Server Software Includes Full E-Commerce Capabilities, Powerful HTML Extensions

Sebastopol, CA--WebSite Professional(TM) 2.0, the next generation of the award-winning web server software, will ship with new software which provides a complete merchant solution, and greatly expands the web developer's ability to create dynamic, data-base driven sites designed for electronic commerce, O'Reilly & Associates has announced.

When WebSite Professional 2.0 ships this September, iHTML Merchant and iHTML Professional, two software programs from Inline Internet Systems, Inc., will be bundled with the product. At a suggested list price of $799, WebSite Professional 2.0 will offer capabilities available only in packages which cost thousands of dollars more. iHTML Merchant and iHTML Professional will be available on the Windows platform exclusively as part of the WebSite Professional package. A third Inline program, iHTML Transfusion, a Cold Fusion converter, will be available as a stand-alone product.

iHTML Merchant is designed for any business needing to sell via the Web. Completely and easily customizable simply by editing HTML pages, iHTML Merchant features a catalog, a shopping cart, Web-based credit card validation using CyberCash (with or without customer wallets), automatic tax and shipping calculations, secure transactions, and support for unlimited numbers of products and stores. iHTML Merchant can increase sales through banner ad rotation and dynamic graphical sales reports, and is easily administered through the browser.

iHTML Professional, a powerful, streamlined scripting language, extends Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) while it eliminates hours of programming. It enables web developers to add dynamic functions and graphics to their pages, readable in any browser, simply by adding HTML-type tags to documents. Designed specifically for the Web, iHTML Professional is built on such core technologies as dynamic web graphics, for generating graphs, charts, and overlay images in real time; Web-to-database access, for ODBC database access on the fly; and Back Page processing technology, which allows pages to be processed in the background, on developer-determined schedules.

iHTML Transfusion is a customized utility which seamlessly translates Cold Fusion 2.0 files to iHTML files. The iHTML Professional engine included with Web Site Professional will then interpret the iHTML files and perform the same functionality as if they were running with the Cold Fusion engine.

"Our alliance with Inline provides our customers with critical new features and functions," says Kimberly Simoni, Product Manager, WebSite Professional. "The WebSite Professional 2.0 package now will be the most robust electronic commerce server suite available anywhere near its price range, for all types of secure sites."

Russ Cobbe, President of Inline Internet Systems, concurs. "Inline is very excited to be bringing our best-of-breed products together with WebSite Professional. I think our partnership with O'Reilly, which has a unique position in the Windows web server market, is great news for customers who need to expand the dynamic capabilities of their sites and sell online."

O'Reilly & Associates will be highlighting WebSite Professional 2.0, including the Inline software, at the WebSite User Conference, August 20-21, 1997, San Jose, CA. Further information is available at

http://website.ora.com/wscon/

ABOUT O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES (http://www.ora.com/)

California-based O'Reilly & Associates, founded in 1978, is recognized worldwide for its definitive books on the Internet and UNIX, as well as for its online content and Internet software. In 1993, O'Reilly developed the Global Network Navigator (GNN), a pioneering Web-based publication which it sold to America Online in 1995. In addition to WebSite and WebSite Professional, the company's software products include WebBoard, live chat and multi-threaded conferencing software, and PolyForm, a web authoring tool for forms. Statisphere, a Web traffic analyzer, and Perl Resource Kit - Unix, will be released later in 1997. The company has offices in the U.S. and worldwide.

ABOUT INLINE INTERNET SYSTEMS (http://www.inline.net/)

Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Inline Internet Systems, Inc. develops innovative Internet software products and technology. The company focuses on the use of database technology to bring value to corporate web sites by providing turnkey Internet solutions. The company was founded in early 1995. Inline's other products include iSPI 2.1 Internet Device Monitoring software.