Year: 1997

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

8/21/97

Blue World Updates Lasso to Address Security Hole Discovered in “Crack a
Mac” Contest; Informs and Assists Other Developers

Bellevue, WA – Internet software developer Blue World Communications, Inc.
has released a revision to Lasso to address a security hole present in
Lasso and several other Mac OS Web server products that was discovered
during the Web-wide “Crack a Mac” contest (http://hacke.infinit.se). Within
24 hours of the discovery, Blue World posted a fix and notified its
customers.

WebSTAR users,

StarNine is happy to announce the availability of a W*API based WebObjects
Adapter. With a WebObjects Adapter, it is now possible to integrate your
Mac OS-based WebSTAR server with WebObject applications running on Solaris,
OpenStep, NextStep, Windows NT and soon Rhapsody.

WebSTAR users interested in testing the WebObjects Adapter with their
current WebObjects applications are invited to download a development
version of the Adapter at
(ftp://ftp.starnine.com/pub/betas/webobjects_adapter.sea.hqx).

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ServletExec Plugin Runs Java Servlets on Mac OS Web Servers

Alpharetta, Georgia – New Atlanta Communications, LLC announces the
ServletExec(tm) plugin for Mac OS web servers. ServletExec is a WebSTAR API
(W*API) compatible plugin that enables Mac OS web servers to run
industry-standard Java servlets. ServletExec is built on the Mac OS Runtime
for Java (MRJ) which Apple is shipping as a standard component of Mac OS 8.

Servlets are Java-based alternatives to traditional CGIs and web server
plugins.

GENE CODES CORPORATION, a premier developer of software for sequencing DNA,
is seeking software engineers for advanced software product development in
bioinformatics.

Gene Codes Corp. develops and markets scientist-centered software for
molecular biologists. Our lead product SEQUENCHER has become the software
standard at major sequencing facilities around the world.

TYRELL AND ACTIVESTATE RESOLVE PERLSCRIPT NAME CONFLICT
Name Conflict Ends with Agreement to Cooperate with Marketing and
Development of Perl Tools

August 20, 1997, San Jose, CA — In a move typical of the Perl community,
Tyrell Software Corp. and ActiveState Tool Corp. have resolved the
PerlScript name conflict in a friendly, cooperative manner. Last month
Tyrell started marketing a product named PerlScript on the Internet.
Confusion quickly ensued between ActiveState’s PerlScript ActiveX scripting
engine and Tyrell’s PerlScript.