NCR and Check Point Software Announce Global OEM and Marketing Agreement

NCR WorldMark Servers will be bundled with Check Point FireWall-1 Software

Dayton, OH —

NCR Corporation, a leader in commercial computing solutions, and Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., the market-share leader in network security software, today announced that they have entered into a global OEM and marketing agreement.

Under the terms of the agreement, Check Point's flagship product Check Point FireWall-1 will ship with every NCR WorldMark enterprise server. WorldMark servers pre-loaded with Check Point FireWall-1 for Microsoft Windows NT will be available in the fourth quarter and for UNIX MP-RAS NCR's version of UNIX in early 1997. NCR is the first systems vendor to offer FireWall-1 pre-loaded on servers running Windows NT.

"This agreement makes available to NCR customers the finest solution for Internet and intranet security," said Mark Hurd, vice president of NCR's Computer Systems Group. "We are offering it in an innovative way, dormant bundling, to enable all our customers to take advantage of the market-leading protection properties of Check Point's FireWall-1 security software."

All NCR WorldMark servers will ship with Check Point FireWall-1 pre-loaded. For those customers interested in purchasing the FireWall-1 software, NCR will provide a license key, as well as product support. A 30-day free trial of the pre-loaded software also will be available to NCR customers.

"NCR has a strong presence in the Financial, Retail and Communications markets industries that are at the crossroads of electronic commerce and recognize the need for Internet security," said Dr. Deborah Triant, CEO and president of Check Point Software Technologies, Inc. "We are pleased to join forces with NCR to accelerate deployment of FireWall-1 by providing our joint customers with the tools necessary for establishing a global enterprise security policy."

About Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is the market leader in global network security software. The company commanded 40 percent of the worldwide firewall market in 1995 according to an IDC study issued in February 1996. The company's flagship product, Check Point FireWall-1, protects internal and external network communication for thousands of organizations of all sizes. Its products are sold worldwide through OEM partners, distributors, VARs, systems and network integrators and Internet Service Providers. Listed on the NASDAQ under the symbol "CHKPF," the company has U.S. headquarters in Redwood City, CA, and international headquarters in Ramat-Gan, Israel. For product information, please call (650) 482-4900, e-mail info@checkpoint.com or visit Check Point at http://www.checkpoint.com.

About the Scalable WorldMark Server Family
WorldMark is a general purpose computing platform based on Intel microprocessors, which supports both Windows NT and NCR's UNIX MP-RAS operating systems. The series incorporates common hardware across high-end SMP (symmetrical multi-processing), clustered and MPP (massively parallel processing) systems, affording a multi-dimensional growth capability in hardware, database systems and operating systems. WorldMark servers are core components of NCR's two key computer initiatives: High Availability Transaction Processing and Scalable Data Warehouse programs. NCR is extending these two programs by integrating Internet technology with the WorldMark platform and system software.

NCR's Internet Solutions
Check Point's FireWall-1 is the latest software solution from NCR to enable its customers to take full advantage of the Internet's potential for electronic commerce. The computer maker already offers both the Microsoft Internet Information Server and Netscape's SuiteSpot Server software on NCR servers.

As a leader in the scalable data warehouse arena, NCR provides a variety of Internet access tools for its data warehouse and data mart customers who are running popular industry databases, including NCR Teradata RDBMS, Oracle and Informix. These include CGI (Common Gateway Interface), the Teradata Gateway for the Java language, NCR's TOP END, and Microstrategy's DSS Web.

In addition, NCR's TOP END for the Internet, a transaction request broker designed for electronic commerce, provides seamless access to distributed applications and services across the Internet using tools such as Sun Microsystems' Java, Microsoft's ActiveX, Netscape's Navigator and Oracle's Developer/2000 while maintaining information integrity and security.

About NCR
NCR, with headquarters in Dayton, Ohio, has 38,000 employees. The company's solutions help improve businesses by turning customer information into results, protecting existing information technology investments, reducing risk and ensuring success. More information about NCR can be found on the Internet at http://www.ncr.com.

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