.0 provides a dramatically improved development solution for the industry-leading Netscape Application Server deployment platform, delivering an integrated workspace of graphical tools and wizards that enables developers to easily build presentation, business, and data logic components. Because these components are completely reusable, Netscape Application Builder 3.0 and the Netscape Application Server architecture dramatically reduce development time when building multiple applications, and also enable an enterprise to leverage the appropriate IT skills within their organization to build specific tiers of an application. To further streamline development, Netscape Application Builder 3.0 enables IT professionals and Web developers to leverage familiar tools by easily integrating with 3rd party Java and C++ tools - as well as HTML editors and database modeling tools - for tasks such as component editing, source-code control, team development, and site design.

"The advent of the Net Economy is forcing customers to leverage the Internet to provide business-critical applications as services to large communities of customers, partners and employees," said Keng Lim, vice president and general manager of the application platform division at Netscape. "Netscape Application Builder 3.0 enables an organization to rapidly develop enterprise-class Internet-based applications that seamlessly integrate with existing IT systems and applications while providing industry leading performance, scalability and reliability."

Netscape Application Builder 3.0 provides comprehensive functionality for creating enterprise-class Internet-based applications. It includes an integrated workspace for project management, visual editing of HTML pages with a palette for WYSIWYG data-bound page design, editing and debugging of Java application code, and a graphical SQL query editor to create data access logic. Netscape Application Builder 3.0 also provides an application map to graphically view the dependencies and flow of all the components within an application. An extensive set of wizards helps developers get up to speed quickly and enables them to rapidly create sophisticated, transactional Internet applications. The Netscape Application Server deployment platform, combined with the new features of Netscape Application Builder 3.0, shields IT developers from the complexity and resource drain of having to develop the sophisticated set of built-in application and infrastructure services that provide industry-leading performance, dynamic scalability, 24x7 availability and high-performance integration with existing IT systems.

Netscape Application Builder 3.0 is currently available in private beta and is expected to be generally available in Q4 1998 for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 and Solaris 2.51 and 2.6. Pricing is expected to be US$1,295 per developer seat.

Netscape Communications Corporation is a leading provider of software and services for businesses that want to transform the way they create and keep customers in the emerging Net Economy. The company offers a full line of enterprise software solutions, professional services, and a leading Internet portal to help companies build, buy or outsource Internet applications that drive revenue growth, build customer loyalty, and create new levels of business efficiency. Traded on NASDAQ under the symbol NSCP, Netscape Communications Corporation is based in Mountain View, California.

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