Chili!Soft Announces General Availability of Chili!Soft ASP for HP UX 11.0; Partnership Allows Active Server Pages To Be Deployed on the New HP 9000 A400 and A500 UNIX Servers

Business Wire, May 9, 2000

Business Editors/Technology Writers

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2000

Chili!Soft Inc., the market leader in platform-independent Active Server Pages (ASP), today announced that Chili!Soft ASP v 3.04 is available on the HP-UX 11 operating environment.

The Chili!Soft ASP for HP-UX 11 release coincides with the launch of Hewlett-Packard Company's entry-level HP 9000 A-Class server line, aimed at service providers, Internet start-ups and enterprises that want to utilize Chili!Soft ASP technology to reduce time-to-market when creating and deploying e-business applications. Chili!Soft ASP enables web applications to be built using leading web development tools such as Microsoft FrontPage 2000, and then deployed on HP 9000 A-Class servers.

"Around 10 million copies of Front Page 2000 are being used by individuals and small to mid-size businesses to create ASP web applications," said Bryan Grummon, President of Chili!Soft. "5 million Microsoft developers and over 30 rapid development tools are driving the demand for Service Providers to host mission-critical ASP web applications. Chili!Soft ASP allows them to do it on the rackable HP 9000 A-Class servers."

"Chili!Soft ASP's support of market-leading development tools and diverse IT staffing environments leverages the powerful performance of HP 9000 A-Class servers at an entry-level price," said Mark Hudson, worldwide marketing director for HP's Business Critical Computing Business Unit. "This makes them extremely well-suited for Service Providers and dot.com customers in need of quick time-to-profit solutions."

"The Chili!Soft and HP alliance makes a great deal of sense because it provides customers with a cost-effective and quick way to bring business critical applications to the web," said John Sheaffer, President of Sysix Technologies, a leading provider of rapid value IT business solutions that include infrastructure technologies from market leaders such as Chili!Soft and HP. "Organizations can create web applications utilizing existing NT development tools and then deploy them to the powerful, robust UNIX environment that HP-UX provides."

Product Availability

Chili!Soft ASP for HP-UX 11 is available online or on CD, and evaluation copies can be downloaded from http://www.chilisoft.com/downloads/default.asp.> About Chili!Soft

Chili!Soft, Inc. is a privately held, pioneer provider of enabling technologies and applications for Active Server Pages. Chili!Soft's award-winning flagship product, Chili!Soft ASP, extends the ASP framework to major Web servers and operating systems including Microsoft Windows NT, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, and Linux. The company currently has partnerships with Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM, Microsoft, Netscape, and Sun Microsystems. Chili!Soft was incorporated in 1997 with headquarters in Bellevue, Wash. In March 2000, Cobalt Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:COBT) announced its intent to purchase the company. Cobalt Networks expects the purchase to close in the quarter, subject to customary closing conditions. For more information about the company, visit the Chili!Soft Web site at http://www.chilisoft.com or call 888/290-8346.

(c) 2000 Chili!Soft and Chili!Soft ASP are trademarks of Chili!Soft, Inc. All other products mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective companies.