San Francisco, CA. - December 15, 1997 - ReportMill Software, Inc., this week released version 1.1 of their PDF web reporting software for Apple's WebObjects and Rhapsody. An evaluation copy is available at their web site: http://www.reportmill.com.

ReportMill delivers a first for businesses on the web: dynamically generated, printable reports from business objects. Using ReportMill's powerful page layout application, developers easily define custom report templates. The ReportMill developer framework uses these templates at runtime, in conjunction with database records in the form of objects, to produce multi-page database reports.

Customers Find Range of Applications For ReportMill

"Custom reporting was an absolute requirement for our latest suite of intranet applications," said Gary Teplitz, Director of MIS for Hambrecht & Quist, LLC. "We were not only able to fulfill this requirement using ReportMill, but were also able to broaden the scope of information we present to our users in significantly less time than was previously possible."

Joshua Tretakoff, Manager of Alternative Media at The Sharper Image, found an immediate application for ReportMill in the on-line publishing business: "ReportMill has the advanced user interface and graphics handling needed for us to produce catalogs custom tailored to the needs of a specific customer. This is something we didn't expect to be able to do for another couple of years!"

Jim Demetros, Director of Apple Enterprise Software, had this to say about ReportMill 1.1, "The combination of WebObjects Enterprise and ReportMill deliver a powerful new level of functionality to internet, intranet, and extranet application developers. We are already using ReportMill on several in-house projects and anticipate that a large number of our customers will benefit from this technology as well."

About ReportMill Software, Inc.

ReportMill was founded by two former Next Software engineers. Their combined total of over 15 years experience with user interface design, object development and publishing quality graphics on the platform that gave birth to the web has been a driving force of innovation and quality for the company. ReportMill Software can be reached at:

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