"We realize that the publishing industry has a very specific process and specialized technology needs to establish a presence on the Internet," said Morris Taradalsky, NetObjects' executive vice president of business development and general manager, enterprise. "By partnering with Actra, the leading Internet application commerce provider and the choice for major publishers worldwide, we can offer more publishers access to our best-of-breed authoring software."

Actra and Netscape's current installed base includes the top 150 dominant national newspapers and their Web sites including The New York Times, British Telecom, Knight-Ridder, Warner Brothers, and CBS Sportsline, Hitachi and Sun Microsystems. In addition to the bundling arrangement, Actra and NetObjects will collaborate on the development of future technology.

Commenting on the relationship between NetObjects and Actra, Jim Sha Actra CEO said, "PublishingXpert is a milestone for Actra in its delivery to the market place of its Internet commerce application portfolio. We are happy to be partnering with NetOjects to provide a versatile, scaleable and flexible publishing solution to the market and to be offering our joint customers with the best technology to create, organize and distribute rich content on the Internet."

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 (AAPL), AT&T (T), IBM (IBM), Microsoft (MSFT), Netscape (NSCP), Sun Microsystems' Javasoft (SUNW) and UUNET (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.

About Actra
Founded in April 1996, Actra is a joint venture between Netscape Communications Corporation and GE Information Services (GEIS). Benefiting from GEIS' market expertise as the world's leading provider of business-to- business Internet commerce services and Netscape's leading position in developing and marketing software for the Internet, Actra provides next- generation Internet commerce applications solutions for both usiness-to-consumer and business-to-business commerce markets. Additionally, Actra is taking an active role in promoting open standards for Internet commerce as a leading member of the Internet Purchasing Roundtable that established the Open Buying on the Internet (OBI) standard.

The OBI standard establishes a generic set of requirements, an architecture and an exact technical specification for business-to-business Internet purchasing and selling solutions. Working with American Express and SupplyWorks since October 1996, Actra is one of four companies currently compliant with the OBI standard.