Macromedia Ships Dreamweaver UltraDev

Macromedia Inc, a leading provider of solutions for compelling and effective Web sites, shipped Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev, the visual solution for rapid Web application development. Dreamweaver UltraDev is the first application to allow visual creation of data-driven Web applications across industry leading server technologies, such as Sun Microsystems JavaServer Pages (JSP), Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP), and Allaire ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML).

The following industry vendors announced support for Dreamweaver UltraDev: IBM, Sun, ATG, Allaire, BroadVision, BlueMartini, Cache/Intersystems, Documentum, and WebGain.

"Dreamweaver UltraDev will empower developers to work more efficiently when creating Web applications across their choice of databases, application servers, and operating systems," said Beth Davis, vice president of product marketing at Macromedia. "The depth and breadth of support for Dreamweaver UltraDev by industry leading corporations is a true testament to the fundamental need for a flexible, rapid Web application solution that supports the Web's heterogeneous environments.

The product shares the core architecture of Macromedia Dreamweaver, the market-leading visual Web authoring environment for professional Web developers. Due to that shared architecture, Dreamweaver UltraDev can be easily extended and customized to work within any development environment using Java technology, JavaScript programming language, HTML, XML, and C. The following industry leaders have strongly endorsed Dreamweaver UltraDev:

Allaire

"Using Dreamweaver UltraDev with Allaire's ColdFusion Web application server, developers can quickly and easily deliver scalable Web applications for companies building their businesses on the Web," said Jeremy Allaire, chief technology officer for Allaire. "The robust productivity of Dreamweaver UltraDev and ColdFusion's reliability, scalability and security, brings a powerful combination for developers to effectively develop and deliver applications that meet the needs of today's comprehensive Internet businesses. Dreamweaver UltraDev also supports the development of JavaServer Pages which are deployed with Allaire's JRun Java application server."

IBM

"The extension of the Dreamweaver product set to provide development tool support for building data-driven Web sites, extends the industry leading capabilities of the IBM WebSphere platform to a new community of developers," said Paraic Sweeney, vice president of marketing Business Transformation, IBM Software. "Through our partnership with Macromedia, UltraDev developers can leverage the flexible dynamic page capabilities provided by Java ServerPages and target the scalable cross platform WebSphere Application Server to create next-generation applications built upon a robust technology foundation."

ATG

"Both ATG and Macromedia are focused on delivering products that help companies create customer-driven e-commerce sites that support their business initiatives. With the ever-increasing importance of reducing development time, it has become extremely important that companies select products that embrace an open and extensible approach to Web development," said Ken Volpe, vice president of product management at Art Technology Group. "With the introduction of Dreamweaver UltraDev, Macromedia continues to provide leadership in connecting design tools with Web application servers."

BlueMartini

"The Web is an incredibly important touchpoint as companies build brand equity through direct customer interaction. The sophisticated Web designs that attract and retain today's savvy customers require design tools like Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev that are easier than ever to use," says Paul Rosenblum, vice president product marketing, Blue Martini Software. "The Blue Martini Customer Interaction System -- including its product and content management, transaction execution, personalization and advanced data mining and visualization -- provides a perfect environment to leverage the ease-ofuse in Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev. We expect easy integration between this visual solution to Web application development and Blue Martini's open, three-tier software architecture."

BroadVision

"BroadVision offers the Design Center which is based on Macromedia Dreamweaver to implement BroadVision One-To-One powered Web sites faster and we are excited by the new and extended capabilities of Dreamweaver UltraDev," said Bernd Rutzmoser, Product Manager for Tools, BroadVision. "The enhanced capabilities of Dreamweaver UltraDev fit perfectly with BroadVision One-To-One Applications in order to help us transform some of the most ambitious ebusiness strategies into the most successful e-business realities."

Cache/InterSystems

"As a leading provider of high performance database systems for Web applications with more than three million users worldwide, we believe Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev will be the perfect front-end design tool to create Web applications which can directly access our InterSystems' CACHE," said Paul Grabersheib, vice president stategic planning of InterSystems Inc. "By wedding CACHE with Dreamweaver UltraDev, we strongly believe we will have a best-of-breed solution for presenting the CACHE breakthrough of rapid development technology for presentment on the Web."

Documentum

"With the release of Dreamweaver UltraDev, Macromedia has done a great job at delivering a product which meets the core needs of its customers," said Nazhin Zarghamee, vice president of marketing. "We're positive that in conjunction with the Documentum 4i eBusiness Edition and through JSP technology, designers will have an even easier time creating Web applications that leverage a common enterprise content infrastructure, enabling them to dynamically combine business-critical enterprise content with Web content to fuel every e-business initiative."

Sun

"Sun believes that a strong Web-centric model built on the Java platform is a requisite for application development in today's networked economy," said George Paolini, vice president, Community Development at Sun Microsystems, Inc. "We are very pleased that Macromedia has adopted fundamental support for JavaServer Pages technology as a core delivery technology for its Dreamweaver UltraDev product."

WebGain

"Today's developers need an environment that helps them speed the development of both the Web site front-end as well as the back-end business logic," said Carlos Chang, WebGain's product manager for the Studio product suite. "WebGain Studio integrates Macromedia Dreamweaver, a industry leading Web design tool, along with Visual Cafe, StructureBuilder and TOPLink, into a complete browser- to-database Java development solution. We applaud Macromedia's efforts in delivering this next generation UltraDev for rapid, visual development of e- business solutions."

Pricing and Availability

Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev is now available for both Macintosh and Windows platforms for an estimated street price of US $599. Registered Dreamweaver 3 customers can purchase Dreamweaver UltraDev for a special price of US $299. French and German editions of the product are expected to ship later this month. For more information or to download a free 30-day trial version of Dreamweaver UltraDev visit www.macromedia.com.

Dreamweaver UltraDev represents the next-generation of Macromedia Drumbeat 2000. Customers who purchased Macromedia Drumbeat after April 5, 2000 are entitled to a free upgrade. Registered Drumbeat users can upgrade to Dreamweaver UltraDev for $99. Standard Macromedia support will be available to Drumbeat customers through January 1, 2001. Special online training and documentation will also be available to Drumbeat customers as they migrate to Dreamweaver UltraDev.

About Macromedia

Macromedia's mission is to add life to the Web. Our award-winning products empower developers to provide the most engaging experiences on the Web and enable more effective e-business. Headquartered in San Francisco, Macromedia has more than 1000 employees worldwide and is available on the Internet at www.macromedia.com.

Contact JoAnn Peach of Macromedia, 415-832-4207, jpeach@macromedia.com.