BackWeb Delivers Fourth Release Of Industry Leading Personalized Push/Pull Technology

New PC Quote Channel Takes Advantage of New Release Capabilities

SAN JOSE, Calif. (March 31, 1997) - Today BackWeb Technologies announced the public beta of BackWeb version 2.0, the fourth release of its industry leading "push" technology, and availability of the BackWeb Proxy Server. The company also announced a new channel from PC Quote, which takes advantage of the new features of the 2.0 client.

"This is our fourth product release, which illustrates how BackWeb is leading this new market in actually delivering mature products," said Eli Barkat, CEO of BackWeb Technologies "BackWeb V2.0 is great for corporate Intranet, Internet and Extranet users, who want to make the most of bandwidth."

BackWeb, V2.0, Public Beta Release This new version of BackWeb offers a host of communication and development enhancements, including:

* differential downloads - ensures that only new or changed files are transmitted to users, minimizing the amount of information that has to be sent;
* Infopak versioning - gives channels the ability to easily distribute and manage updated information or software on users PCs.
* new compression capabilities - automatically compresses all files that are sent between the server and the client, further streamlining communication and minimizing bandwidth needs.
* the BackWeb Software Development Kit (SDK) - allows channels to integrate the BackWeb client with their own applications.

BackWeb Proxy Server, V0.9 beta
The BackWeb Proxy Server functions as a proxy server for organizations or ISPs with many BackWeb users. The proxy caches information from any BackWeb channel server so that an organization downloads information only one time, no matter how many users inside the organization access the information. The BackWeb Proxy Server also provides a convenient way for organizations to consolidate all BackWeb traffic through their firewall using the HTTP protocol.

PC Quote
This new channel from PC Quote provides investment enthusiasts the ability to have current market quote prices, company updates, market summaries and news delivered to the desktop throughout the day, as often as every 15 minutes if the user chooses. Features include an interactive scrolling ticker updated every 15 minutes, limit alerts, updates on IPOs, NASDAQ end-of-day prices, news, and other valuable market data for new and serious investors.

"PC Quote and Backweb represent a synthesis of leading technologies in our respective industries," said Lou Morgan, Chairman of PC Quote. "We are pleased to partner with Backweb to bring our datafeed, by far the fastest in the industry, to Internet investors through this cutting edge push/pull software."
The PC Quote channel will be fully supported by advertising. More information about PC Quote can be found at http://www.pcquote.com.

About PC Quote, Inc.
Chicago-based PC Quote, Inc. (AMEX: PQT) has provided real-time securities quotations and news to financial professionals worldwide for 14 years. Widely known as possessing the fastest and most accurate real-time ticker plant and quote feed in the financial industry, PC Quote is in the forefront of online financial information with clients and partners that include The Microsoft Network and MSNBC, CompuServe, Lotus Development Corp., Sandbox Entertainment, Earthlink, AT&T Worldnet, Corel Corporation, The American Stock Exchange, and other Internet, finance and consumer leaders. Millions of real-time and delayed quotes are distributed daily at its popular web site www.pcquote.com.

About BackWeb Technologies
BackWeb Technologies is a leading offline Web software company. BackWeb extends the value of technology investments by offering mobile and remote employees offline access to portals, intranets and other Web-based applications and content. The company's products reduce network costs and improve the productivity of an increasingly mobile workforce. At the core of BackWeb's products is its patented Polite® synchronization technology that can distribute large amounts of data even over narrow bandwidth connections. BackWeb® customers include market leaders such as Boehringer Ingelheim, Centocor, Eastman Kodak, GE Healthcare, Guidant, HP, KLA Tencor, Lam Research, Pfizer and more than one hundred other companies. BackWeb also has strategic reseller alliances with software industry leaders: Plumtree, SAP and IBM. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. and Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel. For more information, visit www.backweb.com or call (800) 863-0100.

Statements in this news release, which are not purely historical, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Securities laws, including statements of beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future. Examples of these statements include, but are not limited to, the ability of BackWeb software to allow customers to gain mobile, disconnected use of their portals and help increase field sales and field service productivity, the integration of BackWeb software with BEA products will help developers extend portal applications for offline use without changing the way they work, and the ability of the resulting applications to help field sales and service organizations realize maximum productivity, cost savings, and process acceleration gains while disconnected from the network. Actual results could differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include unforeseen technological issues related to use of the BackWeb software, deployment issues related to implementation, unforeseen software errors, competitive factors and business and expense factors that may affect the perceived efficiencies from use of BackWeb's products, and the risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in BackWeb's periodic reports and registration statements filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. BackWeb assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release.