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EMPRESS SOFTWARE INC. ANNOUNCES EMPRESS HYPERMEDIA™

Markham, Ontario, Canada (December 1, 1995) — Empress Software, Inc., announced today the availability of EMPRESS HYPERMEDIA™, an HTML toolkit and HTTP server designed to give world wide web page designers unparalleled power in creating dynamic web pages through which they can easily manage large amounts of data with no impact to the web page.

EMPRESS HYPERMEDIA™ is the only product of its kind that offers the web page author the ability to use both the HTML language already used in creating web pages and allow the user the flexibility of interfacing to the Empress multimedia RDBMS with either SQL calls or through the use of the Empress server product. Through the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), EMPRESS HYPERMEDIA™ integrates database and administration utilities, creates dynamic web pages, and works with all known web browsers.

"The World Wide Web is experiencing unprecedented growth throughout the world", said John Kornatowski, Empress' President, "EMPRESS HYPERMEDIA™ will enable us to deliver the Empress RDBMS to not only to our current customer base, but to a whole new market segment."

A personal version of EMPRESS HYPERMEDIA™ is available for free from Empress' web page at http://www.empress.com/.

Empress Software manufactures and distributes the Empress RDBMS, including 4GL development tools, GUI development tools, ODBC server, and other related products through a distributor network in more than 30 countries around the world. The Empress multimedia RDBMS is available for all leading UNIX platforms and UNIX variants.

Empress Software is a privately held company headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada with offices worldwide. More information about Empress Software, Inc. and its complete line of multimedia RDBMS products can be found at http://www.empress.com/.