FOR RELEASE ON APRIL 2, 1999
Phone: 805-963-6983
888-2-WebTen
FAX: 805-962-8202
Contact: Anita Holmgren
Internet: anita@tenon.com
http://www.tenon.com/products/webten/

POWERFUL, NEW WEB DEVELOPMENT CAPABILITIES AVAILABLE ON MACINTOSH

Aestiva's HTML/OS now supported on Macintosh with WebTen

Santa Barbara, CA, April 2, 1999. Tenon and Aestiva announce the
immediate availability of Aestiva's HTML/OS, powerful software for
developing advanced, dynamic web sites, on both Mac OS and Mac OS X
Server. Aestiva's HTML/OS runs with WebTen on Mac OS and with WebTen
or Apple's bundled Apache on OS X Server.

Aestiva's HTML/OS is an extension to HTML that allows you to do
on-the-fly word-processing, spreadsheet, database and programming
operations within HTML documents. It can be used with any standard
HTML editor and is easier to learn and deploy than Perl. For
high-volume sites and database driven sites, HTML/OS is more
effective than Perl because of its high-performance. In the same way
that Javascripts are placed in documents, English-like HTML/OS tags
can be placed in documents to perform a wide range of tasks. For
example, when a user makes a request, HTML documents can be merged
with server information on-the-fly. HTML/OS includes a built-in
database and comes with a suite of tools, including a contact
management application, a file manager, and hundreds of example
dynamic web pages, including complete shopping carts and web-based
chat and discussion forums. HTML/OS can be used for building
eCommerce sites, database driven sites and web-based applications.

By using Tenon technology, Aestiva was able to bring their powerful
UNIX-based web toolsuite into the unique WebTen execution
environment. Aestiva used MachTen, Tenon's UNIX OS for Macintosh, to
port their standard UNIX product to Mac OS. "Our port of HTML/OS from
UNIX to MachTen was as quick as any port from one version of UNIX to
another," said David Silverberg, Director of Technology at Aestiva.
"It really amazed us. It took only a few days to port about 500,000
lines of code!" Once compiled with MachTen, HTML/OS was simply placed
in WebTen's cgi-bin folder. Dave added, "This porting strategy cut
our porting time by a factor of one hundred over doing a native Mac
port."

WebTen, a point & click Apache-based web server, is the only Mac OS
web server that competes well with UNIX and NT in web performance and
features, sustaining over 1000 connections per second - more than
five times the performance of its competition. WebTen is not only the
web server performance leader on Mac OS, but also the feature leader.
WebTen supports Apache modules as well as Macintosh-style plug-ins,
extending the breadth and depth of Macintosh web serving to encompass
the functionality of the more than two million sites that are
currently supported by Apache. It supports pure Perl CGI scripts as
well as MacPerl. It supports state-of-the-art web security in the
form of an advanced secure sockets layer (SSL) that, unlike its
competition, lets a single machine use multiple secure certificates,
making WebTen an ideal platform for web-based eCommerce. On OS X
Server, Tenon's WebTen extends Apple's bundled Apache with its
powerful point and click interface and with SSL to support eCommerce.

Aestiva's HTML/OS for Mac OS and OS X Server retails for $799. WebTen
is $495 for Mac OS and $299 (introductory) for OS X Server. For more
information about Aestiva, see http://www.aestiva.com.

Founded in 1989, Tenon Intersystems is a leader in high-performance
networking. Tenon technology, combined with the power of Apple's
G3-based machines, is providing the framework for world-class
networking on the Macintosh. WebTen was recently selected as the
Macworld Editor's Choice for Best Server Software, outpacing WebSTAR
and Apple's ASIP. Tenon Intersystems can be reached in the U.S. at
805-963-6983, by the internet at sales@tenon.com, or via the web at
http://www.tenon.com.

Tenon Intersystems 805-963-6983
1123 Chapala Street anita@tenon.com
Santa Barbara, CA 93101 http://www.tenon.com