FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LIGHTHOUSE DESIGN ANNOUNCES WEBVISION - FIRST OF SEVERAL BACKPAGE
COMPONENTS

--Live demo now available on Lighthouse Design's web site--

MARCH 29th, 1996 - SAN MATEO, CA - Lighthouse Design, Ltd. today
announced WebVision, a multi-dimensional charting server compatible
with NeXT Software's WebObjects environment and the first of several
BackPage components the company plans to release. BackPage, an
object-oriented framework and set of components for building dynamic,
web-based applications, was announced earlier this year.

WebVision will begin shipping in April. A live demo is available
now on Lighthouse Design's web site (http://www.lighthouse.com).

WebVision, a server component that runs on an organization's web
server, enables corporate developers to leverage a pre-written
component for dynamically generating data driven charts and graphs
for display in web pages or custom applications. Designed to augment
NeXT's WebObjects and EOF technology, developers can add WebVision's
charting functionality without writing additional code, expediting
the delivery of custom applications, while increasing their quality
and consistency.

A fully object-oriented API allows WebVision to be seamlessly
integrated into custom applications, and to supplement web pages
with content rich analytics and data-driven graphics. Support is
provided for representation of multi-dimensional data in two
dimensional and three dimensional graphical models. Chart types
include 2-D and 3-D bars, areas, lines, columns, and pie charts.

WebVision provides support for hit detection, allowing corporate
developers to easily add custom controls and behavior to auto-generated
chart graphics. For example, an end-user seeking more information
on a particular chart series, such as a line or pie wedge, can
simply click it to trigger additional system functionality.

Pricing for WebVision will be announced in conjunction with its
shipment in April. WebVision will be followed by additional BackPage
components and developer tools, to be announced this spring and
summer. Lighthouse began broadening its developer product line last
year with the announcement of ObjectPlan, an object-oriented analysis
and design (OOA&D) tool for the creation of object applications.

Lighthouse Design is the leading supplier of object products and
services for corporate developers deploying custom solutions to the
World Wide Web, Microsoft Windows NT and SunSoft's Solaris. With a
growing family of applications and object frameworks, Lighthouse
is at the forefront of broadening the marketplace for cross-platform,
web-enabled object technology.

For more information on Lighthouse Design and its products, call
1-800-366-2279 or 1-415-570-7736, send electronic mail to
info@lighthouse.com, or visit Lighthouse Design's World Wide Web
page at http://www.lighthouse.com/.


Lighthouse Design, Ltd., BackPage, WebVision, and the Lighthouse
logo are trademarks of Lighthouse Design, Ltd. WebObjects is a
trademark of NeXT Software, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned are
the property of their respective owners.