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MeetingPoint, The Industry's First H.323 Software Server, Becomes Available on Sun Solaris Operating Environment

Multipoint Conferencing between Standards-Based Video Clients BecomesIncreasingly Accessible to Corporate, Government, and Educational Institutions

NASHUA, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 1998-- White Pine Software, Inc.
(NASDAQ:WPNE - news), a leading provider of group conferencing software solutions for the Internet and intranets, today announced the availability of its MeetingPoint™ Conference Server for the Sun™ Solaris™ operating environment.

MeetingPoint, the industry's first H.323 standard software-based server, has been available for Windows NT since early fourth quarter of last year. MeetingPoint
enables multipoint group conferences between users of standard H.323 clients including Microsoft® NetMeeting™, Intel® ProShare®, and others. White Pine is the first and only vendor to make H.323 server software technology available for the Solaris operating environment.

"Real-time group conferencing and collaboration over the Internet and intranets are becoming critical applications for today's corporate, government, and educational users,'' said Brian Gentile, Vice President of Market Development, Sun. "White Pine's MeetingPoint offers a key technology for the videoconferencing market and is now available to the tens of thousands of Sun customers who are currently running Solaris servers.''

MeetingPoint was the first conference server software to implement the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) H.323 standard for conferencing over packet networks. It enables the tens of millions of users who have installed H.323
desktop clients such as Intel ProShare, Microsoft NetMeeting, PictureTel LiveLAN, and White Pine CU-SeeMe® to participate in full multi-point group conferences for
departmental meetings, partner support, corporate training, and other business-critical applications.

"MeetingPoint has led the way on a number of industry firsts,'' said Brian Lichorowic, Vice President of Marketing at White Pine Software. "It was the first H.323 software server available, the first to be adopted by businesses and ISPs,and the first to be implemented into a complete vertical solution for distance learning. Now MeetingPoint is continuing its leadership position as it becomes the first H.323 software server to run on Sun's Solaris operating environment. We seeeach of these as a critical step in the growth of desktop conferencing.''

'As an enhanced Internet Service Provider, scalability of conferencing services is an important issue for us,'' said Eric Ochoa, Network Admin of Networks On-Line in Houston, TX. "Running MeetingPoint on our Sun Solaris servers lets us take
advantage of the superior processing power of UNIX in a scalable environment.
MeetingPoint provides the perfect solution for us to offer value-added conferencing
services to our customers.''

Availability and Pricing
MeetingPoint for Solaris will ship in mid-May. MeetingPoint is immediately available for Windows NT. Pricing in the United States starts with a 10-user license at $5995 for Solaris, and $3995 for Windows NT. 25-, 50-, and 100-user
licenses are also available. Specific pricing is dependent on the number of simultaneous users.

About White Pine Software
White Pine develops, markets and supports multi-platform browser-based internetworking software that facilitates worldwide video and audio communication and data collaboration across the Internet, intranets, extranets and other networks that use the Internet Protocol. White Pine's videoconferencing software products, CU-SeeMe® and MeetingPoint™, create a client-server solution that allows users to participate in real-time, multi-point video, audio and data conferences over the Internet and intranets. New product ClassPoint™ provides a complete solution for corporate training and distance learning. White Pine Software can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.wpine.com.

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