Hermosa Beach, CA -- July 9, 1998 -- Gefion software today announced their database access product, InstantOnline Basic, has been certified 100% Pure Java™ by Sun Microsystems, Inc. InstantOnline Basic is a standards based solution for Web Browser database access. Conformance to the Java Servlet API, JDBC™ and HTML 3.2 makes InstantOnline Basic extremely portable and scalable.

"Gefion software's focus on platform independent solutions makes the 100% Pure Java certification from Sun Microsystems, Inc. a very important milestone for us," said Hans Bergsten, President of Gefion software. 100% Pure Java certification is an award bestowed upon products that have passed Sun Microsystems' rigorous static and dynamic tests to show that it runs flawlessly on the wide range of hardware and operating systems that support the Java platform. "The certification assures our customers that InstantOnline Basic will support their choice of computing environment, today and tomorrow," Hans added.

InstantOnline Basic is a set of Servlets that are embedded in HTML files using HTML-like <SERVLET> tags. The Servlets can be used to read information from a database and present the result as an HTML table or as a free-form HTML pattern, and to store information submitted by a user through an HTML FORM. The Servlet API is supported by all major Web Servers, natively or through inexpensive or free 3rd-party add-ons, as well as by high-end Application Servers, such as Dynamo and NetDynamics. InstantOnline Basic uses JDBC, the standard Java database interface, to read and modify data, ensuring support for all major database engines.

"Sun Microsystems, Inc. is delighted to award 100% Pure Java certification to Gefion software's InstantOnline Basic product, one of the first Servlet based products to be certified," said George Paolini, director of corporate marketing at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Java Software. "InstantOnline Basic is a great example of the value, flexibility and choice customers gain from a Java technology based, cross-platform solution."

Gefion software will demonstrate InstantOnline Basic at The Next 20 Years event in Los Angeles, California, August 6, 1998. For more information about this event, see http://www.next20years.com/20_la.html.

Pricing and Availability

InstantOnline Basic 1.0 is available now in three versions: InstantOnline Basic 1.0 Evaluation (2 concurrent sessions) free of charge, InstantOnline Basic 1.0 (10 concurrent sessions) $249.00, and InstantOnline Basic 1.0 Pro (unlimited number of concurrent sessions) $499.00. All versions are licensed for the use on a single server. For more information customers should visit http://www.gefionsoftware.com/InstantOnline/.

About Gefion software

Gefion software is a privately held company located in Hermosa Beach, California, founded in 1997. Gefion software develops products that simplify development of network based, platform independent, applications.

With the company's focus on platform independent solutions, the Java language is the programming language of choice. All Gefion software products are developed in the Java programming language and use Java based technology to interface proprietary systems, such as JDBC for database access. For more information about Gefion software and its products, please visit http://www.gefionsoftware.com/.

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