Netscape Custom Netcenter Delivers Small Business Portal for HP Brio PC Customers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., (Sept. 1, 1999) - Netscape Communications, a subsidiary of America Online Inc. (NYSE: AOL), today announced that Hewlett Packard has licensed Netscape's custom Internet portal service, Netscape Custom Netcenter, to deliver a Small Business portal as part of HP's new line of Brio business PCs. Netscape also announced today that several new groups have adopted Custom Netcenter, including The Dialog Corporation, the Sun Netscape Alliance and Marshall & Ilsley Corporation. These companies join a growing list of over one hundred Netscape Custom Netcenter customers, including Federal Express and Lucent Technologies.

Netscape's Custom Netcenter service empowers businesses to create powerful Internet hubs that attract and retain customers by delivering personalized information and services relevant to a user's business, area of expertise or personal interest. With Netscape's Custom Netcenter, businesses can create community sites that reach targeted customer groups or private Intranet and Extranet sites that connect employees and partners with mission critical information and services. From a Netscape Custom Netcenter site, users can personalize their own Internet start page to access a wealth of valuable services such as e-mail, calendar, personalized stocks, news and weather, combined with company-specific information and services such as e-commerce applications, phonebooks and product information.
"Custom Netcenter represents the next wave of Internet-based online service technology, because it provides a powerful platform that empowers businesses to deliver the products and services that their consumers care about and need," said Jim Martin, senior vice president of Netscape, and general manager of Netscape Netcenter. "Netscape's Custom Netcenter benefits businesses, consumers and employees by delivering a personalized online service that simplifies e-commerce transactions and information access with customized Internet and corporate content and services."

"Netscape's Custom Netcenter provides a flexible framework for small businesses to take full advantage of Internet tools and resources," said Gilles Deotto, Internet Program Manager for HP Brio PCs at HP's Business Desktop Division. "Netscape's Custom Netcenter and HP Brio PCs are a powerful combination - giving small businesses fast access to the latest business news."

Hewlett Packard is using Netscape Custom Netcenter to deliver an Internet site customized for users of the new line of HP Brio business PCs. The new co-branded HP/Netscape site will be made available as part of the new Brio Internet Center and will give small businesses easy access to Netscape's market leading Internet browser, customized business news, stock updates, HP product and services information, and small-business tips. The AOL and Compuserve services are also available on the HP Brio business PC.

"We wanted to provide our customers with a personalized solution to access all their M&I web-based financial services and other information they access on the Internet," said Garry McCann, product manager, on-line products and services, Marshall & Ilsley Corporation. "The Netscape Custom Netcenter site was the perfect fit for our needs. It provides us an excellent opportunity to develop web-based relationships with our customers and enables us to enhance the exceptional personal service they have come to expect from M&I. Whether they want to check an account balance, follow the news or look up the local movie listings, our customers will be able to access it all through their MiWeb World."
Marshall & Ilsley Corporation is using Netscape Custom Netcenter to develop a "MiWeb World" portal for its web-based customers. The site will combine content from Netscape Netcenter such as personalized stocks, news and weather with access to M&I's on-line account services and financial information.

Netscape Custom Netcenter will be made available as part of the new HP Brio Internet Center, an Internet resource for users of the new line of HP Brio business PCs that allows small businesses to take their companies online in a matter of minutes. The new co-branded HP/Netscape site will give small businesses easy access to customized business news, stock updates, HP products and services information, and small-business tips. The AOL and Compuserve services are also available on the HP Brio business PC.

Since its launch less than a year ago, Custom Netcenter has been publicly deployed by
Hewlett Packard, Lucent Technologies, the Sun-Netscape Alliance and Industry Canada, an agency of the Canadian government. Other customers include Novell, Federal Express, The Dialog Corporation, Marshall & Ilsley Corporation and Sasketchewan Telecom.

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 18 million members, and CompuServe, with approximately 2 million members; several leading Internet brands including ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger and Digital City, Inc.; the Netscape Netcenter and AOL.COM portals; the Netscape Navigator and Communicator browsers; and AOL MovieFone, the nation's largest movie listing guide and ticketing service. 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.

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