BLUE WORLD RELEASES LASSO 2.5.2 UPDATE

Maintenance update improves overall stability and introduces new encoding
feature.

BELLEVUE, WA – November 18, 1998 – Blue World Communications, Inc. today
released the Lasso 2.5.2 Update, a maintenance update for the Lasso 2.5
Product Line. The free update improves overall stability by addressing
various memory and malformed syntax related issues. In addition, a new
encoding keyword is now available. The “None” encoding keyword disables
encoding for the values of substitution tags providing customers with more
flexible control of the display of extended characters.

“We felt it was important to provide the installed base of Lasso 2.5
customers with some of the product stability improvements introduced
recently by the Lasso 3 Product Line,” said Blue World president & CEO Bill
Doerrfeld. “The update allows Lasso 2.5 customers to use Lasso more
effectively while they ready their Lasso 3 Product Line upgrades.”

Further details about the Lasso 2.5.2 Update are available via Blue World
Support Central at http://support.blueworld.com/article.lasso?id=111698125.
Registered Lasso 2.5 customers may use the freely available update
downloadable from ftp://ftp.blueworld.com/Lasso252/. A new Lasso 2.5.2
complete package release is also available via the Lasso 2.5 download page
at http://www.blueworld.com/blueworld/download/lassodownload.html.

About Blue World Communications, Inc.

Blue World Communications (http://www.blueworld.com) develops
cross-platform Internet middleware software allowing Internet and intranet
information administrators to quickly build sophisticated database-driven
Web applications. Blue World provides the Lasso 2.5 and Lasso 3 Product
Lines, the Blue World Store and the Blue World ListSearch service in
fulfillment of its mission of “bringing business to the internet(TM).”
Recently cited as the State of Washington’s 12th fastest growing technology
company, Blue World, based in Bellevue, WA, is a privately held company
founded in 1992.
Media Contact:
Bill Doerrfeld, President & CEO
Blue World Communications, Inc.
425.646.0288, bill@blueworld.com