4D Business Kit Now Shipping

— New, Easy eCommerce Development Tool to Create Complete Online Stores
Fast —

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., February 25, 2002 — 4D, Inc., publishers of the 4th
Dimension RAD/RDBMS Environment and 4D WebSTAR Server Suite, today
announced the immediate availability of 4D Business Kit, an integrated
multi-language, multi-store eCommerce development tool, designed for rapid
development of storefront solutions.

4D Business Kit is a complete solution providing catalogs, shopping carts,
payment systems, tax calculations, shipping, customer management and order
tracking. 4D Business Kit is available today directly from
(http://www.4D.com/4DBK/) for $499 including two stores, with five-store
expansion packs also available.

“4D Business Kit is complete and easy enough to build today, sell
tomorrow,” said Brendan Coveney, president and CEO, 4D, Inc. “For rapid,
hassle-free development of secure, web-based eCommerce solutions, including
language localization, tax calculations, payment systems, and shipping, 4D
Business Kit lets you sell products online very quickly. We’re very proud
to offer an eCommerce tool which provides the full-spectrum of storefront
functionality at an amazingly reasonable price.”

“digital.forest is very excited to be able to offer 4D Business Kit Hosting
to businesses around the world,” stated digital.forest, Inc. founder Chris
Kilbourn. “With its unprecedented ease in establishing and maintaining an
online commerce web site, this is a significant breakthrough for
e-commerce, making it more approachable, affordable and manageable than
ever before. We are confident that digital.forest 4D Business Kit Hosting
will provide businesses with new revenue opportunities for their existing
or planned e-commerce web sites, having worked with 4D to ensure a robust,
secure and easily managed solution.”

About 4D Business Kit
The 4D Business Kit includes the complete scope of eCommerce functionality
from catalog development, and shopping cart technology, through
multi-currency payment systems, including tax calculations, to shipping,
customer management and order tracking features. Payment support includes
modules for Authorize.net, Verisign or PayPal with tools for creating
custom payment systems. Easy to use, complete storefront solutions can be
developed using a quick setup wizard along with 4D Business Kit’s optimized
tag language. 4D Business Kit is a complete standalone solution or current
4D Developers can also integrate 4D Business Kit with existing 4D
applications via 4D’s IP component.

4D Business Kit is $499 and includes a license for two stores . Five-store
expansion packs are also available today at $499 each. OEM and volume
discounts are available for ISPs and other hosting organizations. As part
of its commitment to software support excellence, 4D Business Kit purchases
include a year of upgrades.

About 4D, Inc.
Located in San Jose, California, 4D Inc. is the U.S. distributor of 4th
Dimension (4D), and publisher of 4D WebSTAR Sever Suite. 4D is an
award-winning, tightly integrated suite of Windows and Mac OS, Web-embedded
development tools for business solutions. 4D WebSTAR Server Suite V is a
fast, secure and extensible server suite for Mac OS X, best known for easy
administration. 4D, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of 4D SA. Further
information can be found at (http://www.4D.com/).