EXHIBIT 99.1

For Immediate Release


             ALLAIRE CORPORATION ACQUIRES BRIGHT TIGER TECHNOLOGIES

      ACQUISITION ADVANCES ALLAIRE'S COMMITMENT TO DELIVERING SCALABLE AND
                 RELIABLE ENTERPRISE AND E-COMMERCE APPLICATIONS

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 14, 1999 - Allaire Corporation (Nasdaq: ALLR), the
industry's leading independent Web application platform vendor, today announced
that it has acquired Bright Tiger Technologies, a leading developer of Web
application scalability and management technology, for approximately 300,000
shares of common stock. Allaire will account for this transaction as a pooling
of interests.

Bright Tiger Technologies provides software that enhances performance,
availability and manageability of large-scale Internet sites and Web
applications. Bright Tiger's products have been well received within the market
generating awards such as the "Product of the Year" award from Network Magazine
and the "Net Best" award from Internet Computing.

"Allaire and Bright Tiger have established leadership positions by building
products that make our customers more successful on the Web," said JJ Allaire,
chairman, Allaire Corporation. "The integration of Bright Tiger and ColdFusion
raises the bar for what corporations should expect from a Web application
platform."

Allaire added, "The experience of Bright Tiger's engineering team will
strengthen our ability to stay ahead of the market's continually increasing
demand for Web application scalability and manageability."

"We are very pleased to be joining forces with Allaire," said Kathy Wilde,
president and CEO, Bright Tiger Technologies. "Allaire's leadership position in
the Web application server market opens up new opportunities for corporations to
realize the full power of Bright Tiger's technology."

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve a number of
risks and uncertainties. Important factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are
set forth under the heading "Risk Factors" in Allaire Corporation's Registration
Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (file
no. 333-68639), which factors are incorporated herein by reference.

BRIGHT TIGER TECHNOLOGIES

Founded in 1996, Bright Tiger's mission is to enable organizations to build and
control highly available, high performance web sites for business-critical
applications.







ABOUT ALLAIRE

Allaire Corporation is the industry's leading, independent Web application
platform vendor. The company's products, ColdFusion and HomeSite, are used by an
estimated 250,000 developers worldwide to build and deploy a broad range of
interactive Web applications and public Internet sites. With a network of over
1,500 partners, including system integrators, consultants, Internet service
providers, independent software vendors and complimentary technology vendors,
the Allaire Alliance Partner Program delivers integrated Web application
development and business solutions to customers around the world. Headquartered
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Allaire Corporation also has offices in Europe and
Asia Pacific and can be found on the World Wide Web at WWW.ALLAIRE.COM.

Cold Fusion is a U.S. registered trademark and Allaire and HomeSite are
trademarks of Allaire Corp. All other company names, brand names and product
names are trademarks of their respective holder (s).





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