PC DOCS/Fulcrum Licenses Chili!ASP to Enrich CyberDOCS; CyberDOCS to be Deployed on Netscape and Microsoft Web Servers

Business Wire, Dec 16, 1998

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 16, 1998--Chili!Soft(tm), Inc. (www.chilisoft.com), the pioneer of cross-platform Active Server Pages (ASP), today announced an agreement with PC DOCS/Fulcrum, a global leader in document and knowledge management, to integrate Chili!ASP in a version of CyberDOCS(R) planned for release in 1999.

The agreement will allow CyberDOCS to be deployed for the first time on Netscape(R) servers for Microsoft(R) Windows NT(R), as well as Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS).

CyberDOCS is the ASP-based browser client to PC DOCS/Fulcrum's DOCSFusion(tm), the next-generation server engine for PC DOCS/Fulcrum's integrated knowledge management solutions, and to DOCS Open, its client-server document management system.

Chili!ASP enables cross-platform applications based on ASP, the mainstream Web application platform made broadly available by Microsoft. The integration of Chili!ASP in CyberDOCS will allow corporations to easily deploy CyberDOCS across the enterprise.

"More of our customers are choosing to implement PC DOCS/Fulcrum solutions using a Web server environment," said Craig Wallace, president and COO of PC DOCS/Fulcrum. "Integrating Chili!ASP with CyberDOCS increases the number of Web server platform choices available to our customers. This, in turn, can accelerate their return on their investment in intranet- and extranet-based CyberDOCS solutions."

"CyberDOCS is a great example of the sophistication and flexibility of the ASP platform," said Charles Crystle, founder and chief technology officer of Chili!Soft. "Fueled by the cross-platform power of the Chili!ASP engine, CyberDOCS underscores the opportunity that all ASP-enabled applications have to better serve their enterprise customers and expand their business base."

PC DOCS/Fulcrum products are used by many of the world's largest companies, among them 45% of Fortune 500 companies worldwide and, among these, 65 of the top 100. Through its n-tier architecture, DOCSFusion allows users to access, analyze and act on information in all corporate sources, transforming that information into value that reaches the bottom line. CyberDOCS provides Web-based users with full DOCSFusion functionality.

About PC DOCS/Fulcrum

PC DOCS/Fulcrum and partners solve real-world business problems through Integrated Knowledge Management software. PC DOCS/Fulcrum products deliver a controlled way to manage corporate information and Web content, and an innovative way to understand it. Customers rely on PC DOCS/Fulcrum products to gain access to the information that matters, and then analyze and re-use this information -- leveraging its value and conferring a sharp competitive edge.

PC DOCS/Fulcrum provides solutions to many industries, including manufacturing, financial services, professional services and others, and to government. A global organization, PC DOCS/Fulcrum has offices and partners throughout North America, Europe, Australia, Latin America and Japan. PC DOCS Inc. and Fulcrum Technologies Inc. are PC DOCS Group International Inc. companies (NASDAQ: DOCSF, TSE: DXX). Customers can learn more about the company at www.pcdocs.com.

About Chili!ASP

Chili!ASP enables ASP on leading Web servers and operating systems, making it the first cross-platform Web application server based on the ASP framework. ASP is an open, compile-free Web application environment that combines scripting, HTML, custom server components, and robust database publishing to create dynamic Web-based business applications. Chili!ASP is supported by industry leading Web development tools, such as Microsoft Visual InterDev(tm) and FrontPage(tm) (NASDAQ: MSFT), Elemental Drumbeat(tm), NetObjects ScriptBuilder(tm), and Sybase Powersite(tm) (NASDAQ: SYBS). It provides ASP functionality to Apache, IBM (NYSE: IBM), Netscape (NASDAQ: NCSP), Lotus, and O'Reilly Web servers on Microsoft Windows NT and UNIX. Chili!ASP is compatible with databases from Oracle(R) (NASDAQ: ORCL), Informix(R) (NASDAQ: IFMX), Sybase (NASDAQ: SYBS), IBM, and Computer Associates (NYSE: CA).

About Chili!Soft

Chili!Soft, Inc. is a privately held, pioneer provider of enabling technologies and applications for Active Server Pages (ASP), the mainstream Web application server. Chili!Soft products include Chili!ASP and Chili!Reports. Chili!ASP enables ASP applications across heterogeneous computing environments such as Windows NT, UNIX, and soon AIX and OS/390, on different Web servers. Chili!Reports is a robust enterprise reporting system that writes database information into an Excel spreadsheet and delivers it to Web browsers. Chili!Soft was founded in 1994 with headquarters in Bellevue. For more information about the company, customers can visit the Chili!Soft Web site at www.chilisoft.com or call 425/957-1122.

Note to Editors: Chili!Soft, Chili!ASP, & Chili!Reports are trademarks of Chili!Soft, Inc. Microsoft and Active Server are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. PC DOCS/Fulcrum and DOCSFusion are trademarks and CyberDOCS is a registered trademark of PC DOCS, Inc. All other products mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective companies. Features and specifications are subject to change.