Halcyon Software, Inc. announces free Active Server Page support
for users of Intel-based Linux systems

San Jose, CA--November 3rd, 2000-Halcyon Software, Inc. 
www.halcyonsoft.com announced today that it is making 
its award-winning product, Instant ASP(tm) (iASP), available for 
free to users of Intel-based Linux systems. iASP is a Java 
implementation of the industry-standard Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) 
Active Server Page (ASP) framework, and will allow businesses and 
individuals an extremely cost-effective way to create and run 
interactive web sites.

John Francis, Halcyon's Directory of Marketing commented, "Linux 
users gain support for the extremely flexible and popular ASP 
programming environment, and, in combination with the Linux 
operating system, Apache web server and the MySQL relational 
database, all of which are open-source, get a full-fledged web 
development system for the cost of hardware only, saving thousands 
of dollars in OS licenses."
	
Halcyon's iASP, winner of ASPGuild's http://www.aspguild.org
Top Tool for 2000 award, lets developers deploy web applications 
using the popular Microsoft Active Server pages framework, on any 
Java-enabled platform. Some of iASP's competitive highlights 
include its support for VBScript and JScript version 5.0 as well 
as its ability to be localized for double-byte languages such as 
Chinese, Japanese and Korean. iASP includes full support for ADO 
and CDO and interfaces with multiple component architectures, 
including JavaBeans, Enterprise JavaBeans, and CORBA components. 
In addition, iASP can also be tightly integrated with popular 
application servers including IBM WebSphere, Sun iPlanet, Oracle 
Application Server and BEA WebLogic. Current major iASP customers 
include Agilent, Verizon, Amerisource, and many others.
	
"We see the release of a general free Linux version of Instant 
ASP as a natural strategic move as we seek to increase our 
installed iASP user base," Halcyon President and CEO, Don Hsi, 
explained, "As with our Cobalt initiative in August, we believe 
we are providing both a positive benefit to the growth of the 
Linux community as well as a way to provide a greatly expanded 
market for our upgrade products and services." 

Instant ASP for Linux can be downloaded immediately from
www.halcyonsoft.com/products/chooseproduct.asp. 

About Halcyon Software
Halcyon Software, of San Jose, CA, was founded in 1990 and is 
privately held. Halcyon specializes in service, consulting, and 
product development, with expertise in Java and extensive 
experience with cross-platform application migration and 
development. Halcyon specializes in Visual Basic and ASP to Java 
migration, middleware integration, web-enabling legacy applications 
as well as cutting-edge e-commerce development. For more information, 
please visit Halcyon's web site at http://www.halcyonsoft.com.


Halcyon Contact
John Francis
Director of Marketing
408-998-1998 x 103
jfrancis@halcyonsoft.com