Vigouroux reports to Morris Taradalsky, NetObjects' executive vice president of business development and general manager, enterprise.

"John's knowledge of the Web authoring market segment and experience in creating and strenghtening alliances with leading industry players will be invaluable in evolving NetObjects into an established, world-class software applications provider," said Taradalsky.

Prior to joining NetObjects, Vigouroux was director of business development for Cisco Systems' service provider systems business unit, where he developed alliances with online providers such as AT&T & GTE. Prior to Cisco, as manager of strategic opportunities at Adobe Systems, Vigouroux reported directly to the chairman, CEO and president and was responsible for building and nurturing long-term relationships with corporate partners including: AT&T, Apple, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, and SAP. Vigouroux' prior experience also includes stints at GE Information Services and Wang Laboratories. Vigouroux holds a bachelor of arts from Averett College in Virginia and a masters of business management from New Hampshire College.

"NetObjects has demonstrated that emerging companies must build alliances with Internet powerhouses to make their products a standard," said Vigouroux. "My charter is to grow NetObjects' existing partnerships and form new ones with established players and newcomers to build a large and global software company."

About NetObjects
NetObjects, Inc. is a privately-held company that is funded by IBM, Perseus LLC, AT&T Ventures, Norwest Venture Capital, Venrock Associates, Rae Technology LLC and private investors. NetObjects' partners include Apple Computer (NASDAQ: AAPL), AT&T (NYSE: T), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Netscape (NASDAQ: NSCP), Sun Microsystems' Javasoft (NASDAQ: SUNW) and UUNET (NASDAQ: WCOM).

NetObjects Fusion is the first smart Web site building application that integrates automated site building, professional quality design and data publishing, thereby lowering the cost, time and tedium of building high-quality Web sites. NetObjects Fusion has won several awards including CNET's 1997 Internet Excellence Award for Best Web Design Product and PC Magazine's Editors Choice award. More information on NetObjects can be found at www.netobjects.com.

NetObjects and NetObjects Fusion are trademarks of NetObjects, Inc.