4D Business Kit Dreamweaver Plug-in Now Available

December 20, 2002. San Jose, CA.

-- Creating E-commerce Sites with Macromedia Dreamweaver is Fast and Easy with Free, Cross-platform, GUI Extension --

San Jose, CA., October 1, 2002 -- 4D, Inc., publishers of the 4th Dimension RAD/RDBMS Environment and 4D WebSTAR Server Suite, today announced the immediate availability of the 4D Business Kit Dreamweaver plug-in (4DBK Dreamweaver) for rapid deployment of 4D Business Kit e-commerce Web sites from within Macromedia Dreamweaver MX,. 4DBK Dreamweaver is a GUI extension to Dreamweaver that allows HTML page designers to easily add specific 4D Business Kit tags directly into HTML documents. The new 4DBK Dreamweaver plugin is available today, free-of-charge at <http://www.4d.com/downloads/products.html> .

"Web designers can now develop full-featured e-commerce sites in Macromedia Dreamweaver with the greatest of ease," said Brendan Coveney, president and CEO of 4D, Inc. "Now, adding dynamic 4D Business Kit e-commerce functionality into a Dreamweaver HTML document is just a single click of an icon. With 4DBK Dreamweaver, the process of designing slick Web storefronts is more efficient and user-friendly than ever before."

The 4DBK Dreamweaver plug-in is designed for use with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX on both Macintosh and Windows platforms. The 4DBK Dreamweaver plug-in can be used with 4D Business Kit v1.0 or higher and downloaded completely free-of-charge from the 4D, Inc. Web site at <http://www.4d.com/downloads/products.html>.

Designed for rapid storefront development, 4D Business Kit provides catalogs, shopping carts, payment systems, tax calculations, shipping, customer management and order tracking, all integrated into a unified multi-language, multi-store e-commerce tool for $499. To learn more about 4D Business Kit, download a demo, or to purchase 4D Business Kit, visit <http://www.4d.com/4dbk/>.

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About 4D, Inc.

Located in San Jose, California, 4D Inc. is the U.S. distributor of 4th Dimension (4D), 4D Business Kit, and 4D WebSTAR Server Suite. 4D is an award-winning, tightly integrated suite of Windows and Mac OS, Web-embedded development tools for business solutions. 4D WebSTAR Server Suite V is a fast, secure and extensible server suite for Mac OS X, best known for easy administration. 4D, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of 4D SA. Further information can be found at http://www.4D.com/.

4D, Inc.
3031 Tisch Way, Suite 900
San Jose, CA 95128
http://www.4D.com/
ftp://ftp.4d.com/ Tel: 408-557-4600 Fax: 408-557-4625

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