Partners Team Up to Resell and Integrate with New Wallop Build-It 2.0

FOSTER CITY, CA, July 14, 1997 � Wallop Software, Inc. today announced that Intraware, the premier electronic distributor of intranet software solutions, has joined the Wallop Business Partner Program and will resell Wallop Build-IT 2.0. Mortice Kern Systems, Inc. (MKS), a leader in software configuration management announced that it has integrated its leading version control solution, MKS Source Integrity with Wallop Build-IT 2.0. Additionally, Softlab, a leading provider of version control solutions, announced integration of their Visual Enabler product with Wallop Build-IT 2.0. These partnerships simplify the complex tasks of assembling and maintaining web applications and make it easier for organizations to ensure web application reliability.

Wallop Build-IT 2.0, generally available today, is the industry's first web application assembly environment that allows organizations to build and maintain highly reliable web applications. The product empowers developers, designers and content contributors to collaboratively create web application components, assemble them into reliable applications, deploy and maintain them.

"Shipment of Wallop Build-IT 2.0 and partnerships with these resellers and technology providers extends Wallop's leadership in the emerging web application assembly market," said Robert C. Bolt, chief executive officer of Wallop Software, Inc. "Through strong partnerships with Intraware, MKS, and Softlab, we are ensuring that customers have the products and services they need to build even larger and more complex web applications that increase their revenue and that make it easier to keep up with rapid business changes."

Wallop Business Partner Program
Wallop's Business Partner Program is a comprehensive program designed to provide Resellers, Agents, and Education Partners with services, programs and support to aid in their success in helping web teams to quickly and successfully implement web applications. Wallop and its partners also will conduct joint marketing and education efforts including trade shows and seminars.

In other news today, Wallop is shipping version 2.0 of the Wallop Build-IT product family. The Enterprise edition of Wallop Build-IT is priced at $2,495 per seat and the Business User edition is priced at $495 per seat. Both are generally available today by calling 1-888-2-WALLOP. A fully functional evaluation copy is available from Wallop's web site at http://www.wallop.com.

About Wallop Build-IT 2.0
As organizations build larger and more complex web-based business applications, they are finding that these applications are becoming difficult to maintain and are increasingly plagued with integrity problems. Wallop Build-IT 2.0 offers customers new and unique features to address the current chaos of assembling and maintaining web applications, such as:

Application Integrity

• Manages user-defined CGI relationships, ensuring the integrity of dynamically generated web pages
• Sophisticated "Find" panel facilitates finding and fixing broken relationships, orphan components, and other integrity problems across all component types in your application
• On-line and printed reports provide comprehensive information on the status and integrity of an application
• Enhancements to its "intelligent deployment" capabilities gives a warning when components that are checked-out or have broken relationships are being deployed
• Option to perform web and application server clean-up eliminates redundant and orphan files

Large-scale Web Applications

• High-performance architecture dynamically manages relationships in applications with tens of thousands of components
• Deployment of web applications and components through single or multiple firewalls is supported
• Unlimited number of assembly stages are enabled for testing and effortless mirroring of servers and applications
• Comprehensive support for industry-standard cascading style sheets, ensuring the consistency of look-and-feel across an application
• Unlimited nesting of libraries for organizing web components

Team Assembly

• Tight integration with leading version control products such as Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, INTERSOLV PVCS, PureAtria ClearCase, MKS Source Integrity, and Softlab Visual Enabler provides versioning and tracks changes for all web components
• Addition of soft workflow capabilities such as user-defined setting of status on components (such as "Needs Review" or "Ready for Testing") dramatically improves collaboration and gives an at-a-glance status of the individual components or the overall application

Integration with Best-of-Breed Authoring Tools

• Tight integration with leading authoring tools including Office97, HoTMetaL PRO, and Visual Cafe, including the ability to drag-and-drop relationships
• Tight integration with leading web/database environments such as Kiva, Allaire's Cold Fusion, and NetDynamics, offering team development and seamless deployment capabilities
• Intelligent support for components that have a source-derivative model (for example, .GIF derivative files which are generated from PhotoShop source files (.psd), or .class files compiled from .java files)

Wallop Software, Inc.
Wallop Software, Inc. is the leader in web application assembly whose mission is to provide products and services specifically designed to meet the specialized needs of corporate teams building web applications. The Wallop Build-IT family of products—Wallop Build-IT for the Enterprise and Wallop Build-IT for Business Users—is a revolutionary web application assembly environment that enables multi-disciplinary teams to collaboratively assemble, deploy, and maintain highly reliable web-based business applications. Founded in 1995, Wallop Software is headquartered at 1155 Triton Drive, Foster City, CA 94404. Wallop's home page is located at http://www.wallop.com/default.htm.

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Wallop is a trademark of Wallop Software, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated and are hereby recognized as such.

New Wallop Build-It 2.0 Supports Enterprise-Scale Web Applications

FOSTER CITY, CA, May 12, 1997 � Wallop Software, Inc., provider of the industry's first Web application assembly environment, today announced version 2.0 of its Wallop Build-IT product family, which allows organizations to construct and maintain highly reliable large-scale Web applications. Version 2.0 of the Wallop Build-IT product line extends its market leadership in four areas: team assembly, Web application integrity, support for large-scale Web applications, and integration with best-of-breed authoring tools. The Wallop Build-IT Web application assembly environment empowers developers, designers, and content contributors to collaboratively create Web application components, assemble them into reliable applications, deploy them, and maintain them.

Specific enhancements in Wallop Build-IT 2.0 include: integration with all leading Windows version control systems; high-performance support for applications with tens of thousands of components and hundreds of thousands of relationships between components; user defined workflow; and tighter integration with best-of-breed authoring tools such as Microsoft Office97, Adobe Photoshop, SoftQuad HoTMetaL PRO, Symantec Visual Cafe, and NetDynamics. A beta version of the Wallop Build-IT 2.0 product family can be downloaded from Wallop's Web site at www.wallop.com. General availability of Wallop Build-IT 2.0 is scheduled for June 1997.

In other news, today Wallop also announced the Wallop Business Partner Program. Charter members include Cambridge Technology Partners, C/NET, Silicon Valley Internet Partners, Technology Builders, Inc., and Visient Corporation. Formation of formal business relationships with these essential industry resellers and consultants demonstrates market acceptance of the Wallop Build-IT product family. (Please see press release "Wallop Launches Business Partner Program", dated May 12, 1997.)

"Beta availability of Wallop Build-IT 2.0 delivers the next milestone in Wallop's product roadmap. With 2.0 we ensure reliable deployment of even larger, more complex Web applications created by diverse assembly teams," said Robert C. Bolt, chief executive officer of Wallop Software, Inc. "As large organizations move towards building and deploying strategic internal, business-to-business or business-to-customer applications, it is critical that these applications operate reliably over extended periods of time. Wallop Software is well positioned as a leader in the industry to deliver this reliability with its category defining Web application assembly environment, Wallop Build-IT."

What Customers are Saying
World Merchandise Exchange (WOMEX) OnLine (www.womex.com) provides an information network that facilitates trade for the international general merchandise industry. "The global nature of our Web site demanded integrating thousands of Web components, for which the first version of Wallop Build-IT was invaluable," said Ron Fellows, vice president and chief technology officer at World Merchandise Exchange, Inc. "Wallop's software provided the organization and control that was necessary in our Web application creation process, including the ability to track changes, update relationships and deploy to mirrored sites. Furthermore, with Wallop Build-IT, we were able to ensure reliability before we opened it to customers. Wallop Build-IT 2.0 reflects Wallop's commitment to meeting the needs of large-scale, global applications, such as WOMEX Online."

Franklin Resources, the largest publicly traded mutual fund Company in the U.S. used Wallop Build-IT to build and deploy a large-scale Web-based 401K application for 3,500 employees. "Our Web assembly team was given an extremely aggressive timeline for delivering a new Intranet-based 401K application. Initially, we were unsure how we were going to coordinate our team and the diverse set of components coming from various departments," said Chuck Dorr, vice president of Franklin Templeton ValuSelect. "By using Wallop Build-IT, our assembly team was able to deliver ahead of schedule. With version 2.0 and its enhanced features for ensuring integrity, we are comfortable with how easy long-term maintenance of this application will be, especially as we prepare to roll it out to external customers."

About Wallop Build-IT 2.0
As large companies and corporations build and deploy critical Web based business applications, they are increasingly plagued with integrity problems. Wallop Build-IT 2.0 addresses these challenges with its Web application assembly product. Wallop Build-IT 2.0 provides customers new and unique benefits and functionality, such as:

Application Integrity

• Manages user-defined CGI links, ensuring the integrity of dynamically generated Web pages
• Sophisticated "Find" panel facilitates finding and fixing broken links, orphan components, or other integrity problems across all component types in your application
• On-line and printed reports provide comprehensive information on the status and integrity of an application
• "Intelligent deployment" gives a warning when components that are checked-out or have broken links are being deployed
• Option to perform Web server clean-up eliminates redundant and orphan files

Large-scale Web Applications

• High-performance architecture dynamically manages relationships in applications with tens of thousands of components
• Supports deployment of Web applications and components through single or multiple firewalls
• Enables unlimited number of assembly stages for testing and effortless mirroring of servers and applications
• Comprehensive support for industry-standard cascading style sheets
• Unlimited nesting of libraries for organizing Web components

Team Assembly

• Tight integration with leading version control products such as Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, INTERSOLV PVCS, PureAtria ClearCase, and MKS Source Integrity.
• Addition of soft workflow capabilities such as user-defined setting of status on components ("Needs Review" or "Ready for Testing") dramatically improves collaboration and gives an at-a-glance status of the individual components or the overall application

Integration with Best-of-Breed Authoring Tools

• Tight integration with leading authoring tools including Office97, HoTMetaL PRO, and Visual Cafe, including the ability to drag-and-drop links
• Tight integration with all leading Web/database environments such as NetDynamics Studio, Kiva, and Cold Fusion
• Intelligent support for components that have a source-derivative model (for example, .GIF derivative files which are generated from PhotoShop source files (.psd), or .class files compiled from .java files)

Version Control Vendor Partnership
Providing the force behind the new version control functionality of the Wallop Build-IT 2.0-product family is a technology partnership between Wallop and industry leading version control vendors, Microsoft, INTERSOLV, PureAtria, and MKS. This integration provides customers with critical functionality for enterprise-scale application assembly, such as centralized storage and versioning of components and applications, controlled access to components, tracking of changes, and trouble shooting for conflicts.

"As the market-leading provider of software configuration management solutions, we are very pleased to partner with Wallop Software. Leading the charge in helping large Web teams build and maintain enterprise-scale applications, Wallop wisely foresaw the importance of strategic, integrated version control," said John Cimral, INTERSOLV vice president and general manager of PVCS. "Together, PVCS Version Manager and Wallop Build-IT 2.0 provide a premier environment for component-based Web application assembly. Large Web teams will now have the ability to store and version Web components to deploy applications with greater control, reduced risk and higher quality."

Wallop Software, Inc.
Wallop Software, Inc. is the leader in Web application assembly whose mission is to provide products and services specifically designed to meet the specialized needs of corporate teams building and deploying strategic business applications. The Wallop Build-IT family of products—Wallop Build-IT for the Enterprise and Wallop Build-IT for Business Users—is a revolutionary Web application assembly environment that enables multi-disciplinary teams to collaboratively assemble, deploy, and maintain highly reliable Web-based business applications. Founded in 1995, Wallop Software is headquartered at 1155 Triton Drive, Foster City, CA 94404. Wallop's home page is located at http://www.wallop.com/default.htm.

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Wallop is a trademark of Wallop Software, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated and are hereby recognized as such.