Sun-Netscape Alliance and Enterprise Engineering Agree to Market Online Investment Management Solution

NEW YORK, NY (SIA SHOW), June 16, 1999 - The Sun-Netscape Alliance (the Alliance) and Enterprise Engineering, Inc. (EEI) today announced an agreement to market a comprehensive new online investment management solution enabling financial institutions to offer customers online trading and other strategic services that leverage the Internet. The solution combines high-performance financial server software from EEI, infrastructure server software from the Alliance and Netscape's Custom Netcenter, allowing financial institutions to manage customer relationships and offer specialized services through their own financial web portals.

Today's banks, brokerages and other financial institutions are increasingly faced with customers who want the convenience and flexibility of trading online combined with other daily services in a one-stop shopping environment. To meet this need, financial institutions are rearchitecting their web sites using the Alliance application servers, Netscape Directory for Secure E-Commerce and EEI's Enterprise Financial Transaction

Exchange (e-FTX), a financial services integration server. Used in conjunction, the three products offer a complete infrastructure for the high performance, scalability and security features required for online financial combine Internet portal content, such as news, weather and WebMail, with custom financial applications and services -- creating a specialized portal that can effectively attract and retain customers.

This unique approach leveraging the technology and services of EEI, the Alliance and Netscape/AOL sets the solution apart from the point solutions prevalent in the delivery of most online financial services.

"By combining products from the Sun-Netscape Alliance and EEI, customers can obtain a complete end-to-end 'e-finance' solution for financial institutions competing in the exploding Net Economy," said Dr. Stuart Wells, senior vice president of infrastructure products for the Sun-Netscape Alliance. "This unique solution enables rapid deployment of web-based customer service applications and customized web portal sites so that companies can offer more financial services than ever before, including securities, insurance, 401K, account management, and others."

"As the financial industry continues to change and institutions compete to become the online destination of choice, the need to offer a wider array of services becomes essential," said George Anderson, president and CEO of Enterprise Engineering, Inc. "The combination of our products with those available from the Sun-Netscape Alliance will help enable wide distribution and delivery of those capabilities on the most complete and powerful platform available."

EEI's e-FTX is a suite of products consisting of: e-FTX, an extensible core processing engine for online financial services; SIML, a graphic modeling tool for rapid back-end application integration; and Protocol Services, support for major industry standard protocols including OFX, FIX, and FIXML.

The Alliance application servers include the Netscape Application Server and the Sun NetDynamics application server, providing the industry's fastest, most scalable and reliable Internet application servers for deploying business-critical applications on the Internet and Extranets. Netscape Directory for Secure E-Commerce is an integrated Internet directory and security package that includes Netscape Directory Server, Netscape Delegated Administrator and Netscape Certificate Management System software. The bundle provides the directory foundation for Extranet security while adding the certificate management system as an extra level of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)-based security for more sensitive transactions.

Netscape Personalization Engine and enables businesses to create their own portals with up-to-the-minute content feeds from Netscape's Netcenter Internet portal combined with company-specific information. Prior to Custom Netcenter a company wanting to build its own custom portal would have to acquire a wide range of content and services, build a personalization engine and host the service. Custom Netcenter leverages the investment that Netscape has already made in the Netcenter portal.

"The ability to respond to customer needs more quickly, and provide a wider array of services is a necessity as the Internet continues to drive personalization to new levels," said Jonathan Vaughan, vice president of research and development at Prudential, a large customer of Sun Microsystems and a leader in the financial services e-commerce arena. "We believe in the importance of open standards to allow the rapid evolution of new solutions to meet customer needs. This agreement supports the types of innovation that will enable institutions to service customers better by delivering those personalized services."

About EEI
Enterprise Engineering, Inc. (EEI) is a leading systems integration and e-commerce consulting firm that delivers technology solutions for the financial services sector, paving the way for banks, brokerages, insurers, and their customers, to enter the digital era. Since its formation in 1995, EEI has created mission-critical systems and provided advanced training and strategic consulting for many of the Fortune 500 firms. The company's key areas of expertise include real-time, Web-based delivery of online banking, brokerage and electronic commerce; creation of back office capabilities; and Advanced Technology Training.

About the Sun-Netscape Alliance
America Online, Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. formed the Sun-Netscape Alliance to provide easy to deploy, comprehensive enterprise and e-commerce solutions to business partners and other companies competing in today's Net Economy. The alliance product portfolio provides customers with the industry's most scalable, integrated infrastructure software and a family of production ready e-commerce applications. The products are offered on the industry's most widely available product platforms, including DEC, HP, IBM, Linux, SGI, Microsoft Windows, and Sun. The alliance software product portfolio includes: messaging and calendar, collaboration, web, application, directory, and certificate servers. The alliance also offers a family of production-ready applications for e-commerce, including commerce exchange, procurement, selling, and billing.

About America Online, Inc
Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc., based in Dulles, Virginia, is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies, and e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates: two worldwide Internet services, America Online, with more than 17 million members, and CompuServe, with approximately 2 million members; several leading Internet brands including ICQ and Digital City, Inc.; the Netscape Netcenter and AOL.COM portals; and the Netscape Navigator and Communicator browsers. Through its strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems, the Company develops and offers easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce and enterprise solutions for companies operating in the Net Economy.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network is The Computer?," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. [NASDQ: SUNW] to its position as a leading provider of high quality hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $11 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com.

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