AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON MAY 29, 1996

REGISTRATION NO. 333-3844


SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

AMENDMENT NO. 2
TO
FORM S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
BROADVISION, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

          DELAWARE                          7372                  94-3184303
(State or other jurisdiction    (Primary Standard Industrial   (I.R.S. Employer
    of incorporation or         Classification Code Number)     Identification
       organization)                                               Number)


333 DISTEL CIRCLE
LOS ALTOS, CA 94022
(415) 943-3600
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of registrant's principal executive offices)

PEHONG CHEN
PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
BROADVISION, INC.
333 DISTEL CIRCLE
LOS ALTOS, CA 94022
(415) 943-3600
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of agent for service)

COPIES TO:

       KENNETH L. GUERNSEY                       THOMAS A. BEVILACQUA
         CYDNEY S. POSNER                           THOMAS J. LIMA
       PATRICK D. WALRAVENS                Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP
Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson &                     One Market
              Tatum                               Spear Street Tower
  One Maritime Plaza, 20th Floor               San Francisco, CA 94105
     San Francisco, CA 94111                        (415) 442-0900
          (415) 693-2000


APPROXIMATE DATE OF COMMENCEMENT OF PROPOSED SALE TO THE PUBLIC:
AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE AFTER THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT BECOMES EFFECTIVE.

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, please check the following box. / /

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THE REGISTRANT HEREBY AMENDS THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON SUCH DATE OR DATES AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO DELAY ITS EFFECTIVE DATE UNTIL THE REGISTRANT SHALL FILE A FURTHER AMENDMENT THAT SPECIFICALLY STATES THAT THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL THEREAFTER BECOME EFFECTIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 8(A) OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR UNTIL THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE ON SUCH DATE AS THE COMMISSION, ACTING PURSUANT TO SAID
SECTION 8(A), MAY DETERMINE.




BROADVISION, INC.

CROSS-REFERENCE SHEET

PURSUANT TO ITEM 501(B) OF REGULATION S-K
SHOWING LOCATION IN PROSPECTUS OF INFORMATION
REQUIRED BY ITEMS OF FORM S-1

                   ITEM NUMBER AND HEADING IN
                FORM S-1 REGISTRATION STATEMENT                                  LOCATION IN PROSPECTUS
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       1.  Forepart of the Registration Statement and Outside
            Front Cover Page of Prospectus......................  Outside Front Cover Page
       2.  Inside Front and Outside Back Cover Pages of
            Prospectus..........................................  Inside Front Cover Page and Outside Back Cover Page
       3.  Summary Information, Risk Factors, and Ratio of
            Earnings to Fixed Charges...........................  Prospectus Summary; Risk Factors
       4.  Use of Proceeds......................................  Use of Proceeds
       5.  Determination of Offering Price......................  Outside Front Cover Page of Prospectus; Underwriting
       6.  Dilution.............................................  Dilution
       7.  Selling Security Holders.............................  Not Applicable
       8.  Plan of Distribution.................................  Outside Front Cover Page and Inside Front Cover Page;
                                                                   Underwriting
       9.  Description of Securities to be Registered...........  Prospectus Summary; Capitalization; Description of
                                                                   Capital Stock
      10.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel...............  Legal Matters; Experts
      11.  Information with Respect to the Registrant...........  Outside Front and Inside Front Cover Pages;
                                                                   Prospectus Summary; Risk Factors; Dividend Policy;
                                                                   Capitalization; Selected Financial Data;
                                                                   Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial
                                                                   Condition and Results of Operations; Business;
                                                                   Management; Certain Transactions; Principal
                                                                   Stockholders; Description of Capital Stock; Shares
                                                                   Eligible for Future Sale; Financial Statements
      12.  Disclosure of Commission Position on Indemnification
            for Securities Act Liabilities......................  Not Applicable


INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS SUBJECT TO COMPLETION OR AMENDMENT. A REGISTRATION STATEMENT RELATING TO THESE SECURITIES HAS BEEN FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. THESE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE SOLD NOR MAY OFFERS TO BUY BE ACCEPTED PRIOR TO THE TIME THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT BECOMES EFFECTIVE. THIS PROSPECTUS SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER TO SELL OR THE SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY NOR SHALL THERE BE ANY SALE OF THESE SECURITIES IN ANY STATE IN WHICH SUCH OFFER, SOLICITATION OR SALE WOULD BE UNLAWFUL PRIOR TO REGISTRATION OR QUALIFICATION UNDER THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY SUCH STATE.


SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED MAY 28, 1996

[LOGO]

4,000,000 SHARES

COMMON STOCK

All of the shares of Common Stock offered hereby are being sold by BroadVision, Inc. ("BroadVision" or the "Company"). Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for the Common Stock of the Company. It is currently estimated that the initial public offering price will be between $8.00 and $10.00 per share. See "Underwriting" for information relating to the method of determining the initial public offering price. The Common Stock has been approved for quotation on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol "BVSN." Upon completion of this offering, the current directors, officers, and principal stockholders of the Company and their affiliates will exercise voting control over approximately 67% of the outstanding Common Stock.


THE COMMON STOCK OFFERED HEREBY INVOLVES A HIGH DEGREE OF RISK.
SEE "RISK FACTORS" BEGINNING ON PAGE 6.


THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED BY THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION NOR HAS THE COMMISSION OR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION PASSED UPON THE ACCURACY OR ADEQUACY OF THIS PROSPECTUS. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.

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                                                   UNDERWRITING
                                    PRICE TO       DISCOUNTS AND     PROCEEDS TO
                                     PUBLIC         COMMISSIONS      COMPANY (1)
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Per Share.....................          $                $                $
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Total (2).....................          $                $                $
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(1) Before deducting expenses payable by the Company, estimated at $950,000.

(2) The Company has granted the Underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 600,000 shares of Common Stock solely to cover over-allotments, if any. See "Underwriting." If such option is exercised in full, the total Price to Public, Underwriting Discounts and Commissions and Proceeds to Company will be $ , $ and $ , respectively.

The Common Stock is offered by the Underwriters as stated herein, subject to receipt and acceptance by them and subject to their right to reject any order in whole or in part. It is expected that delivery of such shares will be made through the offices of Robertson, Stephens & Company LLC ("Robertson, Stephens & Company"), San Francisco, California, on or about , 1996.

ROBERTSON, STEPHENS & COMPANY

HAMBRECHT & QUIST

WESSELS, ARNOLD & HENDERSON

The date of this Prospectus is , 1996


BroadVision-TM-
ONE-TO-ONE-TM-

A Software Application System Enabling Businesses to Manage the Full Marketing and Selling Life Cycle on the World Wide Web.

1 Community                                                                    2 Profiling
Attracts and retains Web site visitors              Collects, tracks, and manages informa-
with dynamic, targeted information                   tion about Web site visitors. Manages
tailored to the needs and interests                   privacy. Observes and records inter-
of individuals and online com-                              actions to improve service and
munities. Provides areas in                                     encourage repeat business.
which Web site visitors                                             Remembers transactions
can interact with one                                             and preferences. Enables
another. Encourages                                                   business managers to
feedback and input.                                                     segment and target
Builds ongoing                                                             to the needs of
relationships.                                                        individual visitors.

 [picture of the globe covered by individuals sitting a computer terminals all linked by
          communication lines, surrounded by four colored and numbered spheres]
4 Transactions                                                                 3 Targeting
Manages                                                                    Matches visitor
transaction pro-                                                      profiles to Web site
cessing essential                                                         content--product
for both business-                                                   information, editori-
to-consumer and                                                 als, pricing, advertising,
business-to-business                                         coupons, incentives, and pro-
electronic commerce:                                             motions. Generates custom
secure online ordering                                          Web pages and interactions
and payment, order fulfill-                                 in real time based on business
ment and billing, customer                              rules defined by marketing, adver-
service, EDI, reporting, and inte-                     tising, and merchandising managers.
gration with existing business systems.

IN CONNECTION WITH THIS OFFERING, THE UNDERWRITERS MAY OVER-ALLOT OR EFFECT TRANSACTIONS WHICH STABILIZE OR MAINTAIN THE MARKET PRICE OF THE COMMON STOCK OF THE COMPANY AT A LEVEL ABOVE THAT WHICH MIGHT OTHERWISE PREVAIL IN THE OPEN MARKET. SUCH STABILIZING, IF COMMENCED, MAY BE DISCONTINUED AT ANY TIME.


APPLICATION
DEVELOPERS

Build powerful one-to-one
marketing and selling Web
applications rapidly with
object-oriented tools and

open APIs, reusable application
templates, and dynamic objects. Create
custom libraries of specialized objects.
Integrate existing business systems,
applications, and databases. Write Java
applets and extensions for one-to-one
interactions. Scale applications up to
millions of visitors using CORBA
architecture.

BUSINESS
MANAGERS

Design Web sites as places of business. Build customer relationships. Monitor and control Web sites in real time through the BroadVision One-to-One Dynamic Command Center. Personalize content and define business rules -- pricing, promotions, targeting variables -- in real time, without programmers. Conduct one-to-one promotions. Create point-cast advertising.

[graphic depiction of the globe covered by individuals sitting at computer terminals, all linked by communication lines, surrounded by four colored spheres labeled "Community," "Profiling," "Targeting," and "Transactions." Linked by colored cables to the globe and the orbiting spheres is, in the upper left corner, a picture of two individuals sitting at terminals entitled "Applications Developer," in the lower left corner, a picture of three individuals sitting at terminals entitled "Business Manager," and, to the right, a picture of three individuals sitting at terminals entitled "Web Site Visitors."]


Web Site Visitors

Register preferences, interests, and other relevant information in profiles. Receive information tailored to profiles. Read personalized online newspapers, magazines, and product brochures. Shop with a virtual sales assistant. Fill out targeted surveys and offer input and feedback on purchased products.
Participate in community chat groups and forums and watch Java animations. Listen to one-to-one Web radio. Control privacy of personal data.

Veronika

- -- Berlin film maker.
- -- Vacations in Mediterranean.
- -- Frequently dines out.
- -- First time visit to site.

John
- -- NY-based purchasing manager.
- -- Qualifies for price discounts.
- -- Took delivery of medical instruments two months ago.

Mayumi

- -- Tokyo college student.
- -- Likes clothes from Paris.
- -- Visited Web site four times this week.
- -- Purchases with VISA.


NO DEALER, SALES REPRESENTATIVE OR ANY OTHER PERSON HAS BEEN AUTHORIZED TO GIVE ANY INFORMATION OR TO MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS IN CONNECTION WITH THIS OFFERING OTHER THAN THOSE CONTAINED IN THIS PROSPECTUS, AND, IF GIVEN OR MADE, SUCH INFORMATION OR REPRESENTATIONS MUST NOT BE RELIED UPON AS HAVING BEEN AUTHORIZED BY THE COMPANY OR ANY UNDERWRITER. THIS PROSPECTUS DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER TO SELL, OR A SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY, ANY SECURITIES OTHER THAN THE REGISTERED SECURITIES TO WHICH IT RELATES OR AN OFFER TO, OR A SOLICITATION OF, ANY PERSONS IN ANY JURISDICTION WHERE SUCH AN OFFER OR SOLICITATION WOULD BE UNLAWFUL. NEITHER THE DELIVERY OF THIS PROSPECTUS NOR ANY SALE MADE HEREUNDER SHALL, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, CREATE ANY IMPLICATION THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO CHANGE IN THE AFFAIRS OF THE COMPANY SINCE THE DATE HEREOF OR THAT THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS CORRECT AS OF ANY TIME SUBSEQUENT TO THE DATE HEREOF.

UNTIL , 1996 (25 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF THIS PROSPECTUS), ALL DEALERS EFFECTING TRANSACTIONS IN THE REGISTERED SECURITIES, WHETHER OR NOT PARTICIPATING IN THIS DISTRIBUTION, MAY BE REQUIRED TO DELIVER A PROSPECTUS. THIS DELIVERY REQUIREMENT IS IN ADDITION TO THE OBLIGATION OF DEALERS TO DELIVER

A PROSPECTUS WHEN ACTING AS UNDERWRITERS AND WITH RESPECT TO THEIR UNSOLD ALLOTMENTS OR SUBSCRIPTIONS.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

                                                                            PAGE
                                                                            ----
Summary...................................................................    4
Risk Factors..............................................................    6
Use of Proceeds...........................................................   16
Dividend Policy...........................................................   16
Capitalization............................................................   17
Dilution..................................................................   18
Selected Financial Data...................................................   19
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
 Operations...............................................................   20
Business..................................................................   25
Management................................................................   45
Certain Transactions......................................................   52
Principal Stockholders....................................................   54
Description of Capital Stock..............................................   56
Shares Eligible for Future Sale...........................................   58
Underwriting..............................................................   60
Legal Matters.............................................................   62
Experts...................................................................   62
Change In Accountants.....................................................   62
Additional Information....................................................   62
Index to Financial Statements.............................................  F-1


The Company intends to furnish to its stockholders annual reports containing financial statements audited by its independent auditors and quarterly reports containing unaudited financial statements for each of the first three quarters of each fiscal year.

BroadVision-TM- and BroadVision One-To-One-TM- are trademarks of the Company. Trade names and trademarks of other companies appearing in this Prospectus are the property of their respective holders.

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SUMMARY

THE FOLLOWING SUMMARY IS QUALIFIED IN ITS ENTIRETY BY THE MORE DETAILED

INFORMATION, INCLUDING "RISK FACTORS," AND THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND NOTES THERETO APPEARING ELSEWHERE IN THIS PROSPECTUS. INVESTORS SHOULD CONSIDER CAREFULLY THE INFORMATION DISCUSSED UNDER THE HEADING "RISK FACTORS."

THE COMPANY

BroadVision provides an integrated software application system, BroadVision One-To-One-TM-, that enables businesses to create applications for interactive marketing and selling services on the World Wide Web. These applications are designed to allow non-technical business managers to tailor Web site content to the needs and interests of individual Web site visitors, personalizing each visit on a real-time basis. The BroadVision One-To-One application system and related vertical application solutions and services are targeted at businesses developing Web sites for marketing and selling to consumers and business customers, and as internal resources for employees. The Company's customers use BroadVision One-To-One to develop Web sites that engage visitors and encourage return visits through personalized interactions, capture marketing information from volunteered data and observed behavior, and generate revenues from electronic commerce activities and point-cast advertising. BroadVision One-To-One provides these software capabilities in an architecture that supports the full one-to-one marketing and selling life cycle. The Company believes that these capabilities are needed by business managers and Web site application developers to take full advantage of the potential of the Internet as a marketplace for conducting electronic commerce and for building long-term relationships with customers.

To increase customer satisfaction, develop customer loyalty, and contain the high costs associated with new customer acquisition, many marketing executives in both business-to-consumer and business-to-business industries have turned their attention from mass marketing to "one-to-one" marketing and selling -- a systematic, interactive approach to developing long-term relationships with individual customers. With the emergence of the Internet's World Wide Web as a globally accessible, interactive, and individually addressable communications and computing platform, businesses have the opportunity to implement one-to-one marketing and selling on a mass basis. The Company believes that, to capitalize on this opportunity, businesses require software application solutions that exceed the capabilities of currently available Web software products, many of which were designed for publishing static content, or "brochureware." To address this need, the Company introduced the BroadVision One-To-One application system, which allows businesses to develop and manage dynamic, interactive Web sites that provide community, profiling, targeting, and transaction capabilities to support the full one-to-one marketing and selling life cycle.

The Company's objective is to establish one-to-one marketing and selling as a standard feature of Web sites worldwide. A key element of the Company's strategy to achieve this objective is to provide complete application solutions that leverage other software technologies and allow businesses to capitalize more fully on the Internet as a business venue. In addition, the Company intends to develop cooperative alliances with leading Internet technology vendors, systems integrators, and Web site developers, and to leverage the BroadVision One-To-One application system to derive additional Web application products and services focused on vertical markets. The Company's sales strategy is to sell initially to aggregators of online services that can introduce the Company's products to their individual content providers, who may develop their own Web site applications in the future.

BroadVision customers that have acquired licenses and professional services to develop and deploy interactive marketing and selling services for use on the Internet and other interactive venues are Hongkong Telecom, Itochu Internet Corporation, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., NetRadio Network, NTT Data Communications Systems Corporation, Olivetti Telemedia Videostrada, Prodigy Services Co., Sema Group, Ltd., Thomson-Sun Interactive, and Virgin.net Limited. Key alliances include Marketing 1:1 and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Types of applications being developed by licensees using BroadVision One-To-One include cybermalls, online services, and corporate Web sites.

The Company was incorporated in Delaware in May 1993. The Company's principal executive offices are located at 333 Distel Circle, Los Altos, CA 94022, and its telephone number is (415) 943-3600. The Company's World Wide Web site is located at http://www.broadvision.com. Information contained on the Company's Web site shall not be deemed to be a part of this Prospectus.

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THE OFFERING

Common Stock Offered by the Company.........  4,000,000 shares
Common Stock Outstanding after the            20,599,484 shares(1)
 Offering...................................
Use of Proceeds.............................  For working capital and other general
                                              corporate purposes. See "Use of Proceeds."
Proposed Nasdaq National Market Symbol......  BVSN

SUMMARY FINANCIAL DATA
(in thousands, except per share data)

                                                                  PERIOD FROM
                                                                 MAY 13, 1993    YEARS ENDED DECEMBER   THREE MONTHS ENDED
                                                                (INCEPTION) TO           31,                MARCH 31,
                                                                 DECEMBER 31,    --------------------  --------------------
                                                                     1993          1994       1995       1995       1996
                                                                ---------------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS DATA:
Revenues......................................................     $      --     $      --  $     540  $      --  $   1,398
Operating loss................................................          (143)       (1,771)    (4,478)      (871)    (1,705)
Net loss......................................................          (136)       (1,670)    (4,318)      (846)    (1,698)
Pro forma net loss per share(2)...............................                              $   (0.23) $   (0.04) $   (0.09)
Shares used in computing pro forma
 net loss per share(2)........................................                                 18,543     18,888     18,576

                                                                                          MARCH 31, 1996
                                                                               ------------------------------------
                                                                                                            AS
                                                                                ACTUAL    PRO FORMA(3)  ADJUSTED(4)
                                                                               ---------  ------------  -----------
BALANCE SHEET DATA:
Cash and cash equivalents....................................................  $   2,663   $    7,718    $  40,248
Working capital..............................................................      2,073        7,128       39,658
Total assets.................................................................      6,106       11,161       43,691
Long-term obligations........................................................        569          569          569
Deficit accumulated during the development stage.............................     (7,822)      (7,822)      (7,822)
Total stockholders' equity...................................................      2,832        7,887       40,417


(1) Excludes, as of April 16, 1996, shares reserved for issuance upon exercise of (i) outstanding stock options to acquire 2,020,558 shares of Common Stock, (ii) an outstanding warrant to acquire 33,750 shares of Series C Preferred Stock, which warrant will convert into a warrant to purchase Common Stock upon the completion of this offering, and (iii) an outstanding option to acquire 500,000 shares of Series D Preferred Stock, which option will convert into an option to purchase shares of Common Stock upon the completion of this offering. See "Management -- Employee Benefit Plans" and "Description of Capital Stock."

(2) See Note 2 of Notes to Financial Statements for information concerning the calculation of pro forma net loss per share.

(3) Reflects the sale of 634,375 shares of Series E Preferred Stock at a price of $8.00 per share in April 1996 (the "Series E Financing") and the conversion of all outstanding Preferred Stock into 9,237,975 shares of Common Stock, which will occur automatically upon the completion of this offering.

(4) As adjusted to reflect the sale of 4,000,000 shares of Common Stock offered hereby at an assumed initial public offering price of $9.00 per share and receipt of the estimated net proceeds therefrom. See "Use of Proceeds."

THIS PROSPECTUS CONTAINS FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS WHICH INVOLVE RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES. THE COMPANY'S ACTUAL RESULTS MAY DIFFER MATERIALLY FROM THE RESULTS DISCUSSED IN THE FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS. FACTORS THAT MIGHT CAUSE SUCH A DIFFERENCE INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THOSE DISCUSSED IN "RISK FACTORS" AND ELSEWHERE IN THIS PROSPECTUS.

EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OR AS OTHERWISE INDICATED, ALL INFORMATION IN THIS PROSPECTUS (I) GIVES EFFECT TO THE CONVERSION OF ALL OUTSTANDING SHARES OF PREFERRED STOCK INTO COMMON STOCK, WHICH WILL OCCUR AUTOMATICALLY UPON THE COMPLETION OF THIS OFFERING, AND (II) ASSUMES NO EXERCISE OF THE UNDERWRITERS' OVER-ALLOTMENT OPTION. SEE "DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK" AND "UNDERWRITING."

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RISK FACTORS

In addition to the other information in this Prospectus, the following risk factors should be considered carefully in evaluating the Company and its business before purchasing shares of the Common Stock offered hereby. This Prospectus contains forward-looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties. The Company's actual results may differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to, those discussed in "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in this Prospectus.

LIMITED OPERATING HISTORY

The Company was founded in May 1993 and commenced shipment of its initial product, the BroadVision One-To-One application system, in December 1995. To date, only 10 companies have licensed the BroadVision One-To-One application system and no application has been commercially deployed using BroadVision One-To-One. Accordingly, the Company has only a limited operating history, and its prospects must be evaluated in light of the risks and uncertainties frequently encountered by a company in an early stage of development. The new and evolving markets in which the Company operates make these risks and uncertainties particularly pronounced. To address these risks, the Company must, among other things, successfully implement its marketing strategy, respond to competitive developments, attract, retain, and motivate qualified personnel, continue to develop and upgrade its products and technologies more rapidly than its competitors, and commercialize its products and services incorporating these enhanced technologies. There can be no assurance that the Company will succeed in addressing any or all of these risks or that the Company will achieve or sustain substantial revenues or profitability.

OPERATING LOSSES AND ACCUMULATED DEFICIT

Since its inception, the Company has incurred substantial costs to research, develop, and enhance its technology and products, to recruit and train a marketing and sales group, and to establish an administrative organization. As a result, the Company has incurred net losses in each fiscal quarter since inception and, as of March 31, 1996, had an accumulated deficit of $7.8 million. To the extent such losses continue, the Company's accumulated deficit would increase, and stockholders' equity would decrease. The Company anticipates that its operating expenses will increase substantially in the foreseeable future as it continues the development of its technology, increases its sales and marketing activities, and creates and expands its distribution channels. Accordingly, the Company expects to incur additional losses for at least the next 18 months. In addition, the Company's limited operating history makes the prediction of future results of operations difficult and, accordingly, there can be no assurance that the Company will achieve or sustain revenue growth or profitability. See "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations."

EARLY STAGE OF MARKET DEVELOPMENT; DEPENDENCE ON THE INTERNET

The Company's products and services facilitate online communication and commerce over public and private networks. The market for the Company's products and services is at a very early stage of development and is rapidly evolving. As is typical for new and rapidly evolving industries, demand and market acceptance for recently introduced products and services are subject to a high level of uncertainty, especially where, as is true of the Company, acquisition of the product requires a large capital commitment or other significant commitment of resources. With respect to the Company, this uncertainty is compounded by the risks that consumers and enterprises will not adopt online commerce and communication and that an appropriate infrastructure necessary to support increased commerce and communication on the Internet will fail to develop, in each case, to a sufficient extent and within an adequate time frame to permit the Company to succeed.

Adoption of online commerce and communication, particularly by those individuals and enterprises that have historically relied upon traditional means of commerce and communication, will require a broad acceptance of new and substantially different methods of conducting business and exchanging information. Moreover, the Company's products and services involve a new approach to the conduct of online commerce and, as a result, intensive marketing and sales efforts may be necessary to educate prospective customers regarding the uses and benefits of the Company's products and services in order to generate demand for the Company's systems. For example, enterprises that have already invested substantial resources in other methods of conducting business may be reluctant or slow to adopt a new approach that may replace, limit, or compete with their existing systems.

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Similarly, individuals with established patterns of purchasing goods and services may be reluctant to alter those patterns or may otherwise be resistant to providing the personal data which is necessary to support the Company's consumer profiling capability. Moreover, the security and privacy concerns of existing and potential users of the Company's products and services may inhibit the growth of online commerce generally and the market's acceptance of the Company's products and services in particular. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that a viable market for the Company's products will emerge or be sustainable.

Sales of most of the Company's products and services will depend upon the adoption of the Internet as a widely used medium for commerce and communication. The Internet may not prove to be a viable commercial marketplace because of inadequate development of the necessary infrastructure, such as a reliable network backbone, or timely development of complementary products, such as high speed modems. The Internet has experienced, and is expected to continue to experience, significant growth in the number of users and amount of traffic. There can be no assurance that the Internet infrastructure will continue to be able to support the demands placed on it by this continued growth. In addition, the Internet could lose its viability due to delays in the development or adoption of new standards and protocols to handle increased levels of Internet activity or due to increased governmental regulation. Moreover, critical issues concerning the commercial use of the Internet (including security, reliability, cost, ease of use, accessibility, and quality of service) remain unresolved and may negatively affect the growth of Internet use or the attractiveness of commerce and communication on the Internet. Because global commerce and online exchange of information on the Internet and other similar open wide area networks are new and evolving, there can be no assurance that the Internet will prove to be a viable commercial marketplace. If critical issues concerning the commercial use of the Internet are not favorably resolved, if the necessary infrastructure and complementary products are not developed, or if the Internet does not become a viable commercial marketplace, the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results will be materially adversely affected. See "Business -- Background."

POTENTIAL IMPACT OF PRIVACY CONCERNS

One of the principal features of the BroadVision One-To-One application system is the ability to develop and maintain profiles for use by business managers in determining the nature of the content to be provided to that customer. Typically, profiles are captured when consumers, business customers, and employees visit a site on the World Wide Web (the "Web") and volunteer information in response to survey questions concerning their backgrounds, interests, and preferences. Profiles are augmented over time through the collection of usage data. Although BroadVision One-To-One is designed to enable the development of applications that permit Web site visitors to prevent the distribution of any of their personal data beyond that specific Web site, privacy concerns may nevertheless cause visitors to be resistant to providing the personal data necessary to support this profiling capability. Moreover, even the perception by the Company's customers or potential customers of substantial security and privacy concerns on the part of consumers, whether or not valid, may inhibit market acceptance of the Company's products. In addition, such concerns may be heightened by legislative or regulatory requirements that require notification to Web site users that the data captured as a result of visitation of certain Web sites may be used by marketing entities to unilaterally address product promotion and advertising to that user. While the Company is not aware of any such legislation or regulatory requirements currently in effect in the United States, certain other countries and political entities, such as the European Community, have adopted such legislation or regulatory requirements, and no assurance can be given that similar legislation or regulatory requirements will not be adopted in the United States. If the privacy concerns of consumers are not adequately addressed, the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results could be materially adversely affected. See "Business -- The BroadVision One-To-One User Experience."

FLUCTUATIONS IN QUARTERLY OPERATING RESULTS

As a result of the Company's limited operating history, the Company does not have meaningful historical financial data for quarterly periods on which to base planned operating expenses. The Company's expense levels are based in part on its product development requirements as well as its expectations as to future revenues. The Company anticipates that its operating expenses will increase substantially for the foreseeable future as the Company continues to develop and market its initial products, increases its sales and marketing activities, creates and expands the distribution channels for its products, and broadens its customer support capabilities.

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The inability of the Company to release its products in a timely manner or any material shortfall in demand for the Company's products in relation to the Company's expectations would have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results.

The Company expects to experience significant fluctuations in future quarterly operating results that may be caused by many factors including, among others, the timing of introductions or enhancements of products and services by the Company or its competitors, the length of the Company's sales cycle, market acceptance of new products, the pace of development of the market for online commerce, the mix of the Company's products sold, the size and timing of significant orders and the timing of customer production or deployment, demand for the Company's products, changes in pricing policies by the Company or its competitors, changes in the Company's sales incentive plans, budgeting cycles of its customers, customer order deferrals in anticipation of new products or enhancements by the Company or its competitors, cancellation of orders prior to customer deployment or during the warranty period, nonrenewal of service agreements, product life cycles, software defects and other product quality problems, changes in strategy, changes in key personnel, the extent of international expansion, seasonal trends, the mix of distribution channels through which the Company's products are sold, the mix of international and domestic sales, changes in the level of operating expenses to support projected growth, and general economic conditions. The Company anticipates that a significant portion of its revenues will be derived from a limited number of orders, and the timing of receipt and fulfillment of any such orders is expected to cause material fluctuations in the Company's operating results, particularly on a quarterly basis. As with many software companies, the Company anticipates that it will make the major portion of each quarter's deliveries near the end of each quarter and, as a result, short delays in delivery of products at the end of a quarter could adversely affect operating results for that quarter. In addition, the Company intends, in the near term, to increase significantly its personnel, including its domestic and international direct sales force. The timing of such expansion and the rate at which new sales people become productive could also cause material fluctuations in the Company's quarterly operating results.

Due to the foregoing factors, quarterly revenues and operating results are difficult to forecast, and the Company believes that period-to-period comparisons of its operating results will not necessarily be meaningful and should not be relied upon as any indication of future performance. It is likely that the Company's future quarterly operating results from time to time will not meet the expectations of market analysts or investors, which may have an adverse effect on the price of the Company's Common Stock. See "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations."

COMPETITION

The market for online interactive marketing and selling applications is new, rapidly evolving, and intensely competitive. The Company expects competition to persist and intensify in the future. The Company's current and potential competitors include other vendors of application software directed at interactive commerce, Web content developers engaged to develop custom software or to integrate other application software into custom solutions, and companies developing their own end-to-end solutions in-house.

The Company has experienced and expects to continue to experience increased competition. The Company currently encounters direct competition from CONNECT, Inc. ("Connect"), Netscape Communications Corporation ("Netscape"), and Open Market Incorporated ("OMI"), among others. In addition, Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft") has also announced its intention to offer Internet-based electronic commerce software. Many of these competitors have longer operating histories, and significantly greater financial, technical, marketing, and other resources than the Company and thus may be able to respond more quickly to new or changing opportunities, technologies, and customer requirements. Also, many current and potential competitors have greater name recognition and more extensive customer bases that could be leveraged, thereby gaining market share to the Company's detriment. Such competitors may be able to undertake more extensive promotional activities, adopt more aggressive pricing policies and offer more attractive terms to purchasers than the Company. Moreover, certain of the Company's current and potential competitors, such as Netscape and Microsoft, are likely to bundle their products in a manner that may discourage users from purchasing products offered by the Company. The Company has also experienced competition from third-party developers, such as Web content developers, as well as from in-house development efforts by potential customers or partners, both

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of which represent significant competition for the Company's products. In addition, current and potential competitors have established or may establish cooperative relationships among themselves or with third parties to enhance their products. Accordingly, it is possible that new competitors or alliances among competitors may emerge and rapidly acquire significant market share. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to compete effectively with current or future competitors or that the competitive pressures faced by the Company will not have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results. See "Business -- Competition."

PRODUCT CONCENTRATION

To date, substantially all of the Company's revenues have been attributable to sales of licenses of the BroadVision One-To-One application system and related services. The Company currently expects the BroadVision One-To-One application system and related services to account for most of its future revenues. Accordingly, if any of the Company's customers is not able to successfully develop and deploy an online marketplace using the BroadVision One-To-One application system, the Company's reputation could be damaged, which could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results. In addition, factors adversely affecting the pricing of or demand for the BroadVision One-To-One application system, such as competition or technological change, could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results. The Company's future financial performance will depend, in significant part, on the successful development, introduction, and customer acceptance of new and enhanced versions of the BroadVision One-To-One application system and of new products the Company develops. There can be no assurance that the Company will be successful in upgrading and continuing to market the BroadVision One-To-One application system or that the Company will successfully develop new products or that any new products will achieve market acceptance. See "Business -- Products and Services" and "Business -- Product Development."

LENGTHY SALES AND IMPLEMENTATION CYCLES

The license of the Company's software products is often an enterprise-wide decision by prospective customers and can be expected to require the Company to engage in a lengthy sales cycle to provide a significant level of education to prospective customers regarding the use and benefits of the Company's products. In addition, the implementation of the Company's products involves a significant commitment of resources by customers or by the Company's Interactive Services Group ("ISG") consultants over an extended period of time. As a result, the Company's sales and customer implementation cycles are subject to a number of significant delays over which the Company has little or no control. In many cases, the Company expects to recognize a substantial portion of the revenue related to the sale of BroadVision One-To-One upon deployment or production by the customer of the system. As a result, delays in license transactions due to lengthy sales cycles or delays in customer production or deployment of a system could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results and can be expected to cause the Company's operating results to vary significantly from quarter to quarter. See "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and "Business -- Sales and Marketing."

RAPID TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; NEW PRODUCT DELAYS

The information services, software, and communications industries are characterized by rapid technological change, changes in customer requirements, frequent new product and service introductions and enhancements, and emerging industry standards. The introduction of products and services embodying new technologies and the emergence of new industry standards and practices can render existing products and services obsolete and unmarketable. The Company's future success will depend, in part, on its ability to develop leading technologies, enhance its existing products and services, develop new products and services that address the increasingly sophisticated and varied needs of its prospective customers, and respond to technological advances and emerging industry standards and practices on a timely and cost-effective basis. The Company's only commercially available product, the BroadVision One-To-One application system, was introduced in December 1995, and the Company expects, in the future, to introduce enhanced versions of this product as well as other products and services. The development of new products and services (such as the Company's next two products in development, a taxonomy modeling and matching application product and a consumer online service) or enhanced versions of existing products and services (such as Version 2.0 of the BroadVision One-To-

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One application system), entails significant technical risks. There can be no assurance that the Company will be successful in effectively using new technologies, adapting its products to emerging industry standards, developing, introducing, and marketing product and service enhancements, or new products and services, or that it will not experience difficulties that could delay or prevent the successful development, introduction, or marketing of these products and services, or that its new product and service enhancements will adequately meet the requirements of the marketplace and achieve market acceptance. If the Company is unable, for technical or other reasons, to develop and introduce new products and services or enhancements of existing products and services in a timely manner in response to changing market conditions or customer requirements, or if new products and services do not achieve market acceptance, the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results will be materially adversely affected. See "Business -- Technology" and "Business -- Product Development."

RISKS OF PRODUCT DEFECTS

Sophisticated software products, such as those of the Company, may contain undetected errors or failures that become apparent when the products are introduced or when the volume of services provided increases. There can be no assurance that, despite testing by the Company and potential customers, errors will not be found in the Company's products, resulting in loss of revenues, delay in market acceptance, diversion of development resources, damage to the Company's reputation, or increased service and warranty costs, which would have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results. See "Business -- Product Development."

RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH ENCRYPTION TECHNOLOGY

A significant barrier to online commerce and communication is the secure exchange of value and confidential information over public networks. The Company relies on encryption and authentication technology, including public key cryptography technology licensed from RSA Data Security, Inc. ("RSA"), to provide the security and authentication necessary to effect the secure exchange of value and confidential information. There can be no assurance that advances in computer capabilities, new discoveries in the field of cryptography or other events or developments will not result in a compromise or breach of the RSA or other algorithms used by the Company to protect customer transaction data. If any such compromise of the Company's security were to occur, it could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results. See "Business -- Technology."

RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH EXPANDING DISTRIBUTION

To date, the Company has sold its products through its direct sales force. The Company's ability to achieve significant revenue growth in the future will depend in large part on its success in recruiting and training sufficient direct sales personnel and establishing and maintaining relationships with distributors, resellers, systems integrators, and other third parties. Although the Company is currently investing, and plans to continue to invest, significant resources to expand its sales force and to develop distribution relationships with third-party distributors and resellers, the Company may at times experience difficulty in recruiting qualified sales personnel and in establishing necessary third-party alliances. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to successfully expand its direct sales force or other distribution channels or that any such expansion will result in an increase in revenues. Any failure by the Company to expand its direct sales force or other distribution channels would materially adversely affect the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results. See "-- Dependence on Key Personnel," "Business -- Strategy" and "Business -- Sales and Marketing."

DEPENDENCE ON SYSTEMS INTEGRATORS

The Company's potential customers may rely on third-party systems integrators to develop, deploy, and manage online marketplaces. If the Company were unable to adequately train a sufficient number of systems integrators or if, for any reason, a large number of such integrators were to adopt a different product or technology instead of the BroadVision One-To-One application system, the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results could be materially and adversely affected.

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DEPENDENCE ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

The Company's success and ability to compete are dependent to a significant degree on its proprietary technology. The Company relies primarily on copyright, trade secret, and trademark law to protect its technology. The Company has no patents. The Company has applied for a United States patent with respect to certain aspects of the BroadVision One-To-One application system, but there can be no assurance that a patent will be granted pursuant to the application or that, if granted, such patent would survive a legal challenge to its validity or provide significant protection. Likewise, effective trademark protection may not be available for the Company's marks. For example, the Company has applied to register "BroadVision One-To-One" as a trademark with respect to the BroadVision One-To-One application system, but there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to secure trademark registration or other significant protection for this product name. It is possible that competitors of the Company or others will adopt product names similar to "One-To-One," thereby impeding the Company's ability to build brand identity and possibly leading to customer confusion. The source code for the Company's proprietary software is protected both as a trade secret and as a copyrighted work. The Company's policy is to enter into confidentiality and assignment agreements with its employees, consultants, and vendors and generally to control access to and distribution of its software, documentation, and other proprietary information. Notwithstanding these precautions, it may be possible for a third party to copy or otherwise obtain and use the Company's software or other proprietary information without authorization or to develop similar software independently. Policing unauthorized use of the Company's products is difficult, particularly because the global nature of the Internet makes it difficult to control the ultimate destination or security of software or other data transmitted. The laws of other countries may afford the Company little or no effective protection of its intellectual property. There can be no assurance that the steps taken by the Company will prevent misappropriation of its technology or that agreements entered into for that purpose will be enforceable. In addition, litigation may be necessary in the future to enforce the Company's intellectual property rights, to protect the Company's trade secrets, to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others, or to defend against claims of infringement or invalidity. Such litigation, whether successful or unsuccessful, could result in substantial costs and diversions of resources, either of which could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results. See "Business -- Intellectual Property and Other Proprietary Rights."

DEFERRED TAX ASSETS

Deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities and are measured using the enacted tax rates and laws that will be in effect when the differences are expected to reverse. The Company has provided a full valuation allowance against its net deferred tax assets as it has determined that it is more likely than not that the deferred tax assets will not be realized. The Company's accounting for deferred taxes under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 109 involves the evaluation of a number of factors concerning the realizability of the Company's deferred tax assets. To support the Company's conclusion that a full valuation allowance was required, management primarily considered such factors as the Company's history of operating losses and expected near-term future losses, the nature of the Company's deferred tax assets, and the lack of significant firm sales backlog. Although management's operating plans assume taxable and operating income in future periods, management's evaluation of all the available evidence in assessing the realizability of the deferred tax assets indicates that such plans were not considered sufficient to overcome the available negative evidence.

RISK OF INFRINGEMENT

The Company may, in the future, receive notices of claims of infringement of other parties' trademark, copyright, and other proprietary rights. Although, to date, the Company has not received any such notices, there can be no assurance that claims for infringement or invalidity (or claims for indemnification resulting from infringement claims) will not be asserted or prosecuted against the Company. In particular, claims could be asserted against the Company for violation of trademark, copyright, or other laws as a result of the use by the Company, its customers, or other third parties of the Company's products to transmit, disseminate, or display information over or on the Internet. Any such claims, with or without merit, could be time consuming to defend, result in costly litigation, divert management's attention and resources, cause product shipment delays, or require the Company to enter into royalty or licensing agreements. There can be no assurance that such licenses

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would be available on reasonable terms, if at all, and the assertion or prosecution of any such claims could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results. See "Business -- Intellectual Property and Other Proprietary Rights."

DEPENDENCE ON CERTAIN LICENSES

The Company relies in part on certain technology which it licenses from third parties, including relational database management systems ("RDBMSs") from Oracle Corporation ("Oracle") and Sybase, Inc. ("Sybase"), object request broker software from IONA, Ltd. ("IONA"), and other software which is integrated with internally developed software and used in the Company's software to perform key functions. In this regard, all of the Company's services incorporate data encryption and authentication technology licensed from RSA. The Company is aware of a dispute between Cylink Corporation ("Cylink") and RSA in which Cylink alleges that license agreements between RSA and its customers, including the Company, relating to certain RSA software conflict with rights held by Cylink. RSA has advised its customers that the allegations of Cylink are unfounded. RSA and Cylink have completed an arbitration proceeding of the dispute. RSA has taken the position that it prevailed on all material issues, and that its licenses, including the license to the Company, are valid and unaffected by the arbitration decision. Cylink has taken the position that the arbitration decision may require RSA licensees, including the Company, to obtain an additional license of certain patents controlled by Cylink. RSA has maintained that no such additional license is required and has instituted a lawsuit against Cylink to bar Cylink from claiming otherwise. The Company is unable to ascertain the validity of Cylink's allegations or whether or not the arbitration decision may require the Company to obtain any additional license. In the Company's license agreement with RSA, RSA has agreed to defend, indemnify, and hold the Company harmless with respect to any claim by a third party that the licensed software infringes any patent or other proprietary right. Although the Company's license is fully paid, there can be no assurance that the outcome of the dispute between RSA and Cylink will not lead to royalty obligations by the Company for which RSA is unwilling or unable to indemnify the Company, or that the Company would be able to obtain any additional license on commercially reasonable terms or at all. There can also be no assurance that the Company's other third-party technology licenses will continue to be available to the Company on commercially reasonable terms, if at all. The loss or inability to maintain any of these technology licenses could result in delays in introduction of the Company's products and services until equivalent technology, if available, is identified, licensed, and integrated, which could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results. See "Business -- Intellectual Property and Other Proprietary Rights."

DEPENDENCE ON KEY PERSONNEL

The Company's performance is substantially dependent on the performance of its executive officers and key employees, most of whom have worked together for only a short period of time. The Company is dependent on its ability to retain and motivate highly qualified personnel, especially its management and highly skilled development teams. The Company does not have "key person" life insurance policies on any of its employees. The loss of the services of any of its key employees, particularly its founder and Chief Executive Officer, Pehong Chen, could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results. The Company's future success also depends on its continuing ability to identify, hire, train, and retain other highly qualified technical and managerial personnel. Competition for such personnel is intense. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to attract, assimilate, or retain qualified technical and managerial personnel in the future, and the failure of the Company to do so would have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results. See "Business -- Employees" and "Management."

GOVERNMENT REGULATION

There can be no assurance that a federal, state, or foreign agency will not attempt to regulate the Company's activities. The Company anticipates that it may be required to comply with additional regulations, if enacted by federal or state authorities, as the market for online commerce evolves. The Company also may be subject to foreign laws and state and foreign sales and use tax laws. If enacted or deemed applicable to the Company, such laws, rules, or regulations could be imposed on the Company's activities or its business, thereby

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rendering the Company's business or operations more costly or burdensome, less efficient, or impossible, any of which could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results.

Due to the increasing popularity of the Internet, it is possible that laws and regulations may be enacted with respect to the Internet, covering issues such as user privacy, pricing, content, and quality of products and services. For example, because the Company's products involve the solicitation of personal data regarding individual consumers, the Company's business could be adversely affected by laws regulating the solicitation, collection, or processing of such data. The Telecommunications Act of 1996, which was enacted in January 1996, prohibits the transmission over the Internet of certain types of information and content. The scope of the prohibition and liability associated with any violation of this Act are currently unsettled. The imposition upon the Company and other software and service providers of potential liability for information carried on or disseminated through its application systems could require the Company to implement measures to reduce its exposure to such liability, which may require the expenditure of substantial resources, or to discontinue certain services. The increased attention focused upon these liability issues as a result of the Telecommunications Act could adversely affect the growth of Internet and private network use. Any costs incurred by the Company as a result of such liability or asserted liability could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results. In addition, the adoption of other laws or regulations may reduce the rate of growth of the Internet, which could in turn decrease the demand for the Company's services and increase the Company's cost of doing business, or could otherwise have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results.

The Company's software utilizes encryption technology, the export of which is regulated by the United States government. There can be no assurance that export regulations, either in their current form or as may be subsequently enacted, will not limit the Company's ability to distribute its software outside the United States. Moreover, federal or state legislation or regulation may further limit levels of encryption or authentication technology that the Company is able to utilize in its software. While the Company takes precautions against unlawful exportation of its software, the global nature of the Internet makes it difficult to effectively control the distribution of software. Any revocation or modification of the Company's export authority, unlawful exportation of the Company's software, or adoption of new legislation or regulation relating to exportation of software and encryption technology could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results.

FUTURE CAPITAL NEEDS; UNCERTAINTY OF ADDITIONAL FINANCING

The Company currently anticipates that its available cash resources, combined with the net proceeds of this offering, will be sufficient to meet its presently anticipated working capital and capital expenditure requirements for at least the next 12 months. However, the Company may need to raise additional funds in order to support more rapid expansion, develop new or enhanced services, respond to competitive pressures, acquire complementary businesses or technologies, or respond to unanticipated requirements. If additional funds are raised through the issuance of equity securities, the percentage ownership of the stockholders of the Company will be reduced, stockholders may experience additional dilution, or such equity securities may have rights, preferences, or privileges senior to those of the holders of the Company's Common Stock. There can be no assurance that additional financing will be available when needed on terms favorable to the Company, if at all. If adequate funds are not available or are not available on acceptable terms, the Company may be unable to develop or enhance its products, take advantage of future opportunities, or respond to competitive pressures or unanticipated requirements, which could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results. See "Use of Proceeds," "Dilution" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations -- Liquidity and Capital Resources."

MANAGEMENT OF A CHANGING BUSINESS

The Company has experienced substantial change and expansion in its business and operations since its inception in 1993 and expects to continue to experience periods of rapid change. The Company's past expansion has placed, and any future expansion would place, significant demands on the Company's administrative, operational, financial, and other resources. The Company expects operating expenses and staffing levels to

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increase substantially in the future. In particular, the Company intends to hire a significant number of additional personnel in 1996 and later years. Competition for such personnel is intense, and there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to attract, assimilate, or retain additional highly qualified personnel in the future. The Company also expects to expend resources with respect to future expansion of its accounting and internal management systems and the implementation of a variety of new systems and procedures. In addition, the Company expects that future expansion will continue to challenge the Company's ability to train, motivate, and manage its employees, and to attract and retain qualified senior managers and technical persons, such as programmers and software architects. If the Company's revenues do not increase in proportion to its operating expenses, the Company's management systems do not expand to meet increasing demands, the Company fails to attract, assimilate, and retain qualified personnel, or the Company's management otherwise fails to manage the Company's expansion effectively, there would be a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results. See "Business -- Employees" and "Management."

RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY

A component of the Company's strategy is its planned expansion of its international activities. To date, the Company has limited experience in developing localized versions of its products and in marketing and distributing its products internationally. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to successfully market, sell, and deliver its products in international markets. In addition, there are certain risks inherent in doing business in international markets, such as unexpected changes in regulatory requirements, export controls relating to encryption technology and other export restrictions, tariffs and other trade barriers, difficulties in staffing and managing foreign operations, political instability, fluctuations in currency exchange rates, reduced protection for intellectual property rights in some countries, seasonal reductions in business activity during the summer months in Europe and certain other parts of the world, and potentially adverse tax consequences, any of which could adversely impact the success of the Company's international operations. There can be no assurance that one or more of such factors will not have a material adverse effect on the Company's future international operations, if any, and, consequently, on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results. See "Business -- Sales and Marketing."

MANAGEMENT'S DISCRETION AS TO USE OF UNALLOCATED NET PROCEEDS

The Company has not designated any specific use for the net proceeds from the sale of Common Stock described in this Prospectus. Rather, the Company expects to use the net proceeds for general corporate purposes, including working capital. Consequently, the Board of Directors and management of the Company will have significant flexibility in applying the net proceeds of this offering. See "Use of Proceeds."

CONCENTRATION OF STOCK OWNERSHIP

Upon completion of this offering, the Company's present directors and executive officers and their respective affiliates will beneficially own approximately 71.6% of the outstanding Common Stock. As a result, these stockholders, if they act together, will be able to exercise significant influence over all matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors and approval of significant corporate transactions. Such concentration of ownership may also have the effect of delaying, preventing, or deterring a change in control of the Company. See "Principal Stockholders" and "Description of Capital Stock -- Antitakeover Effects of Provisions of Charter Documents and Delaware Law."

NO PRIOR PUBLIC MARKET; POSSIBLE VOLATILITY OF STOCK PRICE

Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for the Company's Common Stock, and there can be no assurance that an active public market for the Common Stock will develop or be sustained after the offering. The initial offering price will be determined by negotiation among the Company and the Underwriters based upon several factors. For a discussion of the factors to be taken into account in determining the initial public offering price, see "Underwriting." The market price of the Company's Common Stock is likely to be highly volatile and could be subject to wide fluctuations in response to quarterly variations in operating results, announcements of technological innovations or new software or services by the Company or its competitors, changes in financial estimates by securities analysts, or other events or factors, many of which are beyond the Company's control. In addition, the stock market has experienced significant price and volume fluctuations that have particularly affected the market prices of equity securities of many high technology companies and that

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often have been unrelated to the operating performance of such companies. These broad market fluctuations may adversely affect the market price of the Company's Common Stock. In the past, following periods of volatility in the market price for a company's securities, securities class action litigation has often been instituted. Such litigation could result in substantial costs and a diversion of management attention and resources, which could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results.

SHARES ELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE SALE

Sales of substantial numbers of shares of Common Stock in the public market following this offering could adversely affect the market price of the Common Stock. Upon completion of this offering, the Company will have outstanding an aggregate of 20,599,484 shares of Common Stock, based upon the number of shares outstanding as of April 16, 1996. Of these shares, all of the shares sold in this offering will be freely tradeable without restriction or further registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), unless such shares are purchased by "affiliates" of the Company, as that term is defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act ("Affiliates"). The remaining 16,599,484 shares of Common Stock held by existing stockholders (the "Restricted Shares") are "restricted securities" as that term is defined in Rule
144. Restricted Shares may be sold in the public market only if registered or if they qualify for an exemption from registration under Rule 144 or Rule 701 promulgated under the Securities Act. As a result of contractual restrictions and the provisions of Rule 144 and Rule 701, additional shares will be available for sale in the public market as follows: (i) no Restricted Shares will be eligible for immediate sale on the date of this Prospectus; (ii) 12,578,546 Restricted Shares will be eligible for sale upon expiration of the lock-up agreements 180 days after the date of this Prospectus; and (iii) the remainder of the Restricted Shares will be eligible for sale from time to time thereafter upon expiration of their respective two-year holding periods. Pursuant to an agreement between the Company and the holders (or their permitted transferees) of approximately 14,934,975 shares of Common Stock, these holders are entitled to certain rights with respect to the registration of such shares under the Securities Act.

Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for the Common Stock of the Company, and the effect, if any, that the sale or availability for sale of shares of additional Common Stock will have on the trading price of the Common Stock cannot be predicted. Nevertheless, sales of substantial amounts of such shares in the public market, or the perception that such sales could occur, could adversely affect the trading price of the Common Stock and could impair the Company's future ability to raise capital through an offering of its equity securities. See "Shares Eligible for Future Sale" and "Description of Capital Stock."

IMMEDIATE AND SUBSTANTIAL DILUTION

Investors participating in this offering will incur immediate and substantial dilution. To the extent outstanding options or warrants to purchase the Common Stock are exercised, there will be further dilution. See "Dilution."

EFFECTS OF CERTAIN CHARTER AND BYLAW PROVISIONS

The Company's Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the "Restated Certificate") authorizes the Board of Directors to issue up to 5,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock and to determine the price, rights, preferences, and privileges, including voting rights, of those shares without any further vote or action by the stockholders. The rights of the holders of Common Stock will be subject to, and may be adversely affected by, the rights of the holders of any Preferred Stock that may be issued in the future. The Restated Certificate and Amended and Restated Bylaws (the "Restated Bylaws"), among other things, require that stockholder actions occur at duly called meetings of the stockholders, do not permit cumulative voting in the election of directors, and require advance notice of stockholder proposals and director nominations. Certain provisions contained in the Company's charter documents and certain applicable provisions of Delaware law could serve to depress the Company's stock price or discourage a hostile bid in which stockholders could receive a premium for their shares. In addition, these provisions could have the effect of making it more difficult for a third party to acquire a majority of the outstanding voting stock of the Company, or delay, prevent, or deter a merger, acquisition, tender offer in which the Company's stockholders could receive a premium for their shares, or a proxy contest for control of the Company or other change in the Company's management. See "Management" and "Description of Capital Stock."

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USE OF PROCEEDS

The net proceeds from the sale of 4,000,000 shares of Common Stock offered hereby, at an assumed initial public offering price of $9.00 per share, are estimated to be $32,530,000 ($37,552,000 assuming the Underwriters' over-allotment option is exercised in full), after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company.

The principal purposes of this offering are to obtain additional capital, to create a public market for the Company's Common Stock, and to facilitate future access by the Company to the public equity markets. The Company anticipates that it will use the net proceeds for working capital and general corporate purposes. Although the Company may use a portion of the net proceeds to license or acquire new products or technologies or to acquire or invest in businesses complementary to the Company's current business, the Company currently has no specific agreements or commitments in this regard and no such agreements or commitments are currently being negotiated. The Board of Directors and management of the Company will have significant flexibility in applying the net proceeds of this offering. The amounts and timing of the Company's actual expenditures will depend upon numerous factors, including the status of the Company's product development efforts, competition, and marketing and sales activities. Pending such uses, the Company intends to invest the net proceeds of this offering in short-term, investment-grade, interest-bearing securities.

DIVIDEND POLICY

The Company has not declared or paid any cash dividends since its inception. The Company currently intends to retain any future earnings to finance the growth and development of its business and does not intend to pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Future dividends, if any, will be determined by the Board of Directors.

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CAPITALIZATION

The following table sets forth the capitalization of the Company as of March 31, 1996 (i) on an actual basis, (ii) on a pro forma basis to reflect the sale of 634,375 shares in the Series E Financing and the automatic conversion of all outstanding shares of the Preferred Stock into 9,237,975 shares of Common Stock, which will occur automatically upon the completion of this offering, and (iii) as adjusted to reflect the effectiveness of the Restated Certificate and to give effect to the sale of the 4,000,000 shares of Common Stock offered hereby at an assumed initial public offering price of $9.00 per share and the receipt of the estimated net proceeds therefrom. This table should be read in conjunction with the Financial Statements and Notes thereto and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," appearing elsewhere in this Prospectus.

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                                                                               ACTUAL     PRO FORMA    AS ADJUSTED
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Long-term debt and non-current portion of capital lease obligations.........  $     569   $     569     $     569
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Stockholders' equity:
  Preferred Stock, issuable in series, $0.0001 par value; 10,000,000 shares
   authorized, 8,603,600 shares outstanding, actual; 15,000,000 shares
   authorized, no shares outstanding, pro forma; 5,000,000 shares
   authorized, no shares outstanding, as adjusted (1).......................          1      --            --
  Common Stock, $0.0001 par value, 22,000,000 shares authorized, 7,344,042
   shares outstanding, actual; 30,000,000 shares authorized, 16,582,017
   shares outstanding, pro forma; and 50,000,000 shares authorized,
   20,582,017 shares outstanding, as adjusted(1)............................          1           2             2
  Additional paid-in capital................................................     13,088      18,143        50,673
  Deferred compensation related to grant of stock options...................     (2,436)     (2,436)       (2,436)
  Deficit accumulated during the development stage..........................     (7,822)     (7,822)       (7,822)
                                                                              ---------  -----------  -------------
    Total stockholders' equity..............................................      2,832       7,887        40,417
                                                                              ---------  -----------  -------------
      Total capitalization..................................................  $   3,401   $   8,456     $  40,986
                                                                              ---------  -----------  -------------
                                                                              ---------  -----------  -------------


(1) Excludes, as of April 16, 1996, shares of Common Stock reserved for issuance upon exercise of (i) outstanding stock options to acquire 2,020,558 shares of Common Stock with a weighted average exercise price of $0.86 per share,
(ii) an outstanding warrant to acquire 33,750 shares of Series C Preferred Stock with an exercise price of $2.00 per share, which warrant will convert into a warrant to purchase Common Stock upon the completion of this offering, and (iii) an outstanding option to acquire 500,000 shares of Series D Preferred Stock at an exercise price of $4.00 per share, which option will convert into an option to purchase shares of Common Stock upon the completion of this offering. See "Management -- Employee Benefit Plans" and "Description of Capital Stock."

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DILUTION

The pro forma net tangible book value of the Company as of March 31, 1996 was approximately $7,887,000, or $0.48 per share of Common Stock. Pro forma net tangible book value per share represents the amount of the Company's total tangible assets less total liabilities, divided by the pro forma number of shares of Common Stock outstanding, after giving effect to the Series E Financing and the conversion of all outstanding shares of Preferred Stock into Common Stock upon the completion of this offering. Pro forma net tangible book value dilution per share represents the difference between the amount per share paid by purchasers of shares of Common Stock in the offering made hereby and the pro forma net tangible book value per share of Common Stock immediately after the completion of this offering. After giving effect to the sale by the Company of 4,000,000 shares of Common Stock offered hereby at an assumed initial public offering price of $9.00 per share, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses, the pro forma net tangible book value at March 31, 1996 would have been $40,417,000, or approximately $1.96 per share. This represents an immediate increase in pro forma net tangible book value of $1.48 per share to existing stockholders and an immediate dilution of $7.04 per share to new investors purchasing Common Stock in this offering, as illustrated by the following table:

Assumed initial public offering price.................................             $    9.00
  Pro forma net tangible book value at March 31, 1996.................  $    0.48
  Increase attributable to new investors..............................       1.48
                                                                        ---------
Pro forma net tangible book value after this offering.................                  1.96
                                                                                   ---------
  Dilution to new investors...........................................             $    7.04
                                                                                   ---------
                                                                                   ---------

The following table summarizes, on a pro forma basis as of March 31, 1996, the difference between the number of shares of Common Stock purchased from the Company, the total consideration paid and the average price per share paid by existing stockholders and by the new investors, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses, at an assumed initial public offering price of $9.00 per share:

                                          SHARES PURCHASED         TOTAL CONSIDERATION
                                      ------------------------  -------------------------   AVERAGE PRICE
                                         NUMBER      PERCENT       AMOUNT       PERCENT       PER SHARE
                                      ------------  ----------  -------------  ----------  ---------------
Existing stockholders...............    16,582,017       80.6%  $  15,568,000       30.2%     $    0.94
New investors.......................     4,000,000       19.4      36,000,000       69.8           9.00
                                      ------------      -----   -------------      -----
  Total.............................    20,582,017      100.0%  $  51,568,000      100.0%
                                      ------------      -----   -------------      -----
                                      ------------      -----   -------------      -----

The calculation of pro forma net tangible book value and the other computations above assume no exercise of outstanding stock options or warrants. As of April 16, 1996, 2,020,558 shares of Common Stock were subject to outstanding options with a weighted average exercise price of $0.86 per share, and 33,750 shares of Series C Preferred Stock were subject to an outstanding warrant with an exercise price of $2.00 per share. In addition, as of April 16, 1996, an option was outstanding to purchase a total of 500,000 shares of Series D Preferred Stock with an exercise price of $4.00 per share. If all options and warrants outstanding at April 16, 1996 were exercised for cash, the pro forma net tangible book value per share immediately following the completion of this offering would be $1.91 per share. This represents an immediate dilution in pro forma net tangible book value of $7.09 per share to new investors. See "Management -- Employee Benefit Plans" and Note 4 of Notes to Financial Statements. See "Management -- Employee Benefit Plans" and Note 4 of Notes to Financial Statements.

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SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

The selected financial data set forth below as of December 31, 1994 and 1995, and for the period from inception to December 31, 1993 and the years ended December 31, 1994 and 1995, are derived from the Company's audited financial statements which are included elsewhere in this Prospectus. Balance sheet data as of December 31, 1993 are derived from the Company's audited financial statements not included in this Prospectus. The financial data as of March 31, 1996 and for the three months ended March 31, 1995 and 1996 are derived from the Company's unaudited financial statements included elsewhere in this Prospectus. The unaudited financial statements have been prepared on a basis consistent with the Company's audited financial statements and include all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, that management believes necessary for a fair presentation of the Company's financial position and results of operations for these periods. The selected financial data set forth below should be read in conjunction with "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," the Financial Statements of the Company and Notes thereto, and other financial information included elsewhere in this Prospectus. Historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected in the future.

                                     PERIOD FROM
                                    MAY 13, 1993        YEARS ENDED             THREE MONTHS         CUMULATIVE
                                     (INCEPTION)        DECEMBER 31,          ENDED MARCH 31,       PERIOD FROM
                                     TO DECEMBER   ----------------------  ----------------------   INCEPTION TO
                                      31, 1993        1994        1995        1995        1996     MARCH 31, 1996
                                    -------------  ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------  --------------
                                                        (IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)
STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS DATA:
Revenues:
  Software licenses...............   $        --   $       --  $       --  $       --  $    1,099  $      1,099
  Services........................            --           --         540          --         299           839
                                    -------------  ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------       -------
    Total revenues................            --           --         540          --       1,398         1,938

Operating expenses:
  Cost of software licenses.......            --           --          --          --         164           164
  Cost of services................            --           --          23          --          33            56
  Research and development........            12          748       2,229         371         797         3,786
  Selling, general, and
   administrative.................           131        1,023       2,766         500       2,109         6,029
                                    -------------  ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------       -------
    Total operating expenses......           143        1,771       5,018         871       3,103        10,035
                                    -------------  ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------       -------
Operating loss....................          (143 )     (1,771)     (4,478)       (871)     (1,705)       (8,097  )
Other income (expense), net.......             7          101         160          25           7           275
                                    -------------  ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------       -------
Net loss..........................  $       (136 ) $   (1,670) $   (4,318) $     (846) $   (1,698) $     (7,822  )
                                    -------------  ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------       -------
                                    -------------  ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------       -------
Pro forma net loss per share(1)...                             $    (0.23) $    (0.04) $    (0.09)
                                                               ----------  ----------  ----------
                                                               ----------  ----------  ----------
Shares used in computing pro forma
 net loss per share(1)............                                 18,543      18,888      18,576
                                                               ----------  ----------  ----------
                                                               ----------  ----------  ----------


                                                DECEMBER 31,
                                    -------------------------------------  MARCH 31,
                                        1993          1994        1995        1996
                                    -------------  ----------  ----------  ----------
                                                     (IN THOUSANDS)
BALANCE SHEET DATA:
Cash and cash equivalents...............................................  $   1,503  $     808  $   4,311   $   2,663
Working capital.........................................................      2,358      2,208      3,916       2,073
Total assets............................................................      2,634      2,640      5,857       6,106
Deficit accumulated during the development stage........................       (136)    (1,806)    (6,124)     (7,822)
Total stockholders' equity..............................................      2,478      2,526      4,254       2,832


(1) See Note 2 of Notes to Financial Statements for information concerning the calculation of pro forma net loss per share.

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MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The following discussion of the financial condition and results of operations of the Company should be read in conjunction with the Financial Statements and the Notes thereto included elsewhere in this Prospectus. This discussion contains forward-looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including, but not limited to, those discussed in "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in this Prospectus.

OVERVIEW

BroadVision provides an integrated software application system, BroadVision One-To-One, that enables businesses to create applications for interactive marketing and selling services on the Web. These applications are designed to allow non-technical business managers to tailor Web site content to the needs and interests of individual Web site visitors, personalizing each visit on a real-time basis. From its inception in May 1993 to November 1995, the Company's operating activities related primarily to designing and developing products, and to building engineering, sales, marketing, and professional services organizations. In late December 1995, the Company introduced its only commercially available product, BroadVision One-To-One.

The Company's revenues are derived from software license fees and fees for its services. The Company generally recognizes license fees when the software has been delivered, the customer acknowledges an unconditional obligation to pay, and the Company has no significant obligations remaining. Professional service revenues generally are recognized as services are performed. Maintenance revenues are recognized ratably over the term of the support period, which is typically one year. See Note 2 of Notes to Financial Statements.

Since its inception, the Company has incurred substantial costs to research, develop, and enhance its technology and products, to recruit and train a marketing and sales group, and to establish an administrative organization. As a result, the Company has incurred net losses in each fiscal quarter since inception and, as of March 31, 1996, had an accumulated deficit of $7.8 million. The Company anticipates that its operating expenses will increase substantially in the foreseeable future as it continues the development of its technology, increases its sales and marketing activities, and creates and expands its distribution channels. Accordingly, the Company expects to incur additional losses for the foreseeable future. In addition, the Company's limited operating history makes the prediction of future results of operations difficult and, accordingly, there can be no assurance that the Company will achieve or sustain revenue growth or profitability.

To date, only 10 companies have licensed the BroadVision One-To-One application system and no application has been commercially deployed using BroadVision One-To-One. Accordingly, the Company has only a limited operating history, and its prospects must be evaluated in light of the risks and uncertainties frequently encountered by a company in its early stage of development. The new and evolving markets in which the Company operates make these risks and uncertainties particularly pronounced. To address these risks, the Company must, among other things, successfully implement its marketing strategy, respond to competitive developments, continue to develop and upgrade its products and technologies more rapidly than its competitors, and commercialize its products and services incorporating these enhanced technologies. There can be no assurance that the Company will succeed in addressing any or all of these risks.

The Company had 73 full-time employees at March 31, 1996, up from 46 and 14 at December 31, 1995 and 1994, respectively. The Company's ability to grow will depend, in part, on its success in adding a substantial number of direct sales and support personnel in 1996 and future periods. Competition for such personnel is intense, and there can be no assurance that the Company can retain its existing personnel or that it will be able to attract, assimilate, or retain additional highly qualified personnel in the future. The Company also expects to expend resources with respect to future expansion of its accounting and internal management systems and the implementation of a variety of new systems and procedures. In addition, the Company expects that future expansion will continue to challenge the Company's ability to train, motivate, and manage its employees, and to attract and retain qualified senior managers and technical persons, such as programmers and software architects. If the Company's revenues do not increase in proportion to its operating expenses, the Company's management

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systems do not expand to meet increasing demands, the Company fails to attract, assimilate, and retain qualified personnel, or the Company's management otherwise fails to manage the Company's expansion effectively, there would be a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results.

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Amounts from inception (May 13, 1993) to December 31, 1993 (the "1993 Period") are not comparable to those for the years ended December 31, 1994 and 1995 due to the different duration of the periods and the acceleration of the Company's activities and related expenses throughout the periods.

REVENUES

SOFTWARE LICENSES. The Company's products were first commercially available in late December 1995. The Company recognized its first license revenues, totaling $1.1 million from six customers, during the three months ended March 31, 1996. Two customers accounted for $514,000 and $175,000, respectively, of license revenues. Export license revenues, primarily to Asia, were $535,000 or 49% of total license revenues for the quarter. The Company derives license revenues from the sale of three separate but related products: the BroadVision One-To-One Development System, used by developers as a platform for developing interactive marketing and selling applications; the BroadVision One-To-One Deployment System, the engine for operating such applications; and the Dynamic Command Center ("DCC"), a Windows 95-based product enabling business managers to dynamically control business rules, such as pricing, and to obtain information on the status of the application. The Development System and the DCC are generally licensed on a per-seat basis, while the Deployment System is generally licensed based on application size, consisting of two components: the number of profiled users tracked by the application and the number of services, or content providers, sharing the application.

SERVICES. Service revenues consist primarily of consulting and, to a lesser extent, post-contract support and training service. The Company recognized a total of $540,000 in consulting revenues in the year ended December 31, 1995, with 92.6% of that total derived from a single contract development project. In the three months ended March 31, 1996, service revenues were $299,000, consisting primarily of $257,000 in professional service revenues related to the design and implementation of applications based on the BroadVision One-To-One application system, and $42,000 in maintenance revenues. To the extent that the Company's strategy of developing strategic alliances with third parties such as systems integrators is successful, professional service revenues as a percentage of total revenues may decrease. However, as the size of the Company's installed license base increases relative to new license revenues in any given period, post-contract support revenues as a percentage of total revenues may increase.

Of the Company's total revenues for the three months ended March 31, 1996, revenues from customers in North America accounted for 53.3% and revenues from customers in the Asia/Pacific and European regions accounted for 46.7%. The Company expects that international revenues will continue to account for a significant portion of its total revenues and expects to commit significant management time and financial resources to developing direct and indirect international sales and support channels. There can be no assurance, however, that the Company will be able to maintain or increase international market demand for the BroadVision One-To-One application system. Furthermore, four customers accounted for 83.6% of the Company's total revenues for the three months ended March 31, 1996; thus, there can be no assurance that the Company's revenue mix to date provides any indication of the Company's future revenue mix.

OPERATING EXPENSES

The Company's operating expenses have increased substantially since inception. The Company believes that continued expansion of its operations is essential to achieving its objectives and, therefore, intends to continue to increase expenditures in all operating areas.

COST OF SOFTWARE LICENSES. Cost of software licenses includes the costs of royalties payable to third parties for software that is embedded in, or bundled together or sold with, the Company's products, product media and duplication, and manuals. The amount of such royalties payable is generally related to sales volume to the

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Company's customers. Cost of software licenses was $164,000 in the three months ended March 31, 1996, or 14.9% of the related license revenues. There was no cost of software licenses prior to the three months ended March 31, 1996.

COST OF SERVICES. Cost of services consists primarily of employee-related costs and fees for third-party consultants incurred in providing consulting, post-contract support, and training services. Cost of services were $23,000, or 4.3% of the related service revenues, in the year ended December 31, 1995 and $33,000, or 11.0% of the related service revenues, in the three months ended March 31, 1996. Cost of services as a percentage of service revenues can be expected to vary significantly from period to period due to the mix of services provided by the Company and the resources used to provide these services. The Company does not expect to sustain the high rate of margins earned to date on service revenues.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. Research and development expenses consist primarily of salaries and other employee-related costs and consulting fees related to the development of the Company's products. Research and development expenses increased from $12,000 in the 1993 Period to $748,000 in the year ended December 31, 1994 and to $2.2 million in the year ended December 31, 1995. These expenses increased from $371,000 in the three months ended March 31, 1995 to $797,000 in three months ended March 31, 1996. These amounts reflect significant headcount increases in each of the periods. The Company anticipates that research and development expenses will continue to increase in absolute dollars for the remainder of 1996 and for 1997 and are expected to exceed $1 million in each of the next four quarters. All expenditures related to research and development have been expensed as incurred and, therefore, the cost of license revenues includes no amortization of capitalized software development costs. See Note 2 of Notes to Financial Statements.

SELLING, GENERAL, AND ADMINISTRATIVE. Selling, general, and administrative expenses consist primarily of salaries and other employee-related costs, commissions and other incentive compensation, travel and entertainment, expenditures for marketing programs, such as collateral materials, trade shows, public relations, and creative services, and fees for professional services. Selling, general, and administrative expenses increased from $131,000 in the 1993 Period to $1.0 million in the year ended December 31, 1994 and to $2.8 million in the year ended December 31, 1995. These expenses increased from $500,000 in the three months ended March 31, 1995 to $2.1 million in the three months ended March 31, 1996. The Company expects to continue to expand its direct sales and marketing efforts, add administrative staff to support expanded operations, relocate to new facilities, and incur additional costs related to being a public company and, therefore, expects selling, general, and administrative expenses to increase significantly in absolute dollars.

The Company has recorded deferred compensation and compensation expense for the difference between the exercise price and the deemed fair value of the Company's Common Stock with respect to 1,794,000 shares issuable upon exercise of options granted in December 1995 and the first quarter of 1996. These amounts are initially recorded as deferred compensation and will be amortized to selling, general, and administrative expense over the vesting periods of the options, generally 60 months. Deferred compensation amortized to expense was $100,000 for the year ended December 31, 1995 and $110,000 for the three months ended March 31, 1996. The amortization of deferred compensation will have an adverse effect on the Company's reported results of operations through the second quarter of 2001. See Note 4 of Notes to Financial Statements.

INCOME TAXES

At March 31, 1996, the Company had federal net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $5.6 million. Utilization of the carryforwards may be subject to annual limitation due to changes in the Company's ownership resulting from the Company's Preferred Stock financings and this offering. A valuation allowance has been recorded for the entire deferred tax asset as a result of uncertainties regarding the realization of the asset due to the lack of earnings history of the Company. See Note 7 of Notes to Financial Statements.

Deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities and are measured using the enacted tax rates and laws that will be in effect when the differences are expected to reverse. The Company has provided a full valuation allowance against its net deferred tax assets as it has determined that it is more likely than not that the deferred tax assets will not be realized. The Company's accounting for deferred taxes under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards

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No. 109 involves the evaluation of a number of factors concerning the realizability of the Company's deferred tax assets. To support the Company's conclusion that a full valuation allowance was required, management primarily considered such factors as the Company's history of operating losses and expected near-term future losses, the nature of the Company's deferred tax assets, and the lack of significant firm sales backlog. Although management's operating plans assume taxable and operating income in future periods, management's evaluation of all the available evidence in assessing the realizability of the deferred tax assets indicates that such plans were not considered sufficient to overcome the available negative evidence.

FACTORS AFFECTING OPERATING RESULTS

As a result of the Company's limited operating history, the Company does not have meaningful historical financial data for quarterly periods on which to base planned operating expenses. The Company's expense levels are based in part on its product development requirements as well as its expectations as to future revenues. The Company anticipates that its operating expenses will increase substantially for the foreseeable future as the Company continues to develop and market its initial products, increases its sales and marketing activities, creates and expands the distribution channels for its products, and broadens its customer support capabilities. The inability of the Company to release its products in a timely manner or any material shortfall in demand for the Company's products in relation to the Company's expectations would have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results.

The Company expects to experience significant fluctuations in future quarterly operating results that may be caused by many factors including, among others, the timing of introductions or enhancements of products and services by the Company or its competitors, the length of the Company's sales cycle, market acceptance of new products, the pace of development of the market for online commerce, the mix of the Company's products sold, the size and timing of significant orders and the timing of customer production or deployment, demand for the Company's products, changes in pricing policies by the Company or its competitors, changes in the Company's sales incentive plans, budgeting cycles of its customers, customer order deferrals in anticipation of new products or enhancements by the Company or its competitors, cancellation of orders prior to customer deployment or during the warranty period, nonrenewal of service agreements, product life cycles, software defects and other product quality problems, changes in strategy, changes in key personnel, the extent of international expansion, seasonal trends, the mix of distribution channels through which the Company's products are sold, the mix of international and domestic sales, changes in the level of operating expenses to support projected growth, and general economic conditions. The Company anticipates that a significant portion of its revenues will be derived from a limited number of orders, and the timing of receipt and fulfillment of any such orders is expected to cause material fluctuations in the Company's operating results, particularly on a quarterly basis. As with many software companies, the Company anticipates that it will make the major portion of each quarter's deliveries near the end of each quarter and, as a result, short delays in delivery of products at the end of a quarter could adversely affect operating results for that quarter. In addition, the Company intends, in the near term, to increase significantly its personnel, including its domestic and international direct sales force. The timing of such expansion and the rate at which new sales people become productive could also cause material fluctuations in the Company's quarterly operating results.

Due to the foregoing factors, quarterly revenues and operating results are difficult to forecast, and the Company believes that period-to-period comparisons of its operating results will not necessarily be meaningful and should not be relied upon as any indication of future performance. It is likely that the Company's future quarterly operating results from time to time will not meet the expectations of market analysts or investors, which may have an adverse effect on the price of the Company's Common Stock.

LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

Since its inception, the Company has financed its operations primarily through private placements of Common and Preferred Stock, which have provided net proceeds totaling $10.4 million through March 31, 1996 and an additional $5.1 million in April 1996.

The Company's operating activities used cash of $1.6 million and $3.7 million in the years ended December 31, 1994 and 1995, respectively. Such activities used cash of $767,000 in the three months ended March 31,

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1995 compared to $1.5 million in the three months ended March 31, 1996. The increases in cash used by operations are primarily attributable to higher operating expenses and an increase in accounts receivable at March 31, 1996 compared to prior periods.

Expenditures for property and equipment, including those subsequently financed under capitalized equipment leases, were $113,000 in the 1993 Period, $282,000 in year ended December 31, 1994, and $679,000 in year ended December 31, 1995, and $88,000 in the three months ended March 31, 1995 compared to $499,000 in the three months ended March 31, 1996. The increases from period to period are primarily due to the acquisition of property and equipment, primarily computer hardware and software, for the Company's growing employee base, as well as for the Company's management information and communications systems. The Company anticipates significant additional capital expenditures for the balance of 1996 and thereafter. The Company currently has no significant capital commitments other than commitments under equipment and facilities leases.

The Company anticipates that its available cash resources, combined with the net proceeds of this offering, will be sufficient to meet its presently anticipated working capital and capital expenditure requirements for at least the next 12 months. However, the Company may need to raise additional funds in order to support more rapid expansion, develop new or enhanced services, respond to competitive pressures, acquire complementary businesses or technologies, or respond to unanticipated requirements. The Company may seek to raise additional funds through private or public sales of securities, strategic relationships, bank or lease financings, or otherwise. If additional funds are raised through the issuance of equity securities, the percentage ownership of the stockholders of the Company will be reduced, stockholders may experience additional dilution, or such equity securities may have rights, preferences, or privileges senior to those of the holders of the Company's Common Stock. There can be no assurance that additional financing will be available when needed on terms favorable to the Company, if at all. If adequate funds are not available or are not available on acceptable terms, the Company may be unable to develop or enhance its products, take advantage of future opportunities, or respond to competitive pressures or unanticipated requirements, which could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results.

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BUSINESS

The following discussion of the Company's business contains forward-looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including, but not limited to, those set forth under "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in this Prospectus.

OVERVIEW

BroadVision provides an integrated software application system, BroadVision One-To-One, that enables businesses to create applications for interactive marketing and selling services on the Web. These applications are designed to allow non-technical business managers to tailor Web site content to the needs and interests of individual Web site visitors, personalizing each visit on a real-time basis. The BroadVision One-To-One application system and related vertical application solutions and services are targeted at businesses developing Web sites for marketing and selling to consumers and business customers, and as internal resources for employees. The Company's customers use BroadVision One-To-One to develop Web sites that engage visitors and encourage return visits through personalized interactions, capture marketing information from volunteered data and observed behavior, and generate revenues from electronic commerce activities and point-cast advertising. BroadVision One-To-One provides these software capabilities in an architecture that supports the full one-to-one marketing and selling life cycle. The Company believes that these capabilities are needed by business managers and Web site application developers to take full advantage of the potential of the Internet as a marketplace for conducting electronic commerce and for building long-term relationships with customers.

BACKGROUND

TRENDS IN MARKETING AND SELLING

To prevail in the intensely competitive global marketplace, business managers must continually devise new strategies to market, sell, and distribute their products and services. From the 1950s to the 1980s, leading businesses in North America, Europe, and Asia advanced the sciences of mass production, mass communication, and mass distribution to establish world markets for their products and services. During the 1980s, these mass marketers began using new technologies and analytical techniques to better segment and define targeted markets in order to reach customer groups most likely to buy their products. These new approaches helped marketers respond to increasing competition and customer demands for improved quality, service, and product choice. The trend toward greater specialization has continued to increase as many marketers have used targeted marketing tools and new delivery media, such as direct mail and telemarketing, to reach more precisely targeted market segments.

In the latter half of the 1990s, many marketing executives in both business-to-consumer and business-to-business industries have turned their attention to the ultimate target market segment: the market of one. In their 1993 book, THE ONE-TO-ONE FUTURE, marketing specialists Don Peppers and Martha Rogers (members of the Company's BroadVision Advisory Council ("BVAC") and strategic partners of the Company) describe this trend as "one-to-one marketing" and advocate the following:

THE OLD PARADIGM, A SYSTEM OF MASS PRODUCTION, MASS MEDIA, AND MASS MARKETING, IS BEING REPLACED BY A TOTALLY NEW PARADIGM, A ONE-TO-ONE ECONOMIC SYSTEM. THE 1:1 FUTURE WILL BE CHARACTERIZED BY CUSTOMIZED PRODUCTION, INDIVIDUALLY ADDRESSABLE MEDIA, AND 1:1 MARKETING, TOTALLY CHANGING THE RULES OF BUSINESS COMPETITION AND GROWTH. INSTEAD OF MARKET SHARE, THE GOAL OF MOST BUSINESS COMPETITION WILL BE SHARE OF CUSTOMER -- ONE CUSTOMER AT A TIME.

One-to-one marketing and selling involves a systematic, interactive approach to developing and managing a detailed knowledge base that integrates individual customers' product and business requirements, personal preferences, and purchase histories with traditional demographic statistics. This information provides the foundation for businesses to serve customers in the form of individually tailored products, services, information, incentives, and transactions. By focusing on individual customers and one-to-one marketing, business managers can develop productive relationships with their customers that maximize customer satisfaction, develop customer loyalty, and contain the high costs associated with new customer acquisition.

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MARKETING AND SELLING ON THE INTERNET

With the emergence of the Internet's World Wide Web as a globally accessible, interactive, and individually addressable communications and computing platform, businesses have the opportunity to implement one-to-one marketing and selling on a mass basis. The proliferation of inexpensive, easy-to-use Web browsers and affordable Internet access services has made the Internet easy to navigate, accessible to millions of homes and businesses, and readily adaptable to a broad range of business, entertainment, education, commerce, and marketing applications. New technologies, such as Java from Sun Microsystems, Inc. ("Sun") and ActiveX from Microsoft, are facilitating the delivery of dynamic, interactive content for the Web and accelerating adaptation of the Internet as a mainstream business and personal computing platform. International Data Corporation has estimated that the number of individuals worldwide with access to the Internet will reach approximately 200 million by the end of 1999, of whom 125 million are expected to be accessing the Web. In addition, businesses have recently begun to utilize the Internet to create internal enterprise networking environments, called "intranets." These networks are enabling businesses to create Web sites that serve as internal resources by providing interactive services directly to employees. Forrester Research, Inc. estimates that the combined Internet and intranet worldwide software market will increase from $127 million in 1995 to $8.5 billion in 1999.

Increasingly, businesses are developing and maintaining Web sites -- Internet front offices and store fronts where visitors can learn, discover, and purchase from the business interactively. As Internet use has grown, industry experts have described Web sites as ideal places to develop individual customer relationships. Whether a Web site is designed primarily for delivering content, promoting a brand, or conducting transactions, it offers businesses an opportunity to extend front office services directly into the homes and business of customers and to initiate and maintain an ongoing relationship online. By recognizing the relationship-building potential of the Web -- in particular, its ability to interactively capture Web site visitor profiles, observations, and feedback, and to dynamically micro-target useful information to visitors based on this data -- business managers can utilize advanced Internet technologies to engage in personalized dialogues with millions of customers on a one-to-one basis.

THE BUSINESS CHALLENGE ON THE WEB

While the Internet is widely predicted to become a global platform for providing and accessing information, there remain significant challenges to doing business on the Web. The Internet is characterized by fluid and dynamic content, where information is continually being updated and enhanced. Web site visitors perceive the value of Web sites to be directly correlated to the frequency of content updates and the dynamic behavior of the site. Creating the best Web sites generally requires sophisticated creative and technical expertise. Although the market has been flooded with numerous inexpensive tools for building, updating, and downloading Web sites, many of the companies producing and using these tools have failed to take full advantage of the Internet's dynamic one-to-one relationship potential.

The majority of Web sites today simply present text and graphics electronically in a static format, much like a product brochure. These "brochureware" sites may use new Web publishing tools and multimedia techniques to dress up their static content, but few have the interactive capability to capture visitor profiles, target personalized interactions, remember information from one visit to the next, or enable business managers to manage the site on a real-time basis. Providing these additional services is a valuable next step for companies that plan to maximize the potential of the Web for interactive marketing and selling.

Even the small number of Web sites that have moved beyond brochureware to provide electronic commerce and shopping have failed to capitalize fully on the Internet's potential for building one-to-one relationships. Sites that do support online ordering and payment often fail to satisfy customer expectations, providing commercial experiences that are less enjoyable and cost-effective than traditional alternatives. Most lack any form of real-time personalization and cannot dynamically target information to Web site visitors' preferences and past histories. Others lack integration with mainstream business systems for supporting visitors interactively or exchanging information with corporate databases. While some of these sites use advanced applications to support online order and payment transactions, many still require buyers to place orders by telephone, defeating a basic objective of electronic commerce.

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Moreover, these sites are generally cumbersome for business managers to operate. Business rules and content, such as product and pricing data, financial policies, promotions, and advertising campaigns, are "hard-coded" into programs and virtually impossible for non-technical managers to change dynamically. Applications are not scalable and require ongoing tuning and re-engineering to keep up with visitor growth and changes in Internet technology. Development is slow and defects are common due to the absence of productivity tools, reusable objects, and templates.

THE TECHNOLOGY GAP ON THE WEB

In part, the limited capabilities of these Web sites are a result of the inadequacies of the technologies available to develop Internet applications. Web projects were initially limited to very basic tasks, such as publishing information for online access and basic hyperlinking. As a result, most Web developers still rely on general purpose publishing tools, such as HTML (Hypertext Mark-up Language) editors, to develop Web pages and the links between them. These tools were not designed to be used in the development of sophisticated applications, which currently require a combination of low-performance "scripting languages," such as PERL (Practical Extraction and Report Language), high performance programming languages such as C and C++, database platforms such as those offered by Oracle and Sybase, and Web platforms from companies such as Netscape, OMI, and Microsoft. Using these disparate technologies to develop and maintain sophisticated Internet applications, such as managing customer relationships and defining dynamic business rules, is a highly complex process requiring a breadth of expertise that is often beyond the capabilities of in-house information technology organizations. In addition, the cost, time, and effort of building and maintaining Internet applications in this manner is often beyond the funding capacity of internal Internet application development budgets. In a recent study, International Data Corporation concluded that the cost of establishing an interactive commerce Web site is typically four times greater than expected and that twice as much time is spent on customizing sites as originally anticipated. While minimally functional Web sites can be developed at a low cost, industry sources estimate that the 12-month costs for the creation and maintenance of a more complex Web site can reach several million dollars.

Most currently available Internet application servers, including commerce and merchant servers, lack integrated development suites to create and maintain interactive Web applications. Generally, they require the use of a combination of general purpose tools, which are typically conducive only to the development of static brochureware or applications that simply process order and payment transactions. With these currently available application servers, business managers do not have the capability to react to market conditions with real-time control and management of Web sites, but instead are often constrained by slow "change request" processes that take technical specialists days or even weeks to implement. Moreover, most existing application servers do not permit business managers to tailor communications, information, products, and services to the needs of their individual Web site visitors in real time. As a result, these existing products fall short of maximizing the potential of online one-to-one marketing and selling.

INTERNET APPLICATION SYSTEMS FOR ONE-TO-ONE MARKETING AND SELLING

The recent trends toward personalized one-to-one marketing and selling, together with the increasing adoption of the Internet as a platform for commerce and communication, have fueled the need for more sophisticated application software that enables business managers to create Web sites that build and sustain personalized, long-term relationships with their customers. To realize the potential of one-to-one marketing and selling, Web sites should support the following activities:

-Attract and retain Web site visitors by providing dynamic content and interactive communities of interest

-Develop and maintain visitor profiles, observe and remember interactions, and engage in ongoing personalized dialogues while empowering individuals to control the privacy of their personal data

-Provide business managers the ability to define and modify Web site business rules and content in real time

-Dynamically target personalized products, editorials, advertising, and marketing incentives to correspond to profile data in order to motivate visitors to interact, follow links, and conduct transactions

-Fulfill financial and information transactions with secure electronic commerce processes

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THE BROADVISION SOLUTION

BroadVision provides an integrated software application system, BroadVision One-To-One, that enables businesses to create applications for interactive marketing and selling services on the Web. These applications are designed to allow non-technical business managers to tailor Web site content to the needs and interests of individual Web site visitors, personalizing each visit on a real-time basis. The BroadVision One-To-One application system and related vertical application solutions and services are targeted at businesses developing Web sites for marketing and selling to consumers and business customers, and as internal resources for employees. The Company's customers use BroadVision One-To-One to develop Web sites that engage visitors and encourage return visits through personalized interactions, capture marketing information from volunteered data and observed behavior, and generate revenues from electronic commerce activities and point-cast advertising. BroadVision One-To-One provides these software capabilities in an architecture that supports the full one-to-one marketing and selling life cycle. The Company believes that these capabilities are needed by business managers and Web site application developers to take full advantage of the potential of the Internet as a marketplace for conducting electronic commerce and for building long-term relationships with customers.

BroadVision One-To-One supports the following steps in the one-to-one marketing and selling life cycle:

COMMUNITY

BroadVision One-To-One facilitates the development of bulletin boards, chat groups, and online forums to help businesses attract and retain Web site visitors by connecting visitors with common profile characteristics and interests into online communities. Development of these online communities is intended to ultimately benefit the sponsoring business through word-of-mouth referrals, user group dynamics, and increased feedback on products and services.

PROFILING

At the core of BroadVision One-To-One is the capability to develop and maintain dynamic profiles of Web site visitors. Profile data is collected initially when visitors volunteer information about their preferences and interests, as well as basic background data, often in exchange for incentives, such as discounts and coupons. This data is then augmented over time with usage history and observation data and additional information volunteered by the Web site visitors.

The Company believes that ensuring privacy of an individual's personal as well as financial data will prove to be a fundamental requirement for establishing the Web as a strategic business venue. As a result, BroadVision One-To-One offers its customers a security model that, if employed, would enable each visitor to control access to personal data, on an element-by-element basis.

TARGETING

BroadVision One-To-One enables business managers to deliver targeted content to Web site visitors based on individual profiles. This feature allows Web sites to generate, in real time, personalized product information, editorials, pricing, advertising, coupons, incentives, and promotions for Web site visitors who fit a certain profile or meet a set of criteria or conditions determined by business managers.

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TRANSACTIONS

BroadVision One-To-One manages transaction processing essential for both business-to-consumer and business-to-business electronic commerce, including integration with existing business systems and third-party software applications for secure online ordering and payment, order fulfillment and billing, customer service, electronic data interchange ("EDI"), and reporting.

Picture captioned "Features of the BroadVision One-To-One Solution" with four columns entitled "Community", "Profiling", "Targeting" and "Transactions". Under each column heading is a list of features specific to that solution.

STRATEGY

The Company's objective is to establish one-to-one marketing and selling as a standard feature of Web sites worldwide. To achieve this objective, the Company has adopted the following strategies:

FOCUS ON INTERNET APPLICATIONS FOR ONE-TO-ONE MARKETING AND SELLING

Industry analysts have recently begun to divide the Internet software marketplace into five segments: browsers, server software, tools, applets, and packaged applications. The Company believes that the next major phase of Internet growth will be driven by complete packaged application solutions that leverage other software technologies and allow businesses to capitalize more fully on the Internet as a business venue. Accordingly, the Company is focusing exclusively on developing packaged application solutions for businesses developing Web sites for one-to-one marketing and selling.

LEVERAGE INITIAL CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS WITH AGGREGATORS

To pursue market adoption of the BroadVision One-To-One application system as an industry standard solution for one-to-one marketing and selling on the Internet, the Company has initially focused its sales efforts on aggregators of online services that can introduce the Company's products to their individual content providers, who may develop their own Web site applications in the future. BroadVision intends to pursue these companies as prospective customers and believes the companies' experiences using BroadVision One-To-One through aggregators will provide BroadVision an advantage in marketing its products directly to them.

ACHIEVE TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP

The Company intends to continue to enhance its technology by investing heavily in research and development activities, incorporating industry-leading components into its products and employing its own technology and human resources as a source of ongoing technological advantage. Through its BVAC meetings, the Company seeks to attract industry leaders willing to share ideas with, and provide insights into market requirements to, the Company's executives, engineers, and marketing managers. Having employed the Common Object Request Broker Architecture ("CORBA") standard as a cornerstone of its product architecture, the Company intends to integrate other CORBA-compatible technologies, such as the Java development language from Sun, into its products. Utilizing its own products, the Company intends to design and build advanced, custom software tools and solutions for its engineering and consulting operations.

EXPAND AND LEVERAGE ALLIANCES WITH KEY BUSINESS PARTNERS

To accelerate the acceptance of the BroadVision One-To-One application system and to promote the adoption of the Web as a commercial marketplace, the Company plans to develop cooperative alliances with leading Internet technology vendors, systems integrators, and Web site developers. The Company believes that these alliances should also provide additional marketing and sales channels for the Company's products, enable the Company to more rapidly incorporate additional functions and platforms into the BroadVision One-To-One application system, and facilitate the successful deployment of customer applications. To develop domain expertise, the Company intends to form additional strategic alliances with companies in the fields of marketing, advertising, and design, such as its recent alliance with Marketing 1:1, Inc. ("Marketing 1:1"), a company owned by marketing consultants, Don Peppers and Martha Rogers.

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DEVELOP VERTICAL APPLICATION SOLUTIONS

The Company intends to leverage its BroadVision One-To-One application system to develop additional Web application products and services focused on vertical markets. Utilizing its expanding libraries of reusable application objects and templates and working closely with customers and strategic partners, the Company believes it can deliver vertical application solutions for one-to-one marketing and selling faster, of a higher quality, and at a lower cost than its competitors. The Company intends to deliver vertical Web solutions for business-to-consumer and business-to-business services in the areas of telecommunications and online services, retail, catalogue, and consumer products, travel and leisure, media and publishing, financial services, wholesale and manufacturing, health care services, and pharmaceuticals.

BUILD INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE

To capitalize on the emergence of the Internet as a global network, the Company has established sales operations in Paris, London, Zurich, Tokyo, and Singapore and is preparing to open additional sales operations in Munich and Hong Kong before the end of 1996. In addition, the Company intends to distribute its products internationally through licensed distributors, value-added resellers, and systems integrators and to certify providers of professional services for BroadVision consulting, training, and support. The Company's product architecture is designed to support international languages, and the Company is currently shipping a localized version of its BroadVision One-To-One application system for the Japanese market.

The Company's strategy involves substantial risk. There can be no assurance that the Company will be successful in implementing its strategy or that its strategy, even if implemented, will lead to successful achievement of the Company's objectives. If the Company is unable to implement its strategy effectively, the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results would be materially adversely affected.

PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

The BroadVision One-To-One application system provides businesses with an end-to-end solution for developing, implementing, operating, and maintaining one-to-one marketing and selling applications tailored to the needs and interests of individual Web site visitors. The Company's customers use BroadVision One-To-One to develop Web sites that engage visitors and encourage return visits through personalized interactions, capture marketing information from volunteered data and observed behavior, and generate revenues from electronic commerce activities and point-cast advertising. A principal feature of BroadVision One-To-One is a set of building blocks, called "dynamic objects" and "application templates," that implement capabilities required to conduct one-to-one marketing and selling on Web sites. These capabilities enable business managers to deliver content and information, promote products and brands, fulfill financial and information transactions, and nurture long-term relationships with their customers on a real-time basis. The key elements of the BroadVision One-To-One application system are described below:

DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM

The BroadVision One-To-One Development System consists of application programming interfaces ("APIs") for programming BroadVision One-To-One applications. Since many Web sites use custom software to provide unique capabilities to their user communities, the BroadVision One-To-One Development System also enables developers to create integration objects, called "object adapters," that allow external software and data to be easily integrated into the flow of an application. Also, scheduled for release in late 1996 is a graphical point-and-click application builder, consisting of an HTML editor interface, dynamic objects and application templates, and tools for object definition and preview. When commercially available, this application builder will allow developers to place dynamic objects into the flow of Web documents in order to generate HTML and content dynamically on the basis of business rules and real-time dialogues with Web site visitors. Furthermore, Java applets can serve as BroadVision One-To-One application objects and can also be used to access BroadVision One-To-One services directly from the product's application engine. This capability allows BroadVision One-To-One applications to be developed entirely in Java.

DEPLOYMENT SYSTEM

The BroadVision One-To-One Deployment System enables one-to-one applications to be installed on application servers for large-scale production Web site operations. The Deployment System consists of an

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application engine, a session manager, object libraries, application templates, and object adapters. This system actively manages Web site content and interactions by assembling and organizing profile information from Web site visitors, interpreting visitor interactions and profile information according to application business rules and logic, dynamically targeting content, and processing online RDBMS transactions. A key characteristic of the Deployment System is its ability to interact with the BroadVision DCC application which, under the control of non-technical business managers, defines business rules that the Deployment System interprets to target information and content individually tailored to each Web site visitor. The BroadVision One-To-One Deployment System utilizes the CORBA standard to enhance performance and scalability for Web sites with high volume traffic. It also contains embedded versions of Sybase or Oracle RDBMSs for high performance transaction throughput.

DYNAMIC COMMAND CENTER

The DCC is a Windows 95 client application for editorial, advertising, marketing, and merchandising business managers. The DCC offers managers the ability to configure the operations of a Web site in real time using familiar, non-technical concepts. For example, through the DCC, a business manager can initiate a sale or promotion, send coupons to specifically targeted consumers, or change prices dynamically. The DCC also provides a means for managers to monitor the activity on Web sites, enabling them to evaluate the effectiveness of content and services being offered on the site.

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The table below summarizes certain features of and price information for each of the Company's products:

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       PRODUCT              DESCRIPTION       OPERATING PLATFORMS/    U.S. LIST PRICE FOR
                                                     RDBMSS            PERPETUAL LICENSE

  Development System   Full object-oriented   -Sun Solaris 2.5       -$50,000 per
                       environment for        operating system       developer
                       developing, testing,   -Windows NT            seat for aggregators
                       and tuning             operating system       -$25,000 per
                       applications           (scheduled for         developer
                                              introduction in        seat for single
                                              late 1996)             corporate Web sites
                                              -Oracle RDBMS
                                              -Sybase RDBMS

  Deployment System    Full environment for   -Sun Solaris 2.5       -License fee based on
                       deploying production   operating system       number of profiled
                       applications           -Windows NT            users tracked by
                                              operating system       application and
                                              (scheduled for         number of services
                                              introduction in        accessing profiled
                                              late 1996)             user
                                              -Oracle RDBMS          base.
                                              -Sybase RDBMS          -Ranges from $30,000
                                                                      for minimum
                                                                      configuration to
                                                                      more than $1 million
                                                                      for large, complex
                                                                      configurations

  Dynamic Command      PC-based application   -Windows 95 operating  -$5,000 per seat
  Center               enabling business       system
                       managers to monitor
                       state of Web
                       applications,
                       interactively change
                       business rules in
                       real time, and
                       generate reports

CONSULTING AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES

The Company also offers consulting services through its ISG consultants on a contract basis to customers seeking assistance in implementing custom applications of BroadVision One-To-One. Services provided by ISG include:

-Analysis and design of architecture and applications

-Application development, including custom objects and templates

-Project management

-System tuning, operation, and maintenance

-Education and training regarding the Company's products

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In addition, the Company offers software maintenance on all of the products identified above for an annual fee of 18% of the perpetual license fee, payable annually in advance. For this fee, customers receive technical support, update rights to new releases, and patch releases as necessary. With each sale, the Company typically provides a 90-day warranty that the product complies with the Company's published documentation.

The statements made in this Prospectus regarding scheduled release dates for the Company's products under development and proposed enhancements are forward-looking statements, and the actual release dates for such products or enhancements could differ materially from those projected as a result of a variety of factors, including the ability of the Company's engineers to solve technical problems and to test products, business priorities in light of the availability of development and other resources, and other factors, including factors that may be outside the control of the Company, as well as the factors discussed in "Risk Factors." There can be no assurance that the Company will not experience difficulties that could delay or prevent the successful development, introduction, and marketing of new products, or that new products and product enhancements will satisfy the requirements of the marketplace or achieve market acceptance.

THE BROADVISION ONE-TO-ONE USER EXPERIENCE

BroadVision One-To-One offers benefits to three distinct user groups involved in the process of marketing and selling on the Internet: Internet APPLICATION DEVELOPERS that build and maintain Web sites, BUSINESS MANAGERS that operate and manage Web sites, and WEB SITE VISITORS that utilize and interact with Web sites for information, entertainment, shopping, education, and other online activities.

ONE-TO-ONE APPLICATION DEVELOPERS

BroadVision One-To-One offers Internet application developers an object-oriented development environment consisting of robust, high-performance APIs and tools. Application developers may include employees of the Company's customers, third-party systems integrators and resellers, or the Company's own ISG consultants made available on a contract basis. These developers typically require powerful tools that enable innovation, ensure that applications can be written easily and quickly, and create high-performance applications in terms of throughput, scalability, and response time with a minimum of system defects. Developing a BroadVision One-To-One application involves the following steps:

-Defining and structuring Web site visitor profiles

-Designing Web site pages and interactions

-Creating re-usable logic components, such as objects, templates, and Java applets

-Determining and modeling the flow of data and content among Web site visitors, information servers, and existing applications

-Programming application and business logic based on the desired interaction between Web site providers and visitors

-Testing and debugging applications

-Tuning application performance

Developers are provided a structured, object-oriented development environment for programming server logic, and CORBA-based APIs that provide a standardized methodology for the integration of external applications and data sources essential to one-to-one Internet marketing and selling applications.

BUSINESS MANAGERS

Business managers are responsible for the day-to-day operation of Web applications. They need the ability to modify application content and business rules with a minimum of dependence on technical personnel, as well as the ability to observe activity on Web sites to obtain real-time information on the nature of interactions between the Web sites and Web site visitors.

Business managers interact directly and in real time with BroadVision One-To-One by using the product's DCC application. This application offers business managers a point-and-click interface for defining and modifying business rules that determine how content will be presented to Web site visitors and how interactions between the

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visitor and the Web site provider will be managed over time. For example, an advertising manager may target advertising to specific Web site pages based on specific criteria, such as visitor demographics or advertiser rate cards. Based on observation of Web site activity, a marketing manager may specify that certain product content be targeted to visitors that meet certain profile criteria, such as site visit frequency or registered preferences. A merchandising manager may choose to conduct a special sale or cross-selling promotion for visitors whose profiles meet criteria that the manager determines to be appropriate for a particular promotional program.

WEB SITE VISITORS

The Web enables anyone with Internet access to obtain information and conduct transactions online, offering fundamentally new opportunities to interact with businesses and engage in commercial activities. When fully implemented, marketing and selling applications based on BroadVision One-To-One will enable consumers, business customers, and employees to provide profile information about preferences, interests, and habits, and to experience distinctive Web site visits that are created specifically to appeal to visitors based on profiles. To date, no application has been commercially deployed using BroadVision One-To-One.

A first-time visitor entering a Web site based on BroadVision One-To-One may be offered an incentive to provide profile information to establish the context for personalized interaction between the Web site and the visitor. In some cases, profiles may be provided in advance through external processes such as product registration forms or direct mail surveys. Information from past interactions and transactions can be added to enhance profiles, and visitors can take advantage of a range of privacy features that may be provided by the business to restrict third-party access to profile information.

As visitors browse and interact with a Web site, their profiles are interpreted by application business rules, which have been previously defined by business managers. Targeted Web content, such as product information, editorial material, advertising, promotions, and entertainment, is then dynamically generated and delivered to the visitor on personalized Web pages. Visitors may pursue a wide range of activities on a Web site created with BroadVision One-To-One, such as reading personalized online newspapers, magazines, or product brochures, shopping with a virtual sales assistant, placing online orders, completing customer satisfaction surveys or feedback forms on purchased products, reviewing stock quotes, participating in community chat groups and other forums, watching Java animations, listening to personalized Web audio, and watching personalized Web video. All of these activities can be tailored specifically to visitors' profiles by the business manager responsible for the site.

Visits may result in financial transactions, information exchanges, downloads, or electronic correspondence. Regardless of the outcome of a Web site visit, information volunteered by a visitor during the visit or captured by the Web site through observations of the visitor's interactions can be incorporated into the visitor's profile for subsequent visits. Each Web site visit is likely to be different from the previous visit, either as a result of changing content, changing business rules or changing profile characteristics. Because of the variety of possible profiles, business rules, and content, it is unlikely that any two visitors would have exactly the same experience on a Web site created with BroadVision One-To-One.

TECHNOLOGY

The Company believes its advanced technology enables the delivery of robust, scalable, and innovative Internet marketing and selling solutions into the market faster and at a lower cost than alternatives. The Company's technology consists of the following key elements:

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

The Company believes that the technical demands of interactive one-to-one marketing and selling on the Internet require an architectural design that stresses standards, openness, interoperability, and flexibility. The Company has designed its current application system as an architectural solution for building dynamic, scalable, and extensible Internet applications. By emphasizing reusable methods, separation of application logic, business rules, and data, and adherence to open standards, the BroadVision One-To-One application system provides an efficient architecture for customers and partners to build, modify, and control applications, as well as to integrate them with external business systems. The Company believes this architecture also provides a robust foundation on which the Company can rapidly develop new products.

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CORBA

The Company has invested substantially in developing its architecture to comply with CORBA, which the Company believes will become a standard widely adopted by Internet technology providers. CORBA, defined by the Object Management Group, a consortium of approximately 600 companies, documents an approach to developing distributed object-oriented systems. The Company implements CORBA in its application system architecture by embedding into the Company's own code the Orbix software from IONA, a leading supplier of software for CORBA compliance.

Applications that are CORBA-compliant can run on either single computers with one or more processors or across large networks, allow replication and relocation of object servers to improve system performance, are platform independent, and have strongly defined APIs through the use of the Interface Definition Language ("IDL") specified by CORBA.

Through CORBA compliance, the Company's products are fully compatible with other CORBA-based technologies, such as Java from Sun, an increasingly widely used language for developing Internet applications and interactive Web content, and the recently announced Web server product line from Oracle.

THREE-TIER ARCHITECTURE

The BroadVision One-To-One application system utilizes a three-tier architecture that logically separates application presentation, business rules, and data. Between each of these three tiers are session manager and project adapter interface technologies, described below, that establish seamless interoperability between application components. As illustrated in the figure below, this three-tier architecture partitions applications across:

-A FRONT-END tier that manages the application presentation and interface to Web site visitors

-An APPLICATION ENGINE tier that manages the one-to-one life cycle activities -- community, profiling, targeting, and transactions -- and the business rules that define the interactive characteristics and behavior of one-to-one marketing and selling applications

-A BACK-END tier that integrates underlying database management systems for storing BroadVision One-To-One system data with external business systems that perform specialized marketing and selling functions, such as online credit card authorization and payment handling, sales tax and shipping computation, online and offline order fulfillment, inventory management, visitor demographic analysis, and data mining

Graphic depiction of rectangular shapes representing the three-tier architecture of BroadVision's Dynamic Command Center captioned "Dynamic Command Center" with three columns entitled "Application Presentation," "Busines Rules," and "Data" and connected by two-way arrows. Beneath each title is a list of the features of that application.

The Company believes this three-tier architecture offers significant advantages over alternative approaches, including:

-Bandwidth, database, and platform independence

-Modularity, to enable changes to be made to one area of an application with minimal impact on other areas

-The ability for business managers to define and control business rules in real time without requiring programming changes to application logic

-The ability to support specialized "object adapters" that reduce time and cost to integrate BroadVision One-To-One applications with existing business systems, the ability to perform such integration with a minimum of programming, and the ability to localize applications to different language and currency requirements

SESSION MANAGER

The Company has developed proprietary "session manager" technology designed to manage the high volume of dynamic interactions that occur in online sessions between many concurrent Web site visitors and a marketing and selling application. The session manager, illustrated in the figure below, enables three key activities:

-Maintaining context, or "state," between visitors and sites so that each current and future interaction can trigger a response appropriate to the objectives of both visitor and site provider

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-Interpreting application objects and templates at runtime, and retrieving profile data and business rules to dynamically generate HTML that creates content, Web pages, and interactions tailored to the needs and interests of individual Web site visitors

-Enabling application scalability by allowing Web site providers to add additional software processes or hardware processors to their Web systems to support more concurrent Web site visitors without incurring performance degradation or additional overhead in application maintenance

DYNAMIC OBJECTS AND APPLICATION TEMPLATES

The Company believes that the costs and time associated with Internet application development and maintenance can be substantially reduced with its technology for object-oriented application development. This technology consists of two primary components, dynamic objects and application templates, shown in the figure below. Utilized in combination with the Company's structured development methodology, these technologies are designed to help customers and partners create libraries of reusable program components that increase application quality and reduce cost and time-to-market of new and maintained applications. In addition, the dynamic object technology enables business managers to define and implement business rules through the BroadVision One-To-One DCC on a real-time basis. The Company's ISG consultants currently use these technologies to develop application solutions for customers, and the Company's Education Services Group offers training classes to customers and partners on the use of dynamic objects and application templates.

Graphic depiction of the BroadVision One-to-One Application System, entitled the same. To the left is a person seated at a computer, with the caption "Business Manager," who is connected to a diagram of rectangular shapes representing the One-to-One Application System, which includes the Dynamic Command Center, the Application Templates, and the Session Manager. Underneath are rectangular shapes representing an application engine and CORBA. Connected to the right of the diagram is a person seated at a computer, with the caption "Visitor."

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TAXONOMY MODELING AND MATCHING

For its taxonomy modeling and matching product, currently in beta testing for availability in late 1996, the Company is developing proprietary software algorithms and methods that enable Web site providers to dynamically match the profile characteristics of site visitors with Web content. These technologies are being developed into tools designed to enable companies to define their own taxonomy and rule bases, and classify, edit, and index Web content that can then be dynamically matched to the demographic and psychographic profiles of Web site visitors and their communities of interest. See "-- Product Development."

ADHERENCE TO INDUSTRY STANDARDS

In addition to CORBA, the Company uses other widely accepted standards in developing its products, including SQL (Structured Query Language) for accessing RDBMSs, CGI (Common Gateway Interface), and HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) for Internet access, NSAPI (Netscape Application Programming Interface) for access to Netscape's Internet servers, and the RC2 and MD5 encryption algorithms supplied by RSA. BroadVision One-To-One can be operated in conjunction with RDBMSs provided by both Oracle and Sybase. Most of the Company's programs are written in C++, a widely accepted standard programming language for developing object-oriented applications. Adherence to industry standards provides compatibility with existing applications, enables ease of modification, and reduces the need for software to be rewritten, thus protecting the customer's investment.

CUSTOMERS AND MARKETS

The Company has licensed its BroadVision One-To-One software to 10 customers and provided related professional services to an additional seven customers worldwide. Types of applications being developed by licensees using BroadVision One-To-One include cybermalls, online services, and corporate Web sites. To date, no application has been commercially deployed using BroadVision One-To-One. The Company's target customers include organizations that are at the forefront of Internet marketing and selling. Customers that have acquired licenses and professional services, to date, are Hongkong Telecom, Itochu Internet Corporation, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., NetRadio Network, NTT Data Communications Systems Corporation ("NTT Data"), Olivetti Telemedia Videostrada, Prodigy Services Co., Sema Group, Ltd., and Virgin.net Limited. Companies to which the Company has, to date, provided only professional services are Advanta Corporation, Europe Online, Fujitsu, Ltd., Liberty Financial Companies, Inc., Retesa S.A., Siemens-Nixdorf, and Telefonica I&D.

In addition, the Company believes that the three-tier architecture of BroadVision One-To-One and its compliance with the CORBA standard enable it to support online marketing and selling applications on interactive venues other than the Internet, such as broadband channels, direct broadcast satellite, and private networks. For example, Thomson-Sun Interactive has licensed BroadVision One-To-One for development of a prototype application on OpenTV. To date, this application has not been commercially deployed, and no assurances can be given that such venues will prove to be viable markets for the Company's products.

Initial customers for the BroadVision One-To-One application system have been content aggregators, which provide online marketing and selling capabilities for multiple content providers. These customers have acquired between one and five Development System licenses, up to 10 DCC licenses, and Deployment System licenses for up to one million Web site visitors. If and when the systems are deployed and the customers develop applications that attract additional content providers and Web site visitors, additional licenses may be required. The Company anticipates that an increasing proportion of its future revenues may be derived from sales to businesses that participate in aggregated online services and then intend to develop individual branded Web sites. Per-customer revenues from such customers would typically be less than revenues from aggregators, largely because of the Company's price structure and because the Company expects a greater proportion of such sales to be made through value-added resellers and systems integrators.

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The Company has targeted a number of markets that it believes to be especially conducive to interactive marketing and selling. These markets, identified in the table below, have historically been characterized by early adoption of online technology or could otherwise benefit from providing significant interactive service to their end-user customers.

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  TARGET INDUSTRY     SAMPLE APPLICATIONS               BENEFITS OF BROADVISION ONE-TO-ONE
 Telecommunications  - Cybermalls            - Selective sharing of Web visitor profiles between
 and online          - Online services         aggregators and content providers
 services
                                             - Highly targeted, highly customized advertising and
                                               personalized feedback for advertisers
                                             - Online, real-time control of business rules, such as
                                               pricing and promotions, by both cybermall operators and
                                               individual content providers
 Retail, catalogue,  - Online shopping       - Creation of branded communities based on profiles of
 and consumer        - Interactive             Web site visitors
 products              catalogues            - Online, real-time control of business rules, such as
                                               pricing and promotions, by content providers
                                             - Reduced transaction costs of direct purchases
 Travel and leisure  - Reservations          - Provide travel planning advice and transaction services
                     - Travel planning         without agents or other intermediaries
                                             - Opportunity to cross-sell or up-sell services in
                                               addition to basic travel reservations based on user
                                               profiles
 Media and           - Purchasing digital    - Ability to price digital products and services in real
 publishing            media                   time
                                             - Match employment opportunities with job seekers
                     - Employment search
 Financial services  - Obtaining             - Investment content targeted based on profiles of Web
                       information on and      site visitors
                       selecting:            - Nationwide service can be locally targeted
                       - Loans               - Low-cost distribution channel
                       - Mutual funds
                       - Insurance
 Wholesaling and     - Business-to-business  - Ability to collect large amounts of information, then
 manufacturing         purchasing              excerpt that information based on purchaser's profile
                                             - Maintain and make available up-to-date information
                                               related to complex purchasing decisions
 Health care         - Health care provider  - Practical health information and advice tailored to
 services              networks                individual consumers
                                             - Identify and schedule appropriate local health care
                                               provider
 Pharmaceuticals     - Advertising           - Target specific pharmaceutical products at physicians
                                               with specific clinical interests

To date, the Company has not licensed its products or provided related consulting services to customers in all of these markets, and there can be no assurance that the Company's products can be adapted to suit the needs of any customers in these markets or that such products would achieve market acceptance.

The market for the Company's products and services is at a very early stage of development and is rapidly evolving. As is typical for new and rapidly evolving industries, demand and market acceptance for recently introduced products and services are subject to a high level of uncertainty, especially where, as is true of the Company, acquisition of the product requires a large capital commitment or other significant commitment of resources. With respect to the Company, this uncertainty is compounded by the risks that consumers and

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enterprises will not adopt online commerce and communication and that an appropriate infrastructure necessary to support increased commerce and communication on the Internet will fail to develop, in each case, to a sufficient extent and within an adequate time frame to permit the Company to succeed.

Adoption of online commerce and communication, particularly by those individuals and enterprises that have historically relied upon traditional means of commerce and communication, will require a broad acceptance of new and substantially different methods of conducting business and exchanging information. Moreover, the Company's products and services involve a new approach to the conduct of online commerce and, as a result, intensive marketing and sales efforts may be necessary to educate prospective customers regarding the uses and benefits of the Company's products and services in order to generate demand for the Company's systems. For example, enterprises that have already invested substantial resources in other methods of conducting business may be reluctant or slow to adopt a new approach that may replace, limit, or compete with their existing systems. Similarly, individuals with established patterns of purchasing goods and services may be reluctant to alter those patterns or may otherwise be resistant to providing the personal data which is necessary to support the Company's consumer profiling capability. Moreover, the security and privacy concerns of existing and potential users of the Company's products and services may inhibit the growth of online commerce generally and the market's acceptance of the Company's products and services in particular. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that a viable market for the Company's products will emerge or be sustainable.

SALES AND MARKETING

The Company markets its products primarily through a direct sales organization with operations in North America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. At April 16, 1996, the Company's direct sales force included 15 sales representatives and managers supported by 23 persons responsible for pre-sales support, post-sales support, and applications consulting. The Company also contracts with commissioned agents in the Republic of Korea and Spain and in selected portions of the Japanese market.

Although the Company generates leads from many sources, the majority of the Company's early leads have come from businesses seeking partners to develop interactive marketing and selling applications. Initial sales activities typically include a demonstration of BroadVision One-To-One's capabilities at the prospect's site, followed by one or more detailed technical reviews, usually presented at the Company's headquarters. Because the Company's market is at an early stage of development, the sales process usually involves a collaboration with the prospective customer in order to specify the scope of the application. The Company's ISG consulting staff typically plays a key role in helping customers to design, and then develop, their applications.

The Company's marketing efforts are targeted at building market awareness and at highlighting the value of the Company's application system as both a marketing tool and an engine for processing sales transactions online. At April 16, 1996, 11 employees were engaged in a variety of marketing activities, including preparing marketing research, product planning, and collateral marketing materials, managing press coverage and other public relations, identifying potential customers, attending trade shows, seminars, and conferences, establishing and maintaining close relationships with recognized industry analysts, coordinating the activities of the BVAC, and maintaining the Company's Web site.

The license of the Company's software products is often an enterprise-wide decision by prospective customers and can be expected to require the Company to engage in a lengthy sales cycle to provide a significant level of education to prospective customers regarding the use and benefits of the Company's products. In addition, the implementation of the Company's products involves a significant commitment of resources by customers or by the Company's ISG consultants over an extended period of time. As a result, the Company's sales and customer implementation cycles are subject to a number of significant delays over which the Company has little or no control. Delays in license transactions as a result of the lengthy sales cycle or delays in customer production or deployment of a system could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results, and can be expected to cause the Company's operating results to vary significantly from quarter to quarter.

To date, the Company has sold its products through its direct sales force. The Company's ability to achieve significant revenue growth in the future will depend in large part on its success in recruiting and training

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sufficient direct sales personnel and establishing and maintaining relationships with distributors, resellers, systems integrators, and other third parties. Although the Company is currently investing, and plans to continue to invest, significant resources to expand its direct sales force and to develop distribution relationships with third-party distributors and resellers, the Company may at times experience difficulty in recruiting qualified sales personnel and in establishing necessary third-party relationships. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to successfully expand its direct sales force or other distribution channels or that any such expansion will result in an increase in revenues. Any failure by the Company to expand its direct sales force or other distribution channels would materially adversely affect the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results.

A component of the Company's strategy is its planned expansion of its international activities. To date, the Company has limited experience in developing localized versions of its products and marketing and distributing its products internationally. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to successfully market, sell, and deliver its products in international markets. In addition, there are certain risks inherent in doing business in international markets, such as unexpected changes in regulatory requirements, export controls relating to encryption technology and other export restrictions, difficulties in staffing and managing foreign operations, political instability, fluctuations in currency exchange rates, reduced protection for intellectual property rights in some countries, seasonal reductions in business activity during the summer months in Europe and certain other parts of the world, and potentially adverse tax consequences, any of which could adversely impact the success of the Company's international operations. There can be no assurance that one or more of such factors will not have a material adverse effect on the Company's future international operations, if any, and, consequently, on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results.

STRATEGIC BUSINESS ALLIANCES

A critical element of the Company's sales strategy is to engage in strategic business alliances to assist the Company in marketing, selling, and developing customer applications. This approach is intended to increase the number of personnel available to perform application design and development services for the Company's customers; enhance the Company's market credibility, potential for lead generation, and access to large accounts; and provide additional marketing expertise in certain vertical industry segments and technical expertise in the development of reusable objects and templates. Strategic business alliances include Sema Group (systems integrator and subcontractor to the Company for a prospective application) and Sun's Interactive Services Group (integration of BroadVision One-To-One with Java). To encourage the adoption of one-to-one marketing on the Web, the Company is forming a strategic alliance with Marketing 1:1, whose principals, Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, co-authored the 1993 book about marketing strategy, THE ONE-TO-ONE FUTURE.

STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCES

In order to ensure that the Company's products are based on industry standards and take advantage of current and emerging technologies, the Company emphasizes strategic technology alliances. The benefits of this approach include enabling the Company to focus on its core competencies, reducing time to market, and simplifying the task of designing and developing applications by both the Company and its customers. Key strategic technology alliances to date have included alliances with IONA, a provider of a CORBA-compliant development platform; Oracle and Sybase, providers of standard RDBMSs; Sun, developer of the Java language; RSA, a provider of encryption technology; and VeriFone, Inc., a provider of payment systems. The Company's strategy is to establish additional such alliances as new technologies and standards emerge, although no assurance can be given that the Company will be successful in establishing such alliances.

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BROADVISION ADVISORY COUNCIL

From inception, the Company has emphasized market research to identify trends in online marketing and selling. To that end, the Company has established BVAC, composed of senior executives from the Company's customers and other companies with a significant interest in Internet marketing and selling. The Company expects to host BVAC meetings between two and four times annually. BVAC meets with BroadVision executive, marketing, and engineering management to present business and technical requirements for Internet marketing and selling applications and to discuss the strategic, product, and marketing directions of the Company. BVAC participants are also available for consultation with the Company executives on a regular basis.

BVAC participants include the following persons: Jay Chai, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Itochu International, Inc.; Norman Dawley, Principal, Multimedia Resources, Robert Devereux, Chief Executive Officer, Virgin Communications, Inc.; Michael Harris, Partner, Products Group, Andersen Consulting; Dan Lynch, Chairman, CyberCash, Inc.; Clement Mok, Chairman and Creative Director, Studio Archetypes; Oliver Novick, Chief Executive Officer, Olivetti Telemedia Videostrada; Michael Ribero, Executive Vice President and General Manager Consumer Division, Sega of America; Don Peppers, Chairman and Founder, Marketing 1:1; Martha Rogers, President and Founder, Marketing 1:1; Dr. Eric Schmidt, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; and Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive Officer, WWP Group, PLC.

Attendees receive no compensation from the Company for their participation. Attendees participate in BVAC on an individual basis, and the identification of any person as a BVAC participant should not create an implication that the company identified as affiliated with such participant endorses BroadVision products, has licensed or intends to license BroadVision products, or otherwise conducts or intends to conduct business with the Company.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

The Company believes that its future success will depend in large part on its ability to enhance BroadVision One-To-One, develop new products, maintain technological leadership, and satisfy an evolving range of customer requirements for large-scale interactive online marketing and selling applications. The Company's product development organization is responsible for product architecture, core technology, product testing and quality assurance, writing product user documentation, and expanding the ability of BroadVision One-To-One to operate with the leading hardware platforms, operating systems, database management systems, and key electronic commerce transaction processing standards.

The Company is currently developing the following three products, all of which are currently scheduled to be commercially available in late 1996:

-BroadVision One-To-One application system, version 2.0. Key features of version 2.0 are expected to include point-and-click application building capabilities, improved content targeting, and enhanced system performance. This product is currently in development.

-A taxonomy modeling and matching product that will enable online services and Internet publishers to dynamically match Web content with profile data. This product is currently in beta testing.

-A consumer online service that will deliver proactive, personalized Web information directly to consumers who register at a specified BroadVision Web site address. This product is currently in beta testing.

Since inception, the Company has made substantial investments in product development and related activities. Certain technologies have been acquired and integrated into BroadVision One-To-One through licensing arrangements. As of April 16, 1996, there were 32 employees in the Company's product development organization. The Company's research and development expenditures in 1994 and 1995 were $748,000 and $2.2 million, respectively. To date, the Company has not capitalized any software development costs. The Company expects to continue to devote substantial resources to its product development activities.

The information services, software, and communications industries are characterized by rapid technological change, changes in customer requirements, frequent new product and service introductions and enhancements, and emerging industry standards. The introduction of products and services embodying new technologies and the emergence of new industry standards and practices can render existing products and

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services obsolete and unmarketable. The Company's future success will depend, in part, on its ability to develop leading technologies, enhance its existing products and services, develop new products and services that address the increasingly sophisticated and varied needs of its prospective customers, and respond to technological advances and emerging industry standards and practices on a timely and cost-effective basis. There can be no assurance that the Company will be successful in effectively using new technologies, adapting its products to emerging industry standards, developing, introducing, and marketing product and service enhancements, or new products and services, or that it will not experience difficulties that could delay or prevent the successful development, introduction, or marketing of these products and services, or that its new product and service enhancements will adequately meet the requirements of the marketplace and achieve market acceptance. If the Company is unable, for technical or other reasons, to develop and introduce new products and services or enhancements of existing products and services in a timely manner in response to changing market conditions or customer requirements, or if new products and services do not achieve market acceptance, the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results will be materially adversely affected.

The statements made herein regarding scheduled release dates for the Company's products under development and proposed enhancements are forward-looking statements, and the actual release dates for such products or enhancements could differ materially from those projected as a result of a variety of factors, including the ability of the Company's engineers to solve technical problems and to test products, business priorities in light of the availability of development and other resources, and other factors, including some factors which may be outside the control of the Company, as well as the factors discussed in "Risk Factors."

COMPETITION

The market for online interactive marketing and selling applications is new, rapidly evolving, and intensely competitive. The Company expects competition to persist and intensify in the future. The Company's current and potential competitors are expected to include other vendors of application software directed at interactive commerce, Web content developers engaged to develop custom software or to integrate other application software into custom solutions, and companies developing their own end-to-end solutions in-house.

The Company has experienced and expects to continue to experience increased competition. The Company currently encounters direct competition from Connect, Netscape, and OMI, among others. In addition, Microsoft has also announced its intention to offer Internet-based electronic commerce software. Many of these competitors have longer operating histories, and significantly greater financial, technical, marketing, and other resources than the Company and thus may be able to respond more quickly to new or changing opportunities, technologies, and customer requirements. Also, many current and potential competitors have greater name recognition and more extensive customer bases that could be leveraged, thereby gaining market share to the Company's detriment. Such competitors may be able to undertake more extensive promotional activities, adopt more aggressive pricing policies and offer more attractive terms to purchasers than the Company. Moreover, certain of the Company's current and potential competitors, such as Netscape and Microsoft, are likely to bundle their products in a manner that may discourage users from purchasing products offered by the Company.

The Company has also experienced competition from third-party developers, such as Web content developers, as well as from in-house development efforts by potential customers or partners, both of which represent significant competition for the Company's products. In addition, current and potential competitors have established or may establish cooperative relationships among themselves or with third parties to enhance their products. Accordingly, it is possible that new competitors or alliances among competitors may emerge and rapidly acquire significant market share.

The principal competitive factors affecting the market for BroadVision One-To-One are depth and breadth of functionality offered, ease of application development, time required for application development, reliance on industry standards, reliability, scalability, product quality, price, and customer support. The Company believes it presently competes favorably with respect to each of these factors. However, the Company's market is still evolving, and there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to compete successfully with current or future competitors, or that competitive pressures faced by the Company will not have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results.

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND OTHER PROPRIETARY RIGHTS

The Company's success and ability to compete are dependent to a significant degree on its proprietary technology. The Company relies primarily on copyright, trade secret, and trademark law to protect its technology. The Company has no patents. The Company has applied for a United States patent with respect to certain aspects of the BroadVision One-To-One application system, but there can be no assurance that a patent will be granted pursuant to the application or that, if granted, such patent would survive a legal challenge to its validity or provide significant protection. Likewise, effective trademark protection may not be available for the Company's marks. For example, the Company has applied to register "BroadVision One-To-One" as a trademark with respect to the BroadVision One-To-One application system, but there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to secure trademark registration or other significant protection for this product name. It is possible that competitors of the Company or others will adopt product names similar to "One-To-One," thereby impeding the Company's ability to build brand identity and possibly leading to customer confusion. The source code for the Company's proprietary software is protected both as a trade secret and as a copyrighted work. The Company's policy is to enter into confidentiality and assignment agreements with its employees, consultants, and vendors and generally to control access to and distribution of its software, documentation, and other proprietary information. Notwithstanding these precautions, it may be possible for a third party to copy or otherwise obtain and use the Company's software or other proprietary information without authorization or to develop similar software independently. Policing unauthorized use of the Company's products is difficult, particularly because the global nature of the Internet makes it difficult to control the ultimate destination or security of software or other data transmitted. The laws of other countries may afford the Company little or no effective protection of its intellectual property. There can be no assurance that the steps taken by the Company will prevent misappropriation of its technology or that agreements entered into for that purpose will be enforceable. In addition, litigation may be necessary in the future to enforce the Company's intellectual property rights, to protect the Company's trade secrets, to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others, or to defend against claims of infringement or invalidity. Such litigation, whether successful or unsuccessful, could result in substantial costs and diversions of resources, either of which could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results.

The Company may, in the future, receive notices of claims of infringement of other parties' trademark, copyright, and other proprietary rights. Although, to date, the Company has not received any such notices, there can be no assurance that claims for infringement or invalidity (or claims for indemnification resulting from infringement claims) will not be asserted or prosecuted against the Company. In particular, claims could be asserted against the Company for violation of trademark, copyright, or other laws as a result of the use by the Company, its customers, or other third parties of the Company's products to transmit, disseminate, or display information over or on the Internet. Any such claims, with or without merit, could be time consuming to defend, result in costly litigation, divert management's attention and resources, cause product shipment delays, or require the Company to enter into royalty or licensing agreements. There can be no assurance that such licenses would be available on reasonable terms, if at all, and the assertion or prosecution of any such claims could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results.

Some of the Company's agreements with its customers contain provisions requiring release of source code for limited, non-exclusive use by the customer in the event that there is a bankruptcy proceeding by or against the Company, if the Company ceases to do business or if the Company fails to meet its contractual obligations. The provision of source code may increase the likelihood of misappropriation by third parties.

The Company relies upon certain software that it licenses from third parties, including RDBMSs from Oracle and Sybase, object request broker software from IONA, and other software which is integrated with internally developed software and used in the Company's software to perform key functions. In this regard, all of the Company's services incorporate data encryption and authentication technology licensed from RSA. The Company is aware of a dispute between Cylink and RSA in which Cylink alleges that license agreements between RSA and its customers, including the Company, relating to certain RSA software conflict with rights held by Cylink. RSA has advised its customers that the allegations of Cylink are unfounded. RSA and Cylink have completed an arbitration proceeding of the dispute. RSA has taken the position that it prevailed on all material issues, and that its licenses, including the license to the Company, are valid and unaffected by the

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arbitration decision. Cylink has taken the position that the arbitration decision may require RSA licensees, including the Company, to obtain an additional license of certain patents controlled by Cylink. RSA has maintained that no such additional license is required and has instituted a lawsuit against Cylink to bar Cylink from claiming otherwise. The Company is unable to ascertain the validity of Cylink's allegations or whether or not the arbitration decision may require the Company to obtain any additional license. In the Company's license agreement with RSA, RSA has agreed to defend, indemnify, and hold the Company harmless with respect to any claim by a third party that the licensed software infringes any patent or other proprietary right. Although the Company's license is fully paid, there can be no assurance that the outcome of the dispute between RSA and Cylink will not lead to royalty obligations by the Company for which RSA is unwilling or unable to indemnify the Company, or that the Company would be able to obtain any additional license on commercially reasonable terms or at all. There can also be no assurance that the Company's other third-party technology licenses will continue to be available to the Company on commercially reasonable terms, if at all. The loss or inability to maintain any of these technology licenses could result in delays in introduction of the Company's products and services until equivalent technology, if available, is identified, licensed, and integrated, which could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition, and operating results.

EMPLOYEES

As of April 16, 1996, the Company had 79 employees and nine full-time or nearly full-time contractors, including 32 in product development, 49 in sales and marketing and related customer support services, and seven in administration. Of these employees, 76 were located in the United States, six in Europe, and six in the Pacific Rim countries. The Company believes that its future success is dependent on attracting and retaining highly skilled engineering, sales and marketing, and senior management personnel. Competition for such personnel is intense, and there can be no assurance that the Company will continue to be able to attract and retain high-caliber employees. The Company's employees are not represented by any collective bargaining unit. The Company has never experienced a work stoppage and considers its relations with its employees to be good.

FACILITIES

The Company's principal administrative, sales, marketing, and product development facility occupies approximately 16,000 square feet in Los Altos, California pursuant to a lease that expires in June 2000. The Company maintains additional operations in Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Singapore. Although the Company believes that its existing principal facility is adequate for its current requirements, the Company intends to relocate to a larger facility in the near future. While a new facility has not yet been identified by the Company, the Company believes that additional space can be obtained to meet its future requirements.

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MANAGEMENT

DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, AND KEY PERSONNEL

The directors, officers, and key personnel of the Company are as follows:

                   NAME                         AGE                                 POSITION
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Pehong Chen...............................          38   Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, President, and Director
Randall C. Bolten.........................          43   Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Operations
Clark W. Catelain.........................          48   Vice President, Engineering
Mark D. Goros.............................          45   Vice President, Business Development and General Manager of
                                                          American Operations
Rani M. Hublou............................          31   General Manager of Consumer Services
Giuseppe Kobayashi........................          40   Vice President and General Manager of Japan/Asia-Pacific
                                                          Operations
Robert A. Runge...........................          41   Vice President, Marketing
Francois Stieger..........................          47   Vice President and General Manager of European Operations
Kenneth L. Guernsey.......................          44   Secretary
David L. Anderson(1)(2)...................          52   Director
Yogen K. Dalal(2).........................          46   Director
Gregory Smitherman(1).....................          32   Director
Koh Boon Hwee(2)..........................          45   Director


(1) Member of the Audit Committee

(2) Member of the Compensation Committee

PEHONG CHEN has served as President, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and a director of the Company since its incorporation in May 1993. From 1992 to 1993, Dr. Chen served as the Vice President of Multimedia Technology at Sybase, a supplier of client-server software products. From 1989 to 1992, Dr. Chen served as President of Gain Technology, a provider of multimedia applications development systems ("Gain"), which was acquired by Sybase. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from National Taiwan University, an M.S. in Computer Science from Indiana University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

RANDALL C. BOLTEN has served as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Operations, of the Company since September 1995. From 1994 to 1995, Mr. Bolten served as a financial consultant to various entrepreneurial enterprises. From 1992 to 1994, Mr. Bolten served as the Chief Financial Officer of BioCAD Corporation, a supplier of drug discovery software products. From 1990 to 1992, Mr. Bolten served as Chief Financial Officer, Business Development Unit, and then Vice President, Finance, of Teknekron Corporation, a company engaged in the management of various high technology companies. He received an A.B. in Economics from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

CLARK W. CATELAIN has served as Vice President, Engineering, of the Company since June 1995. From 1989 to May 1995, Mr. Catelain served as the Senior Vice President, Engineering of Gupta Corporation, a supplier of client/server database products. Mr. Catelain received a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Purdue University.

MARK D. GOROS has served as Vice President, Business Development, and General Manager of American Operations of the Company since September 1994. From April 1992 to September 1994, Mr. Goros served as East Coast Manager of Sybase. From September 1990 to April 1992, Mr. Goros served as Vice President,

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Business Development and Marketing, of Techgnosis Incorporated USA, a provider of cross-platform data access technology for client/server environments. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from Bowling Green State University.

RANI M. HUBLOU has served as General Manager, Consumer Services, of the Company since September 1995. From June 1994 to August 1995, Ms. Hublou served as Director, Online Product Development and Director, Technical Operations, at Interactive Video Enterprises, a developer of multimedia products. From 1993 to 1994, Ms. Hublou served as Strategy Consultant at Rebuild LA, a nonprofit organization focused on economic development in Los Angeles. From 1990 to 1993, Ms. Hublou was an Associate at McKinsey & Company, a strategy consulting firm. She received a B.A. and an M.A. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.

GIUSEPPE P. KOBAYASHI has served as Vice President and General Manager of Japan/Asia-Pacific of the Company since January 1995. From 1994 to the present, Mr. Kobayashi has also served as consultant to Wind River Systems, Inc., a supplier of software development systems. During 1993, Mr. Kobayashi was General Manager, Japan Operations, Gain Group at Sybase. During 1992, Mr. Kobayashi was General Manager of Operations at Gain. From 1990 to 1992, Mr. Kobayashi served as Managing Director of Asia Pacific Operations at Teradata Corporation, a supplier of database software. Mr. Kobayashi holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of San Francisco.

ROBERT A. RUNGE has served as Vice President, Marketing, of the Company since September 1995. From September 1992 to September 1995, Mr. Runge was employed at Sybase as Director of Product Marketing. From November 1990 to September 1992, Mr. Runge served as Director of Product Marketing at Gain. From 1989 to 1990, Mr. Runge served as Director of Education Services at Oracle. He received a B.A. in Germanic Languages and Literature, a B.F.A. in Graphic Design and an M.B.A. from the University of Illinois.

FRANCOIS STIEGER has served as Vice President and General Manager of European Operations of the Company since January 1996. From July 1994 to December 1995, Mr. Stieger was employed as Senior Vice President, Europe and Middle East, for OpenVision Technologies, a supplier of distributed systems management products and services. From 1993 to 1994, Mr. Stieger served as Vice President, Europe of the Gain Division of Sybase. From 1987 to 1992, Mr. Stieger served as Vice President, Europe, Central and Southern Region of Oracle, a supplier of relational database software. Mr. Stieger holds a Diplome Universitaire De Technologie in Mathematics and Mechanics from the University of Strasbourg.

KENNETH L. GUERNSEY has served as Secretary of the Company since May 1995. From May 1988 to the present, Mr. Guernsey has been a partner in the law firm of Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum, where he is currently the Managing Partner. Mr. Guernsey received a B.S. in Mathematics, an M.B.A., and a J.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles.

DAVID L. ANDERSON has served as a director of the Company since November 1993. Since 1974, Mr. Anderson has been a general partner of Sutter Hill Ventures, a California Limited Partnership, a venture capital firm. Mr. Anderson currently serves on the Board of Directors of Cytel Corporation, Dionex Corporation, Molecular Devices Corporation, and Neurex Corporation. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.

YOGEN K. DALAL has served as a director of the Company since November 1993. He joined Mayfield Fund ("Mayfield"), a venture capital firm, in September 1991 and has been a general partner of several venture capital funds affiliated with Mayfield since November 1992. Dr. Dalal currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Vantive Corporation. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the India Institute of Technology, Bombay, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University.

GREGORY SMITHERMAN has served as a director of the Company since August 1995. Mr. Smitherman has been Director of Venture Capital at Ameritech Development Corp., a venture capital subsidiary of Ameritech Corp., since 1990. Mr. Smitherman holds a B.S. in Areospace Engineering from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

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KOH BOON HWEE has served as a director of the Company since February 1996. Since 1991, Mr. Koh has been Executive Chairman of the Wuthelam Group of Companies, a diversified Singapore company with subsidiaries engaged in, among other things, real estate development, hotel management, and high technology. Since 1992, he has also served as Chairman of the Board of Singapore Telecommunications, Ltd. Mr. Koh holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of London and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.

All directors currently hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors have been elected and duly qualified. Mr. Smitherman is serving as a director pursuant to an agreement with the Company entered into in connection with the Company's Series C Preferred Stock financing. Such agreement will expire upon the completion of this offering. Each officer serves at the discretion of the Board of Directors. There are no family relationships among any of the directors or officers of the Company.

BOARD COMMITTEES

The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors was formed in April 1996 to review the internal accounting procedures of the Company and consult with and review the services provided by the Company's independent public accountants. The Audit Committee is composed of David L. Anderson and Gregory Smitherman. The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors was formed in April 1996 to review and recommend to the Board the compensation and benefits of all officers of the Company and review general policy relating to compensation and benefits of employees of the Company. The Compensation Committee also administers the issuance of stock options and other awards under the Company's Equity Incentive Plan. The Compensation Committee is composed of David L. Anderson, Yogen K. Dalal and Koh Boon Hwee.

DIRECTOR COMPENSATION

Directors currently do not receive any cash compensation from the Company for their services as members of the Board of Directors, although they are reimbursed for certain expenses in connection with attendance at Board and Committee meetings.

In February 1996, Dr. Chen was granted an option to purchase up to 500,000 shares of Series D Preferred Stock of the Company at an exercise price of $4.00 per share. Upon the completion of this offering, this option will convert into an option to purchase Common Stock. The shares subject to Dr. Chen's option vest ratably on a monthly basis over a 60-month period commencing April 1, 1995. In February 1996, Mr. Koh was granted an option to purchase 50,000 shares of the Company's Common Stock at an exercise price of $0.80 per share. The shares subject to Mr. Koh's option vest over a 60-month period, commencing on February 1, 1996, with 20% of such shares vesting after one year, and 1/60 of the shares vesting each month thereafter for the next 48 months.

COMPENSATION COMMITTEE INTERLOCKS AND INSIDER PARTICIPATION

During 1995, the Company did not have a Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors, and the entire Board participated in all compensation decisions, except that Dr. Chen, a director and the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, did not participate in decisions relating to his own compensation. In April 1996, the Board of Directors appointed the Compensation Committee. No member of the Compensation Committee was, at any time during the fiscal year ended December 31, 1995, or at any other time, an officer or employee of the Company. Each of the Company's directors, or an affiliated entity, has purchased securities of the Company. See "Certain Transactions" and "Principal Stockholders."

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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

The following table sets forth the compensation awarded to or earned by the Company's Chief Executive Officer and the other executive officers, including one former executive officer, whose combined salary and bonus for 1995 were in excess of $100,000 (collectively, the "Named Executive Officers"):

SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE (1)

                                                                                                        LONG-TERM
                                                                                                      COMPENSATION
                                                                                                      -------------
                                                                                                         AWARDS
                                                                   ANNUAL COMPENSATION (2)            -------------
                                                         -------------------------------------------   SECURITIES
                                                                                     OTHER ANNUAL      UNDERLYING
NAME AND PRINCIPAL POSITION                              SALARY ($)   BONUS ($)   COMPENSATION ($)(3)  OPTIONS (#)
- -------------------------------------------------------  ----------  -----------  ------------------  -------------
Pehong Chen (4) .......................................  $  106,664      --               --               --
 President and Chief Executive Officer
Mark D. Goros .........................................     139,156   $   9,400       $   19,000          100,000
 Vice President, Business Development
 and General Manager of American Operations
Carl N. Dellar (5) ....................................     106,375      --               --               --
 Former Vice President, Engineering


(1) In accordance with the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission"), the compensation described in this table does not include medical, group life insurance, or other benefits received by the Named Executive Officers which are available generally to all salaried employees of the Company, and certain perquisites and other personal benefits received by the Named Executive Officers which do not exceed the lesser of $50,000 or 10% of any such officer's salary and bonus disclosed in this table.

(2) Includes amounts earned but deferred at the election of the Named Executive Officer under the Company's 401(k) plan.

(3) Consists of relocation payments.

(4) Amount shown represents salary earned, but deferred at the election of Dr. Chen, from May 1995 through December 1995. Prior to May 1995, Dr. Chen was not paid a salary for his services to the Company.

(5) Mr. Dellar, who is no longer with the Company, served as Vice President of Engineering through March 1995. Amount shown represents payment for services rendered as Vice President of Engineering and as a consultant during 1995, as well as other amounts paid in connection with his termination of employment with the Company.

STOCK OPTION INFORMATION

The following table shows, for 1995, certain information regarding options granted to, exercised by and held at year end by the Named Executive Officers.

OPTION GRANTS IN LAST FISCAL YEAR

                                                                                                     POTENTIAL REALIZABLE
                                                                                                       VALUE AT ASSUMED
                                                            INDIVIDUAL GRANTS
                                      -------------------------------------------------------------    ANNUAL RATES OF
                                        NUMBER OF        PERCENT OF                                      STOCK PRICE
                                       SECURITIES       TOTAL OPTIONS      EXERCISE OR                 APPRECIATION FOR
                                       UNDERLYING        GRANTED TO        BASE PRICE                OPTION TERMS ($)(4)
                                         OPTIONS        EMPLOYEES IN        PER SHARE    EXPIRATION  --------------------
NAME                                  GRANTED (#)(1) FISCAL YEAR (%)(2)     ($/SH)(3)       DATE      5% ($)     10% ($)
- ------------------------------------  -------------  -------------------  -------------  ----------  ---------  ---------
Mark D. Goros.......................      100,000              5.2%         $    0.06     3/23/05    $   3,774  $   9,562


(1) The option, which was granted under the Company's Stock Option Plan (which was later amended and restated as the Equity Incentive Plan), has a term of 10 years, subject to earlier termination in certain

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events related to termination of employment. The option is immediately exercisable and vests over a 60-month period, with 20% of the shares vesting after one year, and 1/60 of the shares vesting each month for the next 48 months.

(2) Based on options to purchase 1,936,000 shares granted to employees of the Company in 1995.

(3) The option was granted at an exercise price equal to the fair market value as determined by the Board of Directors of the Company on the date of grant.

(4) The potential realizable value is calculated based on the term of the option at the date of grant (10 years) and is calculated by assuming that the stock price on the date of grant as determined by the Board of Directors appreciates at the indicated annual rate compounded annually for the entire term of the option and that the option is exercised and sold on the last day of its term for the appreciated price. The 5% and 10% assumed rates of appreciation are derived from the rules of the Commission and do not represent the Company's estimate or projection of the future Common Stock price.

The following table sets forth certain information concerning the number and value of unexercised stock options held as of December 31, 1995 for each of the Named Executive Officers.

AGGREGATED OPTION EXERCISES IN LAST FISCAL YEAR
AND FISCAL YEAR-END OPTION VALUES

                                                       NUMBER OF SECURITIES
                                                      UNDERLYING UNEXERCISED       VALUE OF UNEXERCISED
                                                            OPTIONS AT           IN-THE-MONEY OPTIONS AT
                                                     DECEMBER 31, 1995 (#)(2)   DECEMBER 31, 1995($)(2)(3)
                                                    --------------------------  --------------------------
NAME (1)                                            EXERCISABLE  UNEXERCISABLE  EXERCISABLE  UNEXERCISABLE
- --------------------------------------------------  -----------  -------------  -----------  -------------
Mark D. Goros.....................................    75,000(3)      225,000     $ 670,500    $ 2,011,500


(1) Neither Dr. Chen nor Mr. Dellar held options to purchase shares of the Company's stock as of December 31, 1995, and none of the Named Executive Officers exercised stock options in 1995.

(2) Reflects vested and unvested shares at December 31, 1995. Options granted under the Company's Equity Incentive Plan are immediately exercisable, but are subject to the Company's right to repurchase unvested shares on termination of employment.

(3) There was no public trading market for the Common Stock as of December 31, 1995. Accordingly, these values have been calculated, in accordance with the rules of the Commission, on the basis of an assumed initial public offering price of $9.00 per share minus the applicable exercise price per share.

EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN. The Company's Equity Incentive Plan (the "Incentive Plan") was adopted by the Board of Directors in April 1996, subject to stockholder approval, as an amendment and restatement of the Company's Stock Option Plan. There are currently 5,000,000 shares of Common Stock authorized for issuance under the Incentive Plan.

The Incentive Plan provides for the grant of stock options under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), to employees (including officers and employee-directors) and nonstatutory stock options, restricted stock purchase awards, and stock bonuses to employees (including officers and employee-directors) and consultants of the Company. Prior to this offering, non-employee directors were also eligible to receive awards under the Incentive Plan. The Incentive Plan is presently being administered by the Board of Directors, which determines recipients and types of awards to be granted, including the exercise price, number of shares subject to the award and the exercisability thereof. After the completion of this offering, the Incentive Plan may be administered by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors, and references herein to the Board of Directors will be deemed references to the Compensation Committee.

The terms of stock options granted under the Incentive Plan generally may not exceed 10 years. The exercise price of options granted under the Incentive Plan is determined by the Board of Directors, but, in the case of a nonstatutory stock option, cannot be less than 85% of the fair market value of the Common Stock on the

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date of the option grant. In the case of an incentive stock option, the exercise price cannot be less than 100% of the fair market value of the Common Stock on the date of grant. Options granted under the Incentive Plan to employees have generally provided for vesting of 20% of the shares subject to the option on the first anniversary of the date of hire and 1/60th of such shares monthly thereafter. No stock option may be transferred by the optionee other than by will or the laws of descent or distribution or, in certain limited instances, pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order. An optionee whose relationship with the Company or any related corporation ceases for any reason (other than by death or permanent and total disability) may exercise options in the three-month period following such cessation (unless such options terminate or expire sooner by their terms) or in such longer period as may be determined by the Board of Directors.

No incentive stock option may be granted to any person who, at the time of the grant, owns (or is deemed to own) stock possessing more than 10% of the total combined voting power of the Company or any affiliate of the Company, unless the option exercise price is at least 110% of the fair market value of the stock subject to the option on the date of grant, and the term of the option does not exceed five years from the date of grant. The aggregate fair market value, determined at the time of grant, of the shares of Common Stock with respect to which incentive stock options are exercisable for the first time by an optionee during any calendar year (under all such plans of the Company and its affiliates) may not exceed $100,000.

When the Company becomes subject to Section 162(m) of the Code (which denies a deduction to publicly held corporations for certain compensation paid to specified employees in a taxable year to the extent that the compensation exceeds $1,000,000 for any covered employee), no person may be granted options under the Incentive Plan covering more than 700,000 shares of Common Stock in any calendar year.

Shares subject to options that have lapsed or terminated again become available for the grant of options under the Incentive Plan. Furthermore, the Board of Directors may offer to exchange new options for existing options, with the shares subject to the existing options again becoming available for grant under the Incentive Plan. In the event of a decline in the value of the Company's Common Stock, the Board of Directors has the authority to offer optionees the opportunity to replace outstanding higher priced options with new lower priced options.

Restricted stock purchase awards granted under the Incentive Plan may be granted pursuant to a repurchase option in favor of the Company in accordance with a service vesting schedule and at a price determined by the Board of Directors. Stock bonuses may be awarded in consideration of past services without a purchase payment. Rights under a stock bonus or restricted stock bonus agreement may not be transferred other than by will, the laws of descent and distribution, or a qualified domestic relations order, while the stock awarded pursuant to such an agreement remains subject to the agreement.

Upon certain changes in control of the Company, all outstanding awards under the Incentive Plan shall either be assumed or substituted by the surviving entity. If the surviving entity determines not to assume or substitute such awards, and with respect to persons then performing services as employees, directors, or consultants, the time during which such awards may be exercised will be accelerated and the awards terminated if not exercised prior to such change in control.

As of April 16, 1996, 1,373,109 shares of Common Stock had been issued upon the exercise of options granted under the Incentive Plan, options to purchase 1,827,558 shares of Common Stock at a weighted average exercise price of $0.80 were outstanding and 1,799,333 shares remained available for future grant. The Incentive Plan will terminate on April 16, 2006 unless sooner terminated by the Board of Directors. As of April 16, 1996, no stock bonuses or restricted stock had been granted under the Incentive Plan.

STOCK OPTIONS GRANTED OUTSIDE OF THE INCENTIVE PLAN. The Company has from time to time granted nonstatutory options outside of the Incentive Plan ("Non-plan Options") to purchase shares of Common Stock to certain directors, officers, and key employees of and consultants to the Company. As of April 16, 1996, Non-plan Options had been granted to a total of 10 persons and entities, eight of whom received options containing performance-based vesting provisions. The performance-based stock options vest in their entirety on the ninth anniversary of the date of grant; however, if the optionees achieve certain performance objectives, the vesting of the options may be accelerated by the President of the Company acting in his discretion. As of April 16, 1996,

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20,000 shares of Common Stock had been issued upon the exercise of Non-plan Options, and Non-plan Options to purchase 693,000 shares at a weighted average exercise price of $3.29 per share were outstanding, including the shares subject to stock options held by Dr. Chen and Mr. Koh. See "Management -- Director Compensation" and "Legal Matters."

EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN. In April 1996, the Company's Board of Directors approved the 1996 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the "Purchase Plan") covering an aggregate of 600,000 shares of Common Stock. The Purchase Plan will become effective upon the completion of this offering and is intended to qualify as an employee stock purchase plan within the meaning of Section 423 of the Code. Under the Purchase Plan, the Board of Directors may authorize participation by eligible employees, including officers, in periodic offerings following the adoption of the Purchase Plan. The offering period for any offering, with the exception of the initial offering period, will typically be no more than 12 months.

Employees are eligible to participate if they are employed by the Company or an affiliate of the Company designated by the Board of Directors. Employees who participate in an offering can have up to 15% of their earnings withheld pursuant to the Purchase Plan and applied, on specified dates determined by the Board of Directors, to the purchase of shares of Common Stock. The price of Common Stock purchased under the Purchase Plan will be equal to 85% of the fair market value of the Common Stock on (i) the commencement date of each offering period or (ii) the relevant purchase date, whichever is lower. Employees may end their participation in the offering at any time during the offering period, and participation ends automatically on termination of employment with the Company.

In addition to the ongoing purchases of Common Stock under the Purchase Plan, the Board of Directors has authorized the grant to eligible employees of rights to purchase an aggregate of approximately 30,000 shares of Common Stock, at a price equal to 85% of (i) the price per share at which shares of the Common Stock are first sold to the public in this offering, as specified on the cover page of this Prospectus, or (ii) the fair market value of the Common Stock on the applicable purchase date, whichever is lower. These rights will be first exercisable by each participating employee approximately one year after the effective date of the grant, and will terminate if not exercised on the earlier of termination of employment or approximately two years after the effective date of the grant.

In the event of a merger, consolidation, dissolution, or liquidation involving the Company in which the Company is not a surviving corporation, or the acquisition of beneficial ownership of at least 50% of the combined voting power of the Company by any person, entity, or group (excluding Company employee benefit plan ownership), the Board of Directors has discretion to provide that each right to purchase Common Stock will be assumed or an equivalent right substituted by the successor corporation, or the Board may shorten the offering period and provide for all sums collected by payroll deductions to be applied to purchase stock immediately prior to such merger or other transaction. The Purchase Plan will terminate at the Board's direction. The Board has the authority to amend or terminate the Purchase Plan, subject to the limitation that no such action may adversely affect any outstanding rights to purchase Common Stock.

401(K) PLAN. In 1994, the Company adopted a tax qualified employee savings and retirement plan (the "401(k) Plan") under which eligible employees may elect to defer their current compensation by up to certain statutorily prescribed annual limits ($9,500 in 1996) and to contribute such amount to the 401(k) Plan. The 401(k) Plan permits, but does not require, additional matching contributions to the 401(k) Plan by the Company on behalf of all participants in the 401(k) Plan. To date, the Company has not made any such contributions. The 401(k) Plan is intended to qualify under Section 401 of the Code, so that contributions by employees or by the Company to the 401(k) Plan, and income earned on the 401(k) Plan contributions, are not taxable to employees until withdrawn from the 401(k) Plan, and so that contributions by the Company, if any, will be deductible by the Company when made. The trustee under the 401(k) Plan, at the direction of each participant, invests the 401(k) Plan employee salary deferrals in selected investment options.

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CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS

From the Company's inception in May 1993 through March 1996, the Company sold 4,266,667 shares of its Series A Preferred Stock at a price of $0.60 per share, 1,333,333 shares of its Series B Preferred Stock at a price of $1.25 per share and 3,003,600 shares of its Series C Preferred Stock at a price of $2.00 per share, in a series of private financings. In April 1996, the Company sold 634,375 shares of its Series E Preferred Stock at a price of $8.00 per share, in a private financing. The Company sold these securities pursuant to preferred stock purchase agreements and an investors' rights agreement on substantially similar terms (except for terms relating to date and price), under which the Company made standard representations, warranties, and covenants, and which provided the purchasers thereunder with registration rights, information rights, and rights of first refusal, among other provisions standard in venture capital financings. In addition, holders of the Series C Preferred Stock and Series E Preferred Stock received certain co-sale rights with respect to shares of Common Stock held by Dr. Chen. Each share of Preferred Stock will convert into one share of Common Stock upon the completion of this offering. The purchasers of the Preferred Stock included, among others, the following holders of 5% or more of the Company's Common Stock, directors, and entities associated with directors:

                                                                         SHARES OF PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASED
                                                                    ---------------------------------------------
INVESTOR                                                             SERIES A   SERIES B   SERIES C    SERIES E
- ------------------------------------------------------------------  ----------  ---------  ---------  -----------
Mayfield VII, a California Limited Partnership (1)................   1,910,000    237,500    237,500          --
Mayfield Associates Fund II, a California Limited
 Partnership (1)..................................................      90,000     12,500     12,500          --
Sutter Hill Ventures, a California Limited Partnership (2)........   1,941,974    242,747    242,747          --
Itochu Corporation................................................          --    800,000    750,000(4)         --
Ameritech Development Corporation (3).............................          --         --    750,000          --
Koh Boon Hwee.....................................................      52,900      6,608     19,600      62,500(5)


(1) Yogen K. Dalal, a director of the Company, is a general partner of Mayfield Associates Fund II and a general partner of the general partner of Mayfield VII.

(2) Includes shares of Common Stock held of record by the general partners of the general partner of Sutter Hill Ventures, a California Limited Partnership ("Sutter Hill") and their related family entities. David L. Anderson, a director of the Company, is a general partner of the general partner of Sutter Hill.

(3) Gregory Smitherman, a director of the Company, is Director of Venture Capital at Ameritech Development Corp.

(4) Includes 500,000 shares held by Itochu International, Inc. and 125,000 shares held by Itochu Techno-Science Corporation.

(5) Represents shares held by Seven Seas Group Ltd., in which Mr. Koh holds a controlling interest.

In July 1993, the Company sold 4,000,000 shares of Common Stock to Dr. Chen at a price of $0.005 per share. In October 1993, the Company sold 1,700,000 shares of Common Stock to Dr. Chen at a price of $0.02 per share. In November 1993, Dr. Chen entered into an agreement with the Company subjecting 3,700,000 of Dr. Chen's shares of Common Stock to vesting and granting the Company a right to repurchase any unvested shares in the event that Dr. Chen ceased to be employed by the Company at any time prior to November 1997. In November 1993, Dr. Chen also became a party to the Investors' Rights Agreement among the Company and certain of its stockholders whereby the Company granted such stockholders certain registration, information, and other rights.

In February 1996, Dr. Chen was granted an option to purchase 500,000 shares of Series D Preferred Stock of the Company at an exercise price of $4.00 per share. The shares subject to Dr. Chen's option vest ratably on a monthly basis over a 60-month period commencing April 1, 1995. Upon the completion of this offering, this option will convert into an option to purchase Common Stock.

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LIMITATION OF DIRECTOR AND OFFICER LIABILITY

The Restated Certificate and Restated Bylaws contain certain provisions relating to the limitation of liability and indemnification of directors and officers. The Restated Certificate provides that directors of the Company shall not be personally liable to the Company or its stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the directors' duty of loyalty to the Company or its stockholders,
(ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) in respect of certain unlawful payments of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases or redemptions as provided in Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derives any improper personal benefit. The Restated Certificate also provides that if the Delaware General Corporation Law is amended after the approval by the Company's stockholders of the Restated Certificate to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of the Company's directors shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law. The provision also does not affect a director's responsibilities under any other law, such as the federal securities laws or state or federal environmental laws. In addition, the Company's Restated Bylaws provide that the Company shall indemnify its directors to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law, subject to certain limitations, and may also secure insurance, again to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law, on behalf of any person required or permitted to be indemnified pursuant to the Restated Bylaws.

The Company has entered into indemnity agreements with each of the Company's directors. The form of indemnity agreement provides that the Company will indemnify against expenses and losses incurred for claims brought against them by reason of their status as a director, to the fullest extent permitted by the Company's Restated Bylaws and Delaware law.

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PRINCIPAL STOCKHOLDERS

The following table sets forth certain information regarding the beneficial ownership of the Company's Common Stock as of April 16, 1996, after giving effect to the conversion of all shares of Preferred Stock into shares of Common Stock, which will occur automatically upon the completion of this offering, and as adjusted to reflect the sale of Common Stock offered hereby for (i) each stockholder who is known by the Company to own beneficially more than 5% of the Common Stock, (ii) each Named Executive Officer, (iii) each director of the Company, and (iv) all directors and executive officers of the Company as a group.

                                                                                               PERCENTAGE OF SHARES
                                                                                              BENEFICIALLY OWNED (1)
                                                                                  SHARES     ------------------------
                                                                               BENEFICIALLY   PRIOR TO      AFTER
BENEFICIAL OWNER                                                                OWNED (1)     OFFERING   OFFERING (2)
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------  ------------  ----------  ------------
Pehong Chen (3) .............................................................     6,160,000       36.0%        29.2%
 c/o BroadVision, Inc.
 333 Distel Circle
 Los Altos, CA 94022
Mayfield VII (4) ............................................................     2,500,000       15.1         12.1
 2800 Sand Hill Road
 Menlo Park, CA 94025
Sutter Hill Ventures, a California Limited Partnership (5) ..................     2,427,468       14.6         11.8
 755 Page Mill Road
 Suite A-200
 Palo Alto, CA 94304
Itochu Corporation (6) ......................................................     1,550,000        9.3          7.5
 5-1, Kita-Aoyama, 2-Chome
 Minao-ku, Tokyo 107-77
 Japan
David L. Anderson (5) .......................................................     2,427,468       14.6         11.8
Yogen K. Dalal (4) ..........................................................     2,500,000       15.1         12.1
Koh Boon Hwee (7) ...........................................................       191,608        1.2            *
Gregory Smitherman (8) ......................................................       750,000        4.5          3.6
Mark D. Goros (9) ...........................................................       300,100        1.8          1.4
Carl N. Dellar (10) .........................................................       204,800        1.2          1.0
All Directors and Executive Officers as a group (8 persons) (11) ............    12,401,596       71.6         58.2


* Less than 1%

(1)Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the Commission and generally includes voting or investment power with respect to securities. Except as indicated by footnote, and subject to community property laws where applicable, the Company believes, based on information furnished by such persons, that the persons named in the table above have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of Common Stock shown as beneficially owned by them. Percentage of beneficial ownership is based on 16,599,484 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of April 16, 1996 and 20,599,484 shares of Common Stock outstanding after the completion of this offering. In computing the number of shares beneficially owned by a person and the percentage ownership of that person, shares of Common Stock subject to options held by that person that are exercisable within 60 days are deemed outstanding. Such shares, however, are not deemed outstanding for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other person.

(2)Assumes no exercise of the Underwriters' over-allotment option.

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(3)Includes 300,000 shares of Common Stock held in trust by independent trustees for the benefit of Dr. Chen's children. Dr. Chen disclaims beneficial ownership of such shares. Also includes 500,000 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of stock options exercisable within 60 days of April 16, 1996, subject to repurchase of unvested shares.

(4)Includes 2,385,000 shares held by Mayfield VII and 115,000 shares held by Mayfield Associates Fund II. Mr. Dalal, a director of the Company, is a general partner of the general partner of Mayfield VII, and Mayfield Associates Fund II, and therefore may be deemed to beneficially own the shares currently owned by such entities. Mr. Dalal disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares held by such entities, except to the extent of his pecuniary interest therein.

(5)Includes 1,547,722 shares of Common Stock owned by Sutter Hill Ventures, a California Limited Partnership ("Sutter Hill"), over which Mr. Anderson, a director of the Company, shares voting and investing power with four other general partners of Sutter Hill Management Company, L.P., the general partner of Sutter Hill. Includes 879,746 shares of Common Stock held of record by the five general partners of Sutter Hill Management Company, L.P. and their related family entities. Mr. Anderson disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares of Common Stock held by the other persons and entities associated with Sutter Hill, except to the extent of his pecuniary interest therein.

(6)Includes 925,000 shares of Common Stock held by Itochu Corporation, 500,000 shares of Common Stock held by Itochu International, Inc. and 125,000 shares of Common Stock held by Itochu Techno-Science Corporation.

(7)Includes 62,500 shares held by Seven Seas Group Ltd., in which Mr. Koh holds a controlling interest, and 50,000 shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of stock options that are exercisable within 60 days of April 16, 1996, subject to repurchase of unvested shares.

(8)Includes 750,000 shares of Common Stock held by Ameritech Development Corporation. Mr. Smitherman, a director of the Company, is Director of Venture Capital at Ameritech Development Corporation and may be deemed to share voting and investment power with respect to the shares held by such corporation. Mr. Smitherman disclaims beneficial ownership of such shares.

(9)Includes 300,000 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of stock options that are exercisable within 60 days of April 16, 1996, subject to repurchase of unvested shares.

(10)No longer associated with the Company.

(11)Includes the information contained in the notes above, as applicable. Also includes 725,000 shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of stock options that are exercisable within 60 days, subject to repurchase of unvested shares.

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DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK

Upon the completion of this offering, the authorized capital stock of the Company will consist of 50,000,000 shares of Common Stock and 5,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share ("Preferred Stock").

COMMON STOCK

As of April 16, 1996, there were 16,599,484 shares of Common Stock (including shares of Preferred Stock that will be converted into Common Stock upon completion of this offering) outstanding held of record by 97 stockholders.

The holders of Common Stock are entitled to one vote for each share held of record on all matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders. Subject to preferences that may be applicable to any outstanding shares of the Preferred Stock, the holders of Common Stock are entitled to receive ratably such dividends as may be declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available therefor. See "Dividend Policy." In the event of a liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the Company, holders of the Common Stock are entitled to share ratably in all assets remaining after payment of liabilities and the liquidation preferences of any outstanding shares of Preferred Stock. Holders of Common Stock have no preemptive rights and no right to convert their Common Stock into any other securities. There are no redemption or sinking fund provisions applicable to the Common Stock. All outstanding shares of Common Stock are, and all shares of Common Stock to be outstanding upon the completion of this offering will be, fully paid and nonassessable.

PREFERRED STOCK

Pursuant to the Restated Certificate, the Board of Directors has the authority, without further action by the stockholders, to issue up to 5,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock in one or more series and to fix the designations, powers, preferences, privileges, and relative participating, optional, or special rights and the qualifications, limitations, or restrictions thereof, including dividend rights, conversion rights, voting rights, terms of redemption and liquidation preferences, any or all of which may be greater than the rights of the Common Stock. The Board of Directors, without stockholder approval, can issue Preferred Stock with voting, conversion, or other rights that could adversely affect the voting power and other rights of the holders of Common Stock. Preferred Stock could thus be issued quickly with terms calculated to delay or prevent a change in control of the Company or make removal of management more difficult. Additionally, the issuance of Preferred Stock may have the effect of decreasing the market price of the Common Stock, and may adversely affect the voting and other rights of the holders of Common Stock. Upon the completion of this offering, there will be no shares of Preferred Stock outstanding and the Company has no current plans to issue any of the Preferred Stock.

REGISTRATION RIGHTS

Pursuant to an agreement between the Company and the holders (or their permitted transferees) of approximately 14,934,975 shares of Common Stock and Preferred Stock ("Holders") (which Preferred Stock will automatically be converted into Common Stock upon the completion of this offering), the Holders are entitled to certain rights with respect to the registration of such shares under the Securities Act. If the Company proposes to register its Common Stock, subject to certain exceptions, under the Securities Act, the Holders are entitled to notice of the registration and are entitled at the Company's expense to include such shares therein, provided that the managing underwriters have the right to limit the number of such shares included in the registration. The registration rights with respect to this offering have been waived. In addition, certain of the Holders may require the Company, at its expense, on no more than one occasion, to file a registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to their shares of Common Stock. Such rights may not be exercised until six months after the completion of this offering. Further, certain Holders may require the Company, once every 12 months and at the expense of the Holders, to register the shares on Form S-3 when such form becomes available to the Company, subject to certain conditions and limitations. Such right expires on the tenth anniversary of completion of this offering.

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ANTITAKEOVER EFFECTS OF PROVISIONS OF CHARTER DOCUMENTS AND DELAWARE LAW

CHARTER DOCUMENTS

The Restated Certificate and Restated Bylaws include a number of provisions that may have the effect of deterring hostile takeovers or delaying or preventing changes in control or management of the Company. First, the Restated Certificate provides that all stockholder action must be effected at a duly called meeting of stockholders and not by a consent in writing. Second, the Restated Bylaws provide that special meetings of the stockholders may be called only by (i) the Chairman of the Board of Directors, (ii) the Chief Executive Officer, (iii) the Board of Directors pursuant to a resolution adopted by the Board of Directors, or (iv) by the holders of not less than 10% of the outstanding voting stock. Third, the Company's Restated Certificate does not include a provision for cumulative voting for directors. Under cumulative voting, a minority stockholder holding a sufficient percentage of a class of shares may be able to ensure the election of one or more directors. Commencing at the first annual meeting following the annual meeting record date at which the Company has at least 800 stockholders, stockholders will no longer be able to cumulate votes for directors. Fourth, the Restated Bylaws establish procedures, including advance notice procedures with regard to the nomination of candidates for election as directors and stockholder proposals. These provisions of the Restated Certificate and Restated Bylaws could discourage potential acquisition proposals and could delay or prevent a change in control or management of the Company. Such provisions also may have the effect of preventing changes. in the management of the Company. See "Risk Factors -- Effects of Certain Charter and Bylaw Provisions."

DELAWARE TAKEOVER STATUTE

The Company is subject to the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law. In general, the statute prohibits a publicly held Delaware corporation from engaging in a "business combination" with an "interested stockholder" for a period of three years after the date of the transaction in which the person became an interested stockholder, unless the business combination is approved in a prescribed manner. For purposes of Section 203, a "business combination" includes a merger, asset sale, or other transaction resulting in a financial benefit to the interested stockholder, and an "interested stockholder" is a person who, together with affiliates and associates, owns (or within three years prior, did own) 15% or more of the corporation's voting stock.

TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR

American Securities Transfer Incorporated has been appointed as the transfer agent and registrar for the Company's Common Stock. Its telephone number is
(800) 962-4284.

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SHARES ELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE SALE

Upon the completion of the this offering, the Company will have outstanding 20,599,484 shares of Common Stock, based on the number of shares of Preferred Stock and Common Stock outstanding as of April 16, 1996. Of these shares, 4,000,000 shares sold in this offering will be freely tradeable without restrictions or further registration under the Securities Act. The remaining 16,599,484 shares of Common Stock held by existing stockholders are Restricted Shares. Restricted Shares may be sold in the public market only if they are registered or qualify for an exemption from registration under Rules 144 or 701 promulgated under the Securities Act. As a result of certain contractual restrictions and the provisions of Rules 144 and 701, additional shares will be available for sale in the public market as follows: (i) no Restricted Shares will be eligible for immediate sale on the date of this Prospectus, and (ii) 12,578,546 Restricted Shares (of which 800,167 would be subject to repurchase by the Company at the original purchase price), 2,520,558 shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of options outstanding as of April 16, 1996 (of which 2,095,480 shares would be subject to repurchase by the Company) and 33,750 shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of a currently outstanding warrant will be eligible for sale 180 days after the date of this Prospectus upon expiration of lock-up agreements. The Restricted Shares will be eligible for sale from time to time after the completion of this offering.

Each officer and director who is a stockholder of the Company and holders (including such officers and directors) of 16,560,967 shares of the Company's Common Stock have agreed with the representatives of the Underwriters for a period of 180 days after the effective date of this Prospectus (the "Lock-Up Period"), subject to certain exceptions, not to offer to sell, contract to sell, or otherwise sell, dispose of, loan, pledge, or grant any rights with respect to any shares of Common Stock, any options or warrants to purchase any shares of Common Stock, or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock owned as of the date of this Prospectus or thereafter acquired directly by such holders or with respect to which they have or hereafter acquire the power of disposition, without the prior written consent of Robertson, Stephens & Company. The Company has agreed with the representatives of the Underwriters for the Lock-Up Period, subject to certain exceptions, not to issue, sell, contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of, any shares of Common Stock, any options or warrants to purchase any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into, exercisable for or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock other than the Company's sale of shares in this offering, the issuance of Common Stock upon the exercise of outstanding options and the Company's issuance of options and shares under existing employee stock option and stock purchase plans.

As of April 16, 1996, there were 2,554,308 shares of Common Stock (on an as-converted basis) subject to outstanding options or warrants. Company intends to file registration statements under the Securities Act to register shares of Common Stock reserved for issuance under the Incentive Plan and the Purchase Plan, thus permitting the sale of such shares by non-affiliates in the public market without restriction under the Securities Act. Such registration statements will become effective immediately upon filing. Upon effectiveness of such registration statements, holders of vested options to purchase approximately 49,862 shares, as of April 16, 1996, will be entitled to exercise such options and immediately sell such shares.

In general, under Rule 144 as currently in effect, beginning 90 days after the date of this Prospectus, an Affiliate of the Company, or person (or persons whose shares are aggregated) who has beneficially owned Restricted Shares for at least two years, will be entitled to sell, in any three-month period, a number of shares that does not exceed the greater of (i) 1% of the then outstanding shares of the Company's Common Stock (approximately 205,994 shares immediately after this offering) or (ii) the average weekly trading volume of the Company's Common Stock in the Nasdaq National Market during the four calendar weeks immediately preceding the date on which the notice of sale is filed with the Commission. Sales pursuant to Rule 144 are subject to certain requirements relating to manner of sale, notice, and availability of current public information about the Company. A person (or persons whose shares are aggregated) who is not deemed to have been an Affiliate of the Company at any time during the 90 days immediately preceding the sale and who has beneficially owned Restricted Shares for at least three years is entitled to sell such shares pursuant to Rule 144(k) without regard to the limitations described above.

An employee, officer, or director of or consultant to the Company who purchased or was awarded shares or options to purchase shares pursuant to a written compensatory plan or contract is entitled to rely on the resale

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provisions of Rule 701 under the Securities Act, which permits Affiliates and non-Affiliates to sell their Rule 701 shares without having to comply with Rule 144's holding period restrictions, in each case commencing 90 days after the date of this Prospectus. In addition, non-Affiliates may sell Rule 701 shares without complying with the public information, volume, and notice provisions of Rule 144.

Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for the Company's Common Stock, and there can be no assurance that an active public market for the Common Stock will develop or will continue after this offering or that the market price of the Common Stock will not decline below the initial public offering price. Future sales of substantial amounts of Common Stock in the public market could adversely affect market prices prevailing from time to time. As described herein, only a limited number of shares will be available for sale shortly after this offering because of certain contractual and legal restrictions on resale. Sales of substantial amounts of Common Stock of the Company in the public market after the restrictions lapse could adversely affect the prevailing market price and the ability of the Company to raise equity capital in the future.

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UNDERWRITING

The underwriters named below, acting through their representatives, Robertson, Stephens & Company LLC, Hambrecht & Quist LLC and Wessels, Arnold & Henderson, L.L.C. (the "Representatives"), have severally agreed with the Company, subject to the terms and conditions of the Underwriting Agreement, to purchase the number of shares of Common Stock set forth opposite their respective names below. The Underwriters are committed to purchase and pay for all such shares if any are purchased.

                                                                                              NUMBER OF
                                        UNDERWRITER                                             SHARES
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  ----------
Robertson, Stephens & Company LLC...........................................................
Hambrecht & Quist LLC.......................................................................
Wessels, Arnold & Henderson, L.L.C..........................................................

                                                                                              ----------
Total.......................................................................................   4,000,000
                                                                                              ----------
                                                                                              ----------

The Representatives have advised the Company that the Underwriters propose to offer the shares of Common Stock to the public at the initial public offering price set forth on the cover page of this Prospectus and to certain dealers at such price less a concession of not in excess of $ per share, of which $ may be reallowed to other dealers. After the initial public offering, the public offering price, concession, and reallowance to dealers may be reduced by the Representatives. No such reduction shall change the amount of proceeds to be received by the Company as set forth on the cover page of this Prospectus.

The Company has granted to the Underwriters an option, exercisable during the 30-day period after the date of this Prospectus, to purchase up to 600,000 additional shares of Common Stock at the same price per share as will be paid for the 4,000,000 shares that the Underwriters have agreed to purchase. To the extent that the Underwriters exercise such option, each of the Underwriters will have a firm commitment to purchase approximately the same percentage of such additional shares that the number of shares of Common Stock to be purchased by it shown in the above table represents as a percentage of the 4,000,000 shares offered hereby. If purchased, such additional shares will be sold by the Underwriters on the same terms as those on which the 4,000,000 shares are being sold.

The Underwriting Agreement contains covenants of indemnity among the Underwriters and the Company against certain civil liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act and liabilities arising from breaches of representations and warranties contained in the Underwriting Agreement.

Each officer and director who holds shares of the Company and holders (including such officers and directors) of 16,560,967 shares of Common Stock have agreed with the Representatives, for the Lock-Up Period, subject to certain exceptions, not to offer to sell, contract to sell, or otherwise sell, dispose of, loan, pledge, or grant any rights with respect to any shares of Common Stock, any options or warrants to purchase any shares of Common Stock, or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock owned as of the date of this Prospectus or thereafter acquired directly by such holders or with respect to which they have or hereafter acquire the power of disposition, without the prior written consent of Robertson, Stephens & Company
LLC. However, Robertson, Stephens & Company LLC may, in its sole discretion and at any time without notice, release all or any portion of the securities subject to lock-up agreements. There are no agreements between the Representatives and any of the Company's stockholders providing consent by the Representatives to the sale of shares prior to the expiration of the Lock-Up Period. In addition, the Company has agreed that during the Lock-Up Period, the Company will not, without the prior written consent of Robertson, Stephens & Company LLC, subject to certain exceptions, issue, sell, contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of, any shares of Common Stock, any options or warrants to purchase any shares of Common Stock or any securities

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convertible into, exercisable for or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock other than the Company's sale of shares in this offering, the issuance of Common Stock upon the exercise of outstanding options, and the Company's issuance of options and shares under existing employee stock option and stock purchase plans. See "Shares Eligible For Future Sale."

The Underwriters do not intend to confirm sales to any accounts over which they exercise discretionary authority.

Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for the Common Stock of the Company. Conse-quently, the initial public offering price for the Common Stock offered hereby will be determined through negotiations among the Company and the Representatives. Among the factors to be considered in such negotiations are prevailing market conditions, certain financial information of the Company, market valuations of other companies that the Company and the Representatives believe to be comparable to the Company, estimates of the business potential of the Company, the present state of the Company's development and other factors deemed relevant.

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LEGAL MATTERS

The validity of the shares of Common Stock offered hereby will be passed upon for the Company by its counsel, Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum, San Francisco, California. Certain legal matters will be passed upon for the Underwriters by Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP, San Francisco, California. As of the date of this Prospectus, Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum held an option to purchase 2,000 shares of Common Stock, and certain partners of and persons associated with Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum beneficially owned 78,339 shares of Common Stock. In addition, a partner of Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum is the Secretary of BroadVision.

EXPERTS

The financial statements and schedules of BroadVision, Inc. as of December 31, 1994 and 1995 and for the periods from inception (May 13, 1993) to December 31, 1993, and the years ended December 31, 1994 and 1995 have been included in this Prospectus and Registration Statement in reliance upon the report of KMPG Peat Marwick LLP, independent certified public accountants, appearing elsewhere herein and in the Registration Statement, and upon the authority of such firm as experts in accounting and auditing.

CHANGE IN ACCOUNTANTS

In December 1995, the Company retained KPMG Peat Marwick LLP as the Company's independent accountants and replaced Coopers & Lybrand LLP, the Company's former accountants. The decision to change independent accountants was ratified by the Company's Board of Directors. During the period from the Company's inception through December 1995 and with respect to the Company's financial statements for the years ended December 31, 1993 and 1994, there were no disagreements with Coopers & Lybrand LLP regarding any matters with respect to accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure or audit scope or procedure, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of the former accountants, would have caused Coopers & Lybrand LLP to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreement in connection with its report. The former accountants reports, for the years ended December 31, 1993 and 1994, are not a part of the financial statements of the Company included in this Prospectus and the related financial statement schedules included elsewhere in the Registration Statement. Such reports did not contain an adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion or qualifications or modifications as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles. Prior to retaining KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, the Company had not consulted with KPMG Peat Marwick LLP regarding the application of accounting principles.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

A Registration Statement on Form S-1, including amendments thereto, relating to the shares of Common Stock offered hereby has been filed by the Company with the Commission under the Securities Act. This Prospectus does not contain all of the information set forth in the Registration Statement and the exhibits and schedules thereto. Statements contained in this Prospectus as to the contents of any contract or other document referred to are not necessarily complete and, in each instance, reference is made to the copy of such contract or other document filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, each such statement being qualified in all respects by such reference. For further information with respect to the Company and the Common Stock offered hereby, reference is made to such Registration Statement, exhibits and schedules. A copy of the Registration Statement may be inspected by anyone without charge at the public reference facilities maintained by the Commission at 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Judiciary Plaza, Washington, D.C. 20549, and copies of all or any part thereof may be obtained from those offices upon the payment of certain fees prescribed by the Commission.

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BROADVISION, INC.

INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

CONTENTS

Report of Independent Accountants.....................................................        F-2

Balance Sheets........................................................................        F-3

Statements of Operations..............................................................        F-4

Statements of Stockholders' Equity....................................................        F-5

Statements of Cash Flows..............................................................        F-6

Notes to Financial Statements.........................................................        F-7

F-1

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS

The Board of Directors
BroadVision, Inc.:

We have audited the accompanying balance sheets of BroadVision, Inc., a development stage enterprise, as of December 31, 1994 and 1995, and the related statements of operations, stockholders' equity and cash flows for the period from May 13, 1993 (inception) to December 31, 1993 and for the years ended December 31, 1994 and 1995. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of BroadVision, Inc. as of December 31, 1994 and 1995, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the period from May 13, 1993 (inception) to December 31, 1993 and for the years ended December 31, 1994 and 1995, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles.

KPMG PEAT MARWICK LLP

March 12, 1996,
except as to Note 8,
which is as of April 16, 1996

F-2

BROADVISION, INC.
(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE ENTERPRISE)

BALANCE SHEETS

(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)

                                                                            DECEMBER 31,          MARCH 31, 1996
                                                                        --------------------  ----------------------
                                                                          1994       1995      ACTUAL     PRO FORMA
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
                                                                                                   (UNAUDITED)
                                                                                              ----------------------
                                                                                                          (NOTE 8)
                                                       ASSETS
Current assets:
  Cash and cash equivalents...........................................  $     808  $   4,311  $   2,663  $    7,718
  Short-term investments..............................................      1,489        196         --          --
  Accounts receivable, net............................................         --        395      1,953       1,953
  Prepaid expenses and other current assets...........................         25         24        162         162
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
      Total current assets............................................      2,322      4,926      4,778       9,833
Property and equipment, net...........................................        309        868      1,272       1,272
Other assets..........................................................          9         63         56          56
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
      Total assets....................................................  $   2,640  $   5,857  $   6,106  $   11,161
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------

                                        LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Current liabilities:
  Accounts payable....................................................  $      19  $     161  $     573  $      573
  Accrued expenses....................................................         95        327        714         714
  Deferred revenue....................................................         --        355      1,251       1,251
  Current portion, capital lease obligations..........................         --        167        167         167
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
      Total current liabilities.......................................        114      1,010      2,705       2,705
Long-term portion, capital lease obligations..........................         --        516        477         477
Other liabilities.....................................................         --         77         92          92
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
      Total liabilities...............................................        114      1,603      3,274       3,274
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
Stockholders' equity:
  Convertible preferred stock, $.0001 par value; 10,000 shares
   authorized 5,600, 8,601 and 8,604 shares issued and outstanding in
   1994, 1995 and 1996 (unaudited), respectively; 15,000 shares
   authorized, no shares issued and outstanding, pro forma............          1          1          1          --
  Common stock, $.0001 par value; 22,000 shares authorized; 6,720;
   6,308; and 7,344 shares issued and outstanding in 1994, 1995 and
   1996 (unaudited), respectively; 30,000 shares authorized, 16,582
   shares issued and outstanding, pro forma (unaudited)...............          1          1          1           2
  Additional paid-in capital..........................................      4,330     11,412     13,088      18,143
  Deferred compensation related to grant of stock options.............         --     (1,036)    (2,436)     (2,436 )
  Deficit accumulated during the development stage....................     (1,806)    (6,124)    (7,822)     (7,822 )
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
      Total stockholders' equity......................................      2,526      4,254      2,832       7,887
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
      Total liabilities and stockholders' equity......................  $   2,640  $   5,857  $   6,106  $   11,161
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

F-3

BROADVISION, INC.
(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE ENTERPRISE)

STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)

                                               MAY 13, 1993                          THREE-MONTH PERIODS   CUMULATIVE
                                                 (DATE OF      YEARS ENDED DECEMBER                        PERIOD FROM
                                               INCEPTION) TO           31,             ENDED MARCH 31,      INCEPTION
                                               DECEMBER 31,    --------------------  --------------------   TO MARCH
                                                   1993          1994       1995       1995       1996      31, 1996
                                              ---------------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
                                                                                                (UNAUDITED)
                                                                                     ---------------------------------
Revenues:
  Software licenses.........................     $      --     $      --  $      --  $      --  $   1,099   $   1,099
  Services..................................            --            --        540         --        299         839
                                                     -----     ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
                                                        --            --        540         --      1,398       1,938
Operating expenses:
  Cost of software licenses.................            --            --         --         --        164         164
  Cost of services..........................            --            --         23         --         33          56
  Research and development..................            12           748      2,229        371        797       3,786
  Selling, general, and administrative......           131         1,023      2,766        500      2,109       6,029
                                                     -----     ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
      Total operating expenses..............           143         1,771      5,018        871      3,103      10,035
                                                     -----     ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
      Operating loss........................          (143)       (1,771)    (4,478)      (871)    (1,705)     (8,097)
Interest income.............................             7           101        191         25         43         342
Other expense...............................            --            --        (31)        --        (36)        (67)
                                                     -----     ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
      Net loss..............................     $    (136)    $  (1,670) $  (4,318) $    (846) $  (1,698)  $  (7,822)
                                                     -----     ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
                                                     -----     ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
Pro forma net loss per share................                              $   (0.23) $   (0.04) $   (0.09)
                                                                          ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                          ---------  ---------  ---------
Shares used in computing pro forma net loss
 per share..................................                                 18,543     18,888     18,576
                                                                          ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                          ---------  ---------  ---------

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

F-4

BROADVISION, INC.
(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE ENTERPRISE)

STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY

(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)

                                                                                       CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED
                                                                                                                  COMMON
                                                                                               STOCK               STOCK
                                                                                      ------------------------  -----------
                                                                                        SHARES       AMOUNT       SHARES
                                                                                      -----------  -----------  -----------
Issuance of common stock; 4,000 shares at $0.005 per share at July 1993; 1,700
 shares at $0.02 per share at October 1993..........................................          --    $      --        5,700
Issuance of Series A convertible preferred stock at $0.60 per share.................       4,267            1           --
Net loss............................................................................          --           --           --
                                                                                           -----          ---        -----
Balances as of December 31, 1993....................................................       4,267            1        5,700
Issuance of common stock at $0.05 per share.........................................          --           --        1,020
Issuance of Series B convertible preferred stock at $1.25 per share.................       1,333           --           --
Net loss............................................................................          --           --           --
                                                                                           -----          ---        -----
Balance as of December 31, 1994.....................................................       5,600            1        6,720
Issuance of common stock at $0.05 to $0.12 per share................................          --           --          334
Issuance of Series C convertible preferred stock at $2.00 per share, net of issuance
 costs of $49.......................................................................       3,001           --           --
Common stock repurchased............................................................          --           --         (746)
Deferred compensation related to grant of stock options.............................          --           --           --
Net loss............................................................................          --           --           --
                                                                                           -----          ---        -----
Balances as of December 31, 1995....................................................       8,601            1        6,308
Issuance of Series C convertible preferred stock at $2.00 (unaudited)...............           3           --           --
Deferred compensation related to grant of stock options (unaudited).................          --           --           --
Issuance of common stock (unaudited)................................................          --           --        1,036
Net loss (unaudited)................................................................          --           --           --
                                                                                           -----          ---        -----
Balances as of March 31, 1996 (unaudited)...........................................       8,604    $       1        7,344
                                                                                           -----          ---        -----
                                                                                           -----          ---        -----


                                                                                                                   DEFICIT
                                                                                                                 ACCUMULATED
                                                                                                   ADDITIONAL    DURING THE
                                                                                                     PAID-IN     DEVELOPMENT
                                                                                        AMOUNT       CAPITAL        STAGE
                                                                                      -----------  -----------  -------------
Issuance of common stock; 4,000 shares at $0.005 per share at July 1993; 1,700
 shares at $0.02 per share at October 1993..........................................   $       1    $      53     $      --
Issuance of Series A convertible preferred stock at $0.60 per share.................          --        2,559            --
Net loss............................................................................          --           --          (136)
                                                                                             ---   -----------  -------------
Balances as of December 31, 1993....................................................           1        2,612          (136)
Issuance of common stock at $0.05 per share.........................................          --           51            --
Issuance of Series B convertible preferred stock at $1.25 per share.................          --        1,667            --
Net loss............................................................................          --           --        (1,670)
                                                                                             ---   -----------  -------------
Balance as of December 31, 1994.....................................................           1        4,330        (1,806)
Issuance of common stock at $0.05 to $0.12 per share................................          --           31            --
Issuance of Series C convertible preferred stock at $2.00 per share, net of issuance
 costs of $49.......................................................................          --        5,952            --
Common stock repurchased............................................................          --          (37)           --
Deferred compensation related to grant of stock options.............................          --        1,136            --
Net loss............................................................................          --           --        (4,318)
                                                                                             ---   -----------  -------------
Balances as of December 31, 1995....................................................           1       11,412        (6,124)
Issuance of Series C convertible preferred stock at $2.00 (unaudited)...............          --            6            --
Deferred compensation related to grant of stock options (unaudited).................          --        1,510            --
Issuance of common stock (unaudited)................................................          --          160            --
Net loss (unaudited)................................................................          --           --        (1,698)
                                                                                             ---   -----------  -------------
Balances as of March 31, 1996 (unaudited)...........................................   $       1    $  13,088     $  (7,822)
                                                                                             ---   -----------  -------------
                                                                                             ---   -----------  -------------


                                                                                        DEFERRED
                                                                                      COMPENSATION
                                                                                       RELATED TO        TOTAL
                                                                                        GRANT OF     STOCKHOLDERS'
                                                                                      STOCK OPTIONS     EQUITY
                                                                                      -------------  -------------
Issuance of common stock; 4,000 shares at $0.005 per share at July 1993; 1,700
 shares at $0.02 per share at October 1993..........................................    $      --      $      54
Issuance of Series A convertible preferred stock at $0.60 per share.................           --          2,560
Net loss............................................................................           --           (136)
                                                                                      -------------       ------
Balances as of December 31, 1993....................................................           --          2,478
Issuance of common stock at $0.05 per share.........................................           --             51
Issuance of Series B convertible preferred stock at $1.25 per share.................           --          1,667
Net loss............................................................................           --         (1,670)
                                                                                      -------------       ------
Balance as of December 31, 1994.....................................................           --          2,526
Issuance of common stock at $0.05 to $0.12 per share................................           --             31
Issuance of Series C convertible preferred stock at $2.00 per share, net of issuance
 costs of $49.......................................................................           --          5,952
Common stock repurchased............................................................           --            (37)
Deferred compensation related to grant of stock options.............................       (1,036)           100
Net loss............................................................................           --         (4,318)
                                                                                      -------------       ------
Balances as of December 31, 1995....................................................       (1,036)         4,254
Issuance of Series C convertible preferred stock at $2.00 (unaudited)...............           --              6
Deferred compensation related to grant of stock options (unaudited).................       (1,400)           110
Issuance of common stock (unaudited)................................................           --            160
Net loss (unaudited)................................................................           --         (1,698)
                                                                                      -------------       ------
Balances as of March 31, 1996 (unaudited)...........................................    $  (2,436)     $   2,832
                                                                                      -------------       ------
                                                                                      -------------       ------

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

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BROADVISION, INC.
(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE ENTERPRISE)

STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(IN THOUSANDS)

                                                        MAY 13, 1993                         THREE-MONTH PERIODS   CUMULATIVE
                                                          (DATE OF     YEARS ENDED DECEMBER                        PERIOD FROM
                                                        INCEPTION) TO          31,             ENDED MARCH 31,      INCEPTION
                                                        DECEMBER 31,   --------------------  --------------------   TO MARCH
                                                            1993         1994       1995       1995       1996      31, 1996
                                                        -------------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
                                                                                                        (UNAUDITED)
                                                                                             ---------------------------------
Cash flows from operating activities:
  Net loss............................................    $    (136)   $  (1,670) $  (4,318) $    (846) $  (1,698)  $  (7,822)
  Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash
   provided by (used in) operating activities:
    Depreciation and amortization.....................            3           83        120         37         95         301
    Deferred compensation.............................           --           --        100         --        110         210
    Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
      Accounts receivable.............................           --           --       (395)        --     (1,558)     (1,953)
      Prepaid expenses, other current assets, and
       other assets...................................          (21)         (13)       (53)       (56)      (131)       (218)
      Accounts payable and accrued expenses...........          156          (42)       374         98        799       1,287
      Deferred revenue................................           --           --        355         --        896       1,251
      Other liabilities...............................           --           --         77         --         15          92
                                                        -------------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
        Net cash provided by (used in) operating
         activities...................................            2       (1,642)    (3,740)      (767)    (1,472)     (6,852)
                                                        -------------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
Cash flows from investing activities:
  Acquisition of property and equipment...............         (113)        (282)      (679)       (88)      (499)     (1,573)
  Purchase of short-term investments..................       (1,000)      (1,489)      (196)    (1,200)        --      (2,685)
  Maturity of short-term investments..................           --        1,000      1,489      1,489        196       2,685
                                                        -------------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
        Net cash provided by (used in) investing
         activities...................................       (1,113)        (771)       614        201       (303)     (1,573)
                                                        -------------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
Cash flows from financing activities:
  Proceeds from issuance of common stock..............           54           51         31         --        160         296
  Proceeds from issuance of preferred stock, net of
   issuance costs.....................................        2,560        1,667      5,952         --          6      10,185
  Repurchase of common stock..........................           --           --        (37)        --         --         (37)
  Proceeds from capital lease.........................           --           --        748         --         --         748
  Payments on capital lease...........................           --           --        (65)        --        (39)       (104)
                                                        -------------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
        Net cash provided by financing activities.....        2,614        1,718      6,629         --        127      11,088
                                                        -------------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash
 equivalents..........................................        1,503         (695)     3,503       (566)    (1,648)      2,663
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period/
 year.................................................           --        1,503        808        808      4,311          --
                                                        -------------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period/year.........    $   1,503    $     808  $   4,311  $     242  $   2,663   $   2,663
                                                        -------------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------
                                                        -------------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  -----------

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

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BROADVISION, INC.
(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE ENTERPRISE)

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
DECEMBER 31, 1994 AND 1995

(1) BUSINESS OF THE COMPANY BroadVision, Inc. (the "Company") provides an integrated software application system, BroadVision One-To-One, that enables the creation of applications allowing non-technical business managers to tailor Internet marketing and selling services to the needs and interests of individual World Wide Web site visitors, personalizing each visit on a real-time basis.

(2) SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

USE OF ESTIMATES

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from these estimates.

CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS

The Company considers all highly liquid investments purchased with an original maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents. All of the Company's cash and cash equivalents as of December 31, 1995 are on deposit with one major U.S. bank.

As of December 31, 1995, short-term investments consisted of banker's acceptances with maturities of three months or less and are carried at cost, which approximates fair value. There were no short-term investments as of March 31, 1996.

PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT

Property and equipment are stated at cost and depreciated on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives, which range from two to five years. Leasehold improvements are amortized over their useful lives or the life of the lease, whichever is shorter.

REVENUE RECOGNITION

The Company's revenue recognition policies are in accordance with Statement of Position No. 91-1, SOFTWARE REVENUE RECOGNITION, and are as follows:

-Software license revenues are recognized when the software has been delivered, the customer acknowledges an unconditional obligation to pay, and the Company has no significant obligations remaining.

-Maintenance revenues relating to contracts which entitle customers to receive technical support and future enhancements of the licensed software are deferred and recognized ratably over the contract period.

-Revenues from professional services are recognized as such services are performed.

CAPITALIZED SOFTWARE

Development costs incurred in the research and development of new software products are expensed as incurred until technological feasibility in the form of a working model has been established. To date, the Company's software development has been completed concurrent with the establishment of technological feasibility and, accordingly, no costs have been capitalized.

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BROADVISION, INC.
(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE ENTERPRISE)

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

(2) SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED) INCOME TAXES

The Company utilizes the asset and liability method of accounting for income taxes. Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the difference between the financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which the differences are expected to affect taxable income. Valuation allowances are established when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to the amounts expected to be recovered.

PRO FORMA NET LOSS PER SHARE

Pro forma net loss per share is computed using net loss and is based on the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding, convertible preferred stock, on an "as-if-converted" basis, using the exchange rate in effect at the initial public offering date and dilutive common equivalent shares from stock options and warrants outstanding using the treasury stock method. In accordance with certain Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Staff Accounting Bulletins, such computations include all common and common equivalent shares issued within 12 months of the offering date as if they were outstanding for all periods presented using the treasury stock method and the anticipated initial public offering price.

RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

In October 1995, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 123, ACCOUNTING FOR STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION. SFAS No. 123 will be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 1995, and will require that the Company either recognize in its financial statements costs related to its employee stock-based compensation plans, such as stock option and stock purchase plans, or make pro forma disclosures of such costs in a footnote to the financial statements.

The Company expects to continue to use the intrinsic value-based method of Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25, as allowed under SFAS No. 123, to account for all of its employee stock-based compensation plans. Therefore, in its financial statements for fiscal 1996, the Company will make the required pro forma disclosures in a footnote. SFAS No. 123 is not expected to have a material effect on the Company's results of operations or financial position.

(3) BALANCE SHEET DETAIL

PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT

A summary of property and equipment follows (in thousands):

                                                                       DECEMBER 31,
                                                                   --------------------
                                                                     1994       1995
                                                                   ---------  ---------    MARCH 31,
                                                                                             1996
                                                                                         -------------
                                                                                          (UNAUDITED)
Furniture and fixtures...........................................  $      53  $      92    $     106
Computer and software............................................        325        844        1,332
Leasehold improvements...........................................         17         42           42
                                                                         ---        ---       ------
                                                                         395        978        1,480
Less accumulated depreciation and amortization...................         86        110          208
                                                                         ---        ---       ------
                                                                   $     309  $     868    $   1,272
                                                                         ---        ---       ------
                                                                         ---        ---       ------

Depreciation expense was $3,000, $83,000, $120,000 and $95,000 for the period from May 13, 1993 (inception) to December 31, 1993, for the years ended December 31, 1994 and 1995, and the quarter ended March 31, 1996, respectively.

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BROADVISION, INC.
(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE ENTERPRISE)

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

(3) BALANCE SHEET DETAIL (CONTINUED) ACCRUED EXPENSES

A summary of accrued expenses follows (in thousands):

                                                                   DECEMBER 31,
                                                              ----------------------
                                                                 1994        1995
                                                                  ---      ---------    MARCH 31,
                                                                                          1996
                                                                                      -------------
                                                                                       (UNAUDITED)
Accrued employee benefits...................................   $      28   $     130    $     328
Deferred compensation.......................................          --         107          147
Accrued amounts payable to contractors......................          35          45           70
Other accrued liabilities...................................          32          45          169
                                                                      --
                                                                                 ---          ---
                                                               $      95   $     327    $     714
                                                                      --
                                                                      --
                                                                                 ---          ---
                                                                                 ---          ---

(4) STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY

CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK

The rights, preferences, privileges, and restrictions of the Series A, B, and C convertible preferred stock are as follows:

-Each share of Series A, B, and C preferred stock shall be convertible at the option of the holder, at any time after the date of issuance, into one fully paid and nonassessable share of common stock. The conversion rate is subject to certain antidilution provisions. Each series has voting rights equal to one vote per share.

-Conversion is automatic upon either the closing of a public offering of the Company's common stock at a purchase price of not less than $5.00 per share or at the election of the holders of at least two-thirds of the outstanding preferred stock.

-Series A, B, and C preferred stockholders are entitled to noncumulative dividends at a rate of 8% per share per annum, when and if declared by the Board of Directors. As of December 31, 1995, no dividends have been declared.

-Series A, B, and C preferred stock have a liquidation preference of $.60, $1.25, and $2.00 per share, respectively, plus all declared but unpaid dividends.

-After payment has been made to the holders of preferred stock of the full preferential amounts, the holders of common stock shall be entitled to receive all remaining assets.

Convertible preferred stock issued and outstanding as of December 31, 1995 is as follows (in thousands):

                                                                    ISSUED AND OUTSTANDING
                                                                         DECEMBER 31,
                                                          ------------------------------------------
                                                                 SHARES                AMOUNT
                                                          --------------------  --------------------
SERIES                                       AUTHORIZED     1994       1995       1994       1995
- -------------------------------------------  -----------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
A..........................................       4,300       4,267      4,267  $   2,560  $   2,560
B..........................................       1,400       1,333      1,333      1,667      1,667
C..........................................       4,000          --      3,001         --      5,952
                                                          ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                              5,600      8,601  $   4,227  $  10,179
                                                          ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                          ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------

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BROADVISION, INC.
(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE ENTERPRISE)

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

(4) STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY (CONTINUED) WARRANTS

As of December 31, 1995, there was one warrant outstanding to acquire 33,750 shares of the Company's Series C preferred stock at $2.00 per share. The warrant expires in June 2002.

COMMON STOCK

The Company has reserved 4,536,800 shares of common stock for issuance under its stock option plan. Under this plan, the Board of Directors may grant incentive or nonqualified stock options at prices not less than 100% or 85%, respectively, of the fair market value of the Company's common stock, as determined by the Board of Directors, at the grant date. The vesting of individual options may vary but in each case at least 20% of the total number of shares subject to options will become exercisable per year.

When an employee option is exercised prior to vesting, any unvested shares so purchased are subject to repurchase by the Company at the original purchase price of the stock upon termination of employment. The right to repurchase lapses at a minimum rate of 20% per year over five years from the date the option was granted or, for new employees, the date of hire. Such right is exercisable only within 90 days following termination of employment.

Activity in the Company's stock option plan is as follows (in thousands, except per share data):

                                                             SHARES
                                                            AVAILABLE     OPTIONS     PRICE PER
                                                            FOR GRANT   OUTSTANDING     SHARE
                                                           -----------  -----------  -----------
Authorized...............................................       3,533           --   $        --
                                                           -----------  -----------  -----------
Balances, December 31, 1993..............................       3,533           --            --
Options granted..........................................      (1,014)       1,014     0.05-0.06
Options exercised........................................          --          (10)         0.05
                                                           -----------  -----------  -----------
Balances, December 31, 1994..............................       2,519        1,004     0.05-0.06
Authorized...............................................       1,004           --
Options granted..........................................      (1,916)       1,916     0.06-0.20
Options exercised........................................          --         (334)    0.05-0.12
Options canceled.........................................         662         (662)    0.05-0.12
                                                           -----------  -----------  -----------
Balances, December 31, 1995..............................       2,269        1,924     0.05-0.20
Options granted..........................................        (850)         850     0.20-4.50
Options exercised........................................          --       (1,012)    0.05-0.80
Options canceled.........................................           2           (2)         0.06
                                                           -----------  -----------  -----------
Balances, March 31, 1996.................................       1,421        1,760   $ 0.05-4.50
                                                           -----------  -----------  -----------
                                                           -----------  -----------  -----------

The Company has outstanding options to purchase 20,000 shares with an exercise price of $0.20 per share, granted to an employee outside of the Company's stock option plan. These options vest in their entirety on the ninth anniversary of the date of grant; however, if the optionee achieves certain performance objectives, the vesting of the options may be accelerated by the President of the Company acting in his discretion.

As of December 31, 1995 and March 31, 1996 all options were exercisable and 200,000 and 1,097,075 shares, respectively, would have been subject to repurchase, if exercised.

The Company has recorded deferred compensation of $1,136,000 during 1995 and an additional $1,510,000 for the three months ended March 31, 1996 for the difference between the grant price and the deemed fair value of the common stock underlying options granted from December 1995 through March 1996. In addition, in

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BROADVISION, INC.
(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE ENTERPRISE)

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

(4) STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY (CONTINUED)

April 1996 the Company intends to record deferred compensation of approximately $218,000 related to the difference between the grant price and the deemed fair value of the common stock underlying options granted in April 1996. This amount is being amortized over the vesting period of the individual options, generally five years.

(5) SIGNIFICANT CUSTOMERS In 1995, one customer accounted for $500,000 and the other accounted for $40,000 of the Company's revenues. Neither of these is an international customer.

(6) COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

LEASES

As of December 31, 1995, the Company was obligated under noncancelable operating lease agreements expiring through 2000 for facilities and equipment. The Company is responsible for certain maintenance costs, taxes and insurance under the facilities lease. The Company also leases certain equipment under capital leases expiring through 1999. A summary of future minimum lease payments follows (in thousands):

                                                                             CAPITAL     OPERATING
                           FISCAL YEAR ENDING                                LEASES       LEASES
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------  -----------  -----------
  1996...................................................................   $     231    $     272
  1997...................................................................         231          301
  1998...................................................................         231          311
  1999...................................................................         142          320
  2000...................................................................          --          135
                                                                                  ---   -----------
  Total minimum lease payments...........................................         835    $   1,339
                                                                                        -----------
                                                                                        -----------
  Less amount representing imputed interest..............................         152
                                                                                  ---
  Present value of net minimum capital lease payments....................         683
  Less current installments of obligations under capital leases..........         167
                                                                                  ---
  Obligations under capital leases, excluding current installments.......   $     516
                                                                                  ---
                                                                                  ---

Rent expense was $7,000, $87,000 and $264,000 for the period from May 13, 1993 (inception) to December 31, 1993 and the years ended December 31, 1994 and 1995, respectively.

EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN

In November 1994, the Company adopted a 401(k) employee retirement plan under which eligible employees may contribute up to 20% of their annual compensation, subject to certain limitations ($9,500 in 1996). Employees vest immediately in their contributions and earnings thereon. The plan allows for, but does not require, Company matching contributions. To date, the Company has not made any such matching contributions.

CONTINGENCIES

The Company has incorporated RSA Data Security, Inc.'s data encryption and authentication technology into the Company's software pursuant to a license agreement with RSA. The Company is aware of a dispute between Cylink Corporation and RSA in which Cylink alleges that license agreements between RSA and its customers, including the Company, relating to certain RSA software, conflict with rights held by Cylink. In the Company's license agreement with RSA, RSA has agreed to defend, indemnify and hold the Company harmless

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BROADVISION, INC.
(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE ENTERPRISE)

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

(6) COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES (CONTINUED) with respect to any claim by a third party that the licensed software infringes any patent or other proprietary right. The Company's management presently does not believe the dispute between Cylink and RSA will result in significant royalty or other liability to the Company.

(7) INCOME TAXES The components of the net deferred tax assets as of December 31, 1994 and 1995 were as follows (in thousands):

                                                                                 DECEMBER 31,
                                                                             --------------------
                                                                               1994       1995
                                                                             ---------  ---------
Depreciation and amortization..............................................  $      22  $      56
Accrued liabilities........................................................          6        107
Capitalized research and development.......................................         42        265
Net operating losses.......................................................        620      2,159
Tax credits................................................................         58        179
                                                                             ---------  ---------
  Net deferred assets......................................................        748      2,766
Less valuation allowance...................................................       (748)    (2,766)
                                                                             ---------  ---------
                                                                             $      --  $      --
                                                                             ---------  ---------
                                                                             ---------  ---------

Deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities and are measured using the enacted tax rates and laws that will be in effect when the differences are expected to reverse. The Company has provided a full valuation allowance against its net deferred tax assets as it has determined that it is more likely than not that the deferred tax assets will not be realized. The Company's accounting for deferred taxes under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 109 involves the evaluation of a number of factors concerning the realizability of the Company's deferred tax assets. To support the Company's conclusion that a full valuation allowance was required, managment primarily considered such factors as the Company's history of operating losses and expected near-term future losses, the nature of the Company's deferred tax assets, and the lack of significant firm sales backlog. Although management's operating plans assume taxable and operating income in future periods, management's evaluation of all the available evidence in assessing the realizability of the deferred tax assets indicates that such plans were not considered sufficient to overcome the available negative evidence.

The Company's effective tax rate differs from the statutory federal income tax rate as shown in the following schedule:

                                                                             DECEMBER 31,
                                                                 -------------------------------------
                                                                    1993         1994         1995
                                                                 -----------  -----------  -----------
Statutory federal income tax rate..............................      (34.0)%      (34.0)%      (34.0)%
Net operating losses not benefited.............................       34.0         34.0         34.0
                                                                     -----        -----        -----
  Effective tax rate...........................................         --%          --%          --%
                                                                     -----        -----        -----
                                                                     -----        -----        -----

As of December 31, 1995, the Company had federal and state net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $5,632,000 and $2,620,000, respectively, available to offset future regular and alternative minimum taxable income. In addition, the Company had federal and state research and development credit carryforwards of approximately $91,000 and $88,000, respectively, available to offset future tax liabilities. The Company's net operating loss and tax credit carryforwards expire in 1998 through 2010, if not utilized.

The Tax Reform Act of 1986 and the California Tax Conformity Act of 1987 limit the use of net operating loss carryforwards in certain situations where changes occur in the stock ownership of a company. The Company

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BROADVISION, INC.
(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE ENTERPRISE)

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

(7) INCOME TAXES (CONTINUED) believes such an ownership change, as defined, may have occurred in connection with the issuance of the Series C preferred stock issued in 1995 (note 4). Accordingly, $2,600,000 and $1,100,000 of the Company's federal and state net operating loss carryforwards, respectively, may be limited in their usage to $600,000 per year, on a cumulative basis.

(8) SUBSEQUENT EVENTS (UNAUDITED)

SERIES D PREFERRED STOCK OPTION

In February 1996, the Company granted its chief executive officer an option to purchase 500,000 shares of Series D preferred stock at an exercise price of $4.00 per share. The option vests on a pro rata monthly basis over a five-year period commencing April 1995.

SERIES E PREFERRED STOCK

On April 10, 1996, the Board of Directors approved an increase in the number of authorized shares of common and preferred stock of the Company, including the designation of a class of Series E preferred stock. On April 16, 1996, the Company sold 634,375 shares of Series E convertible preferred stock for proceeds of $5,055,000, net of offering costs.

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

On April 16, 1996, the Board of Directors approved a proposed filing of a registration statement with the SEC to sell 4,600,000 shares of the Company's common stock to the public. If the offering is consummated under the proposed terms, the Company's outstanding shares of Series A, B, C and E convertible preferred stock will automatically convert into shares of its common stock. In addition, options or warrants to purchase preferred stock will convert to options or warrants to purchase an equivalent number of shares of common stock. The issuance of the Series E convertible preferred stock and this conversion have been reflected in the accompanying pro forma balance sheet as of March 31, 1996.

RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

On April 16, 1996, the Board of Directors approved the Company's restated certificate of incorporation under which the Company will have authorized common stock of 50,000,000 shares and preferred stock of 5,000,000 shares upon completion of the Company's proposed initial public offering described above.

EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN

On April 16, 1996, the Board of Directors approved the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the Purchase Plan) and reserved 600,000 shares for issuance thereunder. The Purchase Plan will become effective upon the completion of the Company's proposed initial public offering. The Purchase Plan permits eligible employees to purchase common stock equivalent to a percentage of the employee's earnings, not to exceed 15%, at a price equal to 85% of the fair market value of the common stock at dates specified by the Board of Directors as provided in the Plan.

EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN

On April 16, 1996, the Board of Directors approved the Equity Incentive Plan (the Incentive Plan) and authorized 5,000,000 shares for issuance thereunder. The Incentive Plan provides for grant to employees of incentive stock options at not less than fair value and nonqualified stock options at not less than 85% of fair value.

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BroadVision-TM-
ONE-TO-ONE-TM-

Web Sites Tailored to the Needs and
Interest of Individual Visitors

Basic news,
chat lounge,
and shopping
services.

Generic advertisement from
sponsor site.

Visitor registers
areas of interest
and basic
demographic
information in
exchange for incentives. Ongoing
observations of visitor interactions
add to profiles over time.

Personalized
Web site with
targeted content
reflecting current
profile attributes.

Chat lounge con-
nects to others with
similar interests.

Targeted shopping
services with per-
sonalized product
displays and pricing.

Favorite hangouts
link to areas match-
ing profiled interests.

Point-cast and
community-cast
advertising.

[Pictures of three web pages, the first entitled "Annonymous Guest Web Site" and showing a sample guest homepage, the second entitled "One-to-One Web Profile Example" displaying a sample personal profile of a guest registering on the anonymous guest web site, and the third entitled "One-to-One Web Site" displaying a personalized home page for the anonymous guest web site using the information from the personal profile.]

To date, no application has been commercially deployed using BroadVision One-To-One.


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PART II
INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

ITEM 13. OTHER EXPENSES OF ISSUANCE AND DISTRIBUTION.

The following table sets forth all expenses, other than the underwriting discounts and commissions, payable by the Registrant in connection with the sale of the shares of Common Stock being registered. All the amounts shown are estimates except for the SEC registration fee, the NASD filing fee and the Nasdaq National Market application fee.

SEC Registration Fee..............................................  $  15,863
NASD Filing Fee...................................................      5,100
Nasdaq National Market Application Fee............................     50,000
Blue Sky Qualification Fee and Expenses...........................     15,000
Printing and Engraving Expenses...................................    120,000
Legal Fees and Expenses...........................................    325,000
Accounting Fees and Expenses......................................    250,000
Transfer Agent and Registrar Fees.................................      7,500
Directors and Officers Insurance Premium..........................    125,000
Miscellaneous.....................................................     36,537
                                                                    ---------
    Total.........................................................  $ 950,000
                                                                    ---------
                                                                    ---------

ITEM 14. INDEMNIFICATION OF OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.

Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law authorizes a court to award or a corporation's Board of Directors to grant indemnification to directors and officers in terms sufficiently broad to permit such indemnification under certain circumstances for liabilities (including reimbursement for expenses incurred) arising under the Securities Act. The Registrant's Restated Certificate and Restated Bylaws provide for mandatory indemnification of its directors and permissive indemnification of officers, employees and other agents to the maximum extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law. The Registrant will enter into indemnification agreements with its directors, a form of which is attached as Exhibit 10.1 hereto and incorporated herein by reference. The indemnification agreements provide the Registrant's directors with further indemnification to the maximum extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law. The Company has also obtained directors and officers insurance to insure its directors and officers against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Laws. Reference is also made to the Underwriting Agreement to be filed as Exhibit 1.1 hereto, indemnifying officers and directors of the Registrant against certain liabilities.

ITEM 15. RECENT SALES OF UNREGISTERED SECURITIES.

Since its incorporation in May 1993, the Registrant has sold and issued the following unregistered securities:

(1)During the period July 30, 1993 through January 15, 1994, the Registrant sold an aggregate of 6,710,000 shares of the Company's Common Stock to its founder and two other officers.

(2)In November 1993, the Registrant sold 4,266,667 shares of Series A Preferred Stock, convertible into 4,266,667 shares of Common Stock, to certain investors, including one director and venture capital investment partnerships associated with two directors, for $2,560,000 in cash.

(3)During the period December 22, 1993 through April 16, 1996, the Registrant granted stock options to employees, directors and consultants under its Stock Option Plan (the "Option Plan") covering an aggregate of 3,864,000 shares of the Company's Common Stock, at an average exercise price of $0.44 per share. Of these, options covering an aggregate of 663,333 were canceled without being exercised. During the same period, the Registrant sold an aggregate of 1,373,109 shares of its Common Stock to employees, directors and consultants for cash consideration in the aggregate amount of $196,959 upon the exercise of stock options granted under the Option Plan.

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(4)During the period December 22, 1993 through April 16, 1996, the Registrant granted nonstatutory stock options to employees, directors and consultants outside the Option Plan covering an aggregate of 713,000 shares of the Company's Common Stock, at a weighted average exercise price of $3.16 per share. Of these options, none have been canceled and options to acquire 20,000 have been exercised.

(5)In November 1994, the Registrant sold 1,333,333 shares of Series B Preferred Stock, convertible into 1,333,333 shares of Common Stock, to certain investors, including one director and venture capital investment partnerships associated with two directors, for $1,666,666 in cash.

(6)From May 1995 to August 1995, the Registrant sold 3,000,600 shares of Series C Preferred Stock, convertible into 3,000,600 shares of Common Stock, to certain investors, including one officer, one director and venture capital investment partnership associated with three directors, for $6,001,200 in cash.

(7)In February 1996, the Registrant issued a stock option to purchase 500,000 shares of Series D Preferred Stock to one person who is both an officer and a director of the Registrant.

(9)In February 1996, the Registrant sold 4,000 shares of the Company's Common Stock to a consultant of the Company for $800 in cash.

(10)In February 1996, the Registrant sold 3,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock, convertible into 3,000 shares of Common Stock, to a consultant to the Company for $6,000 in cash.

(11)In April 1996, the Registrant sold shares of Series E Preferred Stock, convertible into 634,375 shares of Common Stock, to certain investors, including two officers and a company associated with a director of the Registrant, for $5,075,000 in cash.

The sales and issuances of securities in the transactions described in paragraphs (1), (3) and (4) above were deemed to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of Rule 701 promulgated thereunder in that they were offered and sold either pursuant to written compensatory or pursuant to a written contract relating to compensation, as provided by Rule 701.

The sale and issuance of securities in the transaction described in paragraphs (2) and (5) through (11) were deemed to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(2) and/or Regulation D promulgated thereunder as transactions not involving any public offering. The purchasers in each case represented their intention to acquire the securities for investment only and not with a view to the distribution thereof. Appropriate legends are affixed to the stock certificates issued in such transactions. All recipients either received adequate information about the Registrant or had access, through employment or other relationships, to such information.

ITEM 16. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES.

(a)Exhibits.

  EXHIBIT
  NUMBER                                         DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENT
- -----------   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  1.1         Form of Underwriting Agreement
  3.1*        Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation
  3.2*        Amended and Restated Bylaws
  3.3         Amended  and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to  be effective upon the completion of the
               offering
  3.4*        Amended and Restated Bylaws to be effective upon the completion of the offering
  4.1*        Reference is hereby made to Exhibits 3.1 to 3.4
  4.2*        Series C Preferred  Stock Purchase Warrant  dated June  5, 1995 issued  to Lighthouse  Capital
               Partners, L.P.
  4.3         Specimen stock certificate.

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 4.4*        Second  Amended and Restated Investors' Rights Agreement dated April 15, 1996 among Registrant
              and certain of its stockholders
 4.5         Stock Restriction Agreement dated November 1, 1993 between Registrant and Dr. Pehong Chen
 5.1         Opinion of Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum
10.1*        Form of Indemnity Agreement between the Registrant and each of its directors
10.2*        Equity Incentive Plan (the "Equity Incentive Plan")
10.3         Form of Incentive Stock Option under the Equity Incentive Plan
10.4*        Form of Nonstatutory Stock Option under the Equity Incentive Plan
10.5*        Form of Nonstatutory Stock Option (Performance-Based)
10.6*        1996 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the "Employee Stock Purchase Plan")
10.7*        Employee Stock Purchase Plan Offering (Initial Offering)
10.8*        Employee Stock Purchase Plan Offering (Subsequent Offering)
10.9*        Master Equipment Lease  Agreement dated  May 23, 1995  between the  Registrant and  Lighthouse
              Capital Partners L.P.
10.10*+      Terms and Conditions dated January 1, 1995 between IONA Technologies LTD and the Registrant.
10.11*       Series  D Preferred Stock Option Agreement dated  February 27, 1996 between the Registrant and
              Pehong Chen
10.12*       Standard Office Lease dated February 8, 1995 between the Registrant and GVE Distel Associates,
              a California General Partnership.
10.13        Stock Option Plan
10.14        Form of Incentive Stock Option under the Stock Option Plan
10.15        Form of Nonstatutory Stock Option under the Stock Option Plan
10.16        Reference is hereby made to Exhibit 4.5.
10.17        Series B Preferred  Stock Purchase  Agreement dated January  31, 1994  between Registrant  and
              Itochu Corporation.
10.18        Series  B  Preferred Stock  Purchase Agreement  dated  November 7,  1994 among  Registrant and
              certain investors.
10.19        Series C Preferred Stock Purchase  Agreement dated May 26,  1995 among Registrant and  certain
              investors.
10.20        Series  C Preferred Stock Purchase  Agreement dated June 9,  1995 among Registrant and certain
              investors.
10.21        Series C Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement dated August 7, 1995 among Registrant and  certain
              investors.
10.22        Series C Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement dated August 31, 1995 among Registrant and certain
              investors.
10.23        Series  E Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement dated April 15, 1996 among Registrant and certain
              investors.
16.1*        Letter of Coopers & Lybrand LLP
21.1         Subsidiaries of the Registrant
23.1         Consent of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP. Reference is made to page II-6.
23.2         Consent of Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum. Reference is made to Exhibit 5.1.

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24.1         Power of Attorney. Reference is made to page II-5.


* Previously filed.

+ Confidential treatment requested.

(b)Financial Statement Schedules.

All other schedules are omitted because they are not required, they are not applicable or the information is already included in the financial statements or notes thereto.

ITEM 17. UNDERTAKINGS.

The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes to provide to the Underwriters at the closing specified in the Underwriting Agreement certificates in such denominations and registered in such names as required by the Underwriters to permit prompt delivery to each purchaser.

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Act") may be permitted to directors, officers, and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the provisions described in Item 14 or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer, or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that: (1) for purposes of determining any liability under the Act, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in the form of prospectus filed by the Registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Act shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the time it was declared effective, and (2) for the purpose of determining any liability under the Act, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant has duly caused this Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Los Altos, State of California, on the 29th day of May, 1996.

BROADVISION, INC.

BY:        /s/ RANDALL C. BOLTEN

   -----------------------------------
            Randall C. Bolten
       Chief Financial Officer and
       Vice President, Operations

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

                      SIGNATURE                                          TITLE                    DATE
- ------------------------------------------------------  ----------------------------------------  ---------------

                    * PEHONG CHEN
     -------------------------------------------        President, Chief Executive Officer and    May 29, 1996
                     Pehong Chen                         Director (PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

                /s/ RANDALL C. BOLTEN                   Vice President, Operations and Chief
     -------------------------------------------         Financial Officer (PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL   May 29, 1996
                  Randall C. Bolten                      AND ACCOUNTING OFFICER)

                 * DAVID L. ANDERSON
     -------------------------------------------        Director                                  May 29, 1996
                  David L. Anderson

                   * KOH BOON HWEE
     -------------------------------------------        Director                                  May 29, 1996
                    Koh Boon Hwee

                   * YOGEN K. DALAL
     -------------------------------------------        Director                                  May 29, 1996
                    Yogen K. Dalal

                 * GREGORY SMITHERMAN
     -------------------------------------------        Director                                  May 29, 1996
                  Gregory Smitherman

              * By /s/ RANDALL C. BOLTEN
     -------------------------------------------
                  Randall C. Bolten                                                               May 29, 1996
                  (Attorney-in-fact)

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EXHIBIT 23.1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS

The Board of Directors
BroadVision, Inc.

We consent to the use of our report included herein and to the reference to our firm under the heading "Experts" in the prospectus.

KPMG PEAT MARWICK LLP

San Jose, California

May 29, 1996

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549


EXHIBITS
TO
FORM S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933


BROADVISION, INC.




INDEX TO EXHIBITS

  EXHIBIT
  NUMBER                                     DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENT                                   PAGE
- -----------   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  ------
  1.1         Form of Underwriting Agreement
  3.1*        Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation
  3.2*        Amended and Restated Bylaws
  3.3         Amended  and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be effective upon the completion
               of the offering
  3.4*        Amended and Restated Bylaws to be effective upon the completion of the offering
  4.1*        Reference is hereby made to Exhibits 3.1 to 3.4
  4.2*        Series C Preferred  Stock Purchase  Warrant dated June  5, 1995  issued to  Lighthouse
               Capital Partners, L.P.
  4.3         Specimen stock certificate.
  4.4*        Second  Amended and  Restated Investors' Rights  Agreement dated April  15, 1996 among
               Registrant and certain of its stockholders
  4.5         Stock Restriction Agreement dated November 1,  1993 between Registrant and Dr.  Pehong
               Chen
  5.1         Opinion of Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum
 10.1*        Form of Indemnity Agreement between the Registrant and each of its directors
 10.2*        Equity Incentive Plan (the "Equity Incentive Plan")
 10.3         Form of Incentive Stock Option under the Equity Incentive Plan
 10.4*        Form of Nonstatutory Stock Option under the Equity Incentive Plan
 10.5*        Form of Nonstatutory Stock Option (Performance-Based)
 10.6*        1996 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the "Employee Stock Purchase Plan")
 10.7*        Employee Stock Purchase Plan Offering (Initial Offering)
 10.8*        Employee Stock Purchase Plan Offering (Subsequent Offering)
 10.9*        Master  Equipment  Lease  Agreement dated  May  23,  1995 between  the  Registrant and
               Lighthouse Capital Partners L.P.
 10.10*+      Terms and  Conditions dated  January 1,  1995 between  IONA Technologies  LTD and  the
               Registrant.
 10.11*       Series  D  Preferred  Stock  Option  Agreement dated  February  27,  1996  between the
               Registrant and Pehong Chen
 10.12*       Standard Office Lease  dated February 8,  1995 between the  Registrant and GVE  Distel
               Associates, a California General Partnership.
 10.13        Stock Option Plan
 10.14        Form of Incentive Stock Option under the Stock Option Plan
 10.15        Form of Nonstatutory Stock Option under the Stock Option Plan
 10.16        Reference is hereby made to Exhibit 4.6.
 10.17        Series  B Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement dated January 31, 1994 between Registrant
               and Itochu Corporation.
 10.18        Series B Preferred Stock  Purchase Agreement dated November  7, 1994 among  Registrant
               and certain investors.
 10.19        Series  C Preferred Stock Purchase  Agreement dated May 26,  1995 among Registrant and
               certain investors.


  EXHIBIT
  NUMBER                                     DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENT                                   PAGE
- -----------   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  ------
 10.20        Series C Preferred Stock  Purchase Agreement dated June  9, 1995 among Registrant  and
               certain investors.
 10.21        Series  C Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement dated August 7, 1995 among Registrant and
               certain investors.
 10.22        Series C Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement dated August 31, 1995 among Registrant and
               certain investors.
 10.23        Series E Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement dated April 15, 1996 among Registrant  and
               certain investors.
 16.1*        Letter of Coopers & Lybrand LLP
 21.1         Subsidiaries of the Registrant
 23.1         Consent of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP. Reference is made to page II-6.
 23.2         Consent of Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum. Reference is made to Exhibit 5.1.
 24.1         Power of Attorney. Reference is made to page II-5.


* Previously filed.

+ Confidential treatment requested.


Exhibit 1.1

4,000,000 SHARES(1)

BROADVISION, INC.

COMMON STOCK

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

June __, 1996

ROBERTSON, STEPHENS & COMPANY LLC
HAMBRECHT & QUIST LLC
WESSELS, ARNOLD & HENDERSON, L.L.C.
As Representatives of the several Underwriters c/o Robertson, Stephens & Company LLC
555 California Street
Suite 2600
San Francisco, California 94104

Ladies/Gentlemen:

BroadVision, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), addresses you as the Representatives of each of the persons, firms and corporations listed in Schedule A hereto (herein collectively called the "Underwriters") and hereby confirm their respective agreements with the several Underwriters as follows:

1. DESCRIPTION OF SHARES. The Company proposes to issue and sell 4,000,000 shares of its authorized and unissued Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the "Firm Shares") to the several Underwriters. The Company also proposes to grant to the Underwriters an option to purchase up to 600,000 additional shares of the Company's Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the "Option Shares"), as provided in Section 7 hereof. As used in this Agreement, the term "Shares" shall include the Firm Shares and the Option Shares. All shares of Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share, of the Company to be outstanding after giving effect to the sales contemplated hereby, including the Shares, are hereinafter referred to as "Common Stock."

2. REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND AGREEMENTS OF THE COMPANY.

I. The Company represents and warrants to and agrees with each Underwriter that:

(a) A registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-3844) with respect to the Shares, including a prospectus subject to completion, has been prepared by the Company in conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), and the applicable rules and regulations (the "Rules and Regulations") of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission")


Plus an option to purchase up to 600,000 additional shares from the Company to cover over-allotments.

under the Act and has been filed with the Commission; such amendments to such registration statement, such amended prospectuses subject to completion and such abbreviated registration statements pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the Rules and Regulations as may have been required prior to the date hereof have been similarly prepared and filed with the Commission; and the Company will file such additional amendments to such registration statement, such amended prospectuses subject to completion and such abbreviated registration statements as may hereafter be required. Copies of such registration statement and amendments, of each related prospectus subject to completion (the "Preliminary Prospectuses"), and of any abbreviated registration statement pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the Rules and Regulations have been delivered to you.

If the registration statement relating to the Shares has been declared effective under the Act by the Commission, the Company will prepare and promptly file with the Commission the information omitted from the registration statement pursuant to Rule 430A(a) or, if Robertson, Stephens & Company LLC, on behalf of the several Underwriters, shall agree to the utilization of Rule 434 of the Rules and Regulations, the information required to be included in any term sheet filed pursuant to Rule 434(b) or
(c), as applicable, of the Rules and Regulations pursuant to subparagraph
(1), (4) or (7) of Rule 424(b) of the Rules and Regulations or as part of a post-effective amendment to the registration statement (including a final form of prospectus). If the registration statement relating to the Shares has not been declared effective under the Act by the Commission, the Company will prepare and promptly file an amendment to the registration statement, including a final form of prospectus, or, if Robertson, Stephens & Company LLC, on behalf of the several Underwriters, shall agree to the utilization of Rule 434 of the Rules and Regulations, the information required to be included in any term sheet filed pursuant to Rule 434(b) or (c), as applicable, of the Rules and Regulations. The term "Registration Statement" as used in this Agreement shall mean such registration statement, including financial statements, schedules and exhibits, in the form in which it became or becomes, as the case may be, effective (including, if the Company omitted information from the registration statement pursuant to Rule 430A(a) or files a term sheet pursuant to Rule 434 of the Rules and Regulations, the information deemed to be a part of the registration statement at the time it became effective pursuant to Rule 430A(b) or Rule 434(d) of the Rules and Regulations) and, in the event of any amendment thereto or the filing of any abbreviated registration statement pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the Rules and Regulations relating thereto after the effective date of such registration statement, shall also mean (from and after the effectiveness of such amendment or the filing of such abbreviated registration statement) such registration statement as so amended, together with any such abbreviated registration statement. The term "Prospectus" as used in this Agreement shall mean the prospectus relating to the Shares as included in such Registration Statement at the time it becomes effective (including, if the Company omitted information from the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 430A(a) of the Rules and Regulations, the information deemed to be a part of the Registration Statement at the time it became effective pursuant to Rule 430A(b) of the Rules and Regulations); PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if in reliance on Rule 434 of the Rules and Regulations and with the consent of Robertson, Stephens & Company LLC on behalf of the several Underwriters, the Company shall have provided to the Underwriters a term sheet pursuant to Rule 434(b) or (c), as applicable, prior to the time that a confirmation is sent or given for purposes of Section 2(10)(a) of the Act, the term "Prospectus" shall mean the "prospectus subject to completion" (as defined in Rule 434(g) of the Rules and Regulations) last provided to the Underwriters by the Company and circulated by the Underwriters to all prospective purchasers of the Shares (including the information deemed to be a part of the Registration Statement at the time it became effective pursuant to Rule 434(d) of the Rules and Regulations). Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any revised prospectus shall be provided to the Underwriters by the Company for use in connection with the offering of the Shares that differs from the prospectus referred to in the immediately preceding sentence (whether or not such revised prospectus is required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and Regulations), the term "Prospectus" shall refer to such revised prospectus from and after the time it is first provided to the Underwriters for such use. If in reliance on Rule 434 of the Rules and Regulations and with the consent of Robertson, Stephens & Company LLC, on behalf of the several Underwriters, the Company shall have provided to the Underwriters a term sheet pursuant to Rule 434(b) or (c), as applicable, prior to the time that a confirmation is sent or given for purposes of Section

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2(10)(a) of the Act, the Prospectus and the term sheet, together, will not be materially different from the prospectus in the Registration Statement.

(b) The Commission has not issued any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or instituted proceedings for that purpose, and each such Preliminary Prospectus has conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Act and the Rules and Regulations and, as of its date, has not included any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and at the time the Registration Statement became or becomes, as the case may be, effective and at all times subsequent thereto up to and on the Closing Date (hereinafter defined) and on any later date on which Option Shares are to be purchased,
(I) the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements thereto, contained and will contain all material information required to be included therein by the Act and the Rules and Regulations and will in all material respects conform to the requirements of the Act and the Rules and Regulations, (ii) the Registration Statement, and any amendments or supplements thereto, did not and will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and (iii) the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements thereto, did not and will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that none of the representations and warranties contained in this subparagraph (b) shall apply to information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement or Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company by such Underwriter specifically for use in the preparation thereof.

(c) Each of the Company and its subsidiary has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation with full corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the Prospectus; the Company owns all of the outstanding capital stock of its subsidiary free and clear of any pledge, lien, security interest, encumbrance, claim or equitable interest; each of the Company and its subsidiary is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in the United States in which the ownership or leasing of its properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, operations, business or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiary considered as one enterprise; no proceeding has been instituted in any such jurisdiction, revoking, limiting or curtailing, or seeking to revoke, limit or curtail, such power and authority or qualification; each of the Company and its subsidiary is in possession of and operating in compliance with all authorizations, licenses, certificates, consents, orders and permits from state, federal and other regulatory authorities which are material to the conduct of its business, all of which are valid and in full force and effect; neither the Company nor its subsidiary is in violation of its respective charter or bylaws or in default in the performance or observance of any material obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any material bond, debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness, or in any material lease, contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, joint venture or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or its subsidiary is a party or by which it or its subsidiary or their respective properties may be bound; and neither the Company nor its subsidiary is in material violation of any law, order, rule, regulation, writ, injunction, judgment or decree of any court, government or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or its subsidiary or over their respective properties of which it has knowledge. The Company does not own or control, directly or indirectly, any corporation, association or other entity other than 4C Consultancy AG.

(d) The Company has full legal right, power and authority to enter into this Agreement and perform the transactions contemplated hereby. This Agreement has been duly authorized,

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executed and delivered by the Company and is a valid and binding agreement on the part of the Company, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as rights to indemnification and contribution hereunder may be limited by applicable law and except as the enforcement hereof may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally or by general equitable principles or the limitation on availability of equitable remedies; the performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated will not result in a material breach or violation of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute (I) a material default under any material bond, debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness, or under any material lease, contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, joint venture or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or its subsidiary is a party or by which it or its subsidiary or their respective properties may be bound, (ii) a default under the charter or bylaws of the Company or its subsidiary, or (iii) a material default under any law, order, rule, regulation, writ, injunction, judgment or decree of any court, government or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or its subsidiary or over their respective properties. No consent, approval, authorization or order of or qualification with any court, government or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or its subsidiary or over their respective properties is required for the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation by the Company or its subsidiary of the transactions herein contemplated, except such as may be required under the Act or under state or other securities laws, all of which requirements have been satisfied in all material respects (except for any filings under Rule 424 of the Rules and Regulations, which filings have been or will be made under Section 4(a) of this agreement) or Blue Sky laws.

(e) There is not any pending or, to the best of the Company's knowledge, threatened action, suit, claim or proceeding against the Company, its subsidiary or any of their respective officers or any of their respective properties, assets or rights before any court, government or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or its subsidiary or over their respective officers or properties or otherwise which
(i) would, if adversely determined, result in any material adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, operations, business or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiary considered as one enterprise or might materially and adversely affect their properties, assets or rights, (ii) might prevent consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or (iii) is required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement or Prospectus and is not so disclosed; and there are no agreements, contracts, leases or documents of the Company or its subsidiary of a character required to be described or referred to in the Registration Statement or Prospectus or to be filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement by the Act or the Rules and Regulations which have not been accurately described in all material respects in the Registration Statement or Prospectus or filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement.

(f) All outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable, have been issued in compliance with all federal and state securities laws, were not issued in violation of or subject to any preemptive rights or other rights to subscribe for or purchase securities, and the authorized and outstanding capital stock of the Company is, in all material respects, as set forth in the Prospectus under the caption "Capitalization" and conforms in all material respects to the statements relating thereto contained in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (and such statements correctly state the substance of the instruments defining the capitalization of the Company); the Firm Shares and the Option Shares have been duly authorized for issuance and sale to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement and, when issued and delivered by the Company against payment therefor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, will be duly and validly issued and fully paid and nonassessable, and will be sold free and clear of any pledge, lien, security interest, encumbrance, claim or equitable interest; and no preemptive right, co-sale right, registration right, right of first refusal or other similar right of stockholders exists with respect to any of the Firm Shares or Option Shares or the issuance and sale thereof other than those that have been expressly waived prior to the date hereof and those that will

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automatically expire upon the consummation of the transactions contemplated on the Closing Date. No further approval or authorization of any stockholder, the Board of Directors of the Company or others is required for the issuance and sale or transfer of the Shares except as may be required under the Act or under state or other securities or Blue Sky laws. All issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of each subsidiary of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable, and were not issued in violation of or subject to any preemptive right, or other rights to subscribe for or purchase shares and are owned by the Company free and clear of any pledge, lien, security interest, encumbrance, claim or equitable interest. Except as disclosed in or contemplated by the Prospectus and the financial statements of the Company, and the notes thereto, included in the Prospectus, neither the Company nor its subsidiary has outstanding any options to purchase, or any preemptive rights or other rights to subscribe for or to purchase, any securities or obligations convertible into, or any contracts or commitments to issue or sell, shares of its capital stock or any such options, rights, convertible securities or obligations. The description of the Company's stock option, stock bonus and other stock plans or arrangements, and the options or other rights granted and exercised thereunder, set forth in the Prospectus accurately and fairly presents the information required to be shown by the Act and the applicable Rules and Regulations with respect to such plans, arrangements, options and rights.

(g) KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, which has examined the consolidated financial statements of the Company, together with the related schedules and notes, as of December 31, 1995 and 1994 for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 1995 and for the period from inception through December 31, 1993 filed with the Commission as a part of the Registration Statement, which are included in the Prospectus, are, to the Company's knowledge, independent accountants within the meaning of the Act and the Rules and Regulations; the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company, together with the related schedules and notes, and the unaudited consolidated financial information, forming part of the Registration Statement and Prospectus, fairly present the financial position and the results of operations of the Company and its subsidiary at the respective dates and for the respective periods to which they apply; and all audited consolidated financial statements of the Company, together with the related schedules and notes, and the unaudited consolidated financial information, filed with the Commission as part of the Registration Statement, have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles consistently applied throughout the periods involved except as may be otherwise stated therein. The selected and summary financial and statistical data included in the Registration Statement present fairly the information shown therein and have been compiled on a basis consistent with the audited financial statements presented therein. No other financial statements or schedules are required to be included in the Registration Statement.

(h) Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and Prospectus, there has not been
(I) any material adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, operations, business or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiary considered as one enterprise, (ii) any transaction that is material to the Company and its subsidiary considered as one enterprise, except transactions entered into in the ordinary course of business, (iii) any obligation, direct or contingent, that is material to the Company and its subsidiary considered as one enterprise, incurred by the Company or its subsidiary, except obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business,
(iv) any change in the capital stock or outstanding indebtedness of the Company or its subsidiary that is material to the Company and its subsidiary considered as one enterprise, (v) any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made on the capital stock of the Company or its subsidiary, or (vi) any loss or damage (whether or not insured) to the property of the Company or its subsidiary which has been sustained which has a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, operations, business or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiary considered as one enterprise.

(i) Except as set forth in the Registration Statement and Prospectus, (I) each of the Company and its subsidiary has good title to all properties and assets described in the Registration Statement and Prospectus as owned by it, free and clear of any pledge, lien, security interest, encumbrance,

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claim or equitable interest, other than such as would not have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, operations, business or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiary considered as one enterprise, (ii) the agreements to which the Company or its subsidiary is a party described in the Registration Statement and Prospectus are valid agreements, enforceable by the Company and its subsidiary (as applicable), except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally or by general equitable principles or the limitation on availability of equitable remedies and, to the best of the Company's knowledge, the other contracting party or parties thereto are not in material breach or material default under any of such agreements, and (iii) each of the Company and its subsidiary has valid and enforceable leases for all properties described in the Registration Statement and Prospectus as leased by it, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally or by general equitable principles or the limitation on availability of equitable remedies. Except as set forth in the Registration Statement and Prospectus, the Company owns or leases all such properties as are necessary to its operations as now conducted.

(j) The Company and its subsidiary have timely filed all necessary federal, state and foreign income and franchise tax returns and have paid all taxes shown thereon as due, and there is no tax deficiency that has been or, to the best of the Company's knowledge, might properly and validly be asserted against the Company or its subsidiary that would have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, operations, business or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiary considered as one enterprise; and all tax liabilities are adequately provided for on the books of the Company and its subsidiary.

(k) The Company maintains insurance with insurers of recognized financial responsibility of the types and in the amounts generally deemed adequate for its businesses and consistent with insurance coverage maintained by similar companies in similar businesses, including, but not limited to, insurance covering real and personal property owned or leased by the Company or its subsidiary against theft, damage, destruction, acts of vandalism and all other risks customarily insured against, all of which insurance is in full force and effect; neither the Company nor any such subsidiary has been refused any insurance coverage sought or applied for; and neither the Company nor any such subsidiary has any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business at a cost that would not materially and adversely affect the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, operations, business or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiary considered as one enterprise.

(l) To the best of Company's executive officers' knowledge, no labor disturbance by the employees of the Company or its subsidiary exists or is imminent; and the executive officers of the Company are not aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by the employees of any of the Company's principal suppliers, subassemblers, value added resellers, subcontractors, original equipment manufacturers, authorized dealers or international distributors that might be expected to result in a material adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, operations, business or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiary considered as one enterprise. No collective bargaining agreement exists with any of the Company's employees and, to the best of the Company's knowledge, no such agreement is imminent.

(m) Each of the Company and its subsidiary owns or possesses adequate rights to use all patents, patent rights, inventions, trade secrets, know-how, trademarks, service marks, trade names and copyrights which are necessary to conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; the Company has not received any notice of, and the executive officers of the Company have no knowledge of, any infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of the Company by others with respect to

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any patent, patent rights, inventions, trade secrets, know-how, trademarks, service marks, trade names or copyrights; and the Company has not received any notice of, and the executive officers of the Company have no knowledge of, any infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of others with respect to any patent, patent rights, inventions, trade secrets, know-how, trademarks, service marks, trade names or copyrights which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, operations, business or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiary considered as one enterprise.

(n) The Common Stock has been approved for quotation on the Nasdaq National Market, subject to official notice of issuance.

(o) The Company has been advised concerning the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act"), and the rules and regulations thereunder, and has in the past conducted, and intends in the future to use its best efforts to conduct, its affairs in such a manner as to ensure that it will not become an "investment company" or a company "controlled" by an "investment company" within the meaning of the 1940 Act and such rules and regulations.

(p) The Company has not distributed and will not distribute prior to the later of (I) the Closing Date, or any date on which Option Shares are to be purchased, as the case may be, and (ii) completion of the distribution of the Shares, any offering material in connection with the offering and sale of the Shares other than any Preliminary Prospectuses, the Prospectus, the Registration Statement and other materials, if any, permitted by the Act.

(q) Neither the Company nor its subsidiary has at any time during the last five (5) years (I) made any unlawful contribution to any candidate for foreign office or failed to disclose fully any such contribution in violation of law, or (ii) made any payment to any federal or state governmental officer or official, or other person charged with similar public or quasi-public duties, other than payments required or permitted by the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction thereof.

(r) The Company has not taken and will not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Common Stock to facilitate the sale or resale of the Shares.

(s) Each officer and director of the Company and the beneficial owners of 99% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock and Preferred Stock as of the date hereof have agreed in writing that such person will not, for the period beginning on the date that the Registration Statement is filed with the Commission and ending 180 days after the Registration is declared effective by the Commission (the "Lock-up Period"), offer to sell, contract to sell, or otherwise sell, dispose of, loan, pledge or grant any rights with respect to (collectively, a "Disposition") any shares of Common Stock, any options or warrants to purchase any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock (collectively, "Securities") now owned or hereafter acquired directly by such person or with respect to which such person has or hereafter acquires the power of disposition, otherwise than
(I) as a bona fide gift or gifts, provided the donee or donees thereof agree in writing to be bound by this restriction, (ii) as a distribution to limited partners or stockholders of such person, provided that the distributees thereof agree in writing to be bound by the terms of this restriction, or (iii) with the prior written consent of Robertson, Stephens & Company LLC. The Company has provided to counsel for the Underwriters a complete and accurate list of all securityholders of the Company and the number and type of securities held by each securityholder. The Company has provided to counsel for the Underwriters true, accurate and complete copies of all of the agreements pursuant to which its officers, directors and stockholders have agreed to such or similar restrictions (the "Lock-up Agreements") presently in effect or effected hereby. The Company hereby represents and warrants that it will not release any of its officers, directors or other

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stockholders from any Lock-up Agreements currently existing or hereafter effected without the prior written consent of Robertson, Stephens & Company LLC.

(t) Except as set forth in the Registration Statement and Prospectus, (I) the Company is in material compliance with all rules, laws and regulations relating to the use, treatment, storage and disposal of toxic substances and protection of health or the environment ("Environmental Laws") which are applicable to its business, (ii) the Company has received no notice from any governmental authority or third party of an asserted claim under Environmental Laws, which claim is required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, (iii) the Company will not be required to make future material capital expenditures to comply with Environmental Laws and
(iv) no property which is owned, leased or occupied by the Company has been designated as a Superfund site pursuant to the Comprehensive Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (42 U.S.C. Section 9601, ET SEQ.), or otherwise designated as a contaminated site under applicable state or local law.

(u) The Company and its subsidiary maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that
(I) transactions are executed in accordance with management's general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain accountability for assets, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management's general or specific authorization, and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.

(v) There are no outstanding loans, advances (except normal advances for business expenses in the ordinary course of business) or guarantees of indebtedness by the Company to or for the benefit of any of the officers or directors of the Company or any of the members of the families of any of them, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.

(w) The Company has complied with all provisions of
Section 517.075, Florida Statutes relating to doing business with the Government of Cuba or with any person or affiliate located in Cuba.

3. PURCHASE, SALE AND DELIVERY OF SHARES. On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained, but subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to sell to the Underwriters, and each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at a purchase price of $_____ per share, the respective number of Firm Shares as hereinafter set forth. The obligation of each Underwriter to the Company shall be to purchase from the Company that number of Firm Shares which is set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule A hereto (subject to adjustment as provided in Section 10).

Delivery of definitive certificates for the Firm Shares to be purchased by the Underwriters pursuant to this Section 3 shall be made against payment of the purchase price therefor by the several Underwriters by wire transfer, certified or official bank check or checks drawn in same-day funds, payable to the order of the Company, at the option of the Company, at the offices of Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum, One Maritime Plaza, 20th Floor, San Francisco, California 94111 (or at such other place as may be agreed upon among the Representatives and the Company, at 7:00 A.M., San Francisco time
(a) on the third (3rd) full business day following the first day that Shares are traded, (b) if this Agreement is executed and delivered after 1:30 P.M., San Francisco time, the fourth (4th) full business day following the day that this Agreement is executed and delivered or (c) at such other time and date not later than seven (7) full business days following the first day that Shares are traded as the Representatives and the Company may determine (or at such time and date to which payment and delivery shall have been postponed pursuant to Section 10 hereof), such time and date of payment and delivery being herein called the "Closing Date";

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PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if the Company has not made available to the Representatives copies of the Prospectus within the time provided in Section 4(d) hereof, the Representatives may, in their sole discretion, postpone the Closing Date until no later than two (2) full business days following delivery of copies of the Prospectus to the Representatives. The certificates for the Firm Shares to be so delivered will be made available to you at such office or such other location including, without limitation, in New York City, as you may reasonably request for checking at least one (1) full business day prior to the Closing Date and will be in such names and denominations as you may request, such request to be made at least two (2) full business days prior to the Closing Date. If the Representatives so elect, delivery of the Firm Shares may be made by credit through full fast transfer to the accounts at The Depository Trust Company designated by the Representatives.

It is understood that you, individually, and not as the Representatives of the several Underwriters, may (but shall not be obligated to) make payment of the purchase price on behalf of any Underwriter or Underwriters whose check or checks shall not have been received by you prior to the Closing Date for the Firm Shares to be purchased by such Underwriter or Underwriters. Any such payment by you shall not relieve any such Underwriter or Underwriters of any of its or their obligations hereunder.

After the Registration Statement becomes effective, the several Underwriters intend to make an initial public offering (as such term is described in Section 11 hereof) of the Firm Shares at an initial public offering price of $_____ per share. After the initial public offering, the several Underwriters may, in their discretion, vary the public offering price.

The information set forth in the last paragraph on the front cover page (insofar as such information relates to the Underwriters), in the paragraph on page [2], concerning stabilization and over-allotment by the Underwriters, and in the first, second, third and last two paragraphs and third sentence of the fifth paragraph under the caption "Underwriting" in any Preliminary Prospectus and in the final form of Prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) constitutes the only information furnished by the Underwriters to the Company for inclusion in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or the Registration Statement, and you, on behalf of the respective Underwriters, represent and warrant to the Company that the statements made therein do not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

4. FURTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE COMPANY. The Company agrees with the several Underwriters that:

(a) The Company will use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement and any amendment thereof, if not effective at the time and date that this Agreement is executed and delivered by the parties hereto, to become effective as promptly as possible; the Company will use its best efforts to cause any abbreviated registration statement pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the Rules and Regulations as may be required subsequent to the date the Registration Statement is declared effective to become effective as promptly as possible; the Company will notify you, promptly after it shall receive notice thereof, of the time when the Registration Statement, any subsequent amendment to the Registration Statement or any abbreviated registration statement has become effective or any supplement to the Prospectus has been filed; if the Company omitted information from the Registration Statement at the time it was originally declared effective in reliance upon Rule 430A(a) of the Rules and Regulations, the Company will provide evidence satisfactory to you that the Prospectus contains such information and has been filed, within the time period prescribed, with the Commission pursuant to subparagraph (1) or (4) of Rule 424(b) of the Rules and Regulations or as part of a post-effective amendment to such Registration Statement as originally declared effective which is declared effective by the Commission; if the Company files a term sheet pursuant to Rule 434 of the Rules and Regulations, the Company will provide evidence satisfactory to you that the Prospectus and term sheet meeting the requirements of Rule 434(b) or
(c), as applicable, of the Rules and Regulations, have been filed,

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within the time period prescribed, with the Commission pursuant to subparagraph (7) of Rule 424(b) of the Rules and Regulations; if for any reason the filing of the final form of Prospectus is required under Rule 424(b)(3) of the Rules and Regulations, it will provide evidence satisfactory to you that the Prospectus contains such information and has been filed with the Commission within the time period prescribed; it will notify you promptly of any request by the Commission for the amending or supplementing of the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or for additional information; promptly upon your request, it will prepare and file with the Commission any amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or Prospectus which, in the opinion of counsel for the several Underwriters, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP ("Underwriters' Counsel"), may be necessary or advisable in connection with the distribution of the Shares by the Underwriters; it will promptly prepare and file with the Commission, and promptly notify you of the filing of, any amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or Prospectus which may be necessary to correct any statements or omissions, if, at any time when a prospectus relating to the Shares is required to be delivered under the Act, any event shall have occurred as a result of which the Prospectus or any other prospectus relating to the Shares as then in effect would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; in case any Underwriter is required to deliver a prospectus nine (9) months or more after the effective date of the Registration Statement in connection with the sale of the Shares, it will prepare promptly upon request, but at the expense of such Underwriter, such amendment or amendments to the Registration Statement and such prospectus or prospectuses as may be necessary to permit compliance with the requirements of Section 10(a)(3) of the Act; and it will file no amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or Prospectus which shall not previously have been submitted to you a reasonable time prior to the proposed filing thereof or to which you shall reasonably object in writing, subject, however, to compliance with the Act and the Rules and Regulations and the provisions of this Agreement.

(b) The Company will advise you, promptly after it shall receive notice or obtain knowledge, of the issuance of any stop order by the Commission suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of the initiation or threat of any proceeding for that purpose; and it will promptly use its best efforts to prevent the issuance of any stop order or to obtain its withdrawal at the earliest possible moment if such stop order should be issued.

(c) The Company will use its best efforts to qualify the Shares for offering and sale under the securities laws of such jurisdictions as you may designate and to continue such qualifications in effect for so long as may be required for purposes of the distribution of the Shares, except that the Company shall not be required in connection therewith or as a condition thereof to qualify as a foreign corporation or to execute a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction in which it is not otherwise required to be so qualified or to so execute a general consent to service of process. In each jurisdiction in which the Shares shall have been qualified as above provided, the Company will make and file such statements and reports in each year as are or may be reasonably required by the laws of such jurisdiction for such purpose.

(d) The Company will furnish to you, as soon as available, and, in the case of the Prospectus and any term sheet or abbreviated term sheet under Rule 434, in no event later than the first (1st) full business day following the first day that Shares are traded, copies of the Registration Statement (three of which will be signed and which will include all exhibits), each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements to such documents, including any prospectus prepared to permit compliance with Section 10(a)(3) of the Act, all in such quantities as you may from time to time reasonably request. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Robertson, Stephens & Company LLC, on behalf of the several Underwriters, shall agree to the utilization of Rule 434 of the Rules and Regulations, the Company shall provide to you copies of a Preliminary Prospectus updated in all respects through the date specified by you in such quantities as you may from time to time reasonably request.

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(e) The Company will make generally available to its securityholders as soon as practicable, but in any event not later than the forty-fifth (45th) day following the end of the fiscal quarter first occurring after the first anniversary of the effective date of the Registration Statement, an earnings statement (which will be in reasonable detail but need not be audited) complying with the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Act (including, at the election of the Company, Rule 158 of the Rules and Regulations) and covering a twelve (12) month period beginning after the effective date of the Registration Statement.

(f) During a period of five (5) years after the date hereof, the Company will furnish to its stockholders as soon as practicable after the end of each respective period, annual reports (including financial statements audited by independent certified public accountants) and unaudited quarterly reports of operations for each of the first three quarters of the fiscal year, and will furnish to you and the other several Underwriters hereunder, upon request
(i) concurrently with furnishing such reports to its stockholders, statements of operations of the Company for each of the first three (3) quarters in the form furnished to the Company's stockholders, (ii) concurrently with furnishing to its stockholders, a balance sheet of the Company as of the end of such fiscal year, together with statements of operations, of stockholders' equity, and of cash flows of the Company for such fiscal year, accompanied by a copy of the certificate or report thereon of independent certified public accountants,
(iii) as soon as they are available, copies of all reports (financial or other) mailed to stockholders, (iv) as soon as they are available, copies of all reports and financial statements furnished to or filed with the Commission, any securities exchange or the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. ("NASD"), (v) every material press release and every material news item or article in respect of the Company or its affairs which was generally released to stockholders or prepared by the Company or its subsidiary, and (vi) any additional information of a public nature concerning the Company or its subsidiary, or its business which you may reasonably request. During such five
(5) year period, if the Company shall have active subsidiary, the foregoing financial statements shall be on a consolidated basis to the extent that the accounts of the Company and its subsidiary are consolidated, and shall be accompanied by similar financial statements for any significant subsidiary which is not so consolidated.

(g) The Company will apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Shares being sold by it in the manner set forth under the caption "Use of Proceeds" in the Prospectus.

(h) The Company will maintain a transfer agent and, if necessary under the jurisdiction of incorporation of the Company, a registrar (which may be the same entity as the transfer agent) for its Common Stock.

(i) The Company will file Form SR in conformity with the requirements of the Act and the Rules and Regulations.

(j) If at any time during the twenty-five (25) day period after the Registration Statement becomes effective until the later of (A) twenty five days after the date of the Prospectus and (B) the date the Representitives advise the Company that the distribution of shares has been completed which in the absence of express notice will be deemed to be the closing of the sale of the Option Shares or the termination or expiration of the option period set forth in section 7(a), any rumor, publication or event relating to or affecting the Company shall occur as a result of which in your opinion the market price of the Common Stock has been or is likely to be materially affected (regardless of whether such rumor, publication or event necessitates a supplement to or amendment of the Prospectus), the Company will, after written notice from you advising the Company to the effect set forth above, forthwith prepare, consult with you concerning the substance of and disseminate a press release or other public statement, reasonably satisfactory to you, responding to or commenting on such rumor, publication or event.

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Securities other than the sale of the Firm Shares and the Option Shares hereunder and the Company's issuance of options or Common Stock under the Company's presently authorized Stock Option Plan adopted in December 1993 and Employee Stock Purchase Plan adopted in April 1996 (the "Plans") or pursuant to equipment or lease financing activities entered into in the ordinary course of the Company's business, in connection with the acquisition, by the Company, of another business, product or technology, or to a strategic investor or partner of the Company in conjunction with an agreement involving a technical, manufacturing or marketing collaboration in the ordinary course of business, provided that in each case, the parties agree not to make a Disposition of Securities and are bound to the Lock-up Agreement for the days remaining in the Lock-up Period.

(l) During a period of thirty (30) days from the effective date of the Registration Statement, the Company will not file a registration statement registering shares under the Plans or other employee benefit plan.

5. EXPENSES.

(a) The Company agrees with each Underwriter that:

(i) The Company will pay and bear all costs and expenses in connection with the preparation, printing and filing of the Registration Statement (including financial statements, schedules and exhibits), Preliminary Prospectuses and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto; the printing of this Agreement, the Agreement Among Underwriters, the Selected Dealer Agreement, the Preliminary Blue Sky Survey and any Supplemental Blue Sky Survey, the Underwriters' Questionnaire and Power of Attorney, and any instruments related to any of the foregoing; the issuance and delivery of the Shares hereunder to the several Underwriters, including transfer taxes, if any, the cost of all certificates representing the Shares and transfer agents' and registrars' fees; the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company; all fees and other charges of the Company's independent certified public accountants; the cost of furnishing to the several Underwriters copies of the Registration Statement (including appropriate exhibits), Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements to any of the foregoing; NASD filing fees and the cost of qualifying the Shares under the laws of such jurisdictions as you may designate (including filing fees and fees and reasonable and customary disbursements of Underwriters' Counsel in connection with such NASD filings and Blue Sky qualifications); and all other expenses directly incurred by the Company in connection with the performance of their obligations hereunder.

(ii) In addition to its other obligations under
Section 8(a) hereof, the Company agrees that, as an interim measure during the pendency of any claim, action, investigation, inquiry or other proceeding described in Section 8(a) hereof, it will reimburse the Underwriters on a monthly basis for all reasonable legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending any such claim, action, investigation, inquiry or other proceeding, notwithstanding the absence of a judicial determination as to the propriety and enforceability of the Company's obligation to reimburse the Underwriters for such expenses and the possibility that such payments might later be held to have been improper by the Commission, a court or arbitration tribunal of competent jurisdiction. To the extent that any such interim reimbursement payment is so held to have been improper, the Underwriters shall promptly return such payment to the Company together with interest, compounded daily, determined on the basis of the prime rate (or other commercial lending rate for borrowers of the highest credit standing) listed from time to time in The Wall Street Journal which represents the base rate on corporate loans posted by a substantial majority of the nation's thirty (30) largest banks (the "Prime Rate"). Any such interim reimbursement payments which are not made to the Underwriters within thirty (30) days of a request for reimbursement shall bear interest at the Prime Rate from the date of such request.

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(b) In addition to their other obligations under Section 8(b) hereof, the Underwriters severally and not jointly agree that, as an interim measure during the pendency of any claim, action, investigation, inquiry or other proceeding described in Section 8(b) hereof, they will reimburse the Company on a monthly basis for all reasonable legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending any such claim, action, investigation, inquiry or other proceeding, notwithstanding the absence of a judicial determination as to the propriety and enforceability of the Underwriters' obligation to reimburse the Company for such expenses and the possibility that such payments might later be held to have been improper by a court of competent jurisdiction. To the extent that any such interim reimbursement payment is so held to have been improper, the Company shall promptly return such payment to the Underwriters together with interest, compounded daily, determined on the basis of the Prime Rate. Any such interim reimbursement payments which are not made to the Company within thirty (30) days of a request for reimbursement shall bear interest at the Prime Rate from the date of such request.

(c) It is agreed that any controversy arising out of the operation of the interim reimbursement arrangements set forth in Sections 5(a)(ii) and 5(b) hereof, including the amounts of any requested reimbursement payments, the method of determining such amounts and the basis on which such amounts shall be apportioned among the reimbursing parties, shall be settled by arbitration conducted under the provisions of the Constitution and Rules of the Board of Governors of the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. or pursuant to the Code of Arbitration Procedure of the NASD. Any such arbitration must be commenced by service of a written demand for arbitration or a written notice of intention to arbitrate, therein electing the arbitration tribunal. In the event the party demanding arbitration does not make such designation of an arbitration tribunal in such demand or notice, then the party responding to said demand or notice is authorized to do so. Any such arbitration will be limited to the operation of the interim reimbursement provisions contained in Sections 5(a)(ii) and 5(b) hereof and will not resolve the ultimate propriety or enforceability of the obligation to indemnify for expenses which is created by the provisions of Sections 8(a) and 8(b) hereof or the obligation to contribute to expenses which is created by the provisions of Section 8(d) hereof.

6. CONDITIONS OF UNDERWRITERS' OBLIGATIONS. The obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Shares as provided herein shall be subject to the accuracy, as of the date hereof and the Closing Date and any later date on which Option Shares are to be purchased, as the case may be, of the representations and warranties of the Company herein, to the performance by the Company of their respective obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:

(a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective not later than 2:00 P.M., San Francisco time, on the date following the date of this Agreement, or such later date as shall be consented to in writing by you; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness thereof shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been initiated or, to the knowledge of the Company or any Underwriter, threatened by the Commission, and any request of the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the satisfaction of Underwriters' Counsel.

(b) All corporate proceedings and other legal matters in connection with this Agreement, the form of Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and the registration, authorization, issue, sale and delivery of the Shares, shall have been reasonably satisfactory to Underwriters' Counsel, and such counsel shall have been furnished with such papers and information as they may reasonably have requested to enable them to pass upon the matters referred to in this Section.

(c) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date, there shall not have been any change in the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, operations, business or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiary considered as one enterprise

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from that set forth in the Registration Statement or Prospectus, which, in your reasonable judgment, is material and adverse and that makes it, in your reasonable judgment, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering of the Shares as contemplated by the Prospectus.

(d) You shall have received on the Closing Date and on any later date on which Option Shares are purchased, as the case may be, the following opinion of counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date or such later date on which Option Shares are purchased addressed to the Underwriters and with reproduced copies or signed counterparts thereof for each of the Underwriters, to the effect that:

(i) The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation;

(ii) The Company has the corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Prospectus;

(iii) To such Counsel's knowledge, the Company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation and is in good standing in each state of the United States, if any, in which the ownership or leasing of its properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, operations or business of the Company and its subsidiary considered as one enterprise. To such counsel's knowledge, the Company does not own or control, directly or indirectly, any corporation, association or other entity other than 4C Consultancy AG;

(iv) The authorized, issued and outstanding capital stock of the Company was as set forth in the Prospectus under the caption "Capitalization" as of the date stated therein, the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly and validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable, and, to such counsel's knowledge, have not been issued in violation of or subject to any preemptive right, co-sale right, registration right, right of first refusal or other similar right;

(v) The Firm Shares or the Option Shares, as the case may be, have been duly authorized and, upon issuance and delivery against payment therefor in accordance with the terms hereof, will be duly and validly issued and fully paid and nonassessable, and will not have been issued in violation of or subject to any preemptive right, or, to such counsel's knowledge co-sale right, registration right, right of first refusal or other similar right of stockholders;

(vi) The Company has the corporate power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to issue, sell and deliver to the Underwriters the Shares;

(vii) This Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company and has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by you, is a valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law and except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,

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moratorium or similar laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally or by general equitable principles and limitations on availability of equitable remedies;

(viii) The Registration Statement has become effective under the Act and, to such counsel's knowledge, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or threatened under the Act;

(ix) The Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and each amendment or supplement thereto (other than the financial statements (including supporting schedules) and financial and statistical data contained therein as to which such counsel need express no opinion), as of the effective date of the Registration Statement, complied as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Act and the applicable Rules and Regulations;

(x) The information in the Prospectus under the caption "Description of Capital Stock," to the extent that it constitutes matters of law or legal conclusions, has been reviewed by such counsel and is a fair summary of such matters and conclusions to the extent required by the Act and the applicable Rules and Regulations; and the form of certificate evidencing the Common Stock and filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement complies with Delaware law;

(xi) The descriptions in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus under the caption "Risk Factors - Effects of Certain Charter and Bylaw Provisions" and "Description of Capital Stock" of the charter and bylaws of the Company are accurate and fairly present the information required to be presented by the Act and the applicable Rules and Regulations, and the descriptions in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus of statutes (except the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as to which such counsel need express no opinion) are accurate in all material respects and fairly present the information required to be presented by the Act and the applicable Rules and Regulations;

(xii) To such counsel's knowledge, there are no agreements, contracts, leases or documents to which the Company is a party of a character required under the Act and the applicable Rules and Regulations to be described or referred to in the Registration Statement or Prospectus or to be filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement which are not described or referred to therein or filed as required;

(xiii) The performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated (other than performance of the Company's indemnification and contribution obligations hereunder, concerning which no opinion need be expressed) will not (a) result in any violation of the Company's charter or bylaws or (b) to such counsel's knowledge, result in a material breach or violation of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute a material default under, any bond, debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness, or under any lease, contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, joint venture or other agreement or instrument known to such counsel to which the Company is a party or by which its properties are bound, and which has been identified to us by the Company as material and filed as exhibits 10.1 to 10.24 to the Registration Statement or any applicable statute, rule or regulation known to such counsel or, to such counsel's knowledge, any order, writ or decree of any court, government or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the Company or its subsidiary, or over any of their properties or operations; except such as may be required

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under securities or Blue Sky laws of the various states in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Shares by the Underwriters.

(xiv) No consent, approval, authorization or order of or qualification with any court, government or governmental agency in the United States having jurisdiction over the Company over any of its properties or operations is necessary in connection with the consummation by the Company of the transactions herein contemplated, except such as have been obtained under the Act or such as may be required under state or other securities or Blue Sky laws in connection with the purchase and the distribution of the Shares by the Underwriters;

(xv) To such counsel's knowledge, there are no legal or governmental proceedings pending or threatened against the Company or its subsidiary of a character required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus by the Act or the Rules and Regulations, other than those described therein;

(xvi) To such counsel's knowledge, except as set forth in the Registration Statement and Prospectus, no holders of Common Stock or other securities of the Company have registration rights with respect to securities of the Company and, except as set forth in the Registration Statement and Prospectus, the rights, known to such counsel, of holders, to register their shares of Common Stock or other securities, because of the filing of the Registration Statement by the Company have, with respect to the offering contemplated thereby been waived or such rights have expired by reason of lapse of time following notification of the Company's intent to file the Registration Statement or have included securities in the Registration Statement pursuant to the exercise of and in full satisfaction of such rights.

In addition, such counsel shall state that such counsel has participated in conferences with officials and other representatives of the Company, the Representatives, Underwriters' Counsel and the independent certified public accountants of the Company, at which such conferences the contents of the Registration Statement and Prospectus and related matters were discussed, and although they have not verified the accuracy or completeness of the statements contained in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, nothing has come to the attention of such counsel which leads them to believe that, at the time the Registration Statement became effective, as the case may be, the Registration Statement and any amendment or supplement thereto (other than the financial statements, including supporting schedules, and other financial and statistical information contained therein as to which such counsel need express no comment) contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or at the Closing Date or any later date on which the Option Shares are to be purchased, as the case may be, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto (other than the financial statements, including supporting schedules, and other financial and statistical information contained therein) contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

Counsel rendering the foregoing opinion may rely as to questions of law not involving the laws of the United States or the State of California and the corporate laws of the State of Delaware upon opinions of local counsel, and as to questions of fact upon representations or certificates of officers of the Company, and of government officials, in which case their opinion is to state that they are so relying and that they have no knowledge of any material misstatement or inaccuracy in any such opinion, representation or certificate. Copies of any opinion, representation or certificate so relied upon shall be delivered to you, as Representatives of the Underwriters, and to Underwriters' Counsel.

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(e) You shall have received on the Closing Date and on any later date on which Option Shares are to be purchased, as the case may be, an opinion of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to you, with respect to the sufficiency of all such corporate proceedings and other legal matters relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby as you may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they may have reasonably requested for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.

(f) You shall have received on the Closing Date and on any later date on which Option Shares are to be purchased, as the case may be, a letter from KPMG Peat Marwick LLP addressed to the Company and the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date or such later date on which Option Shares are to be purchased, as the case may be, confirming that they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Act and the applicable published Rules and Regulations and based upon the procedures described in such letter delivered to you concurrently with the execution of this Agreement (herein called the "Original Letter"), but carried out to a date not more than five (5) business days prior to the Closing Date or such later date on which Option Shares are to be purchased, as the case may be,
(i) confirming, to the extent true, that the statements and conclusions set forth in the Original Letter are accurate as of the Closing Date or such later date on which Option Shares are to be purchased, as the case may be, and
(ii) setting forth any revisions and additions to the statements and conclusions set forth in the Original Letter which are necessary to reflect any changes in the facts described in the Original Letter since the date of such letter, or to reflect the availability of more recent financial statements, data or information. The letter shall not disclose any change in the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, operations, business or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiary considered as one enterprise from that set forth in the Registration Statement or Prospectus, which, in your reasonable judgment, is material and adverse and that makes it, in your reasonable judgment, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering of the Shares as contemplated by the Prospectus. The Original Letter from KPMG Peat Marwick LLP shall be addressed to or for the use of the Underwriters in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters and shall (i) represent, to the extent true, that KPMG Peat Marwick LLP are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Act and the applicable published Rules and Regulations, (ii) set forth their opinion with respect to their examination of the consolidated balance sheet of the Company as of December 31, 1995 and 1994, and related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders' equity, and cash flows for the two-year period ended December 31, 1995 and for the period from inception through December 31, 1993,
(iii) state that KPMG Peat Marwick LLP has performed the procedure set out in Statement on Auditing Standards No. 71 ("SAS 71") for a review of interim financial information and providing the report of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP as described in SAS 71 on the financial statements for each of the quarters presented in the Prospectus, and (iv) address other matters agreed upon by KPMG Peat Marwick LLP and you. In addition, you shall have received from KPMG Peat Marwick LLP a letter addressed to the Company and made available to you for the use of the Underwriters stating that their review of the Company's system of internal accounting controls, to the extent they deemed necessary in establishing the scope of their examination of the Company's consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 1995, did not disclose any weaknesses in internal controls that they considered to be material weaknesses.

(g) You shall have received on the Closing Date and on any later date on which Option Shares are to be purchased, as the case may be, a certificate of the Company, dated the Closing Date or such later date on which Option Shares are to be purchased, as the case may be, signed by the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, to the effect that, and you shall be reasonably satisfied that:

(i) The representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct, as if made on and as of the Closing Date or any later date on which Option Shares are to be purchased, as the case may be, and the Company has

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complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date or any later date on which Option Shares are to be purchased, as the case may be;

(ii) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or threatened under the Act;

(iii) When the Registration Statement became effective and at all times subsequent thereto up to the delivery of such certificate, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements thereto, contained all material information required to be included therein by the Act and the Rules and Regulations, and in all material respects conformed to the requirements of the Act and the Rules and Regulations, the Registration Statement, and any amendment or supplement thereto, did not and does not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, the Prospectus, and any amendment or supplement thereto, did not and does not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and, since the effective date of the Registration Statement, there has occurred no event required to be set forth in an amended or supplemented Prospectus which has not been so set forth; and

(iv) Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and Prospectus, there has not been (a) any material adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, operations, business or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiary considered as one enterprise, (b) any transaction that is material to the Company and its subsidiary considered as one enterprise, except license and other transactions entered into in the ordinary course of business, (c) any obligation, direct or contingent, that is material to the Company and its subsidiary considered as one enterprise, incurred by the Company or its subsidiary, except obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business, (d) any change in the capital stock or outstanding indebtedness of the Company or its subsidiary that is material to the Company and its subsidiary considered as one enterprise, (e) any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made on the capital stock of the Company or its subsidiary, or (f) any loss or damage (whether or not insured) to the property of the Company or its subsidiary which has been sustained which has a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, operations, business or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiary considered as one enterprise.

(h) The Company shall have obtained and delivered to you an agreement from each officer and director of the Company, and the beneficial owners of at least 99% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock and Preferred Stock as of the date hereof in writing prior to the date hereof that such person will not, during the Lock-up Period, effect the Disposition of any Securities now owned or hereafter acquired directly by such person or with respect to which such person has or hereafter acquires the power of disposition, otherwise than
(i) as a bona fide gift or gifts, provided the donee or donees thereof agree in writing to be bound by this restriction, (ii) as a distribution to limited partners or stockholders of such person, provided that the distributees thereof agree in writing to be bound by the terms of this restriction, or (iii) with the prior written consent of Robertson, Stephens & Company LLC. Furthermore, such person will have also agreed and consented to the entry of stop transfer instructions with the Company's transfer agent against the transfer of the Securities held by such person except in compliance with this restriction.

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(i) The Company shall have furnished to you such further certificates and documents as you shall reasonably request (including certificates of officers of the Company as to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company herein, as to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder and as to the other conditions concurrent and precedent to the obligations of the Underwriters hereunder).

All such opinions, certificates, letters and documents will be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are reasonably satisfactory to Underwriters' Counsel. The Company will furnish you with such number of conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and documents as you shall reasonably request.

7. OPTION SHARES.

(a) On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained, but subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company hereby grants to the several Underwriters, for the purpose of covering over-allotments in connection with the distribution and sale of the Firm Shares only, a nontransferable option to purchase up to an aggregate of ________ Option Shares at the purchase price per share for the Firm Shares set forth in Section 3 hereof. Such option may be exercised by the Representatives on behalf of the several Underwriters on one occasion in whole or in part during the period of thirty (30) days after the date on which the Firm Shares are initially offered to the public, by giving written notice to the Company. The number of Option Shares to be purchased by each Underwriter upon the exercise of such option shall be the same proportion of the total number of Option Shares to be purchased by the several Underwriters pursuant to the exercise of such option as the number of Firm Shares purchased by such Underwriter (set forth in Schedule A hereto) bears to the total number of Firm Shares purchased by the several Underwriters (set forth in Schedule A hereto), adjusted by the Representatives in such manner as to avoid fractional shares.

Delivery of definitive certificates for the Option Shares to be purchased by the several Underwriters pursuant to the exercise of the option granted by this Section 7 shall be made against payment of the purchase price therefor by the several Underwriters by certified or official bank check or checks drawn in same-day funds, payable to the order of the Company. In the event of any breach of the foregoing, the Company shall reimburse the Underwriters for the interest lost and any other expenses borne by them by reason of such breach. Such delivery and payment shall take place at the offices of Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum, One Maritime Plaza, 20th Floor, San Francisco, California 94111 or at such other place as may be agreed upon among the Representatives and the Company (i) on the Closing Date, if written notice of the exercise of such option is received by the Company at least two (2) full business days prior to the Closing Date, or (ii) on a date which shall not be later than the third (3rd) full business day following the date the Company receives written notice of the exercise of such option, if such notice is received by the Company less than two (2) full business days prior to the Closing Date.

The certificates for the Option Shares to be so delivered will be made available to you at such office or such other location including, without limitation, in New York City, as you may reasonably request for checking at least one (1) full business day prior to the date of payment and delivery and will be in such names and denominations as you may request, such request to be made at least two (2) full business days prior to such date of payment and delivery. If the Representatives so elect, delivery of the Option Shares may be made by credit through full fast transfer to the accounts at The Depository Trust Company designated by the Representatives.

It is understood that you, individually, and not as the Representatives of the several Underwriters, may (but shall not be obligated to) make payment of the purchase price on behalf of any Underwriter or Underwriters whose check or checks shall not have been received by you prior to the date of

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payment and delivery for the Option Shares to be purchased by such Underwriter or Underwriters. Any such payment by you shall not relieve any such Underwriter or Underwriters of any of its or their obligations hereunder.

(b) Upon exercise of any option provided for in Section 7(a) hereof, the obligations of the several Underwriters to purchase such Option Shares will be subject (as of the date hereof and as of the date of payment and delivery for such Option Shares) to the accuracy of and compliance with the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company herein, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company and officers of the Company made pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and to the condition that all proceedings taken at or prior to the payment date in connection with the sale and transfer of such Option Shares shall be satisfactory in form and substance to you and to Underwriters' Counsel, and you shall have been furnished with all such documents, certificates and opinions as you may reasonably request in order to evidence the accuracy and completeness of any of the representations, warranties or statements, the performance of any of the covenants or agreements of the Company or the compliance with any of the conditions herein contained.

8. INDEMNIFICATION AND CONTRIBUTION.

(a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such Underwriter may become subject, under the Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") or otherwise, specifically including, but not limited to, losses, claims, damages or liabilities, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon (i) any breach of any representation, warranty, agreement or covenant of the Company herein contained,
(ii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement thereto, or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or
(iii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and agrees to reimburse each Underwriter for any legal or other related expenses reasonably incurred by it in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Company shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in the Registration Statement, such Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any such amendment or supplement thereto, in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company by such Underwriter, directly or through you, specifically for use in the preparation thereof and, PROVIDED FURTHER, that the indemnity agreement provided in this Section 8(a) with respect to any Preliminary Prospectus shall not inure to the benefit of any Underwriter from whom the person asserting any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or actions based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of material fact or omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact purchased Shares, if a copy of the Prospectus in which such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was corrected had not been sent or given to such person within the time required by the Act and the Rules and Regulations, unless such failure is the result of noncompliance by the Company with Section 4(d) hereof.

The indemnity agreement in this Section 8(a) shall extend upon the same terms and conditions to, and shall inure to the benefit of, each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of the Act or the Exchange Act. This indemnity agreement shall be in addition to any liabilities which the Company may otherwise have.

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(b) Each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which the Company may become subject under the Act or otherwise, specifically including, but not limited to, losses, claims, damages or liabilities, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon (i) any breach of any representation, warranty, agreement or covenant of such Underwriter herein contained, (ii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement thereto, or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or (iii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, in the case of subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of this Section 8(b) to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Underwriter, directly or through you, specifically for use in the preparation thereof, and agrees to reimburse the Company for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action.

The indemnity agreement in this Section 8(b) shall extend upon the same terms and conditions to, and shall inure to the benefit of, each officer of the Company who signed the Registration Statement and each director of the Company, and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Act or the Exchange Act. This indemnity agreement shall be in addition to any liabilities which each Underwriter may otherwise have.

(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this
Section 8 of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against any indemnifying party under this Section 8, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof but the omission so to notify the indemnifying party will not relieve it from any liability which it may have to any indemnified party otherwise than under this Section 8. In case any such action is brought against any indemnified party, and it notified the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party will be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it shall elect by written notice delivered to the indemnified party promptly after receiving the aforesaid notice from such indemnified party, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if the defendants in any such action include both the indemnified party and the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it and/or other indemnified parties which are different from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party, the indemnified party or parties shall have the right to select separate counsel to assume such legal defenses and to otherwise participate in the defense of such action on behalf of such indemnified party or parties. Upon receipt of notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of the indemnifying party's election so to assume the defense of such action and approval by the indemnified party of counsel, the indemnifying party will not be liable to such indemnified party under this Section 8 for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof unless (i) the indemnified party shall have employed separate counsel in accordance with the proviso to the next preceding sentence (it being understood, however, that the indemnifying party shall not be liable for the expenses of more than one separate counsel (together with appropriate local counsel) approved by the indemnifying party representing all the indemnified parties under Section 8(a) or 8(b) hereof who are parties to such action), (ii) the indemnifying party shall not have employed counsel satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party within a reasonable time after notice of commencement of the action or (iii) the indemnifying party has authorized the employment of counsel for the indemnified party at the expense of the indemnifying party. In no event shall any indemnifying party be liable in respect

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of any amounts paid in settlement of any action unless the indemnifying party shall have approved the terms of such settlement; PROVIDED that such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnification could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding.

(d) In order to provide for just and equitable contribution in any action in which a claim for indemnification is made pursuant to this
Section 8 but it is judicially determined (by the entry of a final judgment or decree by a court of competent jurisdiction and the expiration of time to appeal or the denial of the last right of appeal) that such indemnification may not be enforced in such case notwithstanding the fact that this Section 8 provides for indemnification in such case, all the parties hereto shall contribute to the aggregate losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which they may be subject (after contribution from others) in such proportion so that the Underwriters severally and not jointly are responsible pro rata for the portion represented by the percentage that the underwriting discount bears to the initial public offering price, and the Company are responsible for the remaining portion, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that (i) no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the underwriting discount applicable to the Shares purchased by such Underwriter in excess of the amount of damages which such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay and (ii) no person guilty of a fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who is not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The contribution agreement in this Section 8(d) shall extend upon the same terms and conditions to, and shall inure to the benefit of, each person, if any, who controls the Underwriters or the Company within the meaning of the Act or the Exchange Act and each officer of the Company who signed the Registration Statement and each director of the Company.

(e) The parties to this Agreement hereby acknowledge that they are sophisticated business persons who were represented by counsel during the negotiations regarding the provisions hereof including, without limitation, the provisions of this Section 8, and are fully informed regarding said provisions. They further acknowledge that the provisions of this Section 8 fairly allocate the risks in light of the ability of the parties to investigate the Company and its business in order to assure that adequate disclosure is made in the Registration Statement and Prospectus as required by the Act and the Exchange Act.

9. REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, COVENANTS AND AGREEMENTS TO SURVIVE DELIVERY. All representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of the Company and the Underwriters herein or in certificates delivered pursuant hereto, and the indemnity and contribution agreements contained in Section 8 hereof shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or any controlling person within the meaning of the Act or the Exchange Act, or by or on behalf of the Company or any of its officers, directors or controlling persons within the meaning of the Act or the Exchange Act, and shall survive the delivery of the Shares to the several Underwriters hereunder or termination of this Agreement.

10. SUBSTITUTION OF UNDERWRITERS. If any Underwriter or Underwriters shall fail to take up and pay for the number of Firm Shares agreed by such Underwriter or Underwriters to be purchased hereunder upon tender of such Firm Shares in accordance with the terms hereof, and if the aggregate number of Firm Shares which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters so agreed but failed to purchase does not exceed 10% of the Firm Shares, the remaining Underwriters shall be obligated, severally in proportion to their respective commitments hereunder, to take up and pay for the Firm Shares of such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters.

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If any Underwriter or Underwriters so defaults and the aggregate number of Firm Shares which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to take up and pay for exceeds 10% of the Firm Shares, the remaining Underwriters shall have the right, but shall not be obligated, to take up and pay for (in such proportions as may be agreed upon among them) the Firm Shares which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters so agreed but failed to purchase. If such remaining Underwriters do not, at the Closing Date, take up and pay for the Firm Shares which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters so agreed but failed to purchase, the Closing Date shall be postponed for twenty- four (24) hours to allow the several Underwriters the privilege of substituting within twenty-four (24) hours (including non-business hours) another underwriter or underwriters (which may include any nondefaulting Underwriter) satisfactory to the Company. If no such underwriter or underwriters shall have been substituted as aforesaid by such postponed Closing Date, the Closing Date may, at the option of the Company, be postponed for a further twenty-four (24) hours, if necessary, to allow the Company the privilege of finding another underwriter or underwriters, satisfactory to you, to purchase the Firm Shares which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters so agreed but failed to purchase. If it shall be arranged for the remaining Underwriters or substituted underwriter or underwriters to take up the Firm Shares of the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters as provided in this Section 10, (i) the Company shall have the right to postpone the time of delivery for a period of not more than seven (7) full business days, in order to effect whatever changes may thereby be made necessary in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any other documents or arrangements, and the Company agrees promptly to file any amendments to the Registration Statement or supplements to the Prospectus which may thereby be made necessary, and (ii) the respective number of Firm Shares to be purchased by the remaining Underwriters and substituted underwriter or underwriters shall be taken as the basis of their underwriting obligation. If the remaining Underwriters shall not take up and pay for all such Firm Shares so agreed to be purchased by the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters or substitute another underwriter or underwriters as aforesaid and the Company shall not find or shall not elect to seek another underwriter or underwriters for such Firm Shares as aforesaid, then this Agreement shall terminate.

In the event of any termination of this Agreement pursuant to the preceding paragraph of this Section 10, neither the Company shall be liable to any Underwriter (except as provided in Sections 5 and 8 hereof) nor shall any Underwriter (other than an Underwriter who shall have failed, otherwise than for some reason permitted under this Agreement, to purchase the number of Firm Shares agreed by such Underwriter to be purchased hereunder, which Underwriter shall remain liable to the Company, and the other Underwriters for damages, if any, resulting from such default) be liable to the Company (except to the extent provided in Sections 5 and 8 hereof).

The term "Underwriter" in this Agreement shall include any person substituted for an Underwriter under this Section 10.

11. EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS AGREEMENT AND TERMINATION.

(a) This Agreement shall become effective at the earlier of
(i) 6:30 A.M., San Francisco time, on the first full business day following the effective date of the Registration Statement, or (ii) the time of the initial public offering of any of the Shares by the Underwriters after the Registration Statement becomes effective. The time of the initial public offering shall mean the time of the release by you, for publication, of the first newspaper advertisement relating to the Shares, or the time at which the Shares are first generally offered by the Underwriters to the public by letter, telephone, telegram or telecopy, whichever shall first occur. By giving notice as set forth in Section 12 before the time this Agreement becomes effective, you, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, or the Company, may prevent this Agreement from becoming effective without liability of any party to any other party, except as provided in Sections 4(j), 5 and 8 hereof.

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(b) You, as Representatives of the several Underwriters, shall have the right to terminate this Agreement by giving notice as hereinafter specified at any time at or prior to the Closing Date or on or prior to any later date on which Option Shares are to be purchased, as the case may be,
(i) if the Company shall have failed, refused or been unable to perform any agreement on its part to be performed, or because any other condition of the Underwriters' obligations hereunder required to be fulfilled by the Company is not fulfilled, including, without limitation, any change in the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, operations, business or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiary considered as one enterprise from that set forth in the Registration Statement or Prospectus, which, in your reasonable judgment, is material and adverse, or (ii) if additional material governmental restrictions, not in force and effect on the date hereof, shall have been imposed upon trading in securities generally or minimum or maximum prices shall have been generally established on the New York Stock Exchange or on the American Stock Exchange or in the over the counter market by the NASD, or trading in securities generally shall have been suspended on either such exchange or in the over the counter market by the NASD, or if a banking moratorium shall have been declared by federal, New York or California authorities, or (iii) if the Company shall have sustained a loss by strike, fire, flood, earthquake, accident or other calamity of such character as to interfere materially with the conduct of the business and operations of the Company regardless of whether or not such loss shall have been insured, or
(iv) if there shall have been a material adverse change in the general political or economic conditions or financial markets as in your reasonable judgment makes it inadvisable or impracticable to proceed with the offering, sale and delivery of the Shares, or (v) if there shall have been an outbreak or escalation of hostilities or of any other insurrection or armed conflict or the declaration by the United States of a national emergency which, in the reasonable opinion of the Representatives, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering of the Shares as contemplated by the Prospectus.

If you elect to prevent this Agreement from becoming effective or to terminate this Agreement as provided in this Section 11, you shall promptly notify the Company by telephone, telecopy or telegram, in each case confirmed by letter. If the Company shall elect to prevent this Agreement from becoming effective, the Company shall promptly notify you by telephone, telecopy or telegram, in each case, confirmed by letter.

12. NOTICES. All notices or communications hereunder, except as herein otherwise specifically provided, shall be in writing and if sent to you shall be mailed, delivered, telegraphed (and confirmed by letter) or telecopied (and confirmed by letter) to you c/o Robertson, Stephens & Company LLC, 555 California Street, Suite 2600, San Francisco, California 94104, telecopier number (415) 781-0278, Attention: General Counsel; if sent to the Company, such notice shall be mailed, delivered, telegraphed (and confirmed by letter) or telecopied (and confirmed by letter) to 333 Distel Circle, Los Altos, California 94022, telecopier number (415) 934-3701, Attention: Pehong Chen, Chief Executive Officer.

13. PARTIES. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the several Underwriters and the Company and their respective executors, administrators, successors and assigns. Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any person or corporation, other than the parties hereto and their respective executors, administrators, successors and assigns, and the controlling persons within the meaning of the Act or the Exchange Act, officers and directors referred to in Section 8 hereof, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim in respect of this Agreement or any provisions herein contained, this Agreement and all conditions and provisions hereof being intended to be and being for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties hereto and their respective executors, administrators, successors and assigns and said controlling persons and said officers and directors, and for the benefit of no other person or corporation. No purchaser of any of the Shares from any Underwriter shall be construed a successor or assign by reason merely of such purchase.

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In all dealings with the Company under this Agreement, you shall act on behalf of each of the several Underwriters, and the Company shall be entitled to act and rely upon any statement, request, notice or agreement made or given by you jointly or by Robertson, Stephens & Company LLC on behalf of you.

14. APPLICABLE LAW. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of California.

15. COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be signed in several counterparts, each of which will constitute an original.

If the foregoing correctly sets forth the understanding among the Company and the several Underwriters, please so indicate in the space provided below for that purpose, whereupon this letter shall constitute a binding agreement among the Company and the several Underwriters.

Very truly yours,

BROADVISION, INC.

By

Accepted as of the date first above written:

ROBERTSON, STEPHENS & COMPANY LLC
HAMBRECHT & QUIST LLC
WESSELS, ARNOLD & HENDERSON, L.L.C.

On their behalf and on behalf of each of the several Underwriters named in Schedule A hereto.

ROBERTSON, STEPHENS & COMPANY LLC

By ROBERTSON, STEPHENS & COMPANY LLC

By
Authorized Signatory

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SCHEDULE A

                                                                  Number of
                                                                 Firm Shares
                                                                    To Be
     Underwriters                                                 Purchased
- -----------------------                                         -------------

Robertson, Stephens & Company LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hambrecht & Quist LLC
Wessels, Arnold & Henderson, L.L.C.


Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


AMENDED AND RESTATED

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
BROADVISION, INC.

The undersigned, Pehong Chen and Kenneth L. Guernsey, hereby certify that:

ONE: They are the duly elected and acting President and Secretary, respectively, of BroadVision, Inc., a Delaware corporation, incorporated in the State of Delaware on May 13, 1993.

TWO: The Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of said corporation shall be amended and restated to read in full as follow:

I.

The name of this corporation is BroadVision, Inc. (the "Corporation").

II.

The registered agent and the address of the registered office in the State of Delaware are:

The Prentice-Hall Corporation System, Inc. 1013 Centre Road
Wilmington, Delaware 19805

III.

The purpose of this corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which a corporation may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

IV.

A. This corporation is authorized to issue two classes of stock to be designated, respectively, "Common Stock" and "Preferred Stock." The total number of shares which the corporation is authorized to issue is fifty-five million (55,000,000) shares. Fifty million (50,000,000) shares shall be Common Stock, each having a par value of one-hundredth of one cent ($.0001). Five million (5,000,000) shares shall be Preferred Stock, each having a par value of one-hundredth of one cent ($.0001).


B. The Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series. The Board of Directors is hereby authorized, by filing a certificate (a "Preferred Stock Designation") pursuant to the Delaware General Corporation Law, to fix or alter from time to time the designation, powers, preferences and rights of the shares of each such series and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of any wholly unissued series of Preferred Stock, and to establish from time to time the number of shares constituting any such series or any of them; and to increase or decrease the number of shares of any series subsequent to the issuance of shares of that series, but not below the number of shares of such series then outstanding. In case the number of shares of any series shall be decreased in accordance with the foregoing sentence, the shares constituting such decrease shall resume the status that they had prior to the adoption of the resolution originally fixing the number of shares of such series.

V.

For the management of the business and for the conduct of the affairs of the corporation, and in further definition, limitation and regulation of the powers of the corporation, of its directors and of its stockholders or any class thereof, as the case may be, it is further provided that:

A.
(1) The management of the business and the conduct of the affairs of the corporation shall be vested in its Board of Directors. The number of directors which shall constitute the whole Board of Directors shall be fixed exclusively by one or more resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors.

(2) Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock to elect additional directors under specified circumstances, directors shall be elected at each annual meeting of stockholders for a term of one year. Each director shall serve until his successor is duly elected and qualified or until his death, resignation or removal. No decrease in the number of directors constituting the Board of Directors shall shorten the term of any incumbent director.

(3) The Board of Directors shall have the power to adopt, amend or repeal Bylaws.

B.

(1) The directors of the corporation need not be elected by written ballot unless the Bylaws so provide.

(2) No action shall be taken by the stockholders of the corporation except at an annual or special meeting of stockholders called in accordance with the Bylaws and, following the closing of the initial public offering of the Common Stock, no action shall be taken by the stockholders by written consent.

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(3) Advance notice of stockholder nominations for the election of directors and of business to be brought by stockholders before any meeting of the stockholders of the corporation shall be given in the manner provided in the Bylaws of the corporation.

VI.

A. A director of the corporation shall not be personally liable to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law (iii) under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. If the Delaware General Corporation Law is amended after approval by the stockholders of this Article to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a director shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General corporation Law, as so amended.

B. Any repeal or modification of this Article VI shall be prospective and shall not affect the rights under this Article VI in effect at the time of the alleged occurrence of any act or omission to act giving rise to liability or indemnification.

VII.

The corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon the stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.

VIII.

THREE: The foregoing amendment and restatement has been duly approved by the Board of Directors of said corporation.

FOUR: The foregoing amendment and restatement of this Certificate of Incorporation has been duly adopted in accordance with Sections 228, 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware by the Board of Directors and stockholders of the Corporation. The total number of outstanding shares entitled to vote or act by written consent was ________________________ (________________) shares of Common Stock, four million two hundred sixty-six thousand six hundred sixty-seven (4,266,667) shares of Series A Preferred Stock, one million three hundred thirty-three thousand three hundred thirty-three (1,333,333) shares of Series B Preferred Stock, three million six thousand (3,006,000) shares of Series C Preferred Stock and ___________________ (___________) shares of Series E Preferred Stock. A majority of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, Series A Preferred Stock, Series B Preferred Stock, Series C Preferred Stock and Series E Preferred Stock approved this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation by Written Consent

3.


in accordance with Section 228 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware and written notice of such was given by the Corporation in accordance with said
Section 228.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, BroadVision, Inc. has caused this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be signed by the President and Secretary in San Francisco, California, this ___ day of ____________, 1996.


Dr. Pehong Chen, President


Kenneth L. Guernsey, Secretary

The undersigned certify under penalty of perjury that they have read the foregoing Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and they know the contents thereof, and that the statements therein are true. Executed at San Francisco, California, on the _____ day of ____________, 1996.


Dr. Pehong Chen, President


Kenneth L. Guernsey, Secretary

4.


NUMBER SHARES

COMMON STOCK COMMON STOCK

BROADVISION

INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE

                                                               CUSIP 111412 10 2

THIS CERTIFIES THAT                                  SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN
                                                  DEFINITIONS AND A STATEMENT AS
                                                   TO THE POWERS, DESIGNATIONS,
                                                    PREFERENCES, RESTRICTIONS
                                                       AND RIGHTS OF SHARES

IS THE RECORD HOLDER OF

FULLY PAID AND NONASSESSABLE SHARES OF THE COMMON STOCK, $0.0001
PAR VALUE PER SHARE, OF

BROADVISION, INC.

transferable on the Books of the Corporation in person or by duly authorized attorney upon surrender of this Certificate is not valid until countersigned and registered by the Transfer Agent and Registrar.
WITNESS the facsimile seal of the Corporation and the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers.

Dated:

SECRETARY [SEAL] PRESIDENT
AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

COUNTERSIGNED AND REGISTERED:
AMERICAN SECURITIES TRANSFER & TRUST, INC.

P.O. BOX 1596
DENVER, COLORADO 80201
TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR

AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE

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    AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY         MAY 16, 1996
    3504 ATLANTIC AVENUE
    SUITE 12
    LONG BEACH, CA 90807                043782fc
    (310) 989-2333
    (FAX) (310) 426-7450          12MX      REV2
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BROADVISION, INC.

The Corporation shall furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests a statement of the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock of the Corporation or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights, so far as the same shall have been fixed, and of the authority of the Board of Directors to designate and fix any preferences, rights and limitations of any wholly unissued series. Such request shall be made to the Corporation's Secretary at the principal office of the Corporation.

The following abbreviations, when used in the inception on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

TEN COM -- as tenants in              UNIF GIFT MIN ACT -- .....Custodian .....
           common                                          (Cust)        (Minor)

TEN ENT -- as tenants by                           under Uniform Gifts to Minors
           the entireties                          ACT..........................
                                                                (State)
JT TEN  -- as joint tenants    UNIF TRF MIN ACT -- ....Custodian (until age ...)
           with rights of                         (Cust)
           survivorship                       ...........under Uniform Transfers
           and not as                            (Minor)
           tenants in common                  to Minors Act.....................

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, hereby sell, assign and transfer unto

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER
IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE



(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF ASSIGNEE)


- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Shares of the common stock represented by the within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint

- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Attorney to transfer the said stock on the books of the within named Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises.

Dated

X
X

NOTICE: THE SIGNATURE(S) TO THE ASSIGNMENT MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NAMES AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THE CERTIFICATE IN EVERY PARTICULAR, WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR ANY CHANGE WHATEVER.

Signature(s) Guaranteed

By
THE SIGNATURE(S) SHOULD BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (BANKS STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOANS ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM), PURSUANT TO S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15.

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    AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY         MAY 14, 1996
    3504 ATLANTIC AVENUE
    SUITE 12
    LONG BEACH, CA 90607               043782BK
    (310) 989-2333
    (FAX) (310) 426-7450                 REV1
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BROADVISION, INC.

STOCK RESTRICTION AGREEMENT

THIS STOCK RESTRICTION AGREEMENT (the "Agreement") is made and entered into as of November 1, 1993, by and between BROADVISION, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), and PEHONG CHEN ("Shareholder").

RECITALS

A. As of the date hereof, Shareholder owns five million three hundred sixty thousand (5,360,000) shares of Common Stock of the Company issued on July 30, 1993 and October 20, 1993 ("Total Shares"). The use of the term "Vesting Shares" herein refers to three million seven hundred thousand (3,700,000) of the Total Shares and to all securities received with respect to such shares pursuant to or in consequence of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization, merger, reorganization, exchange of shares or other similar event.

B. In order to provide assurance to persons who may purchase shares of stock of the Company in the future and thereby to assist in the equity financing of the Company, Shareholder is willing to enter into this Agreement for the benefit of the Company and any person or entity who holds stock of the Company from time to time.

NOW, THEREFORE, THE PARTIES AGREE AS FOLLOWS:

1. RIGHT OF COMPANY TO REPURCHASE SHARES.

1.1 REPURCHASE RIGHT. All of the Vesting Shares shall be subject to the option set forth in this paragraph 1 ("Purchase Option"). Subject to the provisions of Section 1.3, in the event Shareholder shall cease to be employed by the Company (including a parent or subsidiary of the Company) at any time prior to November 1, 1997, the Company shall have the right, at any time within 90 days after the date Shareholder ceases to be so employed, to exercise the Purchase Option, which consists of the right to purchase from the Shareholder or his personal representative, as the case may be, up to but not exceeding the number of Shares which have not vested under the provisions of Section 1.2 below, upon the terms hereinafter set forth. The purchase price to be paid on exercise of the Purchase Option shall be $0.02 per share for the first 1,700,000 shares purchased and $0.005 per share for any shares in excess of 1,700,000.

1.2 LAPSE OF RIGHT TO EXERCISE PURCHASE OPTION. Subject to Section 1.3, the Company may exercise the Purchase Option for a maximum number of Shares as set forth in the following formula: 3,700,000 shares, minus 77,083 1/3 shares for each full month that Shareholder is employed by the Company after October 31, 1993.

1.


1.3 ACCELERATED VESTING. The Purchase Option shall lapse, and all Vesting Shares shall become fully vested upon the occurrence of any of the following events: (i) any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity; (ii) any sale, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company; (iii) any transaction or series of related transactions in which more than 50% of the outstanding voting securities of the Company are transferred; or (iv) any termination of the employment of the Shareholder which is not voluntary by the Shareholder, provided that the Shareholder agrees if requested as part of such termination to continue as a consultant to the Company on reasonable terms for up to 10% of the business days each month until the earlier of November 1, 1997 or an event specified in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above.

1.4 REPURCHASE PROCEDURE. The Company's Purchase Option shall terminate if not exercised by written notice from the Company to Shareholder within 90 days from the date on which Shareholder ceases to be employed by the Company. As security for Shareholder's performance of the terms of this Agreement and to ensure that the Shares will be available for delivery upon exercise of the Purchase Option, Shareholder agrees to deliver to and deposit with Linda L. Carloni of Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum ("Escrow Agent"), as Escrow Agent in this transaction, two Stock Assignments duly endorsed (with date and number of shares blank) in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, together with the certificate or certificates evidencing the Shares; such documents are to be held by the Escrow Agent and delivered by the Escrow Agent pursuant to the Joint Escrow Instructions of the Company and Shareholder set forth in Exhibit B attached hereto and incorporated by this reference, which instructions shall be delivered to the Escrow Agent.

1.5 BINDING EFFECT. The Company's Purchase Option shall inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns of the Company and shall be binding upon any representative, executor, administrator, heir or legatee of Shareholder.

2. STOCK CERTIFICATE RESTRICTIVE LEGEND. Shareholder agrees that the certificate(s) representing the Shares shall bear a legend which substantially reads as follows:

"The shares represented by this certificate are subject to an option set forth in an agreement between the Company and the registered holder, or the predecessor in interest, a copy of which is on file at the principal office of this corporation. Any transfer or attempted transfer of any shares subject to such option is void without the prior express written consent of the issuer of these shares."

2.


3. BINDING EFFECT. Subject to the limitations set forth in this Agreement, this Agreement shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the executors, administrators, heirs, legal representatives, successors and assigns of the parties hereto.

4. DAMAGES. Shareholder shall be liable to the Company for all costs and damages, including incidental and consequential damages, resulting from a disposition of Shares which is not in conformity with the provisions of this Agreement.

5. GOVERNING LAW AND ATTORNEY'S FEES. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California applicable to contracts entered into and wholly to be performed within the State of California by California residents. If any legal action or other proceeding is brought for the enforcement of this Agreement, or because of any alleged dispute, breach, default, or misrepresentation in connection with any of the provisions hereof, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover reasonable attorney's fees and all other costs incurred in such action or proceeding.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the day and year first above written.

BROADVISION, INC.

By:    /s/  Pehong Chen
   ---------------------------
     Pehong Chen
     President

Shareholder hereby accepts and agrees to be bound by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

      /s/  Pehong Chen
------------------------------
PEHONG CHEN

3.


EXHIBIT A
TO
STOCK RESTRICTION AGREEMENT

STOCK ASSIGNMENT SEPARATE FROM CERTIFICATE

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, Pehong Chen hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto BroadVision, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), pursuant to that certain Stock Restriction Agreement, dated November __, 1993, by and between the undersigned and the Company (the "Agreement"), ____________________________ ______________________________ (___________) shares of Common Stock of the Company standing in the undersigned's name on the books of the Company represented by Certificate No(s). _______ and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________________ attorney to transfer said stock on the books of the Company with full power of substitution in the premises. This Assignment may only be used in connection with the repurchase of shares of Common Stock pursuant to the Agreement that remain subject to the Company's right of repurchase in accordance with and subject to the terms and conditions of the Agreement.

Dated as of:


Pehong Chen

EXHIBIT B
TO
STOCK RESTRICTION AGREEMENT

JOINT ESCROW INSTRUCTIONS

Linda L. Carloni, Esq.
Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum
One Maritime Plaza, 20th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111

Dear Madam:

As Escrow Agent for both BroadVision, Inc. (the "Company") and the undersigned person denoted "Shareholder," you are hereby authorized and directed to hold the documents delivered to you pursuant to the terms of that certain Stock Restriction Agreement ("Agreement"), dated November __, 1993, to which a copy of these Joint Escrow Instructions is attached as Exhibit B, in accordance with the following instructions:

1. In the event the Company and/or any assignee of the Company (referred to collectively for convenience herein as the "Company") shall elect to exercise the Purchase Option set forth in the Agreement, the Company shall give to Shareholder and you a written notice specifying the number of shares of Common Stock (the "Stock") to be purchased, the purchase price, and the time for a closing thereunder at the principal office of the Company. Shareholder and the Company hereby irrevocably authorize and direct you to close the transaction contemplated by such notice in accordance with the terms of said notice.

2. At the closing, you are directed (i) to date the stock assignment necessary for the transfer in question, (ii) to fill in the number of shares being transferred, and (iii) to deliver same, together with the certificate evidencing the shares of stock to be transferred, to the Company against the simultaneous delivery to you of the purchase price for the number of shares of the Stock being purchased pursuant to the exercise of the Purchase Option.

3. Shareholder irrevocably authorizes the Company to deposit with you any certificates evidencing shares of the Stock to be held by you hereunder and any additions and substitutions to said shares as referred to in the Agreement. Shareholder does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint you as his attorney-in-fact and agent for the term of this escrow to execute with respect to such shares all documents necessary or appropriate to make such securities negotiable and complete any transaction herein contemplated, including but not limited to any appropriate filing with state securities officials. Subject to the provisions of this paragraph 3, Shareholder shall exercise all rights and privileges of a shareholder of the Company while the Stock is held by you.

1.


4. This escrow shall terminate upon termination of the Purchase Option under the Agreement.

5. If at the time of termination of this escrow you should have in your possession in your capacity as Escrow Agent any documents, securities or other property belonging to Shareholder, you shall deliver all of same to Shareholder and shall be discharged of all further obligations hereunder.

6. Your duties hereunder may be altered, amended, modified or revoked only by a writing signed by all of the parties hereto.

7. You shall be obligated only for the performance of such duties as are specifically set forth herein and may rely and shall be protected in relying or refraining from acting on any instrument reasonably believed by you to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties. You shall not be personally liable for any act you may do or omit to do hereunder as Escrow Agent or as attorney-in-fact for Shareholder while acting in good faith and in the exercise of your own good judgment, and any act done or omitted by you pursuant to the advice of your own attorneys shall be conclusive evidence of such good faith.

8. You are hereby expressly authorized to disregard any and all warnings given by any of the parties hereto or by any other person or corporation, excepting only orders of a duly authorized arbitrator or arbitration panel, orders or process of courts of law, and are hereby expressly authorized to comply with and obey orders, judgments or decrees of any court. In case you obey or comply with any such order, judgment or decree of any court, you shall not be liable to any of the parties hereto or to any other person, firm or corporation by reason of such compliance, notwithstanding any such order, judgment or decree being subsequently reversed, modified, annulled, set aside, vacated or found to have been entered without jurisdiction.

9. You shall not be liable in any respect on account of the identity, authorities or rights of the parties executing or delivering or purporting to execute or deliver the Agreement or any documents or papers deposited or called for hereunder.

10. You shall not be liable for the outlawing of any rights under the statute of limitations with respect to these Joint Escrow Instructions or any documents deposited with you.

2.


11. Your responsibilities as Escrow Agent hereunder shall terminate if you shall cease to be Assistant Secretary of the Company or if you shall resign by written notice to each party. In the event of any such termination, the Company shall appoint your successor as Assistant Secretary of the Company as successor Escrow Agent.

12. If you reasonably require other or further instruments in connection with these Joint Escrow Instructions or obligations in respect hereto, the necessary parties hereto shall join in furnishing such instruments.

13. It is understood and agreed that should any dispute arise with respect to the delivery and/or ownership or right of possession of the securities held by you hereunder, you are authorized and directed to retain in your possession without liability to anyone all or any part of said securities until such dispute shall have been settled either by mutual written agreement of the parties concerned, by arbitration or a final order, decree or judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction after the time for appeal has expired and no appeal has been perfected, but you shall be under no duty whatsoever to institute or defend any such proceedings.

14. Any notice required or permitted hereunder shall be given in writing and shall be deemed effectively given upon personal delivery or upon deposit in the United States Post Office, by registered or certified mail with postage and fees prepaid, addressed to each of the other parties thereunto entitled at the following addresses, or at such other addresses as a party may designate by ten
(10) days' advance written notice to each of the other parties hereto.

COMPANY:       BROADVISION, INC.
               93 Ridgeview Drive
               Atherton CA 94027
               Attention:  President

SHAREHOLDER:   PEHONG CHEN
               93 Ridgeview Drive
               Atherton CA 94027

ESCROW AGENT:  Linda L. Carloni, Esq.
               Cooley Godward, et.al.
               One Maritime Plaza, 20th Floor
               San Francisco, CA 94111

15. By signing these Joint Escrow Instructions, you become a party hereto only for the purpose of said Joint Escrow Instructions; you do not become a party to the Agreement.

3.


16. You shall be entitled to employ such legal counsel and other experts as you may deem necessary properly to advise you in connection with your obligations hereunder, you may rely upon the advice of such counsel, and you may pay such counsel reasonable compensation therefor.

17. This instrument shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto, and their respective successors and permitted assigns.

Dated: November __, 1993

Very truly yours,

BROADVISION, INC.

By:

Pehong Chen President

SHAREHOLDER


Pehong Chen

ESCROW AGENT

By:
Linda L. Carloni

4.


May 28, 1996

BroadVision, Inc.
333 Distel Circle
Los Altos, CA 94022-1404

Ladies and Gentlemen:

You have requested our opinion with respect to certain matters in connection with the filing by BroadVision, Inc. (the "Company") of a Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the "Registration Statement") with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission"), covering an underwritten public offering of up to 4,600,000 shares of Common Stock (the "Common Stock").

In connection with this opinion, we have (i) examined and relied upon the Registration Statement and related Prospectus, the Company's Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, and Amended and Restated Bylaws, and the originals or copies certified to our satisfaction of such records, documents, certificates, memoranda and other instruments as in our judgment are necessary or appropriate to enable us to render the opinion expressed below, (ii) assumed that the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, as set forth in Exhibit 3.3 to the Registration Statement, will have been duly approved and filed with the office of the Delaware Secretary of State and (iii) assumed that the shares of Common Stock will be sold by the Underwriters at a price established by the Pricing Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company.

On the basis of the foregoing, and in reliance thereon, we are of the opinion that the Common Stock, when sold and issued in accordance with the Registration Statement and related Prospectus, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

We consent to the reference to our firm under the caption "Legal Matters" in the Prospectus included on the Registration Statement and to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement.

Very truly yours,

COOLEY GODWARD CASTRO
HUDDLESON & TATUM

     /s/ KENNETH L. GUERNSEY
By ----------------------------
    Kenneth L. Guernsey


IT IS UNLAWFUL TO CONSUMMATE A SALE OR TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, OR TO RECEIVE ANY CONSIDERATION THEREFOR, WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CORPORATIONS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, EXCEPT AS PERMITTED IN THE COMMISSIONER'S RULES.

BROADVISION, INC.

STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT

BROADVISION, INC. (the "Company") is pleased to inform you that its Board of Directors has granted you an option to purchase shares of the common stock of the Company ("Common Stock") under the BroadVision, Inc. Stock Option Plan (the "Plan").

The details of your option are as follows:

OPTIONEE NAME:

NUMBER OF SHARES:

EXERCISE PRICE: $ per share, being not less than the fair market value of the Common Stock on the date of grant of this option.

GRANT DATE:

EXPIRATION DATE: , unless it ends sooner for the reasons described in Section 5 of the Supplemental Terms and Conditions attached.

VESTING COMMENCEMENT DATE:

VESTING SCHEDULE:       % on first anniversary of Vesting Commencement Date
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                        % each monthly anniversary thereafter until fully vested
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TAX QUALIFICATION: This option _X__ is ___ is not intended to qualify for the federal income tax benefits available to an "incentive stock option" within the meaning of Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code").

ADDITIONAL TERMS AND OPTIONEE'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: This option is also subject to all the terms of the Supplemental Terms and Conditions attached to this Agreement. The undersigned optionee acknowledges receipt of this option agreement, the Supplemental Terms and Conditions, and the exhibits referred to in both documents, and understands and agrees to all their terms. Optionee further acknowledges that as of the date of grant of this option, this option and its exhibits set forth the entire understanding between optionee and the Company and regarding the acquisition of stock in the Company and supersedes all prior oral and written agreements on that subject with the exception of (i) the option agreements previously granted and delivered to optionee under the Plan, and (ii) the following agreements only:

    OTHER AGREEMENTS:
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BROADVISION, INC.                      OPTIONEE:

By:
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                                       Signature
Name:
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Date:                                  Date:
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BROADVISION, INC.

SUPPLEMENTAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE
INCENTIVE STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT

1. METHOD OF PAYMENT. Payment of the exercise price per share is due in full upon exercise of all or any part of this option. You may make payment of the exercise price in cash or by check at the time of exercise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this option may also be exercised as part of a program developed under Regulation T as promulgated by the Federal Reserve Board which results in the receipt of cash (or a check) by the Company before Common Stock is issued.

2. EARLY EXERCISE OF OPTION (EXERCISE OF UNVESTED SHARES).

(a) At any time during your service with the Company or a parent or subsidiary (as defined in Section 424 of the Internal Revenue Code (the "Code") and defined as a "Related Company" in this document), you may exercise any or all of the shares subject to this option whether or not the shares have vested, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that:

i. a partial exercise of this option will be deemed to cover vested shares first and then the earliest vesting installment of unvested shares;

ii. any unvested shares at the date of exercise will be subject to the purchase option in favor of the Company which is described in the Notice of Exercise and Stock Purchase Agreement (the "Notice of Exercise") attached as an exhibit to this option;

iii. you will enter into the Notice of Exercise which will contain the same vesting schedule as in this option agreement; and

iv. this option may not be exercised under this paragraph 2 if the exercise would cause the aggregate fair market value of any shares subject to incentive stock options granted to you by the Company or a Related Company (valued as of their grant date) which would become exercisable for the first time during any calendar year to exceed $100,000.

(b) Your right to purchase unvested shares ends upon termination of your service with the Company and all Related Companies.

3. WHOLE SHARES. You may exercise this option only for whole shares and the Company shall be under no obligation to issue any fractional shares of Common Stock to you.

4. SECURITIES LAW COMPLIANCE. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this option, this option may not be exercised unless the shares issuable upon exercise of this option are then registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act") or, if the shares are not registered at that time, the Company has determined that the exercise and issuance would be exempt from the registration requirements of the Act.

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This option has been granted under the terms of a compensatory benefit plan established by the Company to provide financial incentives for the Company's employees (including officers) and certain directors and consultants to work for the financial success of the Company and is intended to comply with the provisions of Rule 701 promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Act.

5. TERM OF OPTION. The term of this option begins on the date you were granted this option and, unless it ends sooner for the reason described below, terminates on the Expiration Date set forth in the Stock Option Agreement. You may not, under any circumstances, exercise this option after the Expiration Date. By delivering written notice to the Company, in a form satisfactory to the Company, you may designate a third party who, in the event of your death, shall thereafter be entitled to exercise this option.

This option will also terminate prior to the end of its term if your service as an employee or an advisor or consultant with the Company and all Related Companies is terminated for any reason or for no reason. Your option will then terminate three (3) months after the date on which you are no longer providing services to the Company or any Related Company unless one of the following circumstances exists:

(a) Your termination of service is due to your disability. This option will then terminate on the earlier of the Expiration Date or twelve
(12) months following the termination of your service. You should be aware that if your disability is not considered a permanent and total disability within the meaning of Section 422(c)(6) of the Code, and you exercise this option more than three (3) months following the date of your termination of employment, your exercise will be treated for tax purposes as the exercise of a "nonstatutory stock option" instead of an "incentive stock option."

(b) Your termination of service is due to your death. This option will then terminate on the earlier of the Expiration Date or twelve (12) months after your death.

(c) If during any part of the three (3) month period you may not exercise your option solely because of the condition described in paragraph 4 above, then your option will not terminate until the earlier of the Expiration Date or until this option shall become exercisable for an aggregate period of three (3) months after the termination of your service.

(d) If your exercise of the option within three (3) months after termination of your service with the Company and all Related Companies will result in liability under Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, then your option will terminate on the earlier of (i) the Expiration Date, (ii) the tenth (10th) day after the last date on which your exercise would result in such liability or (iii) six (6) months and ten (10) days after the termination of your service with the Company and all Related Companies.

Only the shares which are vested on the date of your termination of service may be exercised following the termination of your service.

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In order to obtain the federal income tax advantages associated with an incentive stock option, the Code requires that at all times beginning on the date of grant of the option and ending on the day three (3) months before the date of the option's exercise, you must be an employee of the Company or a Related Company, except in the event of your death or disability. The Company has provided for continued vesting or extended exercisability for your option under certain circumstances for your benefit, but cannot guarantee that your option will necessarily be treated as an incentive stock option if you provide services to the Company or a Related Company as a consultant or exercise your option more than three (3) months after the date your employment with the Company and all Related Companies terminates.

6. EXERCISE OF OPTION.

a. You may exercise this option to the extent specified above, by delivering the Notice of Exercise attached to this option as an exhibit together with the exercise price to the Secretary of the Company, or another person designated by the Company, during regular business hours, together with any additional documents required in the Notice of Exercise.

b. By exercising this option you agree that:

i. the Company may require you to pay to the Company any tax withholding obligation of the Company arising from (1) your exercise of this option; (2) the lapse of any substantial risk of forfeiture to which the shares are subject at the time of exercise; or (3) the disposition of the shares of Common Stock you acquired upon the exercise of this option;

ii. you will notify the Company in writing within fifteen (15) days after the date on which you dispose of any of the shares of the Common Stock issued to you upon your exercise of this option if the disposition of shares occurs prior to the earlier of two (2) years after the date on which you were granted this option or one (1) year after the date on which you exercised this option; and

iii. in connection with the first underwritten registration of the offering of any securities of the Company under the Act, the Company (or a representative of the underwriters) may require that you not sell or otherwise transfer or dispose of any shares of Common Stock or other securities of the Company during a period not to exceed one hundred eighty (180) days following the effective date (the "Effective Date") of the registration statement of the Company filed under the Act. For purposes of this restriction you will be considered to own securities which (i) you own directly or indirectly, including securities held for your benefit by nominees, custodians, brokers or pledgees; (ii) you may acquire within sixty (60) days of the Effective Date; (iii) are owned directly or indirectly, by or for your brothers or sisters (whether by whole or half blood), spouse, ancestors and lineal descendants; or (iv) are owned, directly or indirectly, by or for a corporation, partnership, estate or trust of which you are a shareholder, partner or beneficiary, but only to the extent of your proportionate interest in the corporation, partnership, estate or trust as a shareholder, partner or beneficiary. You further agree that the Company may impose stop-transfer instructions on the securities subject to these restrictions until the end of the period.

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7. OPTION NOT TRANSFERABLE. This option may not be transferred, except by will or by the laws of descent and distribution, and may be exercised during your life only by you.

8. OPTION NOT AN EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT. This option is not an employment contract and nothing in this option creates in any way whatsoever any obligation on your part to continue in the employ of the Company, or of the Company to continue your employment with the Company.

9. NOTICES. Any notices provided for in this option or the Plan will be given in writing and will be considered to have been given upon receipt or, in the case of notices delivered by the Company to you, five (5) days after deposit in the United States mail, postage prepaid, addressed to you at the address specified below or at such other address as you later designate in writing to the Company.

10. GOVERNING PLAN DOCUMENT. This option is subject to all the provisions of the Plan, which is attached as an exhibit to this option. All provisions of the Plan are hereby made a part of this option. This option is further subject to all interpretations, amendments, rules and regulations which may from time to time be set forth and adopted under the Plan. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this option and those of the Plan, the provisions of the Plan shall control.

ATTACHMENTS:

Exhibit A: BroadVision, Inc. Stock Option Plan Exhibit B: Regulation 260.141.11
Exhibit C: Notice of Exercise and Stock Purchase Agreement

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BROADVISION, INC.

NOTICE OF EXERCISE AND STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT

Pursuant to a stock option (the "Stock Option") granted by BroadVision, Inc. (the "Company") to the undersigned purchaser ("Purchaser") on the Stock Option grant date set forth below, Purchaser hereby elects to exercise his or her Stock Option and to purchase shares of the Company's common stock ("Common Stock") and the Company hereby agrees to sell shares of Common Stock to the Purchaser upon the following terms and conditions:

NAME OF PURCHASER:
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STOCK OPTION GRANT DATE:
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TYPE OF EXERCISE:                              TYPE OF OPTION:

/ / Vested shares only                         / / Incentive Stock Option
/ / Early exercise (some unvested shares)(1)   / / Non Qualified Stock Option

NUMBER OF SHARES: Purchaser hereby exercises his or her option as to vested shares of Common Stock and unvested shares of Common Stock (the "Unvested Stock") for a total of shares (the "Stock").

REGISTERED NAME: Stock certificates for the Stock to be issued in name of


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TOTAL EXERCISE PRICE: $ , consisting of a cash payment delivered with this notice.

ADDITIONAL TERMS AND PURCHASER'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: This agreement is also subject to all the terms of the Supplemental Terms and Conditions attached to this agreement. The Purchaser acknowledges receipt of this agreement, the Supplemental Terms and Conditions, and the exhibits referred to in both documents, and understands and agrees to all their terms. Purchaser further acknowledges that as of the date of this agreement, this agreement and its exhibits set forth the entire understanding between Purchaser and the Company and regarding the acquisition of stock in the Company and supersedes all prior oral and written agreements on that subject with the exception of (i) the option agreements previously granted and delivered to Purchaser under the Company's Stock Option Plan (the "Plan"), and (ii) the following agreements only:

OTHER AGREEMENTS:



BROADVISION, INC.                      PURCHASER:

By:
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                                       Signature

Name:
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Date:                                  Date:

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(1) If you are exercising your option as to unvested shares, you should determine whether you wish to make a section 83(b) election. Such election must be made and filed with the Internal Revenue Service within thirty (30) days of the date you exercise this option. In short, a section 83(b) election provides for the determination of taxable income (regular income tax for nonqualified stock options and alternative minimum tax for incentive stock options) on the date of exercise rather than the later date on which the stock vests. More detailed information on section 83(b) elections, as well as election forms, are available from the Company.


BROADVISION, INC.

SUPPLEMENTAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE
NOTICE OF EXERCISE AND STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT

1. SALE AND PURCHASE. Purchaser hereby agrees to purchase from the Company, and the Company hereby agrees to sell to Purchaser, the total number of shares of the common stock (the "Stock") of the Company set forth in the Notice of Exercise and Stock Purchase Agreement (the "Notice"), for the exercise price set forth in the Notice, payable in cash. These Supplemental Terms and Conditions together with the Notice shall be referred to herein as the "Agreement."

2. CLOSING.

a. LOCATION. The closing hereunder shall occur at the offices of the Company on the date of this Agreement or at such other time and place as the parties may mutually agree upon in writing.

b. STOCK ASSIGNMENTS AND ESCROW. At the closing, Purchaser shall deliver the total exercise price in cash. In addition, to the extent that the Purchaser is purchasing any Unvested Shares herewith, Purchaser shall also deliver three (3) stock assignments in the form of Exhibit B duly endorsed (with date and number of shares left blank) and joint escrow instructions (the "Joint Escrow Instructions") in the form of Exhibit C, duly executed by Purchaser.

c. STOCK CERTIFICATES. At the closing or as soon thereafter as practicable, the Company shall deliver to the Purchaser share certificates for the Vested Stock. In addition, to the extent that the Purchaser is purchasing Unvested Stock, the Company shall deliver to the Escrow Agent (as defined in paragraph 8 below) share certificates for all of the Unvested Stock that is to be subject to the Purchase Option (as defined in paragraph 3 below).

3. COMPANY'S REPURCHASE OPTION. In accordance with the provisions of section 408(b) of the California General Company Law, the Unvested Stock to be purchased by Purchaser pursuant to this Agreement shall be subject to the following option ("Purchase Option"):

a. PURCHASE OPTION. In the event that Purchaser shall cease to be an employee of the Company for any reason (including Purchaser's death), or no reason, with or without cause, the Purchase Option may be exercised. The Company shall have the right at any time within the ninety (90) day period after Purchaser's termination of service with the Company and all affiliates of the Company or such longer period as may be agreed to by the Company and Purchaser
(for example, for purposes of satisfying the requirements of Section 1202(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code) to purchase from Purchaser or his personal representative, as the case may be, at the price per share paid by Purchaser pursuant to this Agreement ("Option Price"), up to but not exceeding the number of shares of the Unvested Stock, adjusted as set forth below.

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b. RELEASE FROM PURCHASE OPTION. The number of shares of the Stock deemed to be "Unvested Stock" shall be equal to (x) the total number of shares of the Stock granted to the Purchaser pursuant to the Stock Option less
(y) the number of shares of the Stock that have vested under the vesting schedule set forth in the Stock Option as of the date of the termination of the Purchaser's services with the Company.

c. CHANGE OF CONTROL. In addition, and without limiting the foregoing Purchase Option, if at any time during the term of the Purchase Option, there occurs: (a) a dissolution or liquidation of the Company; (b) a merger or consolidation involving the Company in which the Company is not the surviving corporation; (c) a reverse merger in which the Company is the surviving corporation but the shares of the Company's common stock outstanding immediately preceding the merger are converted by virtue of the merger into other property, whether in the form of other securities, cash or otherwise; or
(d) any other capital reorganization in which more than fifty percent (50%) of the shares of the Company entitled to vote are exchanged, then: (i) if there will be no successor to the Company, the Company shall have the right to exercise its Purchase Option as to all or any portion of the Stock then subject to the Purchase Option set forth above to the same extent as if Purchaser's employment by the Company had ceased on the date preceding the date of consummation of said event or transaction, or (ii) the Purchase Option may be assigned to any successor of the Company, and the Purchase Option shall apply if Purchaser shall cease for any reason to be an employee of such successor on the same basis as set forth above. In that case, references herein to the "Company" shall be deemed to refer to such successor.

d. PAYMENT. The Company shall be entitled to pay for any shares purchased pursuant to its Purchase Option at the Company's option in cash, by offset against any indebtedness owing to the Company and given in payment for the Stock by Purchaser, or a combination of both.

e. NOT AN EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT. This Agreement is not an employment contract and nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to create in any way whatsoever any obligation on the part of the Purchaser to continue in the employ of the Company, or of the Company to continue Purchaser in the employ of the Company.

f. EXERCISE OF PURCHASE OPTION. In the event that the Stock's Fair Market Value (as defined in the Plan) is equal to or exceeds the Option Price on the date that the Purchaser ceases to be employed, the Company, in its sole discretion, may exercise its purchase option to the extent permitted by law.

g. NOTICE OF EXERCISE. The Purchase Option may be exercised by giving written notice of exercise delivered or mailed as provided in paragraph 11. Upon providing such notice and payment or tender of the purchase price, the Company shall become the legal and beneficial owner of the Stock being purchased and all rights and interests therein or related thereto.

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h. DISTRIBUTIONS, DIVIDENDS ETC. If from time to time during the term of the Purchase Option there is any stock dividend or liquidating dividend or distribution of cash and/or property, stock split or other change in the character or amount of any of the outstanding securities of the Company, then, in such event, any and all new, substituted or additional securities or other property to which Purchaser is entitled by reason of his ownership of the Unvested Stock will be immediately subject to the Purchase Option and be included in the words "Unvested Stock" for all purposes of the Purchase Option with the same force and effect as the shares of Unvested Stock then subject to the Purchase Option. While the total Option Price shall remain the same after each such event, the Option Price per share of Unvested Stock upon exercise of the Purchase Option shall be appropriately adjusted.

4. LEGENDS. All certificates representing any shares of Stock of the Company subject to the provisions of this Agreement shall have endorsed thereon legends in substantially the following form:

a. "These securities have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933. They may not be sold, offered for sale, pledged or hypothecated in the absence of an effective registration statement as to the securities under said Act or an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the corporation that such registration is not required."

b. Any legend required to be placed thereon by the California Commissioner of Corporations.

In additions, certificates representing shares of Unvested Stock shall have endorsed thereon a legend in substantially the following form:

c. "The shares represented by this certificate are subject to an option set forth in an agreement between the corporation and the registered holder, or his predecessor in interest, a copy of which is on file at the principal office of this corporation. Any transfer or attempted transfer of any shares subject to such option is void without the prior express written consent of the issuer of these shares."

5. PURCHASER REPRESENTATIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

a. SECURITIES ACT. Purchaser acknowledges that he is aware that the Stock to be issued to him by the Company pursuant to this Agreement has not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), on the basis that no distribution or public offering of the Stock is to be effected, and in this connection acknowledges that the Company is relying on the following representations: Purchaser warrants and represents to the Company that he is acquiring the Stock for investment and not with a view to or for sale in connection with any distribution of the Stock or with any present intention of distributing or selling the Stock and he does not presently have reason to anticipate any change in circumstances or any particular occasion or event which would cause him to sell the Stock. Purchaser recognizes that the Stock must be held indefinitely unless it is subsequently registered under the Act or an

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exemption from such registration is available and, further, recognizes that the Company is under no obligation to register the Stock or to comply with any exemption from such registration.

b. RESALE OF STOCK. Purchaser is aware that the Stock may not be sold pursuant to Rule 144 adopted under the Act unless certain conditions are met and until Purchaser has held the Stock for at least two (2) years. Among the conditions for use of Rule 144 is the availability of specified current public information about the Company. Purchaser recognizes that the Company presently has no plans to make such information available to the public.

c. RECEIPT OF SECTION 260.141.11. Purchaser acknowledges receipt of a copy of Section 260.141.11 of Title 10 of the California Administrative Code, attached hereto as Exhibit A.

6. TRANSFER RESTRICTIONS.

a. IN GENERAL. Whether or not the Purchase Option is exercised or has lapsed, Purchaser agrees not to make any disposition of any of the Stock in any event unless and until:

i. There is then in effect a registration statement under the Act covering such proposed disposition and such disposition is made in accordance with such registration statement; or

ii. (1) Purchaser shall have notified the Company of the proposed disposition and shall have furnished the Company with a detailed statement of the circumstances surrounding the proposed disposition, and
(2) Purchaser shall have given the Company an opinion of counsel, which opinion and counsel shall be satisfactory to the Company, to the effect that such disposition will not require registration of the Stock under the Act.

b. WITH RESPECT TO UNVESTED STOCK. Purchaser shall not sell or transfer any of the Unvested Stock subject to the Purchase Option or any interest therein so long as such Unvested Stock is subject to the Purchase Option.

c. EFFECT ON COMPANY. The Company shall not be required
(i) to transfer on its books any shares of Common Stock of the Company which shall have been sold or transferred in violation of any of the provisions set forth in this Agreement or (ii) to treat as owner of such shares or to accord the right to vote as such owner or to pay dividends to any transferee to whom such shares shall have been so transferred.

7. ESCROW ARRANGEMENTS. As security for his faithful performance of the terms of this Agreement and to insure the availability for delivery of Purchaser's Stock upon exercise of the Purchase Option herein provided for, Purchaser agrees, at the closing hereunder (or as soon thereafter as practicable) to deliver (or have the Company deliver on the Purchaser's behalf) to and deposit with the Secretary of the Company, as escrow agent in this transaction (the "Escrow Agent"), three (3) stock assignments duly endorsed (with date and number of shares left blank) in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B, together with a certificate or

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certificates evidencing all of the Unvested Stock subject to the Purchase Option; said documents are to be held by the Escrow Agent and delivered by said Escrow Agent pursuant to the Joint Escrow Instructions of the Company and Purchaser set forth in Exhibit C attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference, which instructions shall also be delivered to the Escrow Agent at the closing hereunder (or as soon thereafter as practicable).

8. STOCKHOLDER RIGHTS. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 6 above, Purchaser (but not any unapproved transferee) shall, during the term of this Agreement, exercise all rights and privileges of a stockholder of the Company with respect to the Unvested Stock.

9. AGREEMENT NOT TO SELL. Purchaser further agrees that, if required by the Company (or a representative of the underwriters) in connection with the first underwritten registration of the offering of any securities of the Company under the Act, Purchaser will not sell or otherwise transfer or dispose of any shares of Common Stock or other securities of the Company during a period not to exceed one hundred eighty (180) days following the effective date (the "Effective Date") of the registration statement of the Company filed under the Act. For purposes of this restriction Purchaser will be considered to own securities that (i) are owned directly or indirectly by Purchaser, including securities held for Purchaser's benefit by nominees, custodians, brokers or pledgees; (ii) may be acquired by Purchaser within sixty (60) days of the Effective Date; (iii) are owned directly or indirectly, by or for Purchaser's brothers or sisters (whether by whole or half blood), spouse, ancestors and lineal descendants; or (iv) are owned, directly or indirectly, by or for a corporation, partnership, estate or trust of which Purchaser is a shareholder, partner or beneficiary, but only to the extent of Purchaser's proportionate interest in the corporation, partnership, estate or trust as a shareholder, partner or beneficiary. Purchaser further agrees that the Company may impose stop-transfer instructions with respect to securities subject to the restrictions, described above, until the end of such period.

10. ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS. Purchaser agrees to provide any additional documents Company may reasonably require to complete the exercise of this option and the issuance of shares of the Common Stock of the Company in accordance with all applicable laws.

11. NOTICES. Any notice required or permitted hereunder shall be given in writing and shall be deemed effectively given upon personal delivery or upon deposit in any United States Post Office Box, by registered or certified mail with postage and fees prepaid, addressed to the other party hereto as his address hereinafter shown below his signature or at such other address as such party may designate by ten (10) days' advance written notice to the other party hereto.

12. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. This Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns of the Company and, subject to the restrictions on transfer herein set forth, inure to the benefit of and be binding upon Purchaser, his heirs, executors, administrators, successors, and assigns. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Purchase Option of the Company hereunder shall be assignable by the Company at any time or from time to time, in whole or in part. Should the right of repurchase be assigned by the

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Company, the assignee shall pay to the Company cash equal to the excess, if any, of the Stock's Fair Market Value (as defined in the Plan) over the Option Price.

13. CAPITALIZED TERMS. Capitalized terms used but not defined in these Supplemental Terms and Conditions shall have the respective meanings given thereto in the Notice of Exercise and Stock Purchase Agreement.

14. GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the State of California, without giving effect to principles of conflicts of laws.

15. HEADINGS. The titles of the sections and subsections of the Agreement are for convenience of reference only and are not to be considered in construing this Agreement.

ATTACHMENTS:

Exhibit A Cal. Admin. Code, Title 10, Section 260.141.11

ADDITIONAL ATTACHMENTS IF UNVESTED SHARES BEING PURCHASED:

Exhibit B Assignment Separate from Certificate Exhibit C Joint Escrow Instructions


BROADVISION, INC.
STOCK OPTION PLAN
ADOPTED DECEMBER 22, 1993

1. PURPOSES.

(a) The purpose of the Plan is to provide a means by which selected Employees and Directors of and Consultants to the Company, and its Affiliates, may be given an opportunity to purchase stock of the Company.

(b) The Company, by means of the Plan, seeks to retain the services of persons who are now Employees or Directors of or Consultants to the Company and its Affiliates, to secure and retain the services of new Employees, Directors and Consultants, and to provide incentives for such persons to exert maximum efforts for the success of the Company and its Affiliates.

(c) The Company intends that the Options issued under the Plan shall, in the discretion of the Board or any Committee to which responsibility for administration of the Plan has been delegated pursuant to subsection 3(c), be either Incentive Stock Options or Nonstatutory Stock Options. All Options shall be separately designated Incentive Stock Options or Nonstatutory Stock Options at the time of grant, and in such form as issued pursuant to Section 6, and a separate certificate or certificates will be issued for shares purchased on exercise of each type of Option.

2. DEFINITIONS.

(a) "AFFILIATE" means any parent corporation or subsidiary corporation, whether now or hereafter existing, as those terms are defined in Sections 424(e) and (f) respectively, of the Code.

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(b) "BOARD" means the Board of Directors of the Company.

(c) "CODE" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

(d) "COMMITTEE" means a Committee appointed by the Board in accordance with subsection 3(c) of the Plan.

(e) "COMPANY" means BroadVision, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

(f) "CONSULTANT" means any person, including an advisor, engaged by the Company or an Affiliate to render consulting services and who is compensated for such services, provided that the term "Consultant" shall not include Directors who are paid only a director's fee by the Company or who are not compensated by the Company for their services as Directors.

(g) "CONTINUOUS STATUS AS AN EMPLOYEE, DIRECTOR OR CONSULTANT" means the employment or relationship as a Director or Consultant is not interrupted or terminated. The Board, in its sole discretion, may determine whether Continuous Status as an Employee, Director or Consultant shall be considered interrupted in the case of: (i) any leave of absence approved by the Board, including sick leave, military leave, or any other personal leave; or (ii) transfers between locations of the Company or between the Company, Affiliates or their successors.

(h) "COVERED EXECUTIVE" means each Employee, Director or Consultant subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act with respect to the Company.

(i) "DIRECTOR" means a member of the Board.

(j) "DISINTERESTED PERSON" means a Director: (i) who either (A) was not during the one year prior to service as an administrator of the Plan granted or awarded equity securities pursuant to the Plan or any other plan of the Company or any of its affiliates entitling the participants therein to acquire equity securities of the Company or any of its affiliates except as

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permitted by Rule 16b-3(c)(2)(i); or (B) who is otherwise considered to be a "disinterested person" in accordance with Rule 16b-3(c)(2)(i), or any other applicable rules, regulations or interpretations of the Securities and Exchange Commission; AND (ii) who either (A) is not a current Employee, is not a former Employee receiving compensation for prior services (other than benefits under a tax qualified pension plan), was not an officer of the Company or an affiliate at any time, and is not currently receiving compensation for personal services in any capacity other than as a Director, or (B) is otherwise considered an outside director for purposes of Section 162(m) of the Code.

(k) "EMPLOYEE" means any person, including Officers and Directors, employed by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company. Neither service as a Director nor payment of a director's fee by the Company shall be sufficient to constitute "employment" by the Company.

(l) "EXCHANGE ACT" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

(m) "FAIR MARKET VALUE" means, as of any date, the value of the common stock of the Company determined as follows and in each case in a manner consistent with Section 260.140.50 of Title 10 of the California Code of Regulations:

(1) If the common stock is listed on any established stock exchange or a national market system, including without limitation the National Market System of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. Automated Quotation ("NASDAQ") System, the Fair Market Value of a share of common stock shall be the closing sales price for such stock (or the closing bid, if no sales were reported) as quoted on such system or exchange (or the exchange with the greatest volume of trading in common stock) on the last market trading day prior to the day of determination, as reporting in the Wall Street Journal or such other source as the Board deems reliable;

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(2) If the common stock is quoted on the NASDAQ System (but not on the National Market System thereof) or is regularly quoted by a recognized securities dealer but selling prices are not reported, the Fair Market Value of a share of common stock shall be the mean between the bid and asked prices for the common stock on the last market trading day prior to the day of determination, as reported in the Wall Street Journal or such other source as the Board deems reliable;

(3) In the absence of an established market for the common stock, the Fair Market Value shall be determined in good faith by the Board.

(n) "INCENTIVE STOCK OPTION" means an Option intended to qualify as an incentive stock option within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder.

(o) "NONSTATUTORY STOCK OPTION" means an Option not intended to qualify as an Incentive Stock Option.

(p) "OFFICER" means a person who is an officer of the Company within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

(q) "OPTION" means a stock option granted pursuant to the Plan.

(r) "OPTION AGREEMENT" means a written agreement between the Company and an Optionee evidencing the terms and conditions of an individual Option grant. Each Option Agreement shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.

(s) "OPTIONED STOCK" means the common stock of the Company subject to an Option.

(t) "OPTIONEE" means an Employee, Director or Consultant who holds an outstanding Option.

(u) "PLAN" means this Stock Option Plan.

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(v) "RULE 16B-3" means Rule 16b-3 of the Exchange Act or any successor to Rule 16b-3, as in effect when discretion is being exercised with respect to the Plan.

3. ADMINISTRATION.

(a) The Plan shall be administered by the Board unless and until the Board delegates administration to a Committee, as provided in subsection 3(c).

(b) The Board shall have the power, subject to, and within the limitations of, the express provisions of the Plan:

(1) To determine from time to time which of the persons eligible under the Plan shall be granted Options; when and how each Option shall be granted; whether an Option will be an Incentive Stock Option or a Nonstatutory Stock Option; the provisions of each Option granted (which need not be identical), including the time or times such Option may be exercised in whole or in part; and the number of shares for which an Option shall be granted to each such person.

(2) To construe and interpret the Plan and Options granted under it, and to establish, amend and revoke rules and regulations for its administration. The Board, in the exercise of this power, may correct any defect, omission or inconsistency in the Plan or in any Option Agreement, in a manner and to the extent it shall deem necessary or expedient to make the Plan fully effective.

(3) To amend the Plan as provided in Section 11.

(c) The Board may delegate administration of the Plan to a committee composed of not fewer than two (2) members (the "Committee"), all of the members of which Committee shall be Disinterested Persons if required by the provisions of subsection 3(d). If administration is delegated to a Committee, the Committee shall have, in connection with the administration

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of the Plan, the powers theretofore possessed by the Board (and references in this Plan to the Board shall thereafter be to the Committee), subject, however, to such resolutions, not inconsistent with the provisions of the Plan, as may be adopted from time to time by the Board. The Board may abolish the Committee at any time and revest in the Board the administration of the Plan. Additionally, prior to the date of the first registration of an equity security of the Company under Section 12 of the Exchange Act, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Board may delegate administration of the Plan to any person or persons and the term "Committee" shall apply to any person or persons to whom such authority has been delegated. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 3 to the contrary, the Board or the Committee may delegate to a committee of one or more members of the Board the authority to grant options to eligible persons who are not then subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

(d) Any requirement that an administrator of the Plan be a Disinterested Person shall not apply (A) prior to the date of the first registration of an equity security of the Company under Section 12 of the Exchange Act, or (B) if the Board or the Committee expressly declares that such requirement shall not apply. Any Disinterested Person shall otherwise comply with the requirements of Rule 16b-3.

4. SHARES SUBJECT TO THE PLAN.

(a) Subject to the provisions of Section 10 relating to adjustments upon changes in stock, the stock that may be sold pursuant to Options shall not exceed in the aggregate three million five hundred thirty-three thousand (3,533,000) shares of the Company's common stock. If any Option shall for any reason expire or otherwise terminate, in whole or in part, without having been exercised in full, the stock not purchased under such Option shall revert to and again become available for issuance under the Plan.

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(b) The stock subject to the Plan may be unissued shares or reacquired shares, bought on the market or otherwise.

5. ELIGIBILITY.

(a) Incentive Stock Options may be granted only to Employees. Nonstatutory Stock Options may be granted only to Employees, Directors or Consultants.

(b) A Director shall in no event be eligible for the benefits of the Plan unless at the time discretion is exercised in the selection of the Director as a person to whom Options may be granted, or in the determination of the number of shares which may be covered by Options granted to the Director:
(A) the Board has delegated its discretionary authority over the Plan to a Committee which consists solely of Disinterested Persons; or (B) the Plan otherwise complies with the requirements of Rule 16b-3. The Board shall otherwise comply with the requirements of Rule 16b-3. This subsection 5(b) shall not apply (i) prior to the date of the first registration of an equity security of the Company under Section 12 of the Exchange Act, or (ii) if the Board or Committee expressly declares that it shall not apply.

(c) No person shall be eligible for the grant of an Incentive Stock Option if, at the time of grant, such person owns (or is deemed to own pursuant to Section 424(d) of the Code) stock possessing more than ten percent (10%) of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company or of any of its Affiliates unless the exercise price of such Option is at least one hundred ten percent (110%) of the Fair Market Value of such stock at the date of grant and the Option is not exercisable after the expiration of five (5) years from the date of grant.

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(d) Subsequent to the registration of equity securities of the Company under the Exchange Act, no person shall be eligible to be granted Options covering more than one million (1,000,000) shares of the Company's common stock during any three (3) year period.

6. OPTION PROVISIONS.

Each Option shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as the Board shall deem appropriate. The provisions of separate Options need not be identical, but each Option shall include (through incorporation of provisions hereof by reference in the Option or otherwise) the substance of each of the following provisions:

(a) TERM. No Option shall be exercisable after the expiration of ten
(10) years from the date it was granted.

(b) PRICE. The exercise price of each Incentive Stock Option shall be not less than one hundred percent (100%) of the Fair Market Value of the stock subject to the Option on the date the Option is granted. The exercise price of each Nonstatutory Stock Option shall be not less than eighty-five percent (85%) of the Fair Market Value of the stock subject to the Option on the date the Option is granted.

(c) CONSIDERATION. The purchase price of stock acquired pursuant to an Option shall be paid, to the extent permitted by applicable statutes and regulations, either (i) in cash at the time the option is exercised, or (ii) at the discretion of the Board or the Committee, either at the time of the grant or exercise of the Option, (A) by delivery to the Company of other common stock of the Company, (B) according to a deferred payment or other arrangement (which may include, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the use of other common stock of the Company) with the person to whom the Option is granted or to whom the Option is transferred

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pursuant to subsection 6(d), or (C) in any other form of legal consideration that may be acceptable to the Board.

In the case of any deferred payment arrangement, interest shall be payable at least annually and shall be charged at the minimum rate of interest necessary to avoid the treatment as interest, under any applicable provisions of the Code, of any amounts other than amounts stated to be interest under the deferred payment arrangement.

(d) TRANSFERABILITY. An Incentive Stock Option shall not be transferable except by will or by the laws of descent and distribution, and shall be exercisable during the lifetime of the person to whom the Incentive Stock Option is granted only by such person. A Nonstatutory Stock Option shall not be transferable except by will or by the laws of descent and distribution or pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order as defined by the Code or Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or the rules thereunder (a "QDRO"), and shall be exercisable during the lifetime of the person to whom the Option is granted only by such person or any transferee pursuant to a QDRO. The person to whom the Option is granted may, by delivering written notice to the Company, in a form satisfactory to the Company, designate a third party who, in the event of the death of the Optionee, shall thereafter be entitled to exercise the Option.

(e) VESTING. The total number of shares of stock subject to an Option may, but need not, be allotted in periodic installments (which may, but need not, be equal). The Option Agreement may provide that from time to time during each of such installment periods, the Option may become exercisable ("vest") with respect to some or all of the shares allotted to that period, and may be exercised with respect to some or all of the shares allotted to such period and/or any prior period as to which the Option became vested but was not fully exercised. The

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Option may be subject to such other terms and conditions on the time or times when it may be exercised (which may be based on performance or other criteria) as the Board may deem appropriate. The vesting provisions of individual Options may vary but in each case will provide for vesting of at least twenty percent (20%) per year of the total number of shares subject to the Option. The provisions of this subsection 6(e) are subject to any Option provisions governing the minimum number of shares as to which an Option may be exercised.

(f) SECURITIES LAW COMPLIANCE. The Company may require any Optionee, or any person to whom an Option is transferred under subsection 6(d), as a condition of exercising any such Option, (1) to give written assurances satisfactory to the Company as to the Optionee's knowledge and experience in financial and business matters and/or to employ a purchaser representative reasonably satisfactory to the Company who is knowledgeable and experienced in financial and business matters, and that he or she is capable of evaluating, alone or together with the purchaser representative, the merits and risks of exercising the Option; and (2) to give written assurances satisfactory to the Company stating that such person is acquiring the stock subject to the Option for such person's own account and not with any present intention of selling or otherwise distributing the stock. The foregoing requirements, and any assurances given pursuant to such requirements, shall be inoperative if (i) the issuance of the shares upon the exercise of the Option has been registered under a then currently effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or (ii) as to any particular requirement, a determination is made by counsel for the Company that such requirement need not be met in the circumstances under the then applicable securities laws. The Company may, upon advice of counsel to the Company, place legends on stock certificates issued under the Plan

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as such counsel deems necessary or appropriate in order to comply with applicable securities laws, including, but not limited to, legends restricting the transfer of the stock.

(g) TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT OR RELATIONSHIP AS A DIRECTOR OR CONSULTANT. In the event an Optionee's Continuous Status as an Employee, Director or Consultant terminates (other than upon the Optionee's death or disability), the Optionee may exercise his or her Option (to the extent that the Optionee was entitled to exercise it at the date of termination) but only within such period of time ending on the earlier of (i) the date three (3) months after the termination of the Optionee's Continuous Status as an Employee, Director or Consultant (or such longer or shorter period, WHICH IN NO EVENT SHALL BE LESS THAN THIRTY (30) DAYS, specified in the Option Agreement), or (ii) the expiration of the term of the Option as set forth in the Option Agreement. If, after termination, the Optionee does not exercise his or her Option within the time specified in the Option Agreement, the Option shall terminate, and the shares covered by such Option shall revert to and again become available for issuance under the Plan.

(h) DISABILITY OF OPTIONEE. In the event an Optionee's Continuous Status as an Employee, Director or Consultant terminates as a result of the Optionee's disability, the Optionee may exercise his or her Option (to the extent that the Optionee was entitled to exercise it at the date of termination), but only within such period of time ending on the earlier of (i) the date twelve (12) months following such termination (or such longer or shorter period, WHICH IN NO EVENT SHALL BE LESS THAN SIX (6) MONTHS, specified in the Option Agreement), or
(ii) the expiration of the term of the Option as set forth in the Option Agreement. If, at the date of termination, the Optionee is not entitled to exercise his or her entire Option, the shares covered by the unexercisable portion of the Option shall revert to and again become available for issuance under the Plan. If, after termination, the Optionee does not exercise his or her Option

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within the time specified herein, the Option shall terminate, and the shares covered by such Option shall revert to and again become available for issuance under the Plan.

(i) DEATH OF OPTIONEE. In the event of the death of an Optionee during, or within a period specified in the Option after the termination of, the Optionee's Continuous Status as an Employee, Director or Consultant, the Option may be exercised (to the extent the Optionee was entitled to exercise the Option at the date of death) by the Optionee's estate or by a person who acquired the right to exercise the Option by bequest or inheritance, but only within the period ending on the earlier of (i) the date eighteen (18) months following the date of death (or such longer or shorter period, WHICH IN NO EVENT SHALL BE LESS THAN SIX (6) MONTHS, specified in the Option Agreement), or (ii) the expiration of the term of such Option as set forth in the Option Agreement. If, at the time of death, the Optionee was not entitled to exercise his or her entire Option, the shares covered by the unexercisable portion of the Option shall revert to and again become available for issuance under the Plan. If, after death, the Optionee's estate or a person who acquired the right to exercise the Option by bequest or inheritance does not exercise the Option within the time specified herein, the Option shall terminate, and the shares covered by such Option shall revert to and again become available for issuance under the Plan.

(j) EARLY EXERCISE. The Option may, but need not, include a provision whereby the Optionee may elect at any time while an Employee, Director or Consultant to exercise the Option as to any part or all of the shares subject to the Option prior to the full vesting of the Option. Any unvested shares so purchased shall be subject to a repurchase right in favor of the Company, with the repurchase price to be equal to the original purchase price of the stock, or to any other restriction the Board determines to be appropriate PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the right to repurchase at the original purchase price shall lapse at a minimum rate of twenty percent

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(20%) per year over five (5) years from the date the Option was granted and such right shall be exerciseable only within ninety (90) days following termination of employment for cash or cancellation of purchase money indebtedness for the shares. Should the right of repurchase be assigned by the Company, the assignee shall pay the Company cash equal to the difference between the original purchase price and the stock's Fair Market Value if the original purchase price is less than the stock's Fair Market Value.

(k) WITHOLDING. To the extent provided by the terms of an Option Agreement, the Optionee may satisfy any federal, state or local tax withholding obligation relating to the exercise of such Option by any of the following means or by a combination of such means: (1) tendering a cash payment; (2) authorizing the Company to withhold shares from the shares of the common stock otherwise issuable to the participant as a result of the exercise of the Option; or (3) delivering to the Company owned and unencumbered shares of the common stock of the Company.

7. COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY.

(a) During the terms of the Options, the Company shall keep available at all times the number of shares of stock required to satisfy such Options.

(b) The Company shall seek to obtain from each regulatory commission or agency having jurisdiction over the Plan such authority as may be required to issue and sell shares of stock upon exercise of the Options; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that this undertaking shall not require the Company to register under the Securities Act either the Plan, any Option or any stock issued or issuable pursuant to any such Option. If, after reasonable efforts, the Company is unable to obtain from any such regulatory commission or agency the authority which counsel for the Company deems necessary for the lawful issuance and sale of stock under the Plan, the

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Company shall be relieved from any liability for failure to issue and sell stock upon exercise of such Options unless and until such authority is obtained.

8. USE OF PROCEEDS FROM STOCK.

Proceeds from the sale of stock pursuant to Options shall constitute general funds of the Company.

9. MISCELLANEOUS.

(a) Neither an Optionee nor any person to whom an Option is transferred under subsection 6(d) shall be deemed to be the holder of, or to have any of the rights of a holder with respect to, any shares subject to such Option unless and until such person has satisfied all requirements for exercise of the Option pursuant to its terms.

(b) Throughout the term of any Option, the Company shall deliver to the holder of such Option, not later than one hundred twenty (120) days after the close of each of the Company's fiscal years during the Option term, a balance sheet and an income statement. This section shall not apply when issuance is limited to key employees whose duties in connection with the Company assure them access to equivalent information.

(c) Nothing in the Plan or any instrument executed or Option granted pursuant thereto shall confer upon any Employee, Director, Consultant or Optionee any right to continue in the employ of the Company or any Affiliate or to continue acting as a Director or Consultant or shall affect the right of the Company or any Affiliate to terminate the employment or relationship as a Director or Consultant of any Employee, Director, Consultant or Optionee with or without cause.

(d) To the extent that the aggregate Fair Market Value (determined at the time of grant) of stock with respect to which Incentive Stock Options granted after 1986 are exercisable

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for the first time by any Optionee during any calendar year under all plans of the Company and its Affiliates exceeds one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), the Options or portions thereof which exceed such limit (according to the order in which they were granted) shall be treated as Nonstatutory Stock Options.

10. ADJUSTMENTS UPON CHANGES IN STOCK.

(a) If any change is made in the stock subject to the Plan, or subject to any Option (through merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization, stock dividend, dividend in property other than cash, stock split, liquidating dividend, combination of shares, exchange of shares, change in corporate structure or otherwise), the Plan and outstanding Options will be appropriately adjusted in the class(es) and maximum number of shares subject to the Plan and the class(es) and number of shares and price per share of stock subject to outstanding Options.

(b) In the event of: (1) a merger or consolidation in which the Company is not the surviving corporation or (2) a reverse merger in which the Company is the surviving corporation but the shares of the Company's common stock outstanding immediately preceding the merger are converted by virtue of the merger into other property, whether in the form of securities, cash or otherwise then to the extent permitted by applicable law: (i) any surviving corporation shall assume any Options outstanding under the Plan or shall substitute similar Options for those outstanding under the Plan, or (ii) such Options shall continue in full force and effect. In the event any surviving corporation refuses to assume or continue such Options, or to substitute similar options for those outstanding under the Plan, then such Options shall be terminated if not exercised prior to such event. In the event of a dissolution or liquidation of the Company, any Options outstanding under the Plan shall terminate if not exercised prior to such event.

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11. AMENDMENT OF THE PLAN.

(a) The Board at any time, and from time to time, may amend the Plan. However, except as provided in Section 10 relating to adjustments upon changes in stock, no amendment shall be effective unless approved by the stockholders of the Company within twelve (12) months before or after the adoption of the amendment, where the amendment will:

(1) Increase the number of shares reserved for Options under the Plan;

(2) Modify the requirements as to eligibility for participation in the Plan (to the extent such modification requires stockholder approval in order for the Plan to satisfy the requirements of Section 422 of the Code); or

(3) Modify the Plan in any other way if such modification requires stockholder approval in order for the Plan to satisfy the requirements of Section 422 of the Code, comply with the stockholder approval requirements of
Section 162(m) of the Code, if applicable, or to comply with the requirements of Rule 16b-3, if applicable.

(b) It is expressly contemplated that the Board may amend the Plan in any respect the Board deems necessary or advisable to provide Optionees with the maximum benefits provided or to be provided under the provisions of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder relating to Incentive Stock Options and/or to bring the Plan and/or Incentive Stock Options granted under it into compliance therewith.

(c) Rights and obligations under any Option granted before amendment of the Plan shall not be altered or impaired by any amendment of the Plan unless
(i) the Company requests the consent of the person to whom the Option was granted and (ii) such person consents in writing.

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12. TERMINATION OR SUSPENSION OF THE PLAN.

(a) The Board may suspend or terminate the Plan at any time. Unless sooner terminated, the Plan shall terminate on December 21, 2003. No Options may be granted under the Plan while the Plan is suspended or after it is terminated.

(b) Rights and obligations under any Option granted while the Plan is in effect shall not be altered or impaired by suspension or termination of the Plan, except with the consent of the person to whom the Option was granted.

13. EFFECTIVE DATE OF PLAN.

The Plan shall become effective as determined by the Board, but no Options granted under the Plan shall be exercised unless and until the Plan has been approved by the stockholders of the Company, which approval shall be within twelve (12) months before or after the date the Plan is adopted by the Board, and, if required, an appropriate permit has been issued by the Commissioner of Corporations of the State of California.


INCENTIVE STOCK OPTION

___________, Optionee:

BROADVISION, INC. (the "Company"), pursuant to its Stock Option Plan (the "Plan") has this day granted to you, the optionee named above, an option to purchase shares of the common stock of the Company ("Common Stock"). This option is intended to qualify as an "incentive stock option" within the meaning of Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code").

The details of your option are as follows:

1. The total number of shares of Common Stock subject to this option is ___________ (___________). Subject to the limitations contained herein, this Option may be exercised, in whole or in part, with respect to shares on or after the date of vesting applicable to such shares. Vesting shall occur in accordance with Schedule 1 attached, provided that shares shall vest only so long as you remain employed by the Company.

2. a. The exercise price of this option is Twelve cents ($0.12) per share, being not less than the fair market value of the Common Stock on the date of grant of this option.

b. Payment of the exercise price per share is due in full in cash (or by check) upon exercise.

c. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this option may be exercised pursuant to a program developed under Regulation T as promulgated by the Federal Reserve Board which results in the receipt of cash (or check) by the Company prior to the issuance of Common Stock.

3. a. Subject to the provisions of this option you may elect at any time during your employment with the Company or an affiliate thereof, to exercise the option as to any part or all of the shares subject to this option at any time during the term hereof, including without limitation, a time prior to the date of earliest exercise ("vesting") stated in paragraph 1 hereof; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that:

i. a partial exercise of this option shall be deemed to cover first vested shares and then the earliest vesting installment of unvested shares;

ii. any shares so purchased from installments which have not vested as of the date of exercise shall be subject to the purchase option in favor of the Company as described in the Early Exercise Stock Purchase Agreement attached hereto; and

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iii. you shall enter into an Early Exercise Stock Purchase Agreement in the form attached hereto with a vesting schedule that will result in the same vesting as if no early exercise had occurred.

iv. this option shall not be exercisable under this paragraph 3 to the extent such exercise would cause the aggregate fair market value of any shares subject to incentive stock options granted you by the Company or any affiliate (valued as of their grant date) which would become exercisable for the first time during any calendar year to exceed $100,000.

b. The election provided in this paragraph 3 to purchase shares upon the exercise of this option prior to the vesting dates shall cease upon termination of your employment with the Company or an affiliate thereof and may not be exercised after the date thereof.

4. This option may not be exercised for any number of shares which would require the issuance of anything other than whole shares.

5. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, this option may not be exercised unless the shares issuable upon exercise of this option are then registered under the Act or, if such Shares are not then so registered, the Company has determined that such exercise and issuance would be exempt from the registration requirements of the Act.

6. The term of this option commences on the date hereof and, unless sooner terminated as set forth below or in the Plan, terminates on ___________ (ten (10) years from the date this option is granted). In no event may this option be exercised on or after the date on which it terminates. This option shall terminate prior to the expiration of its term as follows: three (3) months after the termination of your employment with the Company or an affiliate of the Company (as defined in the Plan) for any reason or for no reason unless:

a. such termination of employment is due to your disability, in which event the option shall terminate on the earlier of the termination date set forth above or twelve (12) months following such termination of employment; or

b. such termination of employment is due to your death, in which event the option shall terminate on the earlier of the termination date set forth above or twelve (12) months after your death; or

c. during any part of such three (3) month period the option is not exercisable solely because of the condition set forth in paragraph 5 above, in which event the option shall not terminate until the earlier of the termination date set forth above or until it shall have been exercisable for an aggregate period of three (3) months after the termination of employment; or

d. exercise of the option within three (3) months after termination of your employment with the Company or with an affiliate would result in liability under section 16(b)

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of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, in which case the option will terminate on the earlier of (i) the termination date set forth above, (ii) the tenth
(10th) day after the last date upon which exercise would result in such liability or (iii) six (6) months and ten (10) days after the termination of your employment with the Company or an affiliate.

However, this option may be exercised following termination of employment only as to that number of shares as to which it was exercisable on the date of termination of employment under the provisions of paragraph 1 of this option.

7. a. This option may be exercised, to the extent specified above, by delivering a notice of exercise (in a form designated by the Company) together with the exercise price to the Secretary of the Company, or to such other person as the Company may designate, during regular business hours, together with such additional documents as the Company may then require pursuant to the Plan.

b. By exercising this option you agree that:

i. the Company may require you to enter an arrangement providing for the cash payment by you to the Company of any tax withholding obligation of the Company arising by reason of: (1) the exercise of this option;
(2) the lapse of any substantial risk of forfeiture to which the shares are subject at the time of exercise; or (3) the disposition of shares acquired upon such exercise;

ii. you will notify the Company in writing within fifteen (15) days after the date of any disposition of any of the shares of the Common Stock issued upon exercise of this option that occurs within two (2) years after the date of this option grant or within one (1) year after such shares of Common Stock are transferred upon exercise of this option;

iii. the Company (or a representative of the underwriters) may, in connection with the first underwritten registration of the offering of any securities of the Company under the Act, require that you not sell or otherwise transfer or dispose of any shares of Common Stock or other securities of the Company during such period (not to exceed one hundred eighty
(180) days) following the effective date (the "Effective Date") of the registration statement of the Company filed under the Act as may be requested by the Company or the representative of the underwriters; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that such restriction shall apply only if, on the Effective Date, you are an officer, director, or owner of more than one percent (1%) of the outstanding securities of the Company. For purposes of this restriction you will be deemed to own securities which (i) are owned directly or indirectly by you, including securities held for your benefit by nominees, custodians, brokers or pledgees;
(ii) may be acquired by you within sixty (60) days of the Effective Date;
(iii) are owned directly or indirectly, by or for your brothers or sisters (whether by whole or half blood) spouse, ancestors and lineal descendants; or
(iv) are owned, directly or indirectly, by or for a corporation, partnership, estate or trust of which you are a shareholder, partner or beneficiary, but only to the extent of your proportionate interest therein as a shareholder, partner or beneficiary thereof. You further agree that the

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Company may impose stop-transfer instructions with respect to securities subject to the foregoing restrictions until the end of such period; and

iv. the shares issuable on exercise of this option shall be subject to the right of first refusal set forth in the Company's Bylaws.

8. This option is not transferable, except by will or by the laws of descent and distribution, and is exercisable during your life only by you.

9. This option is not an employment contract and nothing in this option shall be deemed to create in any way whatsoever any obligation on your part to continue in the employ of the Company, or of the Company to continue your employment with the Company.

10. Any notices provided for in this option or the Plan shall be given in writing and shall be deemed effectively given upon personal delivery, delivery by express courier or delivery by facsimile (confirmed by mail) or four
(4) days after deposit in the United States mail, postage prepaid, addressed to you at the address specified below or at such other address as you hereafter designate by written notice to the Company or to the Company at its principal executive offices.

11. This option is subject to all the provisions of the Plan, a copy of which is attached hereto and its provisions are hereby made a part of this option, including without limitation the provisions of the Plan relating to option provisions, and is further subject to all interpretations, amendments, rules and regulations which may from time to time be promulgated and adopted pursuant to the Plan. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this option and those of the Plan, the provisions of the Plan shall control.

Dated the ___________.

Very truly yours,

BROADVISION, INC.

BY

Duly authorized on behalf of the Board of Directors

ATTACHMENTS:

Stock Option Plan
Form of Exercise
Early Exercise Stock Purchase Agreement Bylaws - Right of First Refusal

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THE UNDERSIGNED:

(A) Acknowledges receipt of the foregoing option and the attachments referenced therein and understands that all rights and liabilities with respect to this option are set forth in the option and the Plan; and

(B) Acknowledges that as of the date of grant of this option, it sets forth the entire understanding between the undersigned optionee and the Company and its affiliates regarding the acquisition of stock in the Company and supersedes all prior oral and written agreements on that subject with the exception of (i) options previously granted and delivered to the undersigned under stock option plans of the Company, and (ii) the following agreements only:

NONE

(Initial)

OTHER




OPTIONEE

ADDRESS:

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SCHEDULE 1

OPTIONEE:
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GRANT DATE:
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                                                        % OF SHARES THAT VEST IF
VESTING DATE                                            EMPLOYED ON VESTING DATE
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NOTICE OF EXERCISE

BroadVision, Inc.
333 Distal Drive Circle
Los Altos, CA 94022-1404 Date of Exercise:

Ladies and Gentlemen:

This constitutes notice under my stock option that I elect to purchase the number of shares for the price set forth below.

Type of option (check one): Incentive / / Nonstatutory / /

Stock option dated:

Number of shares as
to which option is
exercised:

Certificates to be
issued in name of:

Total exercise price: $

Cash payment delivered
herewith: $

By this exercise, I agree (i) to provide such additional documents as you may require pursuant to the terms of the Stock Option Plan, (ii) to provide for the payment by me to you (in the manner designated by you) of your withholding obligation, if any, relating to the exercise of this option, and (iii) if this exercise relates to an incentive stock option, to notify you in writing within fifteen (15) days after the date of any disposition of any of the shares of Common Stock issued upon exercise of this option that occurs within two (2) years after the date of grant of this option or within one (1) year after such shares of Common Stock are issued upon exercise of this option.

I hereby make the following certifications and representations with respect to the number of shares of Common Stock of the Company listed above (the "Shares"), which are being acquired by me for my own account upon exercise of the Option as set forth above:

I acknowledge that the Shares have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), and are deemed to constitute "restricted securities" under Rule 701 and

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"control securities" under Rule 144 promulgated under the Act. I warrant and represent to the Company that I have no present intention of distributing or selling said Shares, except as permitted under the Act and any applicable state securities laws.

I further acknowledge that I will not be able to resell the Shares for at least ninety days after the stock of the Company becomes publicly traded (i.e., subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) under Rule 701 and that more restrictive conditions apply to affiliates of the Company under Rule 144.

I further acknowledge that all certificates representing any of the Shares subject to the provisions of the Option shall have endorsed thereon appropriate legends reflecting the foregoing limitations, as well as any legends reflecting restrictions pursuant to the Company's Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws and/or applicable securities laws.

I further agree that, if required by the Company (or a representative of the underwriters) in connection with the first underwritten registration of the offering of any securities of the Company under the Act, I will not sell or otherwise transfer or dispose of any shares of Common Stock or other securities of the Company during such period (not to exceed one hundred eighty (180) days) following the effective date of the registration statement of the Company filed under the Act (the "Effective Date") as may be requested by the Company or the representative of the underwriters; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that such restriction shall apply only if, on the Effective Date, I am an officer, director, or owner of more than one percent (1%) of the outstanding securities of the Company. For purposes of this restriction I will be deemed to own securities that (i) are owned directly or indirectly by me, including securities held for my benefit by nominees, custodians, brokers or pledgees; (ii) may be acquired by me within sixty (60) days of the Effective Date; (iii) are owned directly or indirectly, by or for my brothers or sisters (whether by whole or half blood), spouse, ancestors and lineal descendants; or (iv) are owned, directly or indirectly, by or for a corporation, partnership, estate or trust of which I am a shareholder, partner or beneficiary, but only to the extent of my proportionate interest therein as a shareholder, partner or beneficiary thereof. I further agree that the Company may impose stop-transfer instructions with respect to securities subject to the foregoing restrictions until the end of such period.

Very truly yours,


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NONSTATUTORY STOCK OPTION

___________, Optionee:

BROADVISION, INC. (the "Company"), pursuant to its Stock Option Plan (the "Plan") has this day granted to you, the optionee named above, an option to purchase shares of the common stock of the Company ("Common Stock"). This option is not intended to qualify as and will not be treated as an "incentive stock option" within the meaning of Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code").

The details of your option are as follows:

1. The total number of shares of Common Stock subject to this option ("Shares") is ___________ (___________). Subject to the limitations contained herein, this Option may be exercised, in whole or in part, with respect to shares on or after the date of vesting applicable to such shares. Vesting shall occur in accordance with Schedule 1 attached, provided that shares shall vest only so long as you remain employed by the Company.

2. (a) The exercise price of this option is ___________ (___________) per share, being not less than the fair market value of the Common Stock on the date of grant of this option.

(b) Payment of the exercise price per share is due in full in cash (or by check) upon exercise.

(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, this option may be exercised pursuant to a program developed under Regulation T as promulgated by the Federal Reserve Board which results in the receipt of cash (or check) by the Company prior to the issuance of Common Stock.

3. (a) Subject to the provisions of this option you may elect at any time during your employment with the Company or an affiliate thereof, to exercise the option as to any part or all of the shares subject to this option at any time during the term hereof, including without limitation, a time prior to the date of earliest exercise ("vesting") stated in paragraph 1 hereof; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that:

(i) a partial exercise of this option shall be deemed to cover first vested shares and then the earliest vesting installment of unvested shares;

(ii) any shares so purchased from installments which have not vested as of the date of exercise shall be subject to the purchase option in favor of the Company as described in the Early Exercise Stock Purchase Agreement attached hereto; and

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(iii) you shall enter into an Early Exercise Stock Purchase Agreement in the form attached hereto with a vesting schedule that will result in the same vesting as if no early exercise had occurred.

(b) The election provided in this paragraph 3 to purchase shares upon the exercise of this option prior to the vesting dates shall cease upon termination of your employment with the Company or an affiliate thereof and may not be exercised after the date thereof.

4. This option may not be exercised for any number of shares which would require the issuance of anything other than whole shares.

5. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, this option may not be exercised unless the shares issuable upon exercise of this option are then registered under the Act or, if such Shares are not then so registered, the Company has determined that such exercise and issuance would be exempt from the registration requirements of the Act.

6. The term of this option commences on the date hereof and, unless sooner terminated as set forth below or in the Plan, terminates on ___________ (ten (10) years from the date this option is granted). In no event may this option be exercised on or after the date on which it terminates. This option shall terminate prior to the expiration of its term as follows: three (3) months after the termination of your employment with the Company or an affiliate of the Company (as defined in the Plan) for any reason or for no reason unless:

(a) such termination of employment is due to your disability, in which event the option shall terminate on the earlier of the termination date set forth above or twelve (12) months following such termination of employment; or

(b) such termination of employment is due to your death, in which event the option shall terminate on the earlier of the termination date set forth above or twelve (12) months after your death; or

(c) during any part of such three (3) month period the option is not exercisable solely because of the condition set forth in paragraph 5 above, in which event the option shall not terminate until the earlier of the termination date set forth above or until it shall have been exercisable for an aggregate period of three (3) months after the termination of employment; or

(d) exercise of the option within three (3) months after termination of your employment with the Company or with an affiliate would result in liability under section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, in which case the option will terminate on the earlier of (i) the termination date set forth above, (ii) the tenth (10th) day after the last date upon which exercise would result in such liability or (iii) six (6) months and ten (10) days after the termination of your employment with the Company or an affiliate.

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However, this option may be exercised following termination of employment only as to that number of shares as to which it was exercisable on the date of termination of employment under the provisions of paragraph 1 of this option.

7. (a) This option may be exercised, to the extent specified above, by delivering a notice of exercise (in a form designated by the Company) together with the exercise price to the Secretary of the Company, or to such other person as the Company may designate, during regular business hours, together with such additional documents as the Company may then require pursuant to the Plan.

(b) By exercising this option you agree that:

(i) the Company may require you to enter an arrangement providing for the cash payment by you to the Company of any tax withholding obligation of the Company arising by reason of: (1) the exercise of this option;
(2) the lapse of any substantial risk of forfeiture to which the shares are subject at the time of exercise; or (3) the disposition of shares acquired upon such exercise;

(ii) the Company (or a representative of the underwriters) may, in connection with the first underwritten registration of the offering of any securities of the Company under the Act, require that you not sell or otherwise transfer or dispose of any shares of Common Stock or other securities of the Company during such period (not to exceed one hundred eighty
(180) days) following the effective date (the "Effective Date") of the registration statement of the Company filed under the Act as may be requested by the Company or the representative of the underwriters; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that such restriction shall apply only if, on the Effective Date, you are an officer, director, or owner of more than one percent (1%) of the outstanding securities of the Company. For purposes of this restriction you will be deemed to own securities which (i) are owned directly or indirectly by you, including securities held for your benefit by nominees, custodians, brokers or pledgees;
(ii) may be acquired by you within sixty (60) days of the Effective Date;
(iii) are owned directly or indirectly, by or for your brothers or sisters (whether by whole or half blood) spouse, ancestors and lineal descendants; or
(iv) are owned, directly or indirectly, by or for a corporation, partnership, estate or trust of which you are a shareholder, partner or beneficiary, but only to the extent of your proportionate interest therein as a shareholder, partner or beneficiary thereof. You further agree that the Company may impose stop-transfer instructions with respect to securities subject to the foregoing restrictions until the end of such period; and

(iii) the shares issuable on exercise of this option shall be subject to the right of first refusal set forth in the Company's Bylaws.

8. This option is not transferable, except by will or by the laws of descent and distribution or pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order as defined by the Code or Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act or the rules thereunder (a "QDRO"), and is exercisable during your life only by you or any transferee pursuant to a QDRO.

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9. This option is not an employment contract and nothing in this option shall be deemed to create in any way whatsoever any obligation on your part to continue in the employ of the Company, or of the Company to continue your employment with the Company. In the event that this option is granted to you in connection with the performance of services as a consultant or director, references to employment, employee and similar terms shall be deemed to include the performance of services as a consultant or a director, as the case may be, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no rights as an employee shall arise by reason of the use of such terms.

10. Any notices provided for in this option or the Plan shall be given in writing and shall be deemed effectively given upon personal delivery, delivery by express courier or delivery by facsimile (confirmed by mail) or four
(4) days after deposit in the United States mail, postage prepaid, addressed to you at the address specified below or at such other address as you hereafter designate by written notice to the Company or to the Company at its principal executive offices.

11. This option is subject to all the provisions of the Plan, a copy of which is attached hereto and its provisions are hereby made a part of this option, including without limitation the provisions of the Plan relating to option provisions, and is further subject to all interpretations, amendments, rules and regulations which may from time to time be promulgated and adopted pursuant to the Plan. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this option and those of the Plan, the provisions of the Plan shall control.

Dated the .

Very truly yours,

BROADVISION, INC.

BY

Duly authorized on behalf of the Board of Directors

ATTACHMENTS:

Stock Option Plan
Form of Exercise
Early Exercise Stock Purchase Agreement Bylaws - Right of First Refusal

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THE UNDERSIGNED:

(A) Acknowledges receipt of the foregoing option and the attachments referenced therein and understands that all rights and liabilities with respect to this option are set forth in the option and the Plan; and

(B) Acknowledges that as of the date of grant of this option, it sets forth the entire understanding between the undersigned optionee and the Company and its affiliates regarding the acquisition of stock in the Company and supersedes all prior oral and written agreements on that subject with the exception of (i) options previously granted and delivered to the undersigned under stock option plans of the Company, and (ii) the following agreements only:

NONE

(Initial)

OTHER



OPTIONEE

ADDRESS: ----------------------------


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SCHEDULE 1

OPTIONEE:
             ------------------

GRANT DATE:
             ------------------

                                                        % OF SHARES THAT VEST IF
VESTING DATE                                            EMPLOYED ON VESTING DATE
- ------------                                            ------------------------

                                  NOTICE OF EXERCISE


BroadVision, Inc.
3 Lagoon Drive, Suite 350

Redwood City, CA 94065 Date of Exercise:

Ladies and Gentlemen:

This constitutes notice under my stock option that I elect to purchase the number of shares for the price set forth below.

Type of option (check one): Incentive / / Nonstatutory / /

Stock option dated:

Number of shares as
to which option is
exercised:

Certificates to be
issued in name of:

Total exercise price: $

Cash payment delivered
herewith: $

By this exercise, I agree (i) to provide such additional documents as you may require pursuant to the terms of the Stock Option Plan, (ii) to provide for the payment by me to you (in the manner designated by you) of your withholding obligation, if any, relating to the exercise of this option, and (iii) if this exercise relates to an incentive stock option, to notify you in writing within fifteen (15) days after the date of any disposition of any of the shares of Common Stock issued upon exercise of this option that occurs within two (2) years after the date of grant of this option or within one (1) year after such shares of Common Stock are issued upon exercise of this option.

I hereby make the following certifications and representations with respect to the number of shares of Common Stock of the Company listed above (the "Shares"), which are being acquired by me for my own account upon exercise of the Option as set forth above:

I acknowledge that the Shares have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), and are deemed to constitute "restricted securities" under Rule 701 and "control securities" under Rule 144 promulgated under the Act. I warrant and represent to the

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Company that I have no present intention of distributing or selling said Shares, except as permitted under the Act and any applicable state securities laws.

I further acknowledge that I will not be able to resell the Shares for at least ninety days after the stock of the Company becomes publicly traded (i.e., subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) under Rule 701 and that more restrictive conditions apply to affiliates of the Company under Rule 144.

I further acknowledge that all certificates representing any of the Shares subject to the provisions of the Option shall have endorsed thereon appropriate legends reflecting the foregoing limitations, as well as any legends reflecting restrictions pursuant to the Company's Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws and/or applicable securities laws.

I further agree that, if required by the Company (or a representative of the underwriters) in connection with the first underwritten registration of the offering of any securities of the Company under the Act, I will not sell or otherwise transfer or dispose of any shares of Common Stock or other securities of the Company during such period (not to exceed one hundred eighty (180) days) following the effective date of the registration statement of the Company filed under the Act (the "Effective Date") as may be requested by the Company or the representative of the underwriters; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that such restriction shall apply only if, on the Effective Date, I am an officer, director, or owner of more than one percent (1%) of the outstanding securities of the Company. For purposes of this restriction I will be deemed to own securities that (i) are owned directly or indirectly by me, including securities held for my benefit by nominees, custodians, brokers or pledgees; (ii) may be acquired by me within sixty (60) days of the Effective Date; (iii) are owned directly or indirectly, by or for my brothers or sisters (whether by whole or half blood), spouse, ancestors and lineal descendants; or (iv) are owned, directly or indirectly, by or for a corporation, partnership, estate or trust of which I am a shareholder, partner or beneficiary, but only to the extent of my proportionate interest therein as a shareholder, partner or beneficiary thereof. I further agree that the Company may impose stop-transfer instructions with respect to securities subject to the foregoing restrictions until the end of such period.

Very truly yours,


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BROADVISION, INC.


SERIES B PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


JANUARY 31, 1994


TABLE OF CONTENTS

                                                                            PAGE

SECTION 1 AUTHORIZATION AND SALE OF THE SERIES B PREFERRED STOCK............  1

    1.1  Authorization......................................................  1
    1.2  Sale of Preferred..................................................  1
    1.3  Closing Date.......................................................  1
    1.4  Delivery...........................................................  1

SECTION 2 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY.....................  1

    2.1  Organization and Standing.  .......................................  1
    2.2  Corporate Power....................................................  1
    2.3  Subsidiaries.......................................................  2
    2.4  Capitalization.....................................................  2
    2.5  Authorization......................................................  2
    2.6  Material Liabilities...............................................  3
    2.7  Compliance with Other Instruments, etc.............................  3
    2.8  Litigation, etc....................................................  3
    2.9  Registration Rights................................................  3
    2.10 Governmental Consent, etc..........................................  3
    2.11 Offering...........................................................  4
    2.12 Certain Transactions...............................................  4
    2.13 Intellectual Property..............................................  4
    2.14 Employee and Consultant Agreements.................................  5
    2.15 Disclosure.........................................................  5
    2.16 Brokers or Finders.................................................  5
    2.17 No Dividends.......................................................  5
    2.18 Contracts..........................................................  5
    2.19 Employee Compensation Plans........................................  5
    2.20 Related-Party Transactions.........................................  5
    2.21 Manufacturing and Marketing Rights.................................  5
    2.22 Corporate Documents................................................  6

SECTION 3 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE INVESTOR....................  6

    3.1  Authorization......................................................  6
    3.2  Experience.........................................................  6
    3.3  Investment.........................................................  6
    3.4  Rule 144...........................................................  6
    3.5  Ability to Bear Economic Risk......................................  7
    3.6  No Public Market...................................................  7


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    3.7  Access to Data.....................................................  7
    3.8  Accredited Investor Status.........................................  7

SECTION 4 CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF INVESTOR.................................  7

    4.1  Representations and Warranties.....................................  7
    4.2  Covenants..........................................................  7
    4.3  No Material Adverse Change.........................................  7
    4.4  Blue Sky...........................................................  8
    4.5  Board of Directors.................................................  8
    4.6  Compliance Certificate.............................................  8
    4.7  Opinion of Counsel.................................................  8
    4.8  Investors' Rights Agreement........................................  8
    4.9  Certificate of Designation.........................................  8

SECTION 5 CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF COMPANY..................................  8

    5.1  Representations and Warranties.....................................  8
    5.2  Covenants. ........................................................  8
    5.3  Blue Sky...........................................................  8
    5.4  Investors' Rights Agreement........................................  8

SECTION 6 AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS OF THE INVESTOR.............................  9

    6.1  Covenant Not To Transfer...........................................  9

SECTION 7 AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY..............................  9

    7.1  Financial Information..............................................  9
    7.2  Assignment of Rights to Financial Information......................  9
    7.3  Company Strategy Briefings......................................... 10
    7.4  Termination of Covenants........................................... 10

SECTION 8 MISCELLANEOUS..................................................... 10

    8.1  Governing Law...................................................... 10
    8.2  Survival........................................................... 10
    8.3  Successors and Assigns............................................. 10
    8.4  Entire Agreement................................................... 10


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8.5  Rights of Investor................................................. 10
8.6  Notices, etc....................................................... 10
8.7  Expenses........................................................... 11
8.8  Counterparts....................................................... 11
8.9  Severability....................................................... 11
8.10 California Corporate Securities Law................................ 11
8.11 Approval of Amendments and Waivers................................. 11

EXHIBITS

A - Schedule of Investor
B - Certificate of Designation of Preferences C - Schedule of Exceptions
D - Investors' Rights Agreement
E - Form of Legal Opinion to the Investor from Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum

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SERIES B PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT

THIS AGREEMENT is made as of January 31, 1994 between BROADVISION, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Company") and the investor as set forth in Exhibit A hereto ("Investor").

SECTION 1 AUTHORIZATION AND SALE OF THE SERIES B PREFERRED STOCK

1.1 AUTHORIZATION. The Company has authorized the issuance and sale of 800,000 shares of its Series B Preferred Stock (the "Preferred") having the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions set forth in the Certificate of Designation of Preferences in the form attached to this Agreement as Exhibit B (the "Certificate").

1.2 SALE OF PREFERRED. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, Investor agrees to purchase and the Company agrees to sell and issue to Investor the number of shares of Preferred set forth opposite Investor's name on Exhibit A at a price of $1.25 per share.

1.3 CLOSING DATE. The closing of the purchase and sale of the Preferred hereunder (the "Closing") shall be held at the law offices of Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum ("Cooley Godward"), 5 Palo Alto Square, 4th Floor, Palo Alto, California 94306, on the date of this Agreement or at such other time and place upon which the Company and the Investor shall agree (the date of the Closing is hereinafter referred to as the "Closing Date").

1.4 DELIVERY. At the Closing the Company will deliver to Investor a certificate representing the shares of Preferred that Investor is purchasing against payment of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer or by check payable to the order of the Company.

SECTION 2 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY

Except as set forth in the Schedule of Exceptions attached hereto as Exhibit C, the Company hereby represents and warrants to Investor as follows:

2.1 ORGANIZATION AND STANDING. The Company is a corporation duly organized and validly existing under, and by virtue of, the laws of the State of Delaware and is in good standing under such laws. The Company has all requisite corporate power to own and operate its properties and assets and to carry on its business as presently conducted and as proposed to be conducted. The Company is qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is presently required.

2.2 CORPORATE POWER. The Company will have at the Closing Date all requisite legal and corporate power to execute and deliver this Agreement and the Investors' Rights Agreement

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substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D (the "Investors' Rights Agreement") (the Agreement and the Investors' Rights Agreement are hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Agreements"), to sell and issue the Preferred under this Agreement, to issue the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred and to carry out and perform its obligations under the terms of the Agreements, including all exhibits and schedules hereto and thereto.

2.3 SUBSIDIARIES. The Company does not own or control, directly or indirectly, any other corporation, association or business entity.

2.4 CAPITALIZATION. The authorized capital stock of the Company consists, or immediately prior to the Closing will consist, of 17,000,000 shares of Common Stock, of which 5,700,000 are issued and outstanding and 6,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, of which 4,300,000 are designated Series A Preferred Stock (of which 4,266,667 are issued and outstanding), and 1,400,000 are designated Series B Preferred Stock (of which 800,000 will be issued and outstanding immediately after the Closing). The outstanding shares of Common and Series A Preferred Stock are owned by the shareholders set forth and in the numbers specified on Exhibit C. No other shares of capital stock are outstanding. All such issued and outstanding shares have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable. The Preferred has the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions set forth in the Certificate. Except for (i) the conversion privileges of the Series A Preferred Stock and the Series B Preferred Stock specified in the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, as amended, and the Certificate, (ii) the obligations of the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock to purchase Series B Preferred Stock; and (iii) the arrangements with respect to employee stock set forth in Exhibit C, there are no options, warrants, conversion privileges or other rights presently outstanding to purchase or otherwise acquire any authorized but unissued shares of the Company's capital stock or other securities of the Company. All outstanding securities of the Company were issued in compliance with the registration or qualification provisions of all applicable U.S. federal and state securities laws.

2.5 AUTHORIZATION. All corporate action on the part of the Company, its officers, directors and shareholders necessary for the authorization, execution, delivery and performance of the Agreements by the Company, the authorization, sale, issuance and delivery of the Preferred (and the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) and the performance of the Company's obligations under the Agreements has been taken or will be taken prior to the Closing. The Agreements, when executed and delivered by the Company, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to laws of general application relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, the relief of debtors, general equity principles, and limitations upon rights to indemnity. The Preferred, when issued in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free of restrictions on transfer other than restrictions under the Agreements and under applicable federal and state securities laws. The Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred has been duly and validly reserved and, when issued in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free of restrictions on transfer other than restrictions under the Agreements, the right of first refusal provided in the Company's Bylaws, and applicable federal

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and state securities laws. The Preferred is not subject to any preemptive rights or rights of first refusal.

2.6 MATERIAL LIABILITIES. The Company has no material indebtedness or liabilities, absolute or contingent (individually or in the aggregate), except
(1) with respect to services rendered by its employees or consultants; (2) with respect to unpaid legal and other fees and costs incurred in connection with the formation and ongoing business of the Company, the issuance of Common Stock to its founder and the issuance of the Preferred in connection with this Agreement;
(3) liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business that do not exceed $50,000 in the aggregate; and (4) as set forth in Exhibit C.

2.7 COMPLIANCE WITH OTHER INSTRUMENTS, ETC. The Company is not, and will not by virtue of entering into and performing the Agreements and the transactions contemplated thereunder be, in violation of any term of its Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws or any term or provision of any mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement, instrument, judgment or decree to which it is a party or by which it is bound, and is not, and will not by virtue of entering into and performing the Agreements and the transactions contemplated thereunder be, in violation of any order addressed specifically to the Company nor, to the best of the Company's knowledge, any order, statute, rule or regulation applicable to the Company.

2.8 LITIGATION, ETC. There are no actions, suits, proceedings or investigations pending or threatened against the Company before any court or governmental agency (nor, to the best of the Company's knowledge, is there any basis therefor). There is no judgment, decree, or order of any court in effect against the Company and the Company is not in default with respect to any order of any governmental authority to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound. There is no action, suit, proceeding, or investigation by the Company currently pending or which the Company presently intends to initiate.

2.9 REGISTRATION RIGHTS. Except as set forth in the Investors' Rights Agreement, the Company is not under any obligation to register (as defined in
Section 1.2 of the Investors' Rights Agreement) any of its presently outstanding securities or any of its securities that may hereafter be issued.

2.10 GOVERNMENTAL CONSENT, ETC. No consent, approval or authorization of or designation, declaration or filing with any governmental authority on the part of the Company is required in connection with the valid execution and delivery of the Agreements, or the offer, sale or issuance of the Preferred (and the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) or the consummation of any other transaction contemplated thereby, except for (a) the filing of the Certificate in the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and (b) the filing of a Notice with the California Commissioner of Corporations pursuant to Section 25102(f) of the California Corporations Code and/or such other filings as may be required under other applicable blue sky laws, which filings, if required, will be accomplished in a timely manner prior to or promptly upon completion of the Closing, as applicable.

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2.11 OFFERING. Subject to the accuracy of the representations set forth in
Section 3 hereof, the offer, sale and issuance of the Preferred pursuant to this Agreement and the issuance of the Common Stock to be issued upon conversion of the Preferred constitute transactions exempt from the registration requirements of Section 5 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").

2.12 CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS. Since its date of incorporation, the Company has not (a) discharged or satisfied any obligation or liability other than as authorized by its Board of Directors, or in the ordinary course of business or in amounts less than $100,000 in the aggregate, (b) declared or made any payment or distribution to its shareholders or redeemed or purchased any of its shares of capital stock or securities, (c) mortgaged or subjected to encumbrances any of its assets, (d) sold, transferred or leased to third parties any of its assets except in the ordinary course of business, (e) canceled or compromised any material debt or any claim or waived or released any right of material value, suffered any physical damage or destruction or loss materially and adversely affecting its properties, operations or business, (f) made any loans or advances to any persons other than immaterial amounts (both individually and in the aggregate) in the ordinary course of business or (g) entered into any material transaction other than as approved by its Board of Directors or in the ordinary course of business or agreed to any of the foregoing other than with respect to transactions relating to this Agreement.

2.13 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. To the best of its knowledge (but without having conducted any special investigation or patent search), the Company has or will be able to license on commercially reasonable terms sufficient legal rights to all patents, copyrights, trade secrets, information, proprietary rights and processes (collectively "Proprietary Information") necessary for its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted without any conflict with or infringement of the rights of others. Except for agreements with its own officers, employees and consultants substantially in the forms referenced in
Section 2.14 below, there are no outstanding options, licenses, or agreements of any kind relating to the foregoing, nor is the Company bound by or a party to any options, licenses or agreements of any kind with respect to the patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, trade secrets, licenses, information, proprietary rights and processes of any other person or entity. The Company has not received any communications alleging that the Company has violated or infringed or that the Company would, by conducting its business as proposed, violate or infringe any of the patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights or trade secrets or other proprietary rights of any other person or entity. Neither the execution nor delivery of this Agreement, nor the carrying on of the Company's business by the employees of and consultants to the Company, nor the conduct of the Company's business as now conducted or as proposed, will, to the Company's knowledge, conflict with or result in a breach of the terms, conditions, or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any contract, covenant, or instrument under which any of such employees is now obligated. The Company does not believe it is or will be necessary to utilize any inventions of any of its employees (or people it currently intends to hire) made prior to their employment by the Company.

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2.14 EMPLOYEE AND CONSULTANT AGREEMENTS. All employees and consultants of the Company have entered into proprietary information and inventions agreements, substantially in the Company's standard forms and, to the best of the Company's knowledge, none of the Company's current or former employees or consultants is in violation of such agreements.

2.15 DISCLOSURE. None of the representations or warranties made by the Company in this Agreement and no information in the Exhibits hereto contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements contained herein and therein not misleading.

2.16 BROKERS OR FINDERS. The Company has not entered into any agreement or arrangement giving rise to any liability for brokerage or finders' fees or agents' commissions or any similar charges in connection with the Agreements.

2.17 NO DIVIDENDS. The Company has not made any declaration, setting aside for payment or other distribution in respect of any of the Company's capital stock or any direct or indirect redemption, repurchase or other acquisition of any of such stock.

2.18 CONTRACTS. Except as listed on Exhibit C, the Company is not party to any contract or agreement (i) with expected receipts or expenditures in excess of $10,000, (ii) involving a license or grant of rights to or from the Company involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other proprietary information applicable to the business of the Company, (iii) with provisions restricting or affecting the development, manufacture, or distribution of the Company's products or services, or (iv) that provides indemnification by the Company with respect to infringements of proprietary rights.

2.19 EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION PLANS. Except as listed on Exhibit C, the Company is not party to or bound by any currently effective employment contracts, deferred compensation agreements, bonus plans, incentive plans, profit sharing plans, retirement agreements, or other employee compensation agreements. Subject to general principles related to wrongful termination of employees, the employment of each officer and employee of the Company is terminable at the will of the Company.

2.20 RELATED-PARTY TRANSACTIONS. No employee, officer, or director of the Company or member of his or her immediate family is indebted to the Company, nor is the Company indebted (or committed to make loans or extend or guarantee credit) to any of them. To the best of the Company's knowledge, none of such persons has any direct or indirect ownership interest in any firm or corporation with which the Company is affiliated or with which the Company has a business relationship, or any firm or corporation that competes with the Company, except that employees, officers, or directors of the Company and members of their immediate families may own stock in publicly traded companies that may have business relationships with or may compete with the Company.

2.21 MANUFACTURING AND MARKETING RIGHTS. The Company has not granted rights to manufacture, produce, assemble, license, market, or sell its products to any other person,

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corporation, partnership or other entity, and is not bound by any agreement that affects the Company's exclusive right to develop, manufacture, assemble, distribute, market, or sell its products, and has not licensed or sold any of its technology or proprietary information to any person, corporation, partnership or other entity.

2.22 CORPORATE DOCUMENTS. The Company has furnished the Investor with copies of the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws as currently in effect. Said copies are true, correct, and complete and contain all amendments through the Closing Date.

SECTION 3 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE INVESTOR

Investor hereby represents and warrants to the Company as follows:

3.1 AUTHORIZATION. The Agreements constitute valid and legally binding obligations of Investor, enforceable in accordance with their terms except as the enforceability thereof may be subject to the effect of (i) any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other law relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally, and (ii) general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law). Investor is authorized and has full right and power to purchase the Preferred, and the person signing the Agreements and any other instrument executed and delivered hereby on behalf of such entity has been duly authorized by such entity and has full power and authority to do so.

3.2 EXPERIENCE. The Investor has, from time to time, evaluated investments in new, high technology companies and has, either individually or through the personal experience of one or more of its current officers or partners, experience in evaluating and investing in new, high technology companies. The Investor has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters such that it is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of its investment in the Preferred and it is able to protect its own interests in connection with this transaction.

3.3 INVESTMENT. The Investor is acquiring the Preferred (and any Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) for investment for its own account and not with the view to, or for resale in connection with, any distribution thereof. The Investor understands that the Preferred (and any Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) to be purchased has not been registered under the Securities Act by reason of a specific exemption from the registration provisions of the Securities Act which depends upon, among other things, the bona fide nature of the investment intent as expressed herein.

3.4 RULE 144. The Investor acknowledges that the Preferred must be held indefinitely unless subsequently registered under the Securities Act or an exemption from such registration is available. The Investor is aware of the provisions of Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act which permits limited resale of shares purchased in a private placement subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, including, among other things, the existence of a public market for the shares, the availability of certain current public information about the Company, the resale occurring not less than two years after a party has purchased and paid for the

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securities to be sold, the sale being through a "broker's transaction" or in transactions directly with a "market maker" (as provided by Rule 144(f)) and the number of shares being sold during any three-month period not exceeding specified limitations. The Investor is aware that the conditions for resale set forth in Rule 144 have not been satisfied and that the Company has no plan to satisfy these conditions in the foreseeable future.

3.5 ABILITY TO BEAR ECONOMIC RISK. The Investor understands that investment in the Preferred involves a high degree of risk, and represents that it is able, without impairing its financial condition, to hold the Preferred for an indefinite period of time and to suffer a complete loss on its investment.

3.6 NO PUBLIC MARKET. The Investor understands that no public market now exists for any of the securities issued by the Company and that it is unlikely that a public market will ever exist for the Preferred.

3.7 ACCESS TO DATA. The Investor has had an opportunity to discuss the Company's business, management and financial affairs with its management. The Investor understands that such discussions, as well as any written information issued by the Company, were intended to describe the aspects of the Company's business and prospects which the Company believes to be material.

3.8 ACCREDITED INVESTOR STATUS. Investor is an "accredited investor" as that term is defined in Regulation D, Rule 501 by reason of being a corporation, not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the securities being purchased hereunder, with total assets in excess of US $5,000,000.

SECTION 4 CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF INVESTOR

Investor's obligation to purchase the Preferred at the Closing is subject to the fulfillment to its satisfaction on or prior to the Closing Date of the following conditions:

4.1 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. The representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 2 shall be true on and as of the Closing with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of the date of the Closing.

4.2 COVENANTS. All covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement to be performed by the Company on or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed or complied with in all respects.

4.3 NO MATERIAL ADVERSE CHANGE. There shall have been no material adverse change in the Company's financial condition, affairs or prospects between the date of this Agreement and the Closing Date, if different.

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4.4 BLUE SKY. The Company shall have obtained all necessary Blue Sky law permits and qualifications, or secured exemptions therefrom, required by any state for the offer and sale of the Preferred and Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred.

4.5 BOARD OF DIRECTORS. The Board of Directors of the Company immediately following the Closing will consist of Pehong Chen, David L. Anderson and Yogen K. Dalal.

4.6 COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE. The Company shall have delivered on the Closing Date a certificate signed by an officer of the Company certifying that the conditions specified in Sections 4.1 through 4.4 have been fulfilled.

4.7 OPINION OF COUNSEL. The Investor shall have received from Cooley Godward, counsel for the Company, an opinion in substantially the form of Exhibit E attached to this Agreement.

4.8 INVESTORS' RIGHTS AGREEMENT. The Company and Investor shall have entered into the Investors' Rights Agreement.

4.9 CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION. The Certificate shall have been filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware.

SECTION 5 CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF COMPANY

The Company's obligation to issue and sell the Preferred at the Closing is subject to the fulfillment of the following conditions:

5.1 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. The representations and warranties of the Investor contained in Section 3 shall be true on and as of the Closing with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of the Closing.

5.2 COVENANTS. All covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement to be performed by Investor on or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed or complied with in all respects.

5.3 BLUE SKY. The Company shall have obtained all necessary Blue Sky law permits and qualifications, or secured exemptions therefrom, required by any state for the offer and sale of the Preferred and Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred.

5.4 INVESTORS' RIGHTS AGREEMENT. The Company and Investor shall have entered into the Investors' Rights Agreement.

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SECTION 6 AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS OF THE INVESTOR

6.1 COVENANT NOT TO TRANSFER. Investor hereby agrees not to transfer the Preferred (and any Common Stock into which the Preferred may be converted) except upon the conditions set forth in the Section 1.1 of the Investors' Rights Agreement.

SECTION 7

AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY

7.1 FINANCIAL INFORMATION. The Company will furnish the following reports to Investor for so long as Investor is a holder of (or is entitled to receive upon conversion) Registrable Securities (as defined in the Investors' Rights Agreement, hereinafter referred to as the "Registrable Securities" for purposes of this Section 7) equalling not less than 1 percent of the Company's then outstanding shares (calculated on an as-converted basis).

(a) As soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal year, and in any event within 90 days thereafter, audited consolidated balance sheets of the Company and its subsidiaries, if any, as of the end of such fiscal year, and audited consolidated statements of income, shareholders' equity and cash flow of the Company and its subsidiaries, if any, for such year, prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail and certified by independent public accountants of recognized national standing selected by the Company;

(b) As soon as practicable after the end of every quarter in each fiscal year of the Company and in any event within 30 days thereafter, an unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its subsidiaries, if any, as of the end of each such quarterly period, and consolidated statements of income and cash flow of the Company and its subsidiaries for such period and for the current fiscal year to date prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (other than for accompanying notes), all in reasonable detail and signed, subject to changes resulting from year-end audit adjustments, by the principal financial or accounting officer of the Company;

(c) Contemporaneously with delivery to the holders of Common Stock, a copy of each report of the Company delivered to holders of Common Stock.

7.2 ASSIGNMENT OF RIGHTS TO FINANCIAL INFORMATION. The rights granted pursuant to Section 7.1 may be assigned or otherwise conveyed by the Investor (or by any permitted transferee of any such rights) only in connection with the transfer to a single transferee of Registrable Securities equalling not less than 1 percent of the Company's then outstanding shares (calculated on an as- converted basis) (including, for such purposes transfers by affiliates of a transferror) or upon the written consent of the Company which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

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7.3 COMPANY STRATEGY BRIEFINGS. The Company will conduct semi-annual reviews of Company strategy with Investor, which shall include the presentation of information with respect to the Company's operating budget, at the offices of the Company at times mutually agreeable to the Company and the Investor.

7.4 TERMINATION OF COVENANTS. The covenants set forth in Sections 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 shall terminate and be of no further force or effect after the earlier of (a) the date upon which a registration statement filed by the Company under the Securities Act in connection with the firm commitment underwritten public offering of its securities first becomes effective, or (b) the date when none of the Preferred is outstanding.

SECTION 8 MISCELLANEOUS

8.1 GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of California as applicable to contracts entered into and performed entirely within the State of California.

8.2 SURVIVAL. The representations, warranties, covenants and agreements made herein shall survive any investigation made by Investor and the closing of the transactions contemplated hereby. All statements as to factual matters contained in this Agreement or in any certificate or other instrument delivered by or on behalf of the Company pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed to be made as of the date of this Agreement, and not necessarily as of some later date.

8.3 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. Except as otherwise provided herein, the provisions hereof shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, the successors, assigns, heirs, executors and administrators of the parties hereto, provided, however, that the rights of Investor to purchase the Preferred shall not be assignable without the consent of the Company.

8.4 ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Agreement and the other documents delivered pursuant hereto constitute the full and entire understanding and agreement between the parties with regard to the subjects hereof and thereof.

8.5 RIGHTS OF INVESTOR. Each holder of the Preferred (and Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Preferred) shall have the absolute right to exercise or refrain from exercising any right or rights that such holder may have by reason of this Agreement or ownership of any Preferred, including without limitation the right to consent to the waiver of any obligation of the Company under this Agreement and to enter into an agreement with the Company for the purpose of modifying this Agreement or any agreement affecting any such modification, and such holder shall not incur any liability to any other holder or holders of Preferred with respect to exercising or refraining from exercising any such right or rights.

8.6 NOTICES, ETC. All notices and other communications required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and shall be mailed by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid,

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or otherwise delivered by hand or by messenger, addressed (a) if to the Investor, to Investors' addresses set forth on the signature page hereof or at such other address as shall have been furnished to the Company in writing by Investor or (b) if to the Company, to the address of its principal executive office and addressed to the attention of the Corporate Secretary, or at such other address or addresses as the Company shall have furnished in writing to the Investor. All notices and other communications mailed pursuant to the provisions of this Section 8.6 shall be deemed delivered when mailed.

8.7 EXPENSES. Each party to this Agreement shall bear its own expenses and legal fees incurred by it with respect to this Agreement and all related transactions and agreements.

8.8 COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be enforceable against the party actually executing such counterpart, and which together shall constitute one instrument.

8.9 SEVERABILITY. In the event that any provision of this Agreement becomes or is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, unenforceable or void, this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect without said provision; provided that no such severability shall be effective if it materially changes the economic benefit of this Agreement to any party.

8.10 CALIFORNIA CORPORATE SECURITIES LAW. The sale of the securities which are the subject of this Agreement has not been qualified with the Commissioner of corporations of the state of California, and the issuance of such securities or the payment or receipt of any part of the consideration therefor prior to such qualification, if required by law, is unlawful. The rights of all parties to this agreement are expressly conditioned upon such qualification being obtained, if required by law.

8.11 APPROVAL OF AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS. Any term of this agreement may be amended or terminated and the observance of any term of this Agreement may be waived (either generally or in a particular instance and either retroactively or prospectively) with the written consent of the Company and the holders of a majority of the outstanding Preferred Stock sold under this Agreement, and Common Stock issued upon conversion thereof (calculated on an as-converted basis), excluding from the determination of such a majority (both in determining the total number of such shares outstanding and the number of such shares consenting or not consenting) all shares previously disposed of by the Investor or transferees pursuant to one or more registration statements under the Securities Act or pursuant to Rule 144 thereunder. Any amendment, termination or waiver effected in accordance with this section shall be binding upon each holder of any securities issued pursuant to this Agreement (including securities into which

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such securities have been converted or exchanged), each future holder of any or all such securities and the Company.

The foregoing Agreement is hereby executed as of the date first above written.

BROADVISION, INC.

By:       /s/ Pehong Chen
   --------------------------------
         PEHONG CHEN
         President

Address: 3 Lagoon Drive, Suite 350
Redwood City, CA 94065

INVESTOR

ITOCHU CORPORATION

By:      /s/ Bunei Yoshizumi
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Address: 5-1, Kita-Aoyama, 2-Chome
         Minato-Ku, Tokyo 107-77
         Japan

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EXHIBIT A

SCHEDULE OF INVESTORS

                                             SERIES B
                                         PREFERRED SHARES        PRICE

Itochu Corporation                           800,000         $1,000,000.00


BROADVISION, INC.


SERIES B PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


NOVEMBER 7, 1994


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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SECTION 1     AUTHORIZATION AND SALE OF THE SERIES B PREFERRED STOCK........  1
     1.1      Authorization.................................................  1
     1.2      Sale of Preferred.............................................  1
     1.3      Closing Date..................................................  1
     1.4      Delivery......................................................  1

SECTION 2     REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY.................  1
     2.1      Organization and Standing.  ..................................  1
     2.2      Authorization.................................................  1

SECTION 3     REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE INVESTORS...............  2
     3.1      Authorization.................................................  2
     3.2      Experience....................................................  2
     3.3      Investment....................................................  2
     3.4      Rule 144......................................................  2
     3.5      Accredited Investors..........................................  3
     3.6      No Public Market..............................................  3
     3.7      Access to Data................................................  3

SECTION 4     CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF INVESTORS............................  3
     4.1      Representations and Warranties................................  3
     4.2      Covenants.....................................................  3
     4.3      Blue Sky......................................................  3

SECTION 5     CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF COMPANY..............................  4
     5.1      Representations and Warranties................................  4
     5.2      Covenants. ...................................................  4
     5.3      Blue Sky......................................................  4

SECTION 6     MISCELLANEOUS.................................................  4
     6.1      Governing Law.................................................  4
     6.2      Survival......................................................  4
     6.3      Successors and Assigns........................................  4
     6.4      Entire Agreement..............................................  4
     6.5      Rights of Investors...........................................  4
     6.6      Notices, etc..................................................  5
     6.7      Expenses......................................................  5
     6.8      Counterparts..................................................  5
     6.9      Severability..................................................  5
     6.10     California Corporate Securities Law...........................  5
     6.11     Approval of Amendments and Waivers............................  5


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EXHIBITS
     A  -  Schedule of Investors
     B  -  Certificate of Designation of Preferences of Series B Preferred


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SERIES B PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT

THIS AGREEMENT is made as of November 7, 1994 between BROADVISION, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Company") and the investors as set forth in Exhibit A hereto ("Investors").

SECTION 1 AUTHORIZATION AND SALE OF THE SERIES B PREFERRED STOCK

1.1 AUTHORIZATION. The Company has authorized the issuance and sale of 533,333 shares of its Series B Preferred Stock (the "Preferred") having the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions set forth in the Certificate of Designation of Preferences of Series B Preferred Stock in the form attached to this Agreement as Exhibit B (the "Certificate").

1.2 SALE OF PREFERRED. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Investor severally agrees to purchase and the Company agrees to sell and issue to each Investor the number of shares of Preferred set forth opposite such Investor's name on Exhibit A at a price of $1.25 per share.

1.3 CLOSING DATE. The closing of the purchase and sale of the Preferred hereunder (the "Closing") shall be held at the principal office of BroadVision Inc., 3 Lagoon Drive, Suite 350, Redwood City, California 4065-1561, on the date of this Agreement or at such other time and place upon which the Company and the Investors shall agree (the date of the Closing is hereinafter referred to as the "Closing Date").

1.4 DELIVERY. At the Closing the Company will deliver to each Investor a certificate representing the shares of Preferred that such Investor is purchasing against payment of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer or by check payable to the order of the Company.

SECTION 2 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY

The Company hereby represents and warrants to each Investor as follows:

2.1 ORGANIZATION AND STANDING. The Company is a corporation duly organized and validly existing under, and by virtue of, the laws of the State of Delaware and is in good standing under such laws. The Company has all requisite corporate power to own and operate its properties and assets and to carry on its business as presently conducted and as proposed to be conducted. The Company is qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is presently required.

2.2 AUTHORIZATION. All corporate action on the part of the Company, its officers, directors and shareholders necessary for the authorization, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Company, the authorization, sale, issuance and delivery of the Preferred (and the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) and the performance of the Company's obligations under this Agreement has been taken or will be taken


prior to the Closing. This Agreement constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to laws of general application relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, the relief of debtors, general equity principles, and limitations upon rights to indemnity. The Preferred, when issued in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. The Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred has been duly and validly reserved and, when issued in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. The Preferred is not subject to any preemptive rights or rights of first refusal.

SECTION 3 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE INVESTORS

Each Investor hereby severally, for itself, and not jointly represents and warrants to the Company as follows:

3.1 AUTHORIZATION. The Agreements constitute valid and legally binding obligations of such Investor, enforceable in accordance with their terms except as the enforceability thereof may be subject to the effect of (i) any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other law relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally, and (ii) general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law). Such Investor is authorized and has full right and power to purchase the Preferred, and the person signing the Agreements and any other instrument executed and delivered hereby on behalf of such entity has been duly authorized by such entity and has full power and authority to do so.
3.2 EXPERIENCE. The Investor has, from time to time, evaluated investments in new, high technology companies and has, either individually or through the personal experience of one or more of its current officers or partners, experience in evaluating and investing in new, high technology companies. The Investor has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters such that it is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of its investment in the Preferred and it is able to protect its own interests in connection with this transaction.

3.3 INVESTMENT. The Investor is acquiring the Preferred (and any Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) for investment for its own account and not with the view to, or for resale in connection with, any distribution thereof. The Investor understands that the Preferred (and any Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) to be purchased has not been registered under the Securities Act by reason of a specific exemption from the registration provisions of the Securities Act which depends upon, among other things, the bona fide nature of the investment intent as expressed herein.

3.4 RULE 144. The Investor acknowledges that the Preferred must be held indefinitely unless subsequently registered under the Securities Act or an exemption from such registration is available. The Investor is aware of the provisions of Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act which permits limited resale of shares purchased in a private placement subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, including, among other things, the existence of a public

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market for the shares, the availability of certain current public information about the Company, the resale occurring not less than two years after a party has purchased and paid for the securities to be sold, the sale being through a "broker's transaction" or in transactions directly with a "market maker" (as provided by Rule 144(f)) and the number of shares being sold during any three-month period not exceeding specified limitations. The Investor is aware that the conditions for resale set forth in Rule 144 have not been satisfied and that the Company has no plan to satisfy these conditions in the foreseeable future.

3.5 ACCREDITED INVESTORS. The Investor is an "accredited investor" pursuant to Rule 501, Regulation D, promulgated by the Securities Exchange on March 8, 1982.

3.6 NO PUBLIC MARKET. The Investor understands that no public market now exists for any of the securities issued by the Company and that it is unlikely that a public market will ever exist for the Preferred.

3.7 ACCESS TO DATA. The Investor has had an opportunity to discuss the Company's business, management and financial affairs with its management. The Investor understands that such discussions, as well as any written information issued by the Company, were intended to describe the aspects of the Company's business and prospects which the Company believes to be material.

SECTION 4 CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF INVESTORS

Each Investor's obligation to purchase the Preferred at the Closing is subject to the fulfillment to its satisfaction on or prior to the Closing Date of the following conditions:

4.1 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. The representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 2 shall be true on and as of the Closing with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of the date of the Closing.

4.2 COVENANTS. All covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement to be performed by the Company on or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed or complied with in all respects.

4.3 BLUE SKY. The Company shall have obtained all necessary Blue Sky law permits and qualifications, or secured exemptions therefrom, required by any state for the offer and sale of the Preferred and Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred.

SECTION 5 CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF COMPANY

The Company's obligation to issue and sell the Preferred at the Closing is subject to the fulfillment of the following conditions:

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5.1 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. The representations and warranties of the Investors contained in Section 3 shall be true on and as of the Closing with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of the Closing.

5.2 COVENANTS. All covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement to be performed by Investors on or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed or complied with in all respects.

5.3 BLUE SKY. The Company shall have obtained all necessary Blue Sky law permits and qualifications, or secured exemptions therefrom, required by any state for the offer and sale of the Preferred and Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred.

SECTION 6 MISCELLANEOUS

6.1 GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of California as applicable to contracts entered into and performed entirely within the State of California.

6.2 SURVIVAL. The representations, warranties, covenants and agreements made herein shall survive any investigation made by Investors and the closing of the transactions contemplated hereby. All statements as to factual matters contained in this Agreement or in any certificate or other instrument delivered by or on behalf of the Company pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed to be made as of the date of this Agreement, and not necessarily as of some later date.

6.3 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. Except as otherwise provided herein, the provisions hereof shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, the successors, assigns, heirs, executors and administrators of the parties hereto, provided, however, that the rights of Investors to purchase the Preferred shall not be assignable without the consent of the Company.

6.4 ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Agreement and the other documents delivered pursuant hereto constitute the full and entire understanding and agreement between the parties with regard to the subjects hereof and thereof.

6.5 RIGHTS OF INVESTORS. Each holder of the Preferred (and Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Preferred) shall have the absolute right to exercise or refrain from exercising any right or rights that such holder may have by reason of this Agreement or ownership of any Preferred, including without limitation the right to consent to the waiver of any obligation of the Company under this Agreement and to enter into an agreement with the Company for the purpose of modifying this Agreement or any agreement affecting any such modification, and such holder shall not incur any liability to any other holder or holders of Preferred with respect to exercising or refraining from exercising any such right or rights.

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6.6 NOTICES, ETC. All notices and other communications required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and shall be mailed by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, or otherwise delivered by hand or by messenger, addressed (a) if to the Investors, to Investors' addresses set forth on the signature page hereof or at such other address as shall have been furnished to the Company in writing by such Investors or (b) if to the Company, to the address of its principal executive office and addressed to the attention of the Corporate Secretary, or at such other address or addresses as the Company shall have furnished in writing to the Investors. All notices and other communications mailed pursuant to the provisions of this Section 6.6 shall be deemed delivered when mailed.

6.7 EXPENSES. Each party to this Agreement shall bear its own expenses and legal fees incurred by it with respect to this Agreement and all related transactions and agreements.

6.8 COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be enforceable against the party actually executing such counterpart, and which together shall constitute one instrument.

6.9 SEVERABILITY. In the event that any provision of this Agreement becomes or is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, unenforceable or void, this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect without said provision; provided that no such severability shall be effective if it materially changes the economic benefit of this Agreement to any party.

6.10 CALIFORNIA CORPORATE SECURITIES LAW. The sale of the securities which are the subject of this Agreement has not been qualified with the Commissioner of corporations of the state of California, and the issuance of such securities or the payment or receipt of any part of the consideration therefor prior to such qualification, if required by law, is unlawful. The rights of all parties to this agreement are expressly conditioned upon such qualification being obtained, if required by law.

6.11 APPROVAL OF AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS. Any term of this agreement may be amended or terminated and the observance of any term of this Agreement may be waived (either generally or in a particular instance and either retroactively or prospectively) with the written consent of the Company and the holders of a majority of the outstanding Preferred Stock sold under this Agreement, and Common Stock issued upon conversion thereof (calculated on an as-converted basis), excluding from the determination of such a majority (both in determining the total number of such shares outstanding and the number of such shares consenting or not consenting) all shares previously disposed of by the Investors or transferees pursuant to one or more registration statements under the Securities Act or pursuant to Rule 144 thereunder. Any amendment, termination or waiver effected in accordance with this section shall be binding upon each holder of any securities issued pursuant to this Agreement (including securities into which such securities have been converted or exchanged), each future holder of any or all such securities and the Company.

5.


The foregoing Agreement is hereby executed as of the date first above written.

BROADVISION, INC.

By:         /s/ Pehong Chen
   -------------------------------------
              PEHONG CHEN
              President

Address:      3 Lagoon Drive, Suite 350
              Redwood City, CA  94065-1561

INVESTORS

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

By:         /s/ Carol Gilmer
   -------------------------------------
              CAROL GILMER

Address:      Stanford Management Company
              2770 Sand Hill Road
              Menlo Park, CA  94025

GC&H INVESTMENTS,
A CALIFORNIA GENERAL PARTNERSHIP

By:        /s/  John L. Cardoza
   -------------------------------------
              JOHN L. CARDOZA,
              EXECUTIVE PARTNER

Address:      One Maritime Plaza, 20th Floor
              San Francisco, CA  94111-3580


                                          6.

          /s/ Koh Boon Hwee
- ----------------------------------------
KOH BOON HWEE

Address:      c/o Wuthlem Holdings, Ltd.
              177 River Valley Road, #05-01
              Liang Court Complex
              Singapore 0617


        /s/ Ikuo Minakata
- ----------------------------------------

IKUO MINAKATA

Address:      Info Systems Lab.
              1006, Kadoma, Kadoma-Shi
              Osaka, 571 Japan


          /s/ Andy Chase
- ----------------------------------------
ANDY CHASE

Address:      3000 San Hill Road, 3-190
              Menlo Park, CA  94025

THE SIEBEL TRUST

By:      /s/  Tom Siebel
   -------------------------------------
     Tom Siebel

Address:      2909 Woodside Road
              Woodside, CA  94062


                                          7.

        /s/  Elserino Piol
- ----------------------------------------
ELSERINO PIOL

Address:      c/o Ms. Alexandra Giurgiu
              Managing Director
              Olivetti Management Inc.
              70 E. 55th Street
              New York, NY  10022

MAYFIELD VII

By       /s/   Yogen K. Dalal
  --------------------------------------

Address:      2800 Sand Hill Road
              Menlo Park, CA  94025

SUTTER HILL VENTURES,
A CALIFORNIA LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

By       /s/  David L. Anderson
  --------------------------------------

Address:      755 Page Mill Road
              Suite A-200
              Palo Alto, CA  94304

TOW PARTNERS,
A CALIFORNIA LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

By        /s/  Paul M. Wythes
  --------------------------------------

Address:      755 Page Mill Road
              Suite A-200
              Palo Alto, CA  94304

8.


ANVEST, L.P.

By        /s/  David L. Anderson
    ------------------------------------

Address:      755 Page Mill Road
              Suite A-200
              Palo Alto, CA  94304

SAUNDERS HOLDINGS, L.P.

By       /s/  G. Leonard Baker
    ------------------------------------

Address:      755 Page Mill Road
              Suite A-200
              Palo Alto, CA  94304


     /s/  William H. Younger, Jr.
- ----------------------------------------
WILLIAM H. YOUNGER, JR.

Address:      755 Page Mill Road
              Suite A-200
              Palo Alto, CA  94304


           /s/  Tench Coxe
- ----------------------------------------
TENCH COXE

Address:      755 Page Mill Road
              Suite A-200
              Palo Alto, CA  94304


       /s/  Ronald L. Perkins
- ----------------------------------------
RONALD L. PERKINS

Address:      755 Page Mill Road
              Suite A-200
              Palo Alto, CA  94304


                                          9.


GENSTAR INVESTMENT CORPORATION

By       /s/  Richard D. Paterson
    ------------------------------------

Address:      Metro Tower, Suite 1170
              Foster City, CA  94404
              Attn:  R.D. Paterson

WELLS FARGO BANK, TRUSTEE
SHV M/P/T FBO G. LEONARD BAKER, JR.

By     /s/  Christopher M. Peterson
    ------------------------------------

Address:      P.O. Box 63050 MAC 0188-161
              San Francisco, CA  94163
              Attn:  Vicki Bandel

WELLS FARGO BANK, TRUSTEE
SHV M/P/T FBO DAVID L. ANDERSON

By      /s/  Christopher M. Peterson
    ------------------------------------

Address:      P.O. Box 63050 MAC 0188-161
              San Francisco, CA  94163
              Attn:  Vicki Bandel

WELLS FARGO BANK, TRUSTEE
SHV M/P/T FBO TENCH COXE

By     /s/  Christopher M. Peterson
    ------------------------------------

Address:      P.O. Box 63050 MAC 0188-161
              San Francisco, CA  94163
              Attn:  Vicki Bandel

10.


MAYFIELD ASSOCIATES FUND II

By         /s/  Yogen K. Dalal
  --------------------------------------

Address:      2800 Sand Hill Road
              Suite 250
              Menlo Park, CA  94025
              Attn: Deborah Kranz

11.


EXHIBIT A
SCHEDULE OF INVESTORS

                                                        Series B
                                                       Preferred
                                                          Shares        Price
                                                       ---------        -----

Stanford University                                       11,564     $14,455.00
GC&H Investments, a California general partnership         6,075       7,593.75
Koh Boon Hwee                                              6,608       8,260.00
Ikuo Minakata                                                826       1,032.00
Andy Chase                                                 3,304       4,130.00
The Siebel Trust                                           3,304       4,130.00
Elserino Piol                                              1,652       2,065.00
Mayfield VII                                             237,500     296,875.00
Mayfield Associates Fund II                               12,500      15,625.00
Sutter Hill Ventures, a California limited partnership   183,823     229,778.75
Tow Partners, a California limited partnership            15,702      19,627.50
Anvest, L.P.                                               1,653       2,066.25
Saunders Holdings, L.P.                                    8,265      10,331.25
William H. Younger, Jr.                                    8,265      10,331.25
Tench Coxe                                                 2,066       2,582.50
Ronald L. Perkins                                          1,770       2,212.50
Genstar Investment Corporation                             4,902       6,127.50
Wells Fargo Bank, Trustee SHV M/P/T FBO G.
Leonard Baker, Jr.                                         7,438       9,297.50
Wells Fargo Bank, Trustee SHV M/P/T FBO
David L. Anderson                                         14,050      17,562.50
Wells Fargo Bank, Trustee SHV M/P/T FBO                    2,066       2,582.50
Tench Coxe
                                                         533,333     666,666.25


BROADVISION, INC.


SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT

MAY 26, 1995


TABLE OF CONTENTS

                                                                            PAGE

SECTION 1    AUTHORIZATION AND SALE OF THE SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK. . . . .   1

      1.1    Authorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   1
      1.2    Sale of Preferred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   1
      1.3    Closing Date. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   1
      1.4    Subsequent Sale of Series C Preferred Stock . . . . . . . . . .   1
      1.5    Delivery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2

SECTION 2    REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY . . . . . . . . .   2

      2.1    Organization and Standing.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
      2.2    Corporate Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
      2.3    Subsidiaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
      2.4    Capitalization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
      2.5    Authorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
      2.6    Material Liabilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
      2.7    Compliance with Other Instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
      2.8    Litigation, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
      2.9    Registration Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
      2.10   Governmental Consent, etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
      2.11   Offering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
      2.12   Certain Transactions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
      2.13   Intellectual Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
      2.14   Employee and Consultant Agreements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
      2.15   Disclosure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
      2.16   Brokers or Finders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
      2.17   No Dividends. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
      2.18   Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
      2.19   Employee Compensation Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
      2.20   Related-Party Transactions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
      2.21   Manufacturing and Marketing Rights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
      2.22   Corporate Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6

SECTION 3    REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE INVESTORS . . . . . . . .   6

      3.1    Authorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
      3.2    Experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
      3.3    Investment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
      3.4    Rule 144. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
      3.5    Accredited Investors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
      3.6    No Public Market. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7


                                        i.


TABLE OF CONTENTS
(CONTINUED)

                                                                            PAGE

      3.7    Access to Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
      3.8    Residence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7

SECTION 4    CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF INVESTORS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8

      4.1    Representations and Warranties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
      4.2    Covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
      4.3    No Material Adverse Change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
      4.4    Blue Sky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
      4.5    Board of Directors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
      4.6    Compliance Certificate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
      4.7    Opinion of Counsel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
      4.8    Investors' Rights Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
      4.9    Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation . . . . . . .   8

SECTION 5    CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF COMPANY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9

      5.1    Representations and Warranties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
      5.2    Covenants.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
      5.3    Blue Sky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
      5.4    Investors' Rights Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
      5.5    Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation . . . . . . .   9

SECTION 6    MISCELLANEOUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9

      6.1    Governing Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
      6.2    Survival. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
      6.3    Successors and Assigns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
      6.4    Entire Agreement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
      6.5    Rights of Investors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
      6.6    Notices, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
      6.7    Expenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
      6.8    Counterparts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
      6.9    Severability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
      6.10   California Corporate Securities Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
      6.11   Approval of Amendments and Waivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11


                                       ii.


SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT

THIS AGREEMENT is made as of May 26, 1995 between BROADVISION, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Company") and the investors as set forth in Exhibit A hereto ("Investors").

SECTION 1 AUTHORIZATION AND SALE OF THE SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK

1.1 AUTHORIZATION. The Company has authorized the issuance and sale of up to four million (4,000,000) shares of its Series C Preferred Stock (the "Preferred") having the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions set forth in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation in the form attached to this Agreement as Exhibit B (the "Certificate").

1.2 SALE OF PREFERRED. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Investor severally agrees to purchase and the Company agrees to sell and issue to each Investor the number of shares of Preferred set forth opposite such Investor's name on Exhibit A at a price of two dollars ($2.00) per share.

1.3 CLOSING DATE. The first closing of the purchase and sale of the Preferred hereunder (the "First Closing") shall be held at the law offices of Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum ("Cooley Godward"), One Maritime Plaza, 20th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111. The First Closing shall be held on the date of this Agreement or at such other time and place upon which the Company and the Investors shall agree (the date of the First Closing is hereinafter referred to as the "First Closing Date").

1.4 SUBSEQUENT SALE OF SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK. The second closing (the "Second Closing") shall be held on June 7, 1995 or at such other time and place upon which the Company and the Investors shall agree (the date of the Second Closing is hereinafter referred to as the "Second Closing Date"). If less than four million (4,000,000) shares of Preferred are sold at the First Closing and Second Closing, then, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Company may sell, on or before August 8, 1995, up to the balance between four million (4,000,000) shares of Preferred and the number of shares sold at the First Closing and Second Closing to such persons as the Company may determine at the same price per share as the Preferred purchased and sold at the First Closing and Second Closing. Any sale pursuant to this Section 1.4 shall be upon the same terms and conditions as those contained herein (provided that the Schedule of Exceptions may be adjusted to reflect subsequent events), and such persons or entities shall become parties to this Agreement and Investors' Rights Agreement (as defined in Section 2.2) by the execution of a copy of such agreements and each such person or entity shall have the rights and obligations of a Purchaser hereunder and thereunder. The term "Closing" shall apply to the First Closing, the Second Closing and each subsequent closing pursuant to this
Section 1.4 unless otherwise specified, and the term "Closing Date" shall apply


to the First Closing Date, the Second Closing Date and each subsequent closing date pursuant to this Section 1.4 unless otherwise specified.

1.5 DELIVERY. At the Closing the Company will deliver to each Investor a certificate representing the shares of Preferred that such Investor is purchasing against payment of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer or by check payable to the order of the Company.

SECTION 2 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY

Except as set forth in the Schedule of Exceptions attached hereto as Exhibit C, the Company hereby represents and warrants to each Investor as follows:

2.1 ORGANIZATION AND STANDING. The Company is a corporation duly organized and validly existing under, and by virtue of, the laws of the State of Delaware and is in good standing under such laws. The Company has all requisite corporate power to own and operate its properties and assets and to carry on its business as presently conducted and as proposed to be conducted. The Company is qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is presently required.

2.2 CORPORATE POWER. The Company will have at the Closing Date all requisite legal and corporate power to execute and deliver this Agreement and the Amended and Restated Investors' Rights Agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D (the "Investors' Rights Agreement") (the Agreement and the Investors' Rights Agreement are hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Agreements"), to sell and issue the Preferred under this Agreement, to issue the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred and to carry out and perform its obligations under the terms of the Agreements, including all exhibits and schedules hereto and thereto.

2.3 SUBSIDIARIES. The Company does not own or control, directly or indirectly, any other corporation, association or business entity.

2.4 CAPITALIZATION. The authorized capital stock of the Company consists, or immediately prior to the Closing will consist, of: twenty-two million (22,000,000) shares of Common Stock, of which six million thirty-two thousand eight hundred (6,032,800) are issued and outstanding; and ten million (10,000,000) shares of Preferred Stock, of which four million three hundred thousand (4,300,000) are designated "Series A Preferred Stock" (of which four million two hundred sixty-six thousand six hundred sixty-seven (4,266,667) are issued and outstanding); one million four hundred thousand (1,400,000) are designated "Series B Preferred Stock" (of which one million three hundred thirty-three thousand three hundred thirty-three (1,333,333) are issued and outstanding); and four million (4,000,000) are designated "Series C Preferred Stock" (of which one million seven hundred fifty thousand (1,750,000) will be issued and outstanding immediately after the First Closing). All such issued and outstanding shares have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable. The Preferred has the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions set forth in the Certificate.

2.


Except (i) for the conversion privileges of the Preferred specified in the Certificate, (ii) as set forth in the Investors' Rights Agreement, and (iii) the arrangements with respect to employee stock set forth in Exhibit C, there are no options, warrants, conversion privileges or other rights presently outstanding to purchase or otherwise acquire any authorized but unissued shares of the Company's capital stock or other securities of the Company. All outstanding securities of the Company were issued in compliance with the registration or qualification provisions of all applicable U.S.federal and state securities laws.

2.5 AUTHORIZATION. All corporate action on the part of the Company, its officers, directors and shareholders necessary for the authorization, execution, delivery and performance of the Agreements by the Company, the authorization, sale, issuance and delivery of the Preferred (and the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) and the performance of the Company's obligations under the Agreements has been taken or will be taken prior to the Closing. The Agreements, when executed and delivered by the Company, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to laws of general application relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, the relief of debtors, general equity principles, and limitations upon rights to indemnity. The Preferred, when issued in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free of restrictions on transfer other than restrictions under the Agreements and under applicable federal and state securities laws. The Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred has been duly and validly reserved and, when issued in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free of restrictions on transfer other than restrictions under the Agreements, the right of first refusal provided in the Company's Bylaws, and applicable federal and state securities laws. The Preferred is not subject to any preemptive rights or rights of first refusal.

2.6 MATERIAL LIABILITIES. The Company has no material indebtedness or liabilities, absolute or contingent (individually or in the aggregate), except
(1) with respect to services rendered by its employees or consultants; (2) with respect to unpaid legal and other fees and costs incurred in connection with the ongoing business of the Company, and the issuance of the Preferred in connection with this Agreement; and (3) liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business that do not exceed $50,000 in the aggregate.

2.7 COMPLIANCE WITH OTHER INSTRUMENTS, ETC. The Company is not, and will not by virtue of entering into and performing the Agreements and the transactions contemplated thereunder be, in violation of any term of the Certificate or Bylaws or any term or provision of any material mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement, instrument, judgment or decree to which it is a party or by which it is bound, and is not, and will not by virtue of entering into and performing the Agreements and the transactions contemplated thereunder be, in violation of any order addressed specifically to the Company nor, to the best of the Company's knowledge, any order, statute, rule or regulation applicable to the Company.

2.8 LITIGATION, ETC. There are no actions, suits, proceedings or investigations pending or threatened against the Company before any court or governmental agency. To the best of the

3.


Company's knowledge, there is no judgment, decree, or order of any court in effect against the Company and the Company is not in default with respect to any order of any governmental authority to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound. There is no action, suit, proceeding, or investigation by the Company currently pending or which the Company presently intends to initiate.

2.9 REGISTRATION RIGHTS. Except as set forth in the Investors' Rights Agreement, the Company is not under any obligation to register (as defined in
Section 1.2 of the Investors' Rights Agreement) any of its presently outstanding securities or any of its securities that may hereafter be issued.

2.10 GOVERNMENTAL CONSENT, ETC. No consent, approval or authorization of or designation, declaration or filing with any governmental authority on the part of the Company is required in connection with the valid execution and delivery of the Agreements, or the offer, sale or issuance of the Preferred (and the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) or the consummation of any other transaction contemplated thereby, except for (a) the filing of the Certificate in the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and (b) the filing of a Notice with the California Commissioner of Corporations pursuant to Section 25102(f) of the California Corporations Code and/or such other filings as may be required under other applicable blue sky laws, which filings, if required, will be accomplished in a timely manner prior to or promptly upon completion of the Closing, as applicable.

2.11 OFFERING. Subject to the accuracy of the representations set forth in Section 3 hereof, the offer, sale and issuance of the Preferred pursuant to this Agreement and the issuance of the Common Stock to be issued upon conversion of the Preferred constitute transactions exempt from the registration requirements of Section 5 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").

2.12 CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS. Since its date of incorporation, the Company has not (a) discharged or satisfied any obligation or liability other than as authorized by its Board of Directors, or in the ordinary course of business or in amounts less than $100,000 in the aggregate, (b) declared or made any payment or distribution to its shareholders or redeemed or purchased any of its shares of capital stock or securities, (c) mortgaged or subjected to encumbrances any of its assets, (d) sold, transferred or leased to third parties any of its assets except in the ordinary course of business, (e) canceled or compromised any material debt or any claim or waived or released any right of material value, suffered any physical damage or destruction or loss materially and adversely affecting its properties, operations or business, (f) made any loans or advances to any persons other than immaterial amounts (both individually and in the aggregate) in the ordinary course of business or (g) entered into any material transaction other than as approved by its Board of Directors or in the ordinary course of business or agreed to any of the foregoing other than with respect to transactions relating to this Agreement.

2.13 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. To the best of its knowledge (but without having conducted any special investigation or patent search), the Company has or will be able to license

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on commercially reasonable terms sufficient legal rights to all patents, copyrights, trade secrets, information, proprietary rights and processes (collectively "Proprietary Information") necessary for its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted without any conflict with or infringement of the rights of others. Except for agreements with its own officers and employees, substantially in the forms referenced in Section 2.14 below, there are no outstanding options, licenses, or agreements of any kind relating to the foregoing, nor is the Company bound by or a party to any options, licenses or agreements of any kind with respect to the patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, trade secrets, licenses, information, proprietary rights and processes of any other person or entity. The Company has not received any communications alleging that the Company has violated or infringed or that the Company would, by conducting its business as proposed, violate or infringe any of the patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights or trade secrets or other proprietary rights of any other person or entity. Neither the execution nor delivery of this Agreement, nor the carrying on of the Company's business by the employees of and consultants to the Company, nor the conduct of the Company's business as proposed, will, to the Company's knowledge, conflict with or result in a breach of the terms, conditions, or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any contract, covenant, or instrument under which any of such employees is now obligated. The Company does not believe it is or will be necessary to utilize any inventions of any of its employees (or people it currently intends to hire) made prior to their employment by the Company.

2.14 EMPLOYEE AND CONSULTANT AGREEMENTS. All employees and consultants of the Company have entered into proprietary information and inventions agreements, substantially in the Company's standard forms and, to the best of the Company's knowledge, none of the Company's current or former employees or consultants is in violation of such agreements.

2.15 DISCLOSURE. To the best of the Company's knowledge after reasonable investigation, none of the representations or warranties made by the Company in this Agreement and no information in the Exhibits hereto contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements contained herein and therein not misleading.

2.16 BROKERS OR FINDERS. The Company has not entered into any agreement or arrangement giving rise to any liability for brokerage or finders' fees or agents' commissions or any similar charges in connection with the Agreements.

2.17 NO DIVIDENDS. The Company has not made any declaration, setting aside for payment or other distribution in respect of any of the Company's capital stock or any direct or indirect redemption, repurchase or other acquisition of any of such stock.

2.18 CONTRACTS. Except as listed on Exhibit C, the Company is not party to any contract or agreement (i) with expected receipts or expenditures in excess of $10,000, (ii) involving a license or grant of rights to or from the Company involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other proprietary information applicable to the business of the Company, (iii) with provisions restricting or affecting the development, manufacture, or distribution of the

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Company's products or services, or (iv) that provides indemnification by the Company with respect to infringements of proprietary rights.

2.19 EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION PLANS. Except as listed on Exhibit C, the Company is not party to or bound by any currently effective employment contracts, deferred compensation agreements, bonus plans, incentive plans, profit sharing plans, retirement agreements, or other employee compensation agreements. Subject to general principles related to wrongful termination of employees, the employment of each officer and employee of the Company is terminable at the will of the Company.

2.20 RELATED-PARTY TRANSACTIONS. No employee, officer, or director of the Company or member of his or her immediate family is indebted to the Company, nor is the Company indebted (or committed to make loans or extend or guarantee credit) to any of them. To the best of the Company's knowledge, none of such persons has any direct or indirect ownership interest in any firm or corporation with which the Company is affiliated or with which the Company has a business relationship, or any firm or corporation that competes with the Company, except that employees, officers, or directors of the Company and members of their immediate families may own stock in publicly traded companies that may compete with the Company.

2.21 MANUFACTURING AND MARKETING RIGHTS. The Company has not granted rights to manufacture, produce, assemble, license, market, or sell its products to any other person, corporation, partnership or other entity, and is not bound by any agreement that affects the Company's exclusive right to develop, manufacture, assemble, distribute, market, or sell its products, and has not licensed or sold any of its technology or proprietary information to any person, corporation, partnership or other entity.

2.22 CORPORATE DOCUMENTS. The Company has furnished the Investors with copies of the Certificate and Bylaws as currently in effect. Said copies are true, correct, and complete and contain all amendments through the Closing Date.

SECTION 3 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE INVESTORS

Each Investor hereby severally, for itself, and not jointly represents and warrants to the Company as follows:

3.1 AUTHORIZATION. The Agreements constitute valid and legally binding obligations of such Investor, enforceable in accordance with their terms except as the enforceability thereof may be subject to the effect of (i) any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other law relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally, and (ii) general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law). Such Investor is authorized and has full right and power to purchase the Preferred, and the person signing the Agreements and any other instrument executed and delivered hereby on behalf of such entity has been duly authorized by such entity and has full power and authority to do so.

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3.2 EXPERIENCE. The Investor has, from time to time, evaluated investments in new, high technology companies and has, either individually or through the personal experience of one or more of its current officers or partners, experience in evaluating and investing in new, high technology companies. The Investor has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters such that it is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of its investment in the Preferred and it is able to protect its own interests in connection with this transaction.

3.3 INVESTMENT. The Investor is acquiring the Preferred (and any Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) for investment for its own account and not with the view to, or for resale in connection with, any distribution thereof. The Investor understands that the Preferred (and any Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) to be purchased has not been registered under the Securities Act by reason of a specific exemption from the registration provisions of the Securities Act which depends upon, among other things, the bona fide nature of the investment intent as expressed herein.

3.4 RULE 144. The Investor acknowledges that the Preferred must be held indefinitely unless subsequently registered under the Securities Act or an exemption from such registration is available. The Investor is aware of the provisions of Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act which permits limited resale of shares purchased in a private placement subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, including, among other things, the existence of a public market for the shares, the availability of certain current public information about the Company, the resale occurring not less than two years after a party has purchased and paid for the securities to be sold, the sale being through a "broker's transaction" or in transactions directly with a "market maker" (as provided by Rule 144(f)) and the number of shares being sold during any three-month period not exceeding specified limitations. The Investor is aware that the conditions for resale set forth in Rule 144 have not been satisfied and that the Company has no plan to satisfy these conditions in the foreseeable future.

3.5 ACCREDITED INVESTORS. The Investor is an "accredited investor" pursuant to Rule 501, Regulation D, promulgated by the Securities Exchange on March 8, 1982, as described in Exhibit F hereto.

3.6 NO PUBLIC MARKET. The Investor understands that no public market now exists for any of the securities issued by the Company and that it is unlikely that a public market will ever exist for the Preferred.

3.7 ACCESS TO DATA. The Investor has had an opportunity to discuss the Company's business, management and financial affairs with its management. The Investor understands that such discussions, as well as any written information issued by the Company, were intended to describe the aspects of the Company's business and prospects which the Company believes to be material.

3.8 RESIDENCE. If the Purchaser is an individual, then the purchaser resides in the state or province identified in the address of the Purchaser set forth on Exhibit A; if the Purchaser is a partnership, corporation, limited liability company or other entity, then the office

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or offices of the Purchaser in which its investment decision was made is located at the address or addresses of the Purchaser set forth on Exhibit A.

SECTION 4 CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF INVESTORS

Each Investor's obligation to purchase the Preferred at the Closing is subject to the fulfillment to its satisfaction on or prior to the Closing Date of the following conditions:

4.1 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. The representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 2 shall be true on and as of the Closing with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of the date of the Closing.

4.2 COVENANTS. All covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement to be performed by the Company on or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed or complied with in all respects.

4.3 NO MATERIAL ADVERSE CHANGE. There shall have been no material adverse change in the Company's financial condition, affairs or prospects between the date of this Agreement and the Closing Date, if different.

4.4 BLUE SKY. The Company shall have obtained all necessary Blue Sky law permits and qualifications, or secured exemptions therefrom, required by any state for the offer and sale of the Preferred and Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred.

4.5 BOARD OF DIRECTORS. The Board of Directors of the Company immediately following the Closing will consist of Pehong Chen, David L. Anderson and Yogen K. Dalal.

4.6 COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE. The Company shall have delivered on the Closing Date a certificate signed by an officer of the Company certifying that the conditions specified in Sections 4.1 through 4.4 have been fulfilled.

4.7 OPINION OF COUNSEL. The Investors shall have received from Cooley Godward, counsel for the Company, an opinion in substantially the form of Exhibit E attached to this Agreement.

4.8 INVESTORS' RIGHTS AGREEMENT. The Company and Investors shall have entered into the Investors' Rights Agreement.

4.9 AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION. The Certificate shall have been filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware.

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SECTION 5 CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF COMPANY

The Company's obligation to issue and sell the Preferred at the Closing is subject to the fulfillment of the following conditions:

5.1 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. The representations and warranties of the Investors contained in Section 3 shall be true on and as of the Closing with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of the Closing.

5.2 COVENANTS. All covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement to be performed by Investors on or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed or complied with in all respects.

5.3 BLUE SKY. The Company shall have obtained all necessary Blue Sky law permits and qualifications, or secured exemptions therefrom, required by any state for the offer and sale of the Preferred and Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred.

5.4 INVESTORS' RIGHTS AGREEMENT. The Company and Investors shall have entered into the Investors' Rights Agreement.

5.5 AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION. The Certificate shall have been filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware.

SECTION 6 MISCELLANEOUS

6.1 GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of California as applicable to contracts entered into and performed entirely within the State of California.

6.2 SURVIVAL. The representations, warranties, covenants and agreements made herein shall survive any investigation made by Investors and the closing of the transactions contemplated hereby. All statements as to factual matters contained in this Agreement or in any certificate or other instrument delivered by or on behalf of the Company pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed to be made as of the date of this Agreement, and not necessarily as of some later date.

6.3 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. Except as otherwise provided herein, the provisions hereof shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, the successors, assigns, heirs, executors and administrators of the parties hereto, provided, however, that the rights of Investors to purchase the Preferred shall not be assignable without the consent of the Company.

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6.4 ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Agreement and the other documents delivered pursuant hereto constitute the full and entire understanding and agreement between the parties with regard to the subjects hereof and thereof.

6.5 RIGHTS OF INVESTORS. Each holder of the Preferred (and Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Preferred) shall have the absolute right to exercise or refrain from exercising any right or rights that such holder may have by reason of this Agreement or ownership of any Preferred, including without limitation the right to consent to the waiver of any obligation of the Company under this Agreement and to enter into an agreement with the Company for the purpose of modifying this Agreement or any agreement affecting any such modification, and such holder shall not incur any liability to any other holder or holders of Preferred with respect to exercising or refraining from exercising any such right or rights.

6.6 NOTICES, ETC. All notices and other communications required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and shall be mailed by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, or otherwise delivered by hand or by messenger, addressed (a) if to the Investors, to Investors' addresses set forth on the signature page hereof or at such other address as shall have been furnished to the Company in writing by such Investors or (b) if to the Company, to the address of its principal executive office and addressed to the attention of the Corporate Secretary, or at such other address or addresses as the Company shall have furnished in writing to the Investors. All notices and other communications mailed pursuant to the provisions of this Section 8.6 shall be deemed delivered when mailed.

6.7 EXPENSES. The Company shall pay all costs and expenses that it incurs with respect to the negotiation, execution, delivery and performance of the Agreement. The Company shall, at the Closing, reimburse the reasonable fees of one (1) special counsel for the Purchasers, not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000), and shall reimburse such special counsel for reasonable expenses incurred in connection with the negotiation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement.

6.8 COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be enforceable against the party actually executing such counterpart, and which together shall constitute one instrument.

6.9 SEVERABILITY. In the event that any provision of this Agreement becomes or is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, unenforceable or void, this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect without said provision; provided that no such severability shall be effective if it materially changes the economic benefit of this Agreement to any party.

6.10 CALIFORNIA CORPORATE SECURITIES LAW. The sale of the securities which are the subject of this Agreement has not been qualified with the Commissioner of corporations of the state of California, and the issuance of such securities or the payment or receipt of any part of the consideration therefor prior to such qualification, if required by law, is unlawful. The rights of all parties to this agreement are expressly conditioned upon such qualification being obtained, if required by law.

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6.11 APPROVAL OF AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS. Any term of this agreement may be amended or terminated and the observance of any term of this Agreement may be waived (either generally or in a particular instance and either retroactively or prospectively) with the written consent of the Company and the holders of a majority of the outstanding Preferred Stock sold under this Agreement, and Common Stock issued upon conversion thereof (calculated on an as-converted basis), excluding from the determination of such a majority (both in determining the total number of such shares outstanding and the number of such shares consenting or not consenting) all shares previously disposed of by the Investors or transferees pursuant to one or more registration statements under the Securities Act or pursuant to Rule 144 thereunder. Any amendment, termination or waiver effected in accordance with this section shall be binding upon each holder of any securities issued pursuant to this Agreement (including securities into which such securities have been converted or exchanged), each future holder of any or all such securities and the Company.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the foregoing Series C Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement is hereby executed as of the date first above written.

BROADVISION, INC.

By:      /s/ Pehong Chen
   -----------------------------
             PEHONG CHEN
             President

INVESTORS:

4C VENTURES, L.P.

By: 4C Associates, L.P.,
its General Partner

By: 4C Associates, Inc.,
its General Partner

By:       /s/  Jeanne M. Sullivan
   -------------------------------------
Name:   Jeanne M. Sullivan
   -------------------------------------
Title:  Managing Director
   -------------------------------------

ITOCHU INTERNATIONAL, INC.

By:       /s/  Yoichi Okuda
   -------------------------------------
Name:   Yoichi Okuda
   -------------------------------------
Title:
   -------------------------------------

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES C PEREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


MAYFIELD VII

By:        /s/ Yogen K. Dalal
   -------------------------------------
Name:   Yogen K. Dalal
   -------------------------------------
Title:  General Partner
   -------------------------------------

MAYFIELD ASSOCIATES FUND II

By:        /s/ Yogen K. Dalal
   -------------------------------------
Name:   Yogen K. Dalal
   -------------------------------------
Title:  General Partner
   -------------------------------------

SUTTER HILL VENTURES,
A CALIFORNIA LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

By:        /s/ David L. Anderson
   -------------------------------------
Name:   David L. Anderson
   -------------------------------------
Title:
   -------------------------------------

TOW PARTNERS,
A CALIFORNIA LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

By:        /s/ David L. Anderson
   -------------------------------------
Name:   David L. Anderson
   -------------------------------------
Title:  Under power of attorney
            for Paul M. Wythe
   -------------------------------------

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES C PEREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


     /s/  David L. Anderson
- -------------------------------------
DAVID L. ANDERSON

ANVEST, L.P.

By:        /s/ David L. Anderson
   -------------------------------------
Name:   David L. Anderson
   -------------------------------------
Title:  General Partner
   -------------------------------------

WILLIAM H. YOUNGER, JR., TRUSTEE OF
THE YOUNGER LIVING TRUST

By:        /s/ William H. Younger, Jr.
   -------------------------------------
Name:   William H. Younger
   -------------------------------------
Title:
   -------------------------------------


          /s/ Tench Coxe
- ----------------------------------------
TENCH COXE

      /s/ Ronald L. Perkins
- ----------------------------------------
RONALD L. PERKINS

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES C PEREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


EXHIBIT A

SCHEDULE OF INVESTORS

 Series C
Preferred
  Shares               Price
----------             ------

FIRST CLOSING

4C Ventures, L.P.                                  750,000          $1,500,000
c/o MeesPierson Trust (Curacao) N.V.
6 John B. Gorsiraweg, PO Box 3889
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles

Itochu International, Inc.                         500,000          $1,000,000
335 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10017

Mayfield VII                                       237,500            $475,000
2800 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA  94025

Mayfield Associates Fund II                         12,500            $ 25,000
2800 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA  94025

Sutter Hill Ventures,                              183,823            $367,646
a California Limited Partnership
755 Page Mill Road
Suite A-200
Palo Alto, CA  94304

Tow Partners,                                       15,702             $31,404
a California Limited Partnership
755 Page Mill Road
Suite A-200
Palo Alto, CA  94304

David L. Anderson                                   14,050             $28,100
755 Page Mill Road
Suite A-200
Palo Alto, CA  94304


Anvest, L.P.                                         1,653              $3,306
755 Page Mill Road
Suite A-200
Palo Alto, CA  94304

William H. Younger, Jr.,                             8,265             $16,530
Trustee of the Younger Living Trust
755 Page Mill Road
Suite A-200
Palo Alto, CA  94304

Tench Coxe                                           4,132              $8,264
755 Page Mill Road
Suite A-200
Palo Alto, CA  94304

Ronald L. Perkins                                    1,770              $3,540
755 Page Mill Road
Suite A-200
Palo Alto, CA  94304


                                              ____________        ____________
   TOTAL                                         1,729,395          $3,458,790

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BROADVISION, INC.


SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


SECOND CLOSING
JUNE 9, 1995


TABLE OF CONTENTS

                                                                            PAGE

SECTION 1
          AUTHORIZATION AND SALE OF THE SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK . . . . . .   1
     1.1  Authorization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   1
     1.2  Sale of Preferred. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   1
     1.3  Closing Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   1
     1.4  Subsequent Sale of Series C Preferred Stock. . . . . . . . . . . .   1
     1.5  Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2

SECTION 2
     REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     2.1  Organization and Standing.   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     2.2  Corporate Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     2.3  Subsidiaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     2.4  Capitalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     2.5  Authorization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.6  Material Liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.7  Compliance with Other Instruments, etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.8  Litigation, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.9  Registration Rights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.10 Governmental Consent, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.11 Offering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.12 Certain Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.13 Intellectual Property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.14 Employee and Consultant Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     2.15 Disclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     2.16 Brokers or Finders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     2.17 No Dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     2.18 Contracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     2.19 Employee Compensation Plans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     2.20 Related-Party Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     2.21 Manufacturing and Marketing Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     2.22 Corporate Documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6

SECTION 3
     REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE INVESTORS . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.1  Authorization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.2  Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.3  Investment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.4  Rule 144 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.5  Accredited Investors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.6  No Public Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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     3.7  Access to Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.8  Residence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7

SECTION 4
     CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF INVESTORS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.1  Representations and Warranties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.2  Covenants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.3  No Material Adverse Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.4  Blue Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.5  Board of Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.6  Compliance Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.7  Opinion of Counsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.8  Investors' Rights Agreement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.9  Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation. . . . . . . . .   8

SECTION 5
     CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF COMPANY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     5.1  Representations and Warranties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     5.2  Covenants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     5.3  Blue Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     5.4  Investors' Rights Agreement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     5.5  Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation. . . . . . . . .   9

SECTION 6
     MISCELLANEOUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     6.1  Governing Law. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     6.2  Survival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     6.3  Successors and Assigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     6.4  Entire Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     6.5  Rights of Investors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     6.6  Notices, etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     6.7  Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     6.8  Counterparts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     6.9  Severability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     6.10 California Corporate Securities Law. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     6.11 Approval of Amendments and Waivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10

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SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT

THIS AGREEMENT is made as of June 9, 1995 between BROADVISION, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Company") and the investors as set forth in Exhibit A hereto ("Investors").

SECTION 1 AUTHORIZATION AND SALE OF THE SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK

1.1 AUTHORIZATION. The Company has authorized the issuance and sale of up to four million (4,000,000) shares of its Series C Preferred Stock (the "Preferred") having the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions set forth in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation in the form attached to this Agreement as Exhibit B (the "Certificate").

1.2 SALE OF PREFERRED. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Investor severally agrees to purchase and the Company agrees to sell and issue to each Investor the number of shares of Preferred set forth opposite such Investor's name on Exhibit A at a price of two dollars ($2.00) per share.

1.3 CLOSING DATE. The second closing of the purchase and sale of the Preferred hereunder (the "Second Closing") shall be held at the law offices of Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum ("Cooley Godward"), One Maritime Plaza, 20th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111. The Second Closing shall be held on the date of this Agreement or at such other time and place upon which the Company and the Investors shall agree (the date of the Second Closing is hereinafter referred to as the "Second Closing Date"). The first closing hereunder, consisting of the purchase and sale of 1,729,395 shares of the Preferred (the "First Closing"),

1.4 SUBSEQUENT SALE OF SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK. If less than an aggregate of four million (4,000,000) shares of Preferred are sold at the First Closing and the Second Closing, then, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Company may sell, on or before August 8, 1995, up to the balance between four million (4,000,000) shares of Preferred and the number of shares sold at the First Closing and the Second Closing to such persons as the Company may determine at the same price per share as the Preferred purchased at the First Closing and the Second Closing. Any sale pursuant to this Section 1.4 shall be upon the same terms and conditions as those contained herein (provided that the Schedule of Exceptions may be adjusted to reflect subsequent events), and such persons or entities shall become parties to this Agreement and Investors' Rights Agreement (as defined in Section 2.2) by the execution of a copy of such agreements and each such person or entity shall have the rights and obligations of a Purchaser hereunder and thereunder. The term "Closing" shall apply to the Second Closing and each subsequent closing pursuant to this Section 1.4 unless otherwise specified, and the term "Closing Date" shall apply to the Second Closing Date and each subsequent closing date pursuant to this Section 1.4 unless otherwise specified.

1.5 DELIVERY. At the Closing, the Company will deliver to each Investor a certificate representing the shares of Preferred that such Investor is purchasing against payment of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer or by check payable to the order of the Company.


SECTION 2 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY

Except as set forth in the Schedule of Exceptions attached hereto as Exhibit C, the Company hereby represents and warrants to each Investor as follows:

2.1 ORGANIZATION AND STANDING. The Company is a corporation duly organized and validly existing under, and by virtue of, the laws of the State of Delaware and is in good standing under such laws. The Company has all requisite corporate power to own and operate its properties and assets and to carry on its business as presently conducted and as proposed to be conducted. The Company is qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is presently required.

2.2 CORPORATE POWER. The Company will have at the Closing Date all requisite legal and corporate power to execute and deliver this Agreement and the Amended and Restated Investors' Rights Agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D (the "Investors' Rights Agreement") (the Agreement and the Investors' Rights Agreement are hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Agreements"), to sell and issue the Preferred under this Agreement, to issue the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred and to carry out and perform its obligations under the terms of the Agreements, including all exhibits and schedules hereto and thereto.

2.3 SUBSIDIARIES. The Company does not own or control, directly or indirectly, any other corporation, association or business entity.

2.4 CAPITALIZATION. The authorized capital stock of the Company consists, or immediately prior to the Closing will consist, of: twenty-two million (22,000,000) shares of Common Stock, of which six million five hundred forty- four thousand (6,544,000) are issued and outstanding; and ten million (10,000,000) shares of Preferred Stock, of which four million three hundred thousand (4,300,000) are designated "Series A Preferred Stock" (of which four million two hundred sixty-six thousand six hundred sixty-seven (4,266,667) are issued and outstanding); one million four hundred thousand (1,400,000) are designated "Series B Preferred Stock" (of which one million three hundred thirty-three thousand three hundred thirty-three (1,333,333) are issued and outstanding); and four million (4,000,000) are designated "Series C Preferred Stock" (of which one million seven hundred twenty-nine thousand three hundred ninety-five (1,729,395) are issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Second Closing). All such issued and outstanding shares have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable. The Preferred has the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions set forth in the Certificate. Except (i) for the conversion privileges of the Preferred specified in the Certificate, (ii) as set forth in the Investors' Rights Agreement, (iii) the arrangements with respect to employee stock set forth in Exhibit C and (iv) as otherwise set forth in Exhibit C, there are no options, warrants, conversion privileges or other rights presently outstanding to purchase or otherwise acquire any authorized but unissued shares of the Company's capital stock or other securities of the Company. All outstanding securities of the Company were issued in

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compliance with the registration or qualification provisions of all applicable U.S. federal and state securities laws.

2.5 AUTHORIZATION. All corporate action on the part of the Company, its officers, directors and shareholders necessary for the authorization, execution, delivery and performance of the Agreements by the Company, the authorization, sale, issuance and delivery of the Preferred (and the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) and the performance of the Company's obligations under the Agreements has been taken or will be taken prior to the Closing. The Agreements, when executed and delivered by the Company, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to laws of general application relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, the relief of debtors, general equity principles, and limitations upon rights to indemnity. The Preferred, when issued in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free of restrictions on transfer other than restrictions under the Agreements and under applicable federal and state securities laws. The Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred has been duly and validly reserved and, when issued in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free of restrictions on transfer other than restrictions under the Agreements, the right of first refusal provided in the Company's Bylaws, and applicable federal and state securities laws. The Preferred is not subject to any preemptive rights or rights of first refusal.

2.6 MATERIAL LIABILITIES. The Company has no material indebtedness or liabilities, absolute or contingent (individually or in the aggregate), except
(1) with respect to services rendered by its employees or consultants; (2) with respect to unpaid legal and other fees and costs incurred in connection with the ongoing business of the Company, and the issuance of the Preferred in connection with this Agreement; and (3) liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business that do not exceed $50,000 in the aggregate.

2.7 COMPLIANCE WITH OTHER INSTRUMENTS, ETC. The Company is not, and will not by virtue of entering into and performing the Agreements and the transactions contemplated thereunder be, in violation of any term of the Certificate or Bylaws or any term or provision of any material mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement, instrument, judgment or decree to which it is a party or by which it is bound, and is not, and will not by virtue of entering into and performing the Agreements and the transactions contemplated thereunder be, in violation of any order addressed specifically to the Company nor, to the best of the Company's knowledge, any order, statute, rule or regulation applicable to the Company.

2.8 LITIGATION, ETC. There are no actions, suits, proceedings or investigations pending or threatened against the Company before any court or governmental agency. To the best of the Company's knowledge, there is no judgment, decree, or order of any court in effect against the Company and the Company is not in default with respect to any order of any governmental authority to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound. There is no action, suit, proceeding, or investigation by the Company currently pending or which the Company presently intends to initiate.

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2.9 REGISTRATION RIGHTS. Except as set forth in the Investors' Rights Agreement, the Company is not under any obligation to register (as defined in
Section 1.2 of the Investors' Rights Agreement) any of its presently outstanding securities or any of its securities that may hereafter be issued.

2.10 GOVERNMENTAL CONSENT, ETC. No consent, approval or authorization of or designation, declaration or filing with any governmental authority on the part of the Company is required in connection with the valid execution and delivery of the Agreements, or the offer, sale or issuance of the Preferred (and the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) or the consummation of any other transaction contemplated thereby, except for (a) the filing of the Certificate in the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and (b) the filing of a Notice with the California Commissioner of Corporations pursuant to Section 25102(f) of the California Corporations Code and/or such other filings as may be required under other applicable blue sky laws, which filings, if required, will be accomplished in a timely manner prior to or promptly upon completion of the Closing, as applicable.

2.11 OFFERING. Subject to the accuracy of the representations set forth in
Section 3 hereof, the offer, sale and issuance of the Preferred pursuant to this Agreement and the issuance of the Common Stock to be issued upon conversion of the Preferred constitute transactions exempt from the registration requirements of Section 5 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").

2.12 CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS. Since its date of incorporation, the Company has not (a) discharged or satisfied any obligation or liability other than as authorized by its Board of Directors, or in the ordinary course of business or in amounts less than $100,000 in the aggregate, (b) declared or made any payment or distribution to its shareholders or redeemed or purchased any of its shares of capital stock or securities, (c) mortgaged or subjected to encumbrances any of its assets, (d) sold, transferred or leased to third parties any of its assets except in the ordinary course of business, (e) canceled or compromised any material debt or any claim or waived or released any right of material value, suffered any physical damage or destruction or loss materially and adversely affecting its properties, operations or business, (f) made any loans or advances to any persons other than immaterial amounts (both individually and in the aggregate) in the ordinary course of business or (g) entered into any material transaction other than as approved by its Board of Directors or in the ordinary course of business or agreed to any of the foregoing other than with respect to transactions relating to this Agreement.

2.13 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. To the best of its knowledge (but without having conducted any special investigation or patent search), the Company has or will be able to license on commercially reasonable terms sufficient legal rights to all patents, copyrights, trade secrets, information, proprietary rights and processes (collectively "Proprietary Information") necessary for its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted without any conflict with or infringement of the rights of others. Except for agreements with its own officers and employees, substantially in the forms referenced in Section 2.14 below, there are no outstanding options, licenses, or agreements of any kind relating to the foregoing, nor is the Company bound by or

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a party to any options, licenses or agreements of any kind with respect to the patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, trade secrets, licenses, information, proprietary rights and processes of any other person or entity. The Company has not received any communications alleging that the Company has violated or infringed or that the Company would, by conducting its business as proposed, violate or infringe any of the patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights or trade secrets or other proprietary rights of any other person or entity. Neither the execution nor delivery of this Agreement, nor the carrying on of the Company's business by the employees of and consultants to the Company, nor the conduct of the Company's business as proposed, will, to the Company's knowledge, conflict with or result in a breach of the terms, conditions, or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any contract, covenant, or instrument under which any of such employees is now obligated. The Company does not believe it is or will be necessary to utilize any inventions of any of its employees (or people it currently intends to hire) made prior to their employment by the Company.

2.14 EMPLOYEE AND CONSULTANT AGREEMENTS. All employees and consultants of the Company have entered into proprietary information and inventions agreements, substantially in the Company's standard forms and, to the best of the Company's knowledge, none of the Company's current or former employees or consultants is in violation of such agreements.

2.15 DISCLOSURE. To the best of the Company's knowledge after reasonable investigation, none of the representations or warranties made by the Company in this Agreement and no information in the Exhibits hereto contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements contained herein and therein not misleading.

2.16 BROKERS OR FINDERS. The Company has not entered into any agreement or arrangement giving rise to any liability for brokerage or finders' fees or agents' commissions or any similar charges in connection with the Agreements.

2.17 NO DIVIDENDS. The Company has not made any declaration, setting aside for payment or other distribution in respect of any of the Company's capital stock or any direct or indirect redemption, repurchase or other acquisition of any of such stock.

2.18 CONTRACTS. Except as listed on Exhibit C, the Company is not party to any contract or agreement (i) with expected receipts or expenditures in excess of $10,000, (ii) involving a license or grant of rights to or from the Company involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other proprietary information applicable to the business of the Company, (iii) with provisions restricting or affecting the development, manufacture, or distribution of the Company's products or services, or (iv) that provides indemnification by the Company with respect to infringements of proprietary rights.

2.19 EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION PLANS. Except as listed on Exhibit C, the Company is not party to or bound by any currently effective employment contracts, deferred compensation agreements, bonus plans, incentive plans, profit sharing plans, retirement agreements, or other

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employee compensation agreements. Subject to general principles related to wrongful termination of employees, the employment of each officer and employee of the Company is terminable at the will of the Company.

2.20 RELATED-PARTY TRANSACTIONS. No employee, officer, or director of the Company or member of his or her immediate family is indebted to the Company, nor is the Company indebted (or committed to make loans or extend or guarantee credit) to any of them. To the best of the Company's knowledge, none of such persons has any direct or indirect ownership interest in any firm or corporation with which the Company is affiliated or with which the Company has a business relationship, or any firm or corporation that competes with the Company, except that employees, officers, or directors of the Company and members of their immediate families may own stock in publicly traded companies that may compete with the Company.

2.21 MANUFACTURING AND MARKETING RIGHTS. The Company has not granted rights to manufacture, produce, assemble, license, market, or sell its products to any other person, corporation, partnership or other entity, and is not bound by any agreement that affects the Company's exclusive right to develop, manufacture, assemble, distribute, market, or sell its products, and has not licensed or sold any of its technology or proprietary information to any person, corporation, partnership or other entity.

2.22 CORPORATE DOCUMENTS. The Company has furnished the Investors with copies of the Certificate and Bylaws as currently in effect. Said copies are true, correct, and complete and contain all amendments through the Closing Date.

SECTION 3 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE INVESTORS

Each Investor hereby severally, for itself, and not jointly represents and warrants to the Company as follows:

3.1 AUTHORIZATION. The Agreements constitute valid and legally binding obligations of such Investor, enforceable in accordance with their terms except as the enforceability thereof may be subject to the effect of (i) any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other law relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally, and (ii) general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law). Such Investor is authorized and has full right and power to purchase the Preferred, and the person signing the Agreements and any other instrument executed and delivered hereby on behalf of such entity has been duly authorized by such entity and has full power and authority to do so.

3.2 EXPERIENCE. The Investor has, from time to time, evaluated investments in new, high technology companies and has, either individually or through the personal experience of one or more of its current officers or partners, experience in evaluating and investing in new, high technology companies. The Investor has such knowledge and experience in financial and

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business matters such that it is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of its investment in the Preferred and it is able to protect its own interests in connection with this transaction.

3.3 INVESTMENT. The Investor is acquiring the Preferred (and any Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) for investment for its own account and not with the view to, or for resale in connection with, any distribution thereof. The Investor understands that the Preferred (and any Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) to be purchased has not been registered under the Securities Act by reason of a specific exemption from the registration provisions of the Securities Act which depends upon, among other things, the bona fide nature of the investment intent as expressed herein.

3.4 RULE 144. The Investor acknowledges that the Preferred must be held indefinitely unless subsequently registered under the Securities Act or an exemption from such registration is available. The Investor is aware of the provisions of Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act which permits limited resale of shares purchased in a private placement subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, including, among other things, the existence of a public market for the shares, the availability of certain current public information about the Company, the resale occurring not less than two years after a party has purchased and paid for the securities to be sold, the sale being through a "broker's transaction" or in transactions directly with a "market maker" (as provided by Rule 144(f)) and the number of shares being sold during any three-month period not exceeding specified limitations. The Investor is aware that the conditions for resale set forth in Rule 144 have not been satisfied and that the Company has no plan to satisfy these conditions in the foreseeable future.

3.5 ACCREDITED INVESTORS. The Investor is an "accredited investor" pursuant to Rule 501, Regulation D, promulgated by the Securities Exchange on March 8, 1982, as described in Exhibit F hereto.

3.6 NO PUBLIC MARKET. The Investor understands that no public market now exists for any of the securities issued by the Company and that it is unlikely that a public market will ever exist for the Preferred.

3.7 ACCESS TO DATA. The Investor has had an opportunity to discuss the Company's business, management and financial affairs with its management. The Investor understands that such discussions, as well as any written information issued by the Company, were intended to describe the aspects of the Company's business and prospects which the Company believes to be material.

3.8 RESIDENCE. If the Purchaser is an individual, then the purchaser resides in the state or province identified in the address of the Purchaser set forth on Exhibit A; if the Purchaser is a partnership, corporation, limited liability company or other entity, then the office or offices of the Purchaser in which its investment decision was made is located at the address or addresses of the Purchaser set forth on Exhibit A.

SECTION 4

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CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF INVESTORS

Each Investor's obligation to purchase the Preferred at the Closing is subject to the fulfillment to its satisfaction on or prior to the Closing Date of the following conditions:

4.1 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. The representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 2 shall be true on and as of the Closing with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of the date of the Closing.

4.2 COVENANTS. All covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement to be performed by the Company on or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed or complied with in all respects.

4.3 NO MATERIAL ADVERSE CHANGE. There shall have been no material adverse change in the Company's financial condition, affairs or prospects between the date of this Agreement and the Closing Date, if different.

4.4 BLUE SKY. The Company shall have obtained all necessary Blue Sky law permits and qualifications, or secured exemptions therefrom, required by any state for the offer and sale of the Preferred and Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred.

4.5 BOARD OF DIRECTORS. The Board of Directors of the Company immediately following the Closing will consist of Pehong Chen, David L. Anderson and Yogen K. Dalal.

4.6 COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE. The Company shall have delivered on the Closing Date a certificate signed by an officer of the Company certifying that the conditions specified in Sections 4.1 through 4.4 have been fulfilled.

4.7 OPINION OF COUNSEL. The Investors shall have received from Cooley Godward, counsel for the Company, an opinion in substantially the form of Exhibit E attached to this Agreement.

4.8 INVESTORS' RIGHTS AGREEMENT. The Company and Investors shall have entered into the Investors' Rights Agreement.

4.9 AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION. The Certificate shall have been filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware.

SECTION 5 CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF COMPANY

The Company's obligation to issue and sell the Preferred at the Closing is subject to the fulfillment of the following conditions:

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5.1 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. The representations and warranties of the Investors contained in Section 3 shall be true on and as of the Closing with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of the Closing.

5.2 COVENANTS. All covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement to be performed by Investors on or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed or complied with in all respects.

5.3 BLUE SKY. The Company shall have obtained all necessary Blue Sky law permits and qualifications, or secured exemptions therefrom, required by any state for the offer and sale of the Preferred and Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred.

5.4 INVESTORS' RIGHTS AGREEMENT. The Company and Investors shall have entered into the Investors' Rights Agreement.

5.5 AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION. The Certificate shall have been filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware.

SECTION 6 MISCELLANEOUS

6.1 GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of California as applicable to contracts entered into and performed entirely within the State of California.

6.2 SURVIVAL. The representations, warranties, covenants and agreements made herein shall survive any investigation made by Investors and the closing of the transactions contemplated hereby. All statements as to factual matters contained in this Agreement or in any certificate or other instrument delivered by or on behalf of the Company pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed to be made as of the date of this Agreement, and not necessarily as of some later date.

6.3 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. Except as otherwise provided herein, the provisions hereof shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, the successors, assigns, heirs, executors and administrators of the parties hereto, provided, however, that the rights of Investors to purchase the Preferred shall not be assignable without the consent of the Company.

6.4 ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Agreement and the other documents delivered pursuant hereto constitute the full and entire understanding and agreement between the parties with regard to the subjects hereof and thereof.

6.5 RIGHTS OF INVESTORS. Each holder of the Preferred (and Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Preferred) shall have the absolute right to exercise or refrain from exercising any right or rights that such holder may have by reason of this Agreement or ownership of any Preferred, including without limitation the right to consent to the waiver of

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any obligation of the Company under this Agreement and to enter into an agreement with the Company for the purpose of modifying this Agreement or any agreement affecting any such modification, and such holder shall not incur any liability to any other holder or holders of Preferred with respect to exercising or refraining from exercising any such right or rights.

6.6 NOTICES, ETC. All notices and other communications required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and shall be mailed by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, or otherwise delivered by hand or by messenger, addressed (a) if to the Investors, to Investors' addresses set forth on the signature page hereof or at such other address as shall have been furnished to the Company in writing by such Investors or (b) if to the Company, to the address of its principal executive office and addressed to the attention of the Corporate Secretary, or at such other address or addresses as the Company shall have furnished in writing to the Investors. All notices and other communications mailed pursuant to the provisions of this Section 8.6 shall be deemed delivered when mailed.

6.7 EXPENSES. The Company shall pay all costs and expenses that it incurs with respect to the negotiation, execution, delivery and performance of the Agreement. The Company shall, at the Closing, reimburse the reasonable fees of one (1) special counsel for the Purchasers, not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000), and shall reimburse such special counsel for reasonable expenses incurred in connection with the negotiation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement.

6.8 COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be enforceable against the party actually executing such counterpart, and which together shall constitute one instrument.

6.9 SEVERABILITY. In the event that any provision of this Agreement becomes or is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, unenforceable or void, this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect without said provision; provided that no such severability shall be effective if it materially changes the economic benefit of this Agreement to any party.

6.10 CALIFORNIA CORPORATE SECURITIES LAW. The sale of the securities which are the subject of this Agreement has not been qualified with the Commissioner of corporations of the state of California, and the issuance of such securities or the payment or receipt of any part of the consideration therefor prior to such qualification, if required by law, is unlawful. The rights of all parties to this agreement are expressly conditioned upon such qualification being obtained, if required by law.

6.11 APPROVAL OF AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS. Any term of this agreement may be amended or terminated and the observance of any term of this Agreement may be waived (either generally or in a particular instance and either retroactively or prospectively) with the written consent of the Company and the holders of a majority of the outstanding Preferred Stock sold under this Agreement, and Common Stock issued upon conversion thereof (calculated on an as-converted basis), excluding from the determination of such a majority (both in determining the total number of such shares outstanding and the number of such shares consenting or not

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consenting) all shares previously disposed of by the Investors or transferees pursuant to one or more registration statements under the Securities Act or pursuant to Rule 144 thereunder. Any amendment, termination or waiver effected in accordance with this section shall be binding upon each holder of any securities issued pursuant to this Agreement (including securities into which such securities have been converted or exchanged), each future holder of any or all such securities and the Company.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the foregoing Series C Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement is hereby executed as of the date first above written.

BROADVISION, INC.

By:          /s/ Pehong Chen
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               PEHONG CHEN
               President

INVESTORS:

          /s/ Andy Chase
- ----------------------------------------
ANDREW CHASE

GC&H INVESTMENTS,
A CALIFORNIA GENERAL PARTNERSHIP

By:         /s/ John L. Cardoza
   -------------------------------------
     John L. Cardoza
     Executive Partner

GENSTAR INVESTMENT CORPORATION

By:       /s/ Richard D. Paterson
   -------------------------------------

Name:        Richard D. Paterson
     -----------------------------------

Title:    Executive Vice President
      ----------------------------------

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


          /s/ Koh Boon Hwee
- ----------------------------------------
KOH BOON HWEE

ITOCHU CORPORATION

By:         /s/ Bunei Yoshizumi
   -------------------------------------

Name:         Bunei Yoshizumi
     -----------------------------------

Title:        General Manager
      ----------------------------------

ITOCHU TECHNO-SCIENCE CORPORATION

By:           /s/ Hiro Satake
   -------------------------------------

Name:           Hiro Satake
     -----------------------------------

Title:           President
      ----------------------------------


           /s/ Ikuo Minakata
- ----------------------------------------
IKUO MINAKATA

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

By:            /s/ Carol Gilmer
   -------------------------------------

Name:            Carol Gilmer
     -----------------------------------

Title:        Assistant Secretary
      ----------------------------------

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


WELLS FARGO BANK, TRUSTEE
SHV M/P/T FBO G. LEONARD BAKER, JR.

By:     /s/ Christopher M. Peterson
   -------------------------------------

Name:      Christopher M. Petersen
     -----------------------------------

Title:    Assistant Vice President
      ----------------------------------

           /s/ Elserino Piol
- ----------------------------------------
ELSERINO PIOL

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


EXHIBIT A

SCHEDULE OF INVESTORS

                                                SERIES C
                                                PREFERRED
                                                 SHARES        PRICE


Andrew Chase                                     10,000       $20,000
3000 Sand Hill Road, 3-190
Menlo Park, CA  94025

GC&H Investments,                                18,000       $36,000
a California General Partnership
One Maritime Plaza, 20th Floor
San Francisco, CA  94111
Attn:  John L. Cardoza

Genstar Investment Corporation                   4,902        $9,804
Metro Tower, Suite 1170
Foster City, CA  94404
Attn:  Mr. R.D. Paterson
(415) 286-2366

Koh Boon Hwee                                    19,600       $39,200
11 Mount Echo Park
Singapore 1024

Itochu Corporation                             125,000      $250,000
5-1 Kita-Aoyama, 2-chome
Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-77
Japan

Itochu Techno-Science Corporation              125,000      $250,000
16-7, Komazawa 1-chome
Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 154
Japan

                                                SERIES C
                                                PREFERRED
                                                 SHARES        PRICE

Elserino Piol                                    4,800        $9,600
c/o Alexandra Giurgiu
Managing Director
Olivetti Management Inc.
70 East 55th Street
New York, NY  10022

Stanford University                              17,200       $34,400
2770 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA  94025
Attn:  Carol Gilmer

Wells Fargo Bank, Trustee                       15,703       $31,406
SHV M/P/T FBO G. Leonard Baker, Jr.
Attn:  Chris Petersen
P.O. Box 63050 MAC 0188-161
San Francisco, CA  94163
(415) 396-2260

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TOTAL                                          340,205      $680,410


BROADVISION, INC.


SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT

THIRD CLOSING
AUGUST 7, 1995


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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SECTION 1 AUTHORIZATION AND SALE OF THE SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK............  1

    1.1  Authorization......................................................  1
    1.2  Sale of Preferred..................................................  1
    1.3  Closing Date.......................................................  1
    1.4  Subsequent Sale of Series C Preferred Stock........................  1
    1.5  Delivery...........................................................  2

SECTION 2 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY.....................  2

    2.1  Organization and Standing.  .......................................  2
    2.2  Corporate Power....................................................  2
    2.3  Subsidiaries.......................................................  2
    2.4  Capitalization.....................................................  2
    2.5  Authorization......................................................  3
    2.6  Material Liabilities...............................................  3
    2.7  Compliance with Other Instruments, etc.............................  3
    2.8  Litigation, etc....................................................  3
    2.9  Registration Rights................................................  4
    2.10 Governmental Consent, etc..........................................  4
    2.11 Offering...........................................................  4
    2.12 Certain Transactions...............................................  4
    2.13 Intellectual Property..............................................  4
    2.14 Employee and Consultant Agreements.................................  5
    2.15 Disclosure.........................................................  5
    2.16 Brokers or Finders.................................................  5
    2.17 No Dividends.......................................................  5
    2.18 Contracts..........................................................  5
    2.19 Employee Compensation Plans........................................  6
    2.20 Related-Party Transactions.........................................  6
    2.21 Manufacturing and Marketing Rights.................................  6
    2.22 Corporate Documents................................................  6

SECTION 3 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE INVESTORS...................  6

    3.1  Authorization......................................................  6
    3.2  Experience.........................................................  6
    3.3  Investment.........................................................  7
    3.4  Rule 144...........................................................  7
    3.5  Accredited Investors...............................................  7
    3.6  No Public Market...................................................  7

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    3.7  Access to Data.....................................................  7
    3.8  Residence..........................................................  7

SECTION 4 CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF INVESTORS................................  8

    4.1  Representations and Warranties.....................................  8
    4.2  Covenants..........................................................  8
    4.3  No Material Adverse Change.........................................  8
    4.4  Blue Sky...........................................................  8
    4.5  Board of Directors.................................................  8
    4.6  Compliance Certificate.............................................  8
    4.7  Opinion of Counsel.................................................  8
    4.8  Investors' Rights Agreement........................................  8
    4.9  Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation..................  8

SECTION 5 CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF COMPANY..................................  8

    5.1  Representations and Warranties.....................................  9
    5.2  Covenants. ........................................................  9
    5.3  Blue Sky...........................................................  9
    5.4  Investors' Rights Agreement........................................  9
    5.5  Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation..................  9

SECTION 6 MISCELLANEOUS.....................................................  9

    6.1  Governing Law......................................................  9
    6.2  Survival...........................................................  9
    6.3  Successors and Assigns.............................................  9
    6.4  Entire Agreement...................................................  9
    6.5  Rights of Investors................................................  9
    6.6  Notices, etc....................................................... 10
    6.7  Expenses........................................................... 10
    6.8  Counterparts....................................................... 10
    6.9  Severability....................................................... 10
    6.10 California Corporate Securities Law................................ 10
    6.11 Approval of Amendments and Waivers................................. 10

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SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT

THIS AGREEMENT is made as of August 7, 1995 between BROADVISION, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Company") and the investors as set forth in Exhibit A hereto ("Investors").

SECTION 1 AUTHORIZATION AND SALE OF THE SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK

1.1 AUTHORIZATION. The Company has authorized the issuance and sale of up to four million (4,000,000) shares of its Series C Preferred Stock (the "Preferred") having the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions set forth in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation in the form attached to this Agreement as Exhibit B (the "Certificate").

1.2 SALE OF PREFERRED. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Investor severally agrees to purchase and the Company agrees to sell and issue to each Investor the number of shares of Preferred set forth opposite such Investor's name on Exhibit A at a price of two dollars ($2.00) per share.

1.3 CLOSING DATE. The third closing of the purchase and sale of the Preferred hereunder (the "Third Closing") shall be held at the law offices of Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum ("Cooley Godward"), One Maritime Plaza, 20th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111. The Third Closing shall be held on the date of this Agreement or at such other time and place upon which the Company and the Investors shall agree (the date of the Third Closing is hereinafter referred to as the "Third Closing Date"). The first closing hereunder, consisting of the purchase and sale of 1,729,395 shares of the Preferred (the "First Closing") took place of May 26, 1995. The second closing hereunder consisting of the sale and purchase of 340,205 shares of the Preferred (the "Second Closing") took place on June 9, 1995.

1.4 SUBSEQUENT SALE OF SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK. If less than an aggregate of four million (4,000,000) shares of Preferred are sold at the First Closing, the Second Closing and the Third Closing, then, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Company may sell, on or before August 8, 1995, up to the balance between four million (4,000,000) shares of Preferred and the number of shares sold at the First Closing, the Second Closing and the Third Closing to such persons as the Company may determine at the same price per share as the Preferred purchased at the First Closing, the Second Closing and the Third Closing. Any sale pursuant to this Section 1.4 shall be upon the same terms and conditions as those contained herein (provided that the Schedule of Exceptions may be adjusted to reflect subsequent events), and such persons or entities shall become parties to this Agreement and Investors' Rights Agreement (as defined in Section 2.2) by the execution of a copy of such agreements and each such person or entity shall have the rights and obligations of a Purchaser hereunder and thereunder. The term "Closing" shall apply to the Third Closing and each subsequent closing pursuant to this Section 1.4 unless otherwise specified, and the term "Closing Date" shall apply

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to the Third Closing Date and each subsequent closing date pursuant to this
Section 1.4 unless otherwise specified.

1.5 DELIVERY. At the Closing, the Company will deliver to each Investor a certificate representing the shares of Preferred that such Investor is purchasing against payment of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer or by check payable to the order of the Company.

SECTION 2 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY

Except as set forth in the Schedule of Exceptions attached hereto as Exhibit C, the Company hereby represents and warrants to each Investor as follows:

2.1 ORGANIZATION AND STANDING. The Company is a corporation duly organized and validly existing under, and by virtue of, the laws of the State of Delaware and is in good standing under such laws. The Company has all requisite corporate power to own and operate its properties and assets and to carry on its business as presently conducted and as proposed to be conducted. The Company is qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is presently required.

2.2 CORPORATE POWER. The Company will have at the Closing Date all requisite legal and corporate power to execute and deliver this Agreement and the Amended and Restated Investors' Rights Agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D (the "Investors' Rights Agreement") (the Agreement and the Investors' Rights Agreement are hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Agreements"), to sell and issue the Preferred under this Agreement, to issue the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred and to carry out and perform its obligations under the terms of the Agreements, including all exhibits and schedules hereto and thereto.

2.3 SUBSIDIARIES. The Company does not own or control, directly or indirectly, any other corporation, association or business entity.

2.4 CAPITALIZATION. The authorized capital stock of the Company consists, or immediately prior to the Closing will consist, of: twenty-two million (22,000,000) shares of Common Stock, of which six million one hundred seven thousand eight hundred (6,107,800) are issued and outstanding; and ten million (10,000,000) shares of Preferred Stock, of which four million three hundred thousand (4,300,000) are designated "Series A Preferred Stock" (of which four million two hundred sixty-six thousand six hundred sixty-seven (4,266,667) are issued and outstanding); one million four hundred thousand (1,400,000) are designated "Series B Preferred Stock" (of which one million three hundred thirty-three thousand three hundred thirty-three (1,333,333) are issued and outstanding); and four million (4,000,000) are designated "Series C Preferred Stock" (of which two million sixty-nine thousand six hundred (2,069,600) are issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Third Closing). All such issued and outstanding shares have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable. The Preferred has the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions set forth in the Certificate.

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Except (i) for the conversion privileges of the Preferred specified in the Certificate, (ii) as set forth in the Investors' Rights Agreement, (iii) the arrangements with respect to employee stock set forth in Exhibit C and (iv) as otherwise set forth in Exhibit C, there are no options, warrants, conversion privileges or other rights presently outstanding to purchase or otherwise acquire any authorized but unissued shares of the Company's capital stock or other securities of the Company. All outstanding securities of the Company were issued in compliance with the registration or qualification provisions of all applicable U.S. federal and state securities laws.

2.5 AUTHORIZATION. All corporate action on the part of the Company, its officers, directors and shareholders necessary for the authorization, execution, delivery and performance of the Agreements by the Company, the authorization, sale, issuance and delivery of the Preferred (and the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) and the performance of the Company's obligations under the Agreements has been taken or will be taken prior to the Closing. The Agreements, when executed and delivered by the Company, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to laws of general application relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, the relief of debtors, general equity principles, and limitations upon rights to indemnity. The Preferred, when issued in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free of restrictions on transfer other than restrictions under the Agreements and under applicable federal and state securities laws. The Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred has been duly and validly reserved and, when issued in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free of restrictions on transfer other than restrictions under the Agreements, the right of first refusal provided in the Company's Bylaws, and applicable federal and state securities laws. The Preferred is not subject to any preemptive rights or rights of first refusal.

2.6 MATERIAL LIABILITIES. The Company has no material indebtedness or liabilities, absolute or contingent (individually or in the aggregate), except
(1) with respect to services rendered by its employees or consultants; (2) with respect to unpaid legal and other fees and costs incurred in connection with the ongoing business of the Company, and the issuance of the Preferred in connection with this Agreement; and (3) liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business that do not exceed $50,000 in the aggregate.

2.7 COMPLIANCE WITH OTHER INSTRUMENTS, ETC. The Company is not, and will not by virtue of entering into and performing the Agreements and the transactions contemplated thereunder be, in violation of any term of the Certificate or Bylaws or any term or provision of any material mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement, instrument, judgment or decree to which it is a party or by which it is bound, and is not, and will not by virtue of entering into and performing the Agreements and the transactions contemplated thereunder be, in violation of any order addressed specifically to the Company nor, to the best of the Company's knowledge, any order, statute, rule or regulation applicable to the Company.

2.8 LITIGATION, ETC. There are no actions, suits, proceedings or investigations pending or threatened against the Company before any court or governmental agency. To the best of the

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Company's knowledge, there is no judgment, decree, or order of any court in effect against the Company and the Company is not in default with respect to any order of any governmental authority to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound. There is no action, suit, proceeding, or investigation by the Company currently pending or which the Company presently intends to initiate.

2.9 REGISTRATION RIGHTS. Except as set forth in the Investors' Rights Agreement, the Company is not under any obligation to register (as defined in
Section 1.2 of the Investors' Rights Agreement) any of its presently outstanding securities or any of its securities that may hereafter be issued.

2.10 GOVERNMENTAL CONSENT, ETC. No consent, approval or authorization of or designation, declaration or filing with any governmental authority on the part of the Company is required in connection with the valid execution and delivery of the Agreements, or the offer, sale or issuance of the Preferred (and the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) or the consummation of any other transaction contemplated thereby, except for (a) the filing of the Certificate in the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and (b) the filing of a Notice with the California Commissioner of Corporations pursuant to Section 25102(f) of the California Corporations Code and/or such other filings as may be required under other applicable blue sky laws, which filings, if required, will be accomplished in a timely manner prior to or promptly upon completion of the Closing, as applicable.

2.11 OFFERING. Subject to the accuracy of the representations set forth in Section 3 hereof, the offer, sale and issuance of the Preferred pursuant to this Agreement and the issuance of the Common Stock to be issued upon conversion of the Preferred constitute transactions exempt from the registration requirements of Section 5 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").

2.12 CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS. Since its date of incorporation, the Company has not (a) discharged or satisfied any obligation or liability other than as authorized by its Board of Directors, or in the ordinary course of business or in amounts less than $100,000 in the aggregate, (b) declared or made any payment or distribution to its shareholders or redeemed or purchased any of its shares of capital stock or securities, (c) mortgaged or subjected to encumbrances any of its assets, (d) sold, transferred or leased to third parties any of its assets except in the ordinary course of business, (e) canceled or compromised any material debt or any claim or waived or released any right of material value, suffered any physical damage or destruction or loss materially and adversely affecting its properties, operations or business, (f) made any loans or advances to any persons other than immaterial amounts (both individually and in the aggregate) in the ordinary course of business or (g) entered into any material transaction other than as approved by its Board of Directors or in the ordinary course of business or agreed to any of the foregoing other than with respect to transactions relating to this Agreement.

2.13 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. To the best of its knowledge (but without having conducted any special investigation or patent search), the Company has or will be able to license

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on commercially reasonable terms sufficient legal rights to all patents, copyrights, trade secrets, information, proprietary rights and processes (collectively "Proprietary Information") necessary for its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted without any conflict with or infringement of the rights of others. Except for agreements with its own officers and employees, substantially in the forms referenced in Section 2.14 below, there are no outstanding options, licenses, or agreements of any kind relating to the foregoing, nor is the Company bound by or a party to any options, licenses or agreements of any kind with respect to the patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, trade secrets, licenses, information, proprietary rights and processes of any other person or entity. The Company has not received any communications alleging that the Company has violated or infringed or that the Company would, by conducting its business as proposed, violate or infringe any of the patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights or trade secrets or other proprietary rights of any other person or entity. Neither the execution nor delivery of this Agreement, nor the carrying on of the Company's business by the employees of and consultants to the Company, nor the conduct of the Company's business as proposed, will, to the Company's knowledge, conflict with or result in a breach of the terms, conditions, or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any contract, covenant, or instrument under which any of such employees is now obligated. The Company does not believe it is or will be necessary to utilize any inventions of any of its employees (or people it currently intends to hire) made prior to their employment by the Company.

2.14 EMPLOYEE AND CONSULTANT AGREEMENTS. All employees and consultants of the Company have entered into proprietary information and inventions agreements, substantially in the Company's standard forms and, to the best of the Company's knowledge, none of the Company's current or former employees or consultants is in violation of such agreements.

2.15 DISCLOSURE. To the best of the Company's knowledge after reasonable investigation, none of the representations or warranties made by the Company in this Agreement and no information in the Exhibits hereto contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements contained herein and therein not misleading.

2.16 BROKERS OR FINDERS. The Company has not entered into any agreement or arrangement giving rise to any liability for brokerage or finders' fees or agents' commissions or any similar charges in connection with the Agreements.

2.17 NO DIVIDENDS. The Company has not made any declaration, setting aside for payment or other distribution in respect of any of the Company's capital stock or any direct or indirect redemption, repurchase or other acquisition of any of such stock.

2.18 CONTRACTS. Except as listed on Exhibit C, the Company is not party to any contract or agreement (i) with expected receipts or expenditures in excess of $10,000, (ii) involving a license or grant of rights to or from the Company involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other proprietary information applicable to the business of the Company, (iii) with provisions restricting or affecting the development, manufacture, or distribution of the

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Company's products or services, or (iv) that provides indemnification by the Company with respect to infringements of proprietary rights.

2.19 EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION PLANS. Except as listed on Exhibit C, the Company is not party to or bound by any currently effective employment contracts, deferred compensation agreements, bonus plans, incentive plans, profit sharing plans, retirement agreements, or other employee compensation agreements. Subject to general principles related to wrongful termination of employees, the employment of each officer and employee of the Company is terminable at the will of the Company.

2.20 RELATED-PARTY TRANSACTIONS. No employee, officer, or director of the Company or member of his or her immediate family is indebted to the Company, nor is the Company indebted (or committed to make loans or extend or guarantee credit) to any of them. To the best of the Company's knowledge, none of such persons has any direct or indirect ownership interest in any firm or corporation with which the Company is affiliated or with which the Company has a business relationship, or any firm or corporation that competes with the Company, except that employees, officers, or directors of the Company and members of their immediate families may own stock in publicly traded companies that may compete with the Company.

2.21 MANUFACTURING AND MARKETING RIGHTS. The Company has not granted rights to manufacture, produce, assemble, license, market, or sell its products to any other person, corporation, partnership or other entity, and is not bound by any agreement that affects the Company's exclusive right to develop, manufacture, assemble, distribute, market, or sell its products, and has not licensed or sold any of its technology or proprietary information to any person, corporation, partnership or other entity.

2.22 CORPORATE DOCUMENTS. The Company has furnished the Investors with copies of the Certificate and Bylaws as currently in effect. Said copies are true, correct, and complete and contain all amendments through the Closing Date.

SECTION 3 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE INVESTORS

Each Investor hereby severally, for itself, and not jointly represents and warrants to the Company as follows:

3.1 AUTHORIZATION. The Agreements constitute valid and legally binding obligations of such Investor, enforceable in accordance with their terms except as the enforceability thereof may be subject to the effect of (i) any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other law relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally, and (ii) general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law). Such Investor is authorized and has full right and power to purchase the Preferred, and the person signing the Agreements and any other instrument executed and delivered hereby on behalf of such entity has been duly authorized by such entity and has full power and authority to do so.

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3.2 EXPERIENCE. The Investor has, from time to time, evaluated investments in new, high technology companies and has, either individually or through the personal experience of one or more of its current officers or partners, experience in evaluating and investing in new, high technology companies. The Investor has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters such that it is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of its investment in the Preferred and it is able to protect its own interests in connection with this transaction.

3.3 INVESTMENT. The Investor is acquiring the Preferred (and any Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) for investment for its own account and not with the view to, or for resale in connection with, any distribution thereof. The Investor understands that the Preferred (and any Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) to be purchased has not been registered under the Securities Act by reason of a specific exemption from the registration provisions of the Securities Act which depends upon, among other things, the bona fide nature of the investment intent as expressed herein.

3.4 RULE 144. The Investor acknowledges that the Preferred must be held indefinitely unless subsequently registered under the Securities Act or an exemption from such registration is available. The Investor is aware of the provisions of Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act which permits limited resale of shares purchased in a private placement subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, including, among other things, the existence of a public market for the shares, the availability of certain current public information about the Company, the resale occurring not less than two years after a party has purchased and paid for the securities to be sold, the sale being through a "broker's transaction" or in transactions directly with a "market maker" (as provided by Rule 144(f)) and the number of shares being sold during any three-month period not exceeding specified limitations. The Investor is aware that the conditions for resale set forth in Rule 144 have not been satisfied and that the Company has no plan to satisfy these conditions in the foreseeable future.

3.5 ACCREDITED INVESTORS. The Investor is an "accredited investor" pursuant to Rule 501, Regulation D, promulgated by the Securities Exchange on March 8, 1982, as described in Exhibit F hereto.

3.6 NO PUBLIC MARKET. The Investor understands that no public market now exists for any of the securities issued by the Company and that it is unlikely that a public market will ever exist for the Preferred.

3.7 ACCESS TO DATA. The Investor has had an opportunity to discuss the Company's business, management and financial affairs with its management. The Investor understands that such discussions, as well as any written information issued by the Company, were intended to describe the aspects of the Company's business and prospects which the Company believes to be material.

3.8 RESIDENCE. If the Purchaser is an individual, then the purchaser resides in the state or province identified in the address of the Purchaser set forth on Exhibit A; if the Purchaser is a partnership, corporation, limited liability company or other entity, then the office

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or offices of the Purchaser in which its investment decision was made is located at the address or addresses of the Purchaser set forth on Exhibit A.

SECTION 4 CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF INVESTORS

Each Investor's obligation to purchase the Preferred at the Closing is subject to the fulfillment to its satisfaction on or prior to the Closing Date of the following conditions:

4.1 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. The representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 2 shall be true on and as of the Closing with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of the date of the Closing.

4.2 COVENANTS. All covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement to be performed by the Company on or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed or complied with in all respects.

4.3 NO MATERIAL ADVERSE CHANGE. There shall have been no material adverse change in the Company's financial condition, affairs or prospects between the date of this Agreement and the Closing Date, if different.

4.4 BLUE SKY. The Company shall have obtained all necessary Blue Sky law permits and qualifications, or secured exemptions therefrom, required by any state for the offer and sale of the Preferred and Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred.

4.5 BOARD OF DIRECTORS. The Board of Directors of the Company immediately following the Closing will consist of Pehong Chen, David L. Anderson and Yogen K. Dalal.

4.6 COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE. The Company shall have delivered on the Closing Date a certificate signed by an officer of the Company certifying that the conditions specified in Sections 4.1 through 4.4 have been fulfilled.

4.7 OPINION OF COUNSEL. The Investors shall have received from Cooley Godward, counsel for the Company, an opinion in substantially the form of Exhibit E attached to this Agreement.

4.8 INVESTORS' RIGHTS AGREEMENT. The Company and Investors shall have entered into the Investors' Rights Agreement.

4.9 AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION. The Certificate shall have been filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware.

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SECTION 5 CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF COMPANY

The Company's obligation to issue and sell the Preferred at the Closing is subject to the fulfillment of the following conditions:

5.1 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. The representations and warranties of the Investors contained in Section 3 shall be true on and as of the Closing with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of the Closing.

5.2 COVENANTS. All covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement to be performed by Investors on or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed or complied with in all respects.

5.3 BLUE SKY. The Company shall have obtained all necessary Blue Sky law permits and qualifications, or secured exemptions therefrom, required by any state for the offer and sale of the Preferred and Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred.

5.4 INVESTORS' RIGHTS AGREEMENT. The Company and Investors shall have entered into the Investors' Rights Agreement.

5.5 AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION. The Certificate shall have been filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware.

SECTION 6 MISCELLANEOUS

6.1 GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of California as applicable to contracts entered into and performed entirely within the State of California.

6.2 SURVIVAL. The representations, warranties, covenants and agreements made herein shall survive any investigation made by Investors and the closing of the transactions contemplated hereby. All statements as to factual matters contained in this Agreement or in any certificate or other instrument delivered by or on behalf of the Company pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed to be made as of the date of this Agreement, and not necessarily as of some later date.

6.3 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. Except as otherwise provided herein, the provisions hereof shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, the successors, assigns, heirs, executors and administrators of the parties hereto, provided, however, that the rights of Investors to purchase the Preferred shall not be assignable without the consent of the Company.

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6.4 ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Agreement and the other documents delivered pursuant hereto constitute the full and entire understanding and agreement between the parties with regard to the subjects hereof and thereof.

6.5 RIGHTS OF INVESTORS. Each holder of the Preferred (and Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Preferred) shall have the absolute right to exercise or refrain from exercising any right or rights that such holder may have by reason of this Agreement or ownership of any Preferred, including without limitation the right to consent to the waiver of any obligation of the Company under this Agreement and to enter into an agreement with the Company for the purpose of modifying this Agreement or any agreement affecting any such modification, and such holder shall not incur any liability to any other holder or holders of Preferred with respect to exercising or refraining from exercising any such right or rights.

6.6 NOTICES, ETC. All notices and other communications required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and shall be mailed by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, or otherwise delivered by hand or by messenger, addressed (a) if to the Investors, to Investors' addresses set forth on the signature page hereof or at such other address as shall have been furnished to the Company in writing by such Investors or (b) if to the Company, to the address of its principal executive office and addressed to the attention of the Corporate Secretary, or at such other address or addresses as the Company shall have furnished in writing to the Investors. All notices and other communications mailed pursuant to the provisions of this Section 8.6 shall be deemed delivered when mailed.

6.7 EXPENSES. The Company shall pay all costs and expenses that it incurs with respect to the negotiation, execution, delivery and performance of the Agreement. The Company shall, at the Closing, reimburse the reasonable fees of one (1) special counsel for the Purchasers, not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000), and shall reimburse such special counsel for reasonable expenses incurred in connection with the negotiation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement.

6.8 COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be enforceable against the party actually executing such counterpart, and which together shall constitute one instrument.

6.9 SEVERABILITY. In the event that any provision of this Agreement becomes or is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, unenforceable or void, this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect without said provision; provided that no such severability shall be effective if it materially changes the economic benefit of this Agreement to any party.

6.10 CALIFORNIA CORPORATE SECURITIES LAW. The sale of the securities which are the subject of this Agreement has not been qualified with the Commissioner of corporations of the state of California, and the issuance of such securities or the payment or receipt of any part of the consideration therefor prior to such qualification, if required by law, is unlawful. The rights of all parties to this agreement are expressly conditioned upon such qualification being obtained, if required by law.

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6.11 APPROVAL OF AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS. Any term of this agreement may be amended or terminated and the observance of any term of this Agreement may be waived (either generally or in a particular instance and either retroactively or prospectively) with the written consent of the Company and the holders of a majority of the outstanding Preferred Stock sold under this Agreement, and Common Stock issued upon conversion thereof (calculated on an as-converted basis), excluding from the determination of such a majority (both in determining the total number of such shares outstanding and the number of such shares consenting or not consenting) all shares previously disposed of by the Investors or transferees pursuant to one or more registration statements under the Securities Act or pursuant to Rule 144 thereunder. Any amendment, termination or waiver effected in accordance with this section shall be binding upon each holder of any securities issued pursuant to this Agreement (including securities into which such securities have been converted or exchanged), each future holder of any or all such securities and the Company.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the foregoing Series C Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement is hereby executed as of the date first above written.

BROADVISION, INC.

By:     /s/  Pehong Chen
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         PEHONG CHEN
         President

INVESTOR:

AMERITECH DEVELOPMENT CORP.

By:    /s/ Thomas W. Touton
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Name:  Thomas W. Touton
     ----------------------------------

Title:  Vice President, Venture Capital
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    /s/  Ronald C. Conway
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RONALD C. CONWAY

    /s/  Carl Dellar
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CARL N.R. DELLAR

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


                                      EXHIBIT A

                                SCHEDULE OF INVESTORS
                                   (THIRD CLOSING)

                                                  SERIES C
                                                 PREFERRED
INVESTOR                                           SHARES           PRICE
- --------                                           ------           -----

Ameritech Development Corp.                       750,000        $1,500,000
30 South Wacker Drive, 37th Floor
Chicago, IL  60606

Ronald C. Conway                                   25,000            50,000
76 Adam Way
Atherton, CA  94027

Carl N. R. Dellar                                   6,000            12,000
10390 Farallone Drive
Cupertino, CA  95014
                                                  -------        ----------

     Total                                        781,000        $1,562,000


BROADVISION, INC.


SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT

FOURTH CLOSING
AUGUST 31, 1995


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SECTION 1   AUTHORIZATION AND SALE OF THE SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK . . . . .   1

     1.1    Authorization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   1
     1.2    Sale of Preferred. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   1
     1.3    Closing Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   1
     1.4    Subsequent Sale of Series C Preferred Stock. . . . . . . . . . .   1
     1.5    Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2

SECTION 2   REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY. . . . . . . . . .   2

     2.1    Organization and Standing.   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     2.2    Corporate Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     2.3    Subsidiaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     2.4    Capitalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     2.5    Authorization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.6    Material Liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.7    Compliance with Other Instruments, etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.8    Litigation, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.9    Registration Rights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.10   Governmental Consent, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.11   Offering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.12   Certain Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.13   Intellectual Property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.14   Employee and Consultant Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     2.15   Disclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     2.16   Brokers or Finders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     2.17   No Dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     2.18   Contracts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     2.19   Employee Compensation Plans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     2.20   Related-Party Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     2.21   Manufacturing and Marketing Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     2.22   Corporate Documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6

SECTION 3   REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE INVESTORS. . . . . . . . .   6

     3.1    Authorization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.2    Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.3    Investment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.4    Rule 144 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.5    Accredited Investors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7


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     3.6    No Public Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.7    Access to Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.8    Residence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7

SECTION 4   CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF INVESTORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8

     4.1    Representations and Warranties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.2    Covenants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.3    No Material Adverse Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.4    Blue Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.5    Board of Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.6    Compliance Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.7    Opinion of Counsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.8    Investors' Rights Agreement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.9    Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation. . . . . . . .   8

SECTION 5   CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8

     5.1    Representations and Warranties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     5.2    Covenants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     5.3    Blue Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     5.4    Investors' Rights Agreement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     5.5    Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation. . . . . . . .   9

SECTION 6   MISCELLANEOUS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9

     6.1    Governing Law. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     6.2    Survival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     6.3    Successors and Assigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     6.4    Entire Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     6.5    Rights of Investors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     6.6    Notices, etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     6.7    Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     6.8    Counterparts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     6.9    Severability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     6.10   California Corporate Securities Law. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     6.11   Approval of Amendments and Waivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10


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EXHIBIT A: SCHEDULE OF INVESTORS
EXHIBIT B: CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
EXHIBIT C: SCHEDULE OF EXCEPTIONS
EXHIBIT D: INVESTORS' RIGHTS AGREEMENT
EXHIBIT E: OPINION OF COOLEY GODWARD
EXHIBIT F: ACCREDITED INVESTORS DEFINITION
EXHIBIT G: FIRST AMENDMENT
EXHIBIT H: CO-SALE AGREEMENT

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SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT

THIS AGREEMENT is made as of August 31, 1995 between BROADVISION, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Company") and the investors as set forth in Exhibit A hereto ("Investors").

SECTION 1 AUTHORIZATION AND SALE OF THE SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK

1.1 AUTHORIZATION. The Company has authorized the issuance and sale of up to four million (4,000,000) shares of its Series C Preferred Stock (the "Preferred") having the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions set forth in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation in the form attached to this Agreement as Exhibit B (the "Certificate").

1.2 SALE OF PREFERRED. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Investor severally agrees to purchase and the Company agrees to sell and issue to each Investor the number of shares of Preferred set forth opposite such Investor's name on Exhibit A at a price of two dollars ($2.00) per share.

1.3 CLOSING DATE. The closing of the purchase and sale of the Preferred hereunder (the "Fourth Closing") shall be held at the law offices of Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum ("Cooley Godward"), One Maritime Plaza, 20th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111. The Fourth Closing shall be held on the date of this Agreement or at such other time and place upon which the Company and the Investors shall agree (the date of the Fourth Closing is hereinafter referred to as the "Fourth Closing Date"). The first closing hereunder, consisting of the purchase and sale of 1,729,395 shares of the Preferred (the "First Closing") took place of May 26, 1995. The second closing hereunder consisting of the sale and purchase of 340,205 shares of the Preferred (the "Second Closing") took place on June 9, 1995. The third closing hereunder consisting of the sale and purchase of 781,000 shares of the Preferred (the "Third Closing") took place on August 7, 1995.

1.4 SUBSEQUENT SALE OF SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK. If less than an aggregate of four million (4,000,000) shares of Preferred are sold at the First Closing and each subsequent Closing then, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Company may sell, on or before September 29, 1995, up to the balance between four million (4,000,000) shares of Preferred and the number of shares sold at the First Closing and each subsequent Closing to such persons as the Company may determine at the same price per share as the Preferred purchased at the First Closing and each subsequent Closing. Any sale pursuant to this
Section 1.4 shall be upon the same terms and conditions as those contained herein (provided that the Schedule of Exceptions may be adjusted to reflect subsequent events), and such persons or entities shall become parties to this Agreement, the First Amendment to this Agreement, the Investors' Rights Agreement and the Co-Sale Agreement (each as defined in Section 2.2), by the execution of a copy of such

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agreements and each such person or entity shall have the rights and obligations of a Purchaser hereunder and thereunder. The term "Closing" shall apply to the Fourth Closing and each subsequent closing pursuant to this Section 1.4 unless otherwise specified, and the term "Closing Date" shall apply to the Fourth Closing Date and each subsequent closing date pursuant to this Section 1.4 unless otherwise specified.

1.5 DELIVERY. At the Closing, the Company will deliver to each Investor a certificate representing the shares of Preferred that such Investor is purchasing against payment of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer or by check payable to the order of the Company.

SECTION 2 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY

Except as set forth in the Schedule of Exceptions attached hereto as Exhibit C, the Company hereby represents and warrants to each Investor as follows:

2.1 ORGANIZATION AND STANDING. The Company is a corporation duly organized and validly existing under, and by virtue of, the laws of the State of Delaware and is in good standing under such laws. The Company has all requisite corporate power to own and operate its properties and assets and to carry on its business as presently conducted and as proposed to be conducted. The Company is qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is presently required.

2.2 CORPORATE POWER. The Company will have at the Closing Date all requisite legal and corporate power to execute and deliver this Agreement, the First Amendment to this Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit G (the "First Amendment"), the Amended and Restated Investors' Rights Agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D (the "Investors' Rights Agreement") and the Co-Sale Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit H (the Agreement, the First Amendment, the Investors' Rights Agreement, and the Co-Sale Agreement are hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Agreements"), to sell and issue the Preferred under this Agreement, to issue the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred and to carry out and perform its obligations under the terms of the Agreements, including all exhibits and schedules hereto and thereto.

2.3 SUBSIDIARIES. The Company does not own or control, directly or indirectly, any other corporation, association or business entity.

2.4 CAPITALIZATION. The authorized capital stock of the Company consists, or immediately prior to the Closing will consist, of: twenty-two million (22,000,000) shares of Common Stock, of which six million one hundred seven thousand eight hundred (6,107,800) are issued and outstanding; and ten million (10,000,000) shares of Preferred Stock, of which four million three hundred thousand (4,300,000) are designated "Series A Preferred Stock" (of which four million two hundred sixty-six thousand six hundred sixty-seven (4,266,667) are issued and outstanding); one million four hundred thousand (1,400,000) are designated "Series B Preferred Stock" (of which one million three hundred thirty-three thousand three hundred thirty-three

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(1,333,333) are issued and outstanding); and four million (4,000,000) are designated "Series C Preferred Stock" (of which two million eight hundred fifty thousand six hundred (2,850,600) are issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Fourth Closing). All such issued and outstanding shares have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable. The Preferred has the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions set forth in the Certificate. Except (i) for the conversion privileges of the Preferred specified in the Certificate, (ii) as set forth in the Investors' Rights Agreement, (iii) the arrangements with respect to employee stock set forth in Exhibit C and (iv) as otherwise set forth in Exhibit C, there are no options, warrants, conversion privileges or other rights presently outstanding to purchase or otherwise acquire any authorized but unissued shares of the Company's capital stock or other securities of the Company. All outstanding securities of the Company were issued in compliance with the registration or qualification provisions of all applicable U.S. federal and state securities laws.

2.5 AUTHORIZATION. All corporate action on the part of the Company, its officers, directors and shareholders necessary for the authorization, execution, delivery and performance of the Agreements by the Company, the authorization, sale, issuance and delivery of the Preferred (and the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) and the performance of the Company's obligations under the Agreements has been taken or will be taken prior to the Closing. The Agreements, when executed and delivered by the Company, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to laws of general application relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, the relief of debtors, general equity principles, and limitations upon rights to indemnity. The Preferred, when issued in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free of restrictions on transfer other than restrictions under the Agreements and under applicable federal and state securities laws. The Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred has been duly and validly reserved and, when issued in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free of restrictions on transfer other than restrictions under the Agreements, the right of first refusal provided in the Company's Bylaws, and applicable federal and state securities laws. The Preferred is not subject to any preemptive rights or rights of first refusal.

2.6 MATERIAL LIABILITIES. The Company has no material indebtedness or liabilities, absolute or contingent (individually or in the aggregate), except
(1) with respect to services rendered by its employees or consultants; (2) with respect to unpaid legal and other fees and costs incurred in connection with the ongoing business of the Company, and the issuance of the Preferred in connection with this Agreement; and (3) liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business that do not exceed $50,000 in the aggregate.

2.7 COMPLIANCE WITH OTHER INSTRUMENTS, ETC. The Company is not, and will not by virtue of entering into and performing the Agreements and the transactions contemplated thereunder be, in violation of any term of the Certificate or Bylaws or any term or provision of any material mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement, instrument, judgment or decree to which it is a party or by which it is bound, and is not, and will not by virtue of entering into and

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performing the Agreements and the transactions contemplated thereunder be, in violation of any order addressed specifically to the Company nor, to the best of the Company's knowledge, any order, statute, rule or regulation applicable to the Company.

2.8 LITIGATION, ETC. There are no actions, suits, proceedings or investigations pending or threatened against the Company before any court or governmental agency. To the best of the Company's knowledge, there is no judgment, decree, or order of any court in effect against the Company and the Company is not in default with respect to any order of any governmental authority to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound. There is no action, suit, proceeding, or investigation by the Company currently pending or which the Company presently intends to initiate.

2.9 REGISTRATION RIGHTS. Except as set forth in the Investors' Rights Agreement, the Company is not under any obligation to register (as defined in
Section 1.2 of the Investors' Rights Agreement) any of its presently outstanding securities or any of its securities that may hereafter be issued.

2.10 GOVERNMENTAL CONSENT, ETC. No consent, approval or authorization of or designation, declaration or filing with any governmental authority on the part of the Company is required in connection with the valid execution and delivery of the Agreements, or the offer, sale or issuance of the Preferred (and the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) or the consummation of any other transaction contemplated thereby, except for (a) the filing of the Certificate in the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and (b) the filing of a Notice with the California Commissioner of Corporations pursuant to Section 25102(f) of the California Corporations Code and/or such other filings as may be required under other applicable blue sky laws, which filings, if required, will be accomplished in a timely manner prior to or promptly upon completion of the Closing, as applicable.

2.11 OFFERING. Subject to the accuracy of the representations set forth in
Section 3 hereof, the offer, sale and issuance of the Preferred pursuant to this Agreement and the issuance of the Common Stock to be issued upon conversion of the Preferred constitute transactions exempt from the registration requirements of Section 5 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").

2.12 CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS. Since its date of incorporation, the Company has not (a) discharged or satisfied any obligation or liability other than as authorized by its Board of Directors, or in the ordinary course of business or in amounts less than $100,000 in the aggregate, (b) declared or made any payment or distribution to its shareholders or redeemed or purchased any of its shares of capital stock or securities, (c) mortgaged or subjected to encumbrances any of its assets, (d) sold, transferred or leased to third parties any of its assets except in the ordinary course of business, (e) canceled or compromised any material debt or any claim or waived or released any right of material value, suffered any physical damage or destruction or loss materially and adversely affecting its properties, operations or business, (f) made any loans or advances to any persons other than immaterial amounts (both individually and in the aggregate) in the ordinary course of business or (g) entered into any material

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transaction other than as approved by its Board of Directors or in the ordinary course of business or agreed to any of the foregoing other than with respect to transactions relating to this Agreement.

2.13 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. To the best of its knowledge (but without having conducted any special investigation or patent search), the Company has or will be able to license on commercially reasonable terms sufficient legal rights to all patents, copyrights, trade secrets, information, proprietary rights and processes (collectively "Proprietary Information") necessary for its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted without any conflict with or infringement of the rights of others. Except for agreements with its own officers and employees, substantially in the forms referenced in Section 2.14 below, there are no outstanding options, licenses, or agreements of any kind relating to the foregoing, nor is the Company bound by or a party to any options, licenses or agreements of any kind with respect to the patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, trade secrets, licenses, information, proprietary rights and processes of any other person or entity. The Company has not received any communications alleging that the Company has violated or infringed or that the Company would, by conducting its business as proposed, violate or infringe any of the patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights or trade secrets or other proprietary rights of any other person or entity. Neither the execution nor delivery of this Agreement, nor the carrying on of the Company's business by the employees of and consultants to the Company, nor the conduct of the Company's business as proposed, will, to the Company's knowledge, conflict with or result in a breach of the terms, conditions, or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any contract, covenant, or instrument under which any of such employees is now obligated. The Company does not believe it is or will be necessary to utilize any inventions of any of its employees (or people it currently intends to hire) made prior to their employment by the Company.

2.14 EMPLOYEE AND CONSULTANT AGREEMENTS. All employees and consultants of the Company have entered into proprietary information and inventions agreements, substantially in the Company's standard forms and, to the best of the Company's knowledge, none of the Company's current or former employees or consultants is in violation of such agreements.

2.15 DISCLOSURE. To the best of the Company's knowledge after reasonable investigation, none of the representations or warranties made by the Company in this Agreement and no information in the Exhibits hereto contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements contained herein and therein not misleading.

2.16 BROKERS OR FINDERS. The Company has not entered into any agreement or arrangement giving rise to any liability for brokerage or finders' fees or agents' commissions or any similar charges in connection with the Agreements.

2.17 NO DIVIDENDS. The Company has not made any declaration, setting aside for payment or other distribution in respect of any of the Company's capital stock or any direct or indirect redemption, repurchase or other acquisition of any of such stock.

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2.18 CONTRACTS. Except as listed on Exhibit C, the Company is not party to any contract or agreement (i) with expected receipts or expenditures in excess of $10,000, (ii) involving a license or grant of rights to or from the Company involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other proprietary information applicable to the business of the Company, (iii) with provisions restricting or affecting the development, manufacture, or distribution of the Company's products or services, or (iv) that provides indemnification by the Company with respect to infringements of proprietary rights.

2.19 EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION PLANS. Except as listed on Exhibit C, the Company is not party to or bound by any currently effective employment contracts, deferred compensation agreements, bonus plans, incentive plans, profit sharing plans, retirement agreements, or other employee compensation agreements. Subject to general principles related to wrongful termination of employees, the employment of each officer and employee of the Company is terminable at the will of the Company.

2.20 RELATED-PARTY TRANSACTIONS. No employee, officer, or director of the Company or member of his or her immediate family is indebted to the Company, nor is the Company indebted (or committed to make loans or extend or guarantee credit) to any of them. To the best of the Company's knowledge, none of such persons has any direct or indirect ownership interest in any firm or corporation with which the Company is affiliated or with which the Company has a business relationship, or any firm or corporation that competes with the Company, except that employees, officers, or directors of the Company and members of their immediate families may own stock in publicly traded companies that may compete with the Company.

2.21 MANUFACTURING AND MARKETING RIGHTS. The Company has not granted rights to manufacture, produce, assemble, license, market, or sell its products to any other person, corporation, partnership or other entity, and is not bound by any agreement that affects the Company's exclusive right to develop, manufacture, assemble, distribute, market, or sell its products, and has not licensed or sold any of its technology or proprietary information to any person, corporation, partnership or other entity.

2.22 CORPORATE DOCUMENTS. The Company has furnished the Investors with copies of the Certificate and Bylaws as currently in effect. Said copies are true, correct, and complete and contain all amendments through the Closing Date.

SECTION 3 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE INVESTORS

Each Investor hereby severally, for itself, and not jointly represents and warrants to the Company as follows:

3.1 AUTHORIZATION. The Agreements constitute valid and legally binding obligations of such Investor, enforceable in accordance with their terms except as the enforceability thereof may be subject to the effect of (i) any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other law relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally, and (ii) general principles of equity

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(regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law). Such Investor is authorized and has full right and power to purchase the Preferred, and the person signing the Agreements and any other instrument executed and delivered hereby on behalf of such entity has been duly authorized by such entity and has full power and authority to do so.

3.2 EXPERIENCE. The Investor has, from time to time, evaluated investments in new, high technology companies and has, either individually or through the personal experience of one or more of its current officers or partners, experience in evaluating and investing in new, high technology companies. The Investor has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters such that it is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of its investment in the Preferred and it is able to protect its own interests in connection with this transaction.

3.3 INVESTMENT. The Investor is acquiring the Preferred (and any Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) for investment for its own account and not with the view to, or for resale in connection with, any distribution thereof. The Investor understands that the Preferred (and any Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) to be purchased has not been registered under the Securities Act by reason of a specific exemption from the registration provisions of the Securities Act which depends upon, among other things, the bona fide nature of the investment intent as expressed herein.

3.4 RULE 144. The Investor acknowledges that the Preferred must be held indefinitely unless subsequently registered under the Securities Act or an exemption from such registration is available. The Investor is aware of the provisions of Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act which permits limited resale of shares purchased in a private placement subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, including, among other things, the existence of a public market for the shares, the availability of certain current public information about the Company, the resale occurring not less than two years after a party has purchased and paid for the securities to be sold, the sale being through a "broker's transaction" or in transactions directly with a "market maker" (as provided by Rule 144(f)) and the number of shares being sold during any three-month period not exceeding specified limitations. The Investor is aware that the conditions for resale set forth in Rule 144 have not been satisfied and that the Company has no plan to satisfy these conditions in the foreseeable future.

3.5 ACCREDITED INVESTORS. The Investor is an "accredited investor" pursuant to Rule 501, Regulation D, promulgated by the Securities Exchange on March 8, 1982, as described in Exhibit F hereto.

3.6 NO PUBLIC MARKET. The Investor understands that no public market now exists for any of the securities issued by the Company and that it is unlikely that a public market will ever exist for the Preferred.

3.7 ACCESS TO DATA. The Investor has had an opportunity to discuss the Company's business, management and financial affairs with its management. The Investor understands that such discussions, as well as any written information issued by the Company, were intended to

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describe the aspects of the Company's business and prospects which the Company believes to be material.

3.8 RESIDENCE. If the Purchaser is an individual, then the purchaser resides in the state or province identified in the address of the Purchaser set forth on Exhibit A; if the Purchaser is a partnership, corporation, limited liability company or other entity, then the office or offices of the Purchaser in which its investment decision was made is located at the address or addresses of the Purchaser set forth on Exhibit A.

SECTION 4 CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF INVESTORS

Each Investor's obligation to purchase the Preferred at the Closing is subject to the fulfillment to its satisfaction on or prior to the Closing Date of the following conditions:

4.1 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. The representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 2 shall be true on and as of the Closing with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of the date of the Closing.

4.2 COVENANTS. All covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement to be performed by the Company on or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed or complied with in all respects.

4.3 NO MATERIAL ADVERSE CHANGE. There shall have been no material adverse change in the Company's financial condition, affairs or prospects between the date of this Agreement and the Closing Date, if different.

4.4 BLUE SKY. The Company shall have obtained all necessary Blue Sky law permits and qualifications, or secured exemptions therefrom, required by any state for the offer and sale of the Preferred and Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred.

4.5 BOARD OF DIRECTORS. The Board of Directors of the Company immediately following the Closing will consist of Pehong Chen, David L. Anderson and Yogen K. Dalal.

4.6 COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE. The Company shall have delivered on the Closing Date a certificate signed by an officer of the Company certifying that the conditions specified in Sections 4.1 through 4.4 have been fulfilled.

4.7 OPINION OF COUNSEL. The Investors shall have received from Cooley Godward, counsel for the Company, an opinion in substantially the form of Exhibit E attached to this Agreement.

4.8 INVESTORS' RIGHTS AGREEMENT. The Company and Investors shall have entered into the Investors' Rights Agreement.

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4.9 AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION. The Certificate shall have been filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware.

SECTION 5 CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF COMPANY

The Company's obligation to issue and sell the Preferred at the Closing is subject to the fulfillment of the following conditions:

5.1 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. The representations and warranties of the Investors contained in Section 3 shall be true on and as of the Closing with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of the Closing.

5.2 COVENANTS. All covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement to be performed by Investors on or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed or complied with in all respects.

5.3 BLUE SKY. The Company shall have obtained all necessary Blue Sky law permits and qualifications, or secured exemptions therefrom, required by any state for the offer and sale of the Preferred and Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred.

5.4 INVESTORS' RIGHTS AGREEMENT. The Company and Investors shall have entered into the Investors' Rights Agreement.

5.5 AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION. The Certificate shall have been filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware.

SECTION 6 MISCELLANEOUS

6.1 GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of California as applicable to contracts entered into and performed entirely within the State of California.

6.2 SURVIVAL. The representations, warranties, covenants and agreements made herein shall survive any investigation made by Investors and the closing of the transactions contemplated hereby. All statements as to factual matters contained in this Agreement or in any certificate or other instrument delivered by or on behalf of the Company pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed to be made as of the date of this Agreement, and not necessarily as of some later date.

6.3 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. Except as otherwise provided herein, the provisions hereof shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, the successors, assigns, heirs, executors and administrators of the parties hereto, provided, however, that the rights of Investors to purchase the Preferred shall not be assignable without the consent of the Company.

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6.4 ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Agreement and the other documents delivered pursuant hereto constitute the full and entire understanding and agreement between the parties with regard to the subjects hereof and thereof.

6.5 RIGHTS OF INVESTORS. Each holder of the Preferred (and Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Preferred) shall have the absolute right to exercise or refrain from exercising any right or rights that such holder may have by reason of this Agreement or ownership of any Preferred, including without limitation the right to consent to the waiver of any obligation of the Company under this Agreement and to enter into an agreement with the Company for the purpose of modifying this Agreement or any agreement affecting any such modification, and such holder shall not incur any liability to any other holder or holders of Preferred with respect to exercising or refraining from exercising any such right or rights.

6.6 NOTICES, ETC. All notices and other communications required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and shall be mailed by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, or otherwise delivered by hand or by messenger, addressed (a) if to the Investors, to Investors' addresses set forth on the signature page hereof or at such other address as shall have been furnished to the Company in writing by such Investors or (b) if to the Company, to the address of its principal executive office and addressed to the attention of the Corporate Secretary, or at such other address or addresses as the Company shall have furnished in writing to the Investors. All notices and other communications mailed pursuant to the provisions of this Section 8.6 shall be deemed delivered when mailed.

6.7 EXPENSES. The Company shall pay all costs and expenses that it incurs with respect to the negotiation, execution, delivery and performance of the Agreement. The Company shall, at the Closing, reimburse the reasonable fees of one (1) special counsel for the Purchasers, not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000), and shall reimburse such special counsel for reasonable expenses incurred in connection with the negotiation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement.

6.8 COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be enforceable against the party actually executing such counterpart, and which together shall constitute one instrument.

6.9 SEVERABILITY. In the event that any provision of this Agreement becomes or is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, unenforceable or void, this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect without said provision; provided that no such severability shall be effective if it materially changes the economic benefit of this Agreement to any party.

6.10 CALIFORNIA CORPORATE SECURITIES LAW. The sale of the securities which are the subject of this Agreement has not been qualified with the Commissioner of corporations of the state of California, and the issuance of such securities or the payment or receipt of any part of the consideration therefor prior to such qualification, if required by law, is unlawful. The rights of all parties to this agreement are expressly conditioned upon such qualification being obtained, if required by law.

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6.11 APPROVAL OF AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS. Any term of this agreement may be amended or terminated and the observance of any term of this Agreement may be waived (either generally or in a particular instance and either retroactively or prospectively) with the written consent of the Company and the holders of a majority of the outstanding Preferred Stock sold under this Agreement, and Common Stock issued upon conversion thereof (calculated on an as-converted basis), excluding from the determination of such a majority (both in determining the total number of such shares outstanding and the number of such shares consenting or not consenting) all shares previously disposed of by the Investors or transferees pursuant to one or more registration statements under the Securities Act or pursuant to Rule 144 thereunder. Any amendment, termination or waiver effected in accordance with this section shall be binding upon each holder of any securities issued pursuant to this Agreement (including securities into which such securities have been converted or exchanged), each future holder of any or all such securities and the Company.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the foregoing Series C Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement is hereby executed as of the date first above written.

BROADVISION, INC.

By:     /s/  Pehong Chen
   ---------------------------
          PEHONG CHEN
          President

INVESTOR:

SIPPL MACDONALD VENTURES I, L.P.

By:  /s/  Jackie MacDonald
   -------------------------
     JACKIE MACDONALD
     General Partner

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES C PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


                                    EXHIBIT A

                              SCHEDULE OF INVESTORS
                                (FOURTH CLOSING)

                                                SERIES C
                                                PREFERRED
INVESTOR                                         SHARES       PRICE
- --------                                         ------       -----

Sippl Macdonald Ventures I, L.P.                150,000      $300,000
81 Lorlei Lane
Menlo Park, CA  94025
Attn:  Jacqueline A. Macdonald

                                                -------      --------

     Total                                      150,000      $300,000


BROADVISION, INC.


SERIES E PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


APRIL 15, 1996


TABLE OF CONTENTS

                                                                            PAGE

SECTION 1 AUTHORIZATION AND SALE OF THE SERIES E PREFERRED STOCK............  1

    1.1  Authorization......................................................  1
    1.2  Sale of Preferred..................................................  1
    1.3  Closing Date.......................................................  1
    1.4  Subsequent Closings................................................  1
    1.5  Delivery...........................................................  1

SECTION 2 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY.....................  2

    2.1  Organization and Standing.  .......................................  2
    2.2  Corporate Power....................................................  2
    2.3  Subsidiaries.......................................................  2
    2.4  Capitalization.....................................................  2
    2.5  Authorization......................................................  3
    2.6  Material Liabilities...............................................  3
    2.7  Compliance with Other Instruments, etc.............................  3
    2.8  Litigation, etc....................................................  3
    2.9  Registration Rights................................................  4
    2.10 Governmental Consent, etc..........................................  4
    2.11 Offering...........................................................  4
    2.12 Certain Transactions...............................................  4
    2.13 Intellectual Property..............................................  4
    2.14 Employee and Consultant Agreements.................................  5
    2.15 Disclosure.........................................................  5
    2.16 Brokers or Finders.................................................  5
    2.17 No Dividends.......................................................  5
    2.18 Contracts..........................................................  5
    2.19 Employee Compensation Plans........................................  5
    2.20 Related-Party Transactions.........................................  6
    2.21 Manufacturing and Marketing Rights.................................  6
    2.22 Corporate Documents................................................  6

SECTION 3 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE INVESTORS...................  6

    3.1  Authorization......................................................  6
    3.2  Experience.........................................................  6
    3.3  Investment.........................................................  7
    3.4  Rule 144...........................................................  7
    3.5  Accredited Investors...............................................  7
    3.6  No Public Market...................................................  7
    3.7  Access to Data.....................................................  7
    3.8  Residence..........................................................  7


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                                  TABLE OF CONTENTS
                                     (CONTINUED)
                                                                            PAGE

SECTION 4 CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF INVESTORS................................  8

    4.1  Representations and Warranties.....................................  8
    4.2  Covenants..........................................................  8
    4.3  No Material Adverse Change.........................................  8
    4.4  Blue Sky...........................................................  8
    4.5  Board of Directors.................................................  8
    4.6  Compliance Certificate.............................................  8
    4.7  Opinion of Counsel.................................................  8
    4.8  Investors' Rights Agreement........................................  8
    4.9  Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation..................  8

SECTION 5 CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF COMPANY..................................  8

    5.1  Representations and Warranties.....................................  9
    5.2  Covenants. ........................................................  9
    5.3  Blue Sky...........................................................  9
    5.4  Investors' Rights Agreement........................................  9
    5.5  Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation..................  9

SECTION 6 MISCELLANEOUS.....................................................  9

    6.1  Governing Law......................................................  9
    6.2  Survival...........................................................  9
    6.3  Successors and Assigns.............................................  9
    6.4  Entire Agreement...................................................  9
    6.5  Rights of Investors................................................  9
    6.6  Notices, etc....................................................... 10
    6.7  Expenses........................................................... 10
    6.8  Counterparts....................................................... 10
    6.9  Severability....................................................... 10
    6.10 California Corporate Securities Law................................ 10
    6.11 Approval of Amendments and Waivers................................. 10


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SERIES E PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT

THIS AGREEMENT is made as of April 15, 1996 between BROADVISION, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "Company") and the investors as set forth in Exhibit A hereto (the "Investors").

SECTION 1 AUTHORIZATION AND SALE OF THE SERIES E PREFERRED STOCK

1.1 AUTHORIZATION. The Company has authorized the issuance and sale of up to one million two hundred fifty thousand (1,250,000) shares of its Series E Preferred Stock (the "Preferred") having the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions set forth in the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation in the form attached to this Agreement as Exhibit B (the "Certificate").

1.2 SALE OF PREFERRED. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Investor severally agrees to purchase and the Company agrees to sell and issue to each Investor the number of shares of Preferred set forth opposite such Investor's name on Exhibit A at a price of eight dollars ($8.00) per share.

1.3 CLOSING DATE. The first closing of the purchase and sale of the Preferred hereunder (the "First Closing") shall be held at the law offices of Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum ("Cooley Godward"), One Maritime Plaza, 20th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111. The First Closing shall be held on the date of this Agreement or at such other time and place upon which the Company and the Investors shall agree (the "First Closing Date").

1.4 SUBSEQUENT CLOSINGS. If less than one million two hundred fifty thousand (1,250,000) shares of the Preferred are sold at the First Closing, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Company may sell on or before May 30, 1996, up to the balance between one million two hundred fifty thousand (1,250,000) shares and the number of shares of Preferred sold at the First Closing to such persons as the Company may determine at the same price per share as the Preferred purchased and sold at the First Closing. Any sale pursuant to this Section 1.4 shall be upon the same terms and conditions as those contained herein (provided that the Schedule of Exceptions may be adjusted to reflect subsequent events), and such persons or entities shall become parties to the Agreement and the Investors' Rights Agreement (as defined in Section 2.2) by the execution of a copy of such agreements and each such person or entity shall have the rights and obligations of a Purchaser hereunder and thereunder. The term "Closing" shall apply to the First Closing and each subsequent closing pursuant to this Section 1.4 unless otherwise specified, and the term "Closing Date" shall apply to the First Closing Date and each subsequent closing date pursuant to this Section 1.4 unless otherwise specified.

1.5 DELIVERY. At the Closing the Company will deliver to each Investor a certificate representing the shares of Preferred that such Investor is purchasing against payment of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer or by check payable to the order of the Company.

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SECTION 2 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY

Except as set forth in the Schedule of Exceptions attached hereto as Exhibit C, the Company hereby represents and warrants to each Investor as follows:

2.1 ORGANIZATION AND STANDING. The Company is a corporation duly organized and validly existing under, and by virtue of, the laws of the State of Delaware and is in good standing under such laws. The Company has all requisite corporate power to own and operate its properties and assets and to carry on its business as presently conducted and as proposed to be conducted. The Company is qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is presently required.

2.2 CORPORATE POWER. The Company will have at the Closing Date all requisite legal and corporate power to execute and deliver this Agreement and the Second Amended and Restated Investors' Rights Agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D (the "Investors' Rights Agreement") (the Agreement and the Investors' Rights Agreement are hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Agreements"), to sell and issue the Preferred under this Agreement, to issue the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred and to carry out and perform its obligations under the terms of the Agreements, including all exhibits and schedules hereto and thereto.

2.3 SUBSIDIARIES. The Company does not own or control, directly or indirectly, any other corporation, association or business entity.

2.4 CAPITALIZATION. The authorized capital stock of the Company consists, or immediately prior to the Closing will consist, of: thirty million (30,000,000) shares of Common Stock, of which seven million, three hundred sixty-two thousand, nine hundred forty-two (7,362,942) are issued and outstanding; and fifteen million (15,000,000) shares of Preferred Stock, of which (i) four million three hundred thousand (4,300,000) are designated "Series A Preferred Stock" (of which four million two hundred sixty-six thousand six hundred sixty-seven (4,266,667) are issued and outstanding), (ii) one million four hundred thousand (1,400,000) are designated "Series B Preferred Stock" (of which one million three hundred thirty-three thousand three hundred thirty-three (1,333,333) are issued and outstanding), (iii) four million (4,000,000) are designated "Series C Preferred Stock" (of which three million six thousand shares (3,006,000) are issued and outstanding; five hundred thousand (500,000) are designated "Series D Preferred Stock" (none of which are issued and outstanding); and one million two hundred seventy-five thousand (1,275,000) are designated "Series E Preferred Stock" (none of which are issued and outstanding). All such issued and outstanding shares have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable. The Preferred has the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions set forth in the Certificate. Except (i) for the conversion privileges of the Preferred specified in the Certificate, (ii) as set forth in the Investors' Rights Agreement, and (iii) as set forth in Exhibit C, there are no options, warrants, conversion privileges or other rights presently outstanding to purchase or otherwise acquire any authorized but unissued shares of the Company's capital stock or other securities of the Company. All outstanding securities of the Company were issued in compliance with the registration or qualification provisions of all applicable U.S., federal and state securities laws.

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2.5 AUTHORIZATION. All corporate action on the part of the Company, its officers, directors and shareholders necessary for the authorization, execution, delivery and performance of the Agreements by the Company, the authorization, sale, issuance and delivery of the Preferred (and the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) and the performance of the Company's obligations under the Agreements has been taken or will be taken prior to the Closing. The Agreements, when executed and delivered by the Company, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to laws of general application relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, the relief of debtors, general equity principles, and limitations upon rights to indemnity. The Preferred, when issued in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free of restrictions on transfer other than restrictions under the Agreements and under applicable federal and state securities laws. The Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred has been duly and validly reserved and, when issued in compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free of restrictions on transfer other than restrictions under the Agreements, the right of first refusal provided in the Company's Bylaws, and applicable federal and state securities laws. The Preferred is not subject to any preemptive rights or rights of first refusal.

2.6 MATERIAL LIABILITIES. The Company has no material indebtedness or liabilities, absolute or contingent (individually or in the aggregate), except
(1) with respect to services rendered by its employees or consultants; (2) with respect to unpaid legal and other fees and costs incurred in connection with the ongoing business of the Company, and the issuance of the Preferred in connection with this Agreement; and (3) liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business that do not exceed $50,000 in the aggregate.

2.7 COMPLIANCE WITH OTHER INSTRUMENTS, ETC. The Company is not, and will not by virtue of entering into and performing the Agreements and the transactions contemplated thereunder be, in violation of any term of the Certificate or Bylaws or any term or provision of any material mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement, instrument, judgment or decree to which it is a party or by which it is bound, and is not, and will not by virtue of entering into and performing the Agreements and the transactions contemplated thereunder be, in violation of any order addressed specifically to the Company nor, to the best of the Company's knowledge, any order, statute, rule or regulation applicable to the Company.

2.8 LITIGATION, ETC. There are no actions, suits, proceedings or investigations pending or threatened against the Company before any court or governmental agency. To the best of the Company's knowledge, there is no judgment, decree, or order of any court in effect against the Company and the Company is not in default with respect to any order of any governmental authority to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound. There is no action, suit, proceeding, or investigation by the Company currently pending or which the Company presently intends to initiate.

2.9 REGISTRATION RIGHTS. Except as set forth in the Investors' Rights Agreement, the Company is not under any obligation to register (as defined in
Section 1.2 of the Investors' Rights Agreement) any of its presently outstanding securities or any of its securities that may hereafter be issued.

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2.10 GOVERNMENTAL CONSENT, ETC. No consent, approval or authorization of or designation, declaration or filing with any governmental authority on the part of the Company is required in connection with the valid execution and delivery of the Agreements, or the offer, sale or issuance of the Preferred (and the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) or the consummation of any other transaction contemplated thereby, except for (a) the filing of the Certificate in the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and (b) the filing of a Notice with the California Commissioner of Corporations pursuant to Section 25102(f) of the California Corporations Code and/or such other filings as may be required under other applicable blue sky laws, which filings, if required, will be accomplished in a timely manner prior to or promptly upon completion of the Closing, as applicable.

2.11 OFFERING. Subject to the accuracy of the representations set forth in Section 3 hereof, the offer, sale and issuance of the Preferred pursuant to this Agreement and the issuance of the Common Stock to be issued upon conversion of the Preferred constitute transactions exempt from the registration requirements of Section 5 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").

2.12 CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS. Since its date of incorporation, the Company has not (a) discharged or satisfied any obligation or liability other than as authorized by its Board of Directors, or in the ordinary course of business or in amounts less than $100,000 in the aggregate, (b) declared or made any payment or distribution to its shareholders or redeemed or purchased any of its shares of capital stock or securities, (c) mortgaged or subjected to encumbrances any of its assets, (d) sold, transferred or leased to third parties any of its assets except in the ordinary course of business, (e) canceled or compromised any material debt or any claim or waived or released any right of material value, suffered any physical damage or destruction or loss materially and adversely affecting its properties, operations or business, (f) made any loans or advances to any persons other than immaterial amounts (both individually and in the aggregate) in the ordinary course of business or (g) entered into any material transaction other than as approved by its Board of Directors or in the ordinary course of business or agreed to any of the foregoing other than with respect to transactions relating to this Agreement.

2.13 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. To the best of its knowledge (but without having conducted any special investigation or patent search), the Company has or will be able to license on commercially reasonable terms sufficient legal rights to all patents, copyrights, trade secrets, information, proprietary rights and processes (collectively "Proprietary Information") necessary for its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted without any conflict with or infringement of the rights of others. Except for agreements with its own officers and employees, substantially in the forms referenced in Section 2.14 below, there are no outstanding options, licenses, or agreements of any kind relating to the foregoing, nor is the Company bound by or a party to any options, licenses or agreements of any kind with respect to the patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, trade secrets, licenses, information, proprietary rights and processes of any other person or entity. The Company has not received any communications alleging that the Company has violated or infringed or that the Company would, by conducting its business as proposed, violate or infringe any of the patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights or trade secrets or other proprietary rights of any other person or entity. Neither the execution nor delivery of this Agreement, nor the

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carrying on of the Company's business by the employees of and consultants to the Company, nor the conduct of the Company's business as proposed, will, to the Company's knowledge, conflict with or result in a breach of the terms, conditions, or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any contract, covenant, or instrument under which any of such employees is now obligated. The Company does not believe it is or will be necessary to utilize any inventions of any of its employees (or people it currently intends to hire) made prior to their employment by the Company.

2.14 EMPLOYEE AND CONSULTANT AGREEMENTS. All employees and consultants of the Company have entered into proprietary information and inventions agreements, substantially in the Company's standard forms and, to the best of the Company's knowledge, none of the Company's current or former employees or consultants is in violation of such agreements.

2.15 DISCLOSURE. To the best of the Company's knowledge after reasonable investigation, none of the representations or warranties made by the Company in this Agreement and no information in the Exhibits hereto contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements contained herein and therein not misleading.

2.16 BROKERS OR FINDERS. The Company has not entered into any agreement or arrangement giving rise to any liability for brokerage or finders' fees or agents' commissions or any similar charges in connection with the Agreements.

2.17 NO DIVIDENDS. The Company has not made any declaration, setting aside for payment or other distribution in respect of any of the Company's capital stock or any direct or indirect redemption, repurchase or other acquisition of any of such stock.

2.18 CONTRACTS. Except as listed on Exhibit C, the Company is not party to any contract or agreement (i) with expected receipts or expenditures in excess of $10,000, (ii) involving a license or grant of rights to or from the Company involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other proprietary information applicable to the business of the Company, (iii) with provisions restricting or affecting the development, manufacture, or distribution of the Company's products or services, or (iv) that provides indemnification by the Company with respect to infringements of proprietary rights.

2.19 EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION PLANS. Except as listed on Exhibit C, the Company is not party to or bound by any currently effective employment contracts, deferred compensation agreements, bonus plans, incentive plans, profit sharing plans, retirement agreements, or other employee compensation agreements. Subject to general principles related to wrongful termination of employees, the employment of each officer and employee of the Company is terminable at the will of the Company.

2.20 RELATED-PARTY TRANSACTIONS. No employee, officer, or director of the Company or member of his or her immediate family is indebted to the Company, nor is the Company indebted (or committed to make loans or extend or guarantee credit) to any of them. To the best of the Company's knowledge, none of such persons has any direct or indirect ownership interest in any firm or corporation with which the Company is affiliated or with which the Company has

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a business relationship, or any firm or corporation that competes with the Company, except that employees, officers, or directors of the Company and members of their immediate families may own stock in publicly traded companies that may compete with the Company.

2.21 MANUFACTURING AND MARKETING RIGHTS. The Company has not granted rights to manufacture, produce, assemble, license, market, or sell its products to any other person, corporation, partnership or other entity, and is not bound by any agreement that affects the Company's exclusive right to develop, manufacture, assemble, distribute, market, or sell its products, and has not licensed or sold any of its technology or proprietary information to any person, corporation, partnership or other entity.

2.22 CORPORATE DOCUMENTS. The Company has furnished the Investors with copies of the Certificate and Bylaws as currently in effect. Said copies are true, correct, and complete and contain all amendments through the Closing Date.

SECTION 3 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE INVESTORS

Each Investor hereby severally, for itself, and not jointly represents and warrants to the Company as follows:

3.1 AUTHORIZATION. The Agreements constitute valid and legally binding obligations of such Investor, enforceable in accordance with their terms except as the enforceability thereof may be subject to the effect of (i) any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other law relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally, and (ii) general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law). Such Investor is authorized and has full right and power to purchase the Preferred, and the person signing the Agreements and any other instrument executed and delivered hereby on behalf of such entity has been duly authorized by such entity and has full power and authority to do so.

3.2 EXPERIENCE. The Investor has, from time to time, evaluated investments in new, high technology companies and has, either individually or through the personal experience of one or more of its current officers or partners, experience in evaluating and investing in new, high technology companies. The Investor has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters such that it is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of its investment in the Preferred and it is able to protect its own interests in connection with this transaction.

3.3 INVESTMENT. The Investor is acquiring the Preferred (and any Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) for investment for its own account and not with the view to, or for resale in connection with, any distribution thereof. The Investor understands that the Preferred (and any Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred) to be purchased has not been registered under the Securities Act by reason of a specific exemption from the registration provisions of the Securities Act which depends upon, among other things, the bona fide nature of the investment intent as expressed herein.

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3.4 RULE 144. The Investor acknowledges that the Preferred must be held indefinitely unless subsequently registered under the Securities Act or an exemption from such registration is available. The Investor is aware of the provisions of Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act which permits limited resale of shares purchased in a private placement subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, including, among other things, the existence of a public market for the shares, the availability of certain current public information about the Company, the resale occurring not less than two years after a party has purchased and paid for the securities to be sold, the sale being through a "broker's transaction" or in transactions directly with a "market maker" (as provided by Rule 144(f)) and the number of shares being sold during any three-month period not exceeding specified limitations. The Investor is aware that the conditions for resale set forth in Rule 144 have not been satisfied and that the Company has no plan to satisfy these conditions in the foreseeable future.

3.5 ACCREDITED INVESTORS. The Investor is an "accredited investor" pursuant to Rule 501, Regulation D, promulgated by the Securities Exchange on March 8, 1982, as described in Exhibit F hereto.

3.6 NO PUBLIC MARKET. The Investor understands that no public market now exists for any of the securities issued by the Company and that it is unlikely that a public market will ever exist for the Preferred.

3.7 ACCESS TO DATA. The Investor has had an opportunity to discuss the Company's business, management and financial affairs with its management. The Investor understands that such discussions, as well as any written information issued by the Company, were intended to describe the aspects of the Company's business and prospects which the Company believes to be material.

3.8 RESIDENCE. If the Purchaser is an individual, then the purchaser resides in the state or province identified in the address of the Purchaser set forth on Exhibit A; if the Purchaser is a partnership, corporation, limited liability company or other entity, then the office or offices of the Purchaser in which its investment decision was made is located at the address or addresses of the Purchaser set forth on Exhibit A.

SECTION 4 CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF INVESTORS

Each Investor's obligation to purchase the Preferred at the Closing is subject to the fulfillment to its satisfaction on or prior to the Closing Date of the following conditions:

4.1 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. The representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 2 shall be true on and as of the Closing with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of the date of the Closing.

4.2 COVENANTS. All covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement to be performed by the Company on or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed or complied with in all respects.

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4.3 NO MATERIAL ADVERSE CHANGE. There shall have been no material adverse change in the Company's financial condition, affairs or prospects between the date of this Agreement and the Closing Date, if different.

4.4 BLUE SKY. The Company shall have obtained all necessary Blue Sky law permits and qualifications, or secured exemptions therefrom, required by any state for the offer and sale of the Preferred and Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred.

4.5 BOARD OF DIRECTORS. The Board of Directors of the Company immediately following the Closing will consist of Pehong Chen, David L. Anderson, Yogen K. Dalal, Koh Boon Hwee and Gregory Smitherman.

4.6 COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE. The Company shall have delivered on the Closing Date a certificate signed by an officer of the Company certifying that the conditions specified in Sections 4.1 through 4.4 have been fulfilled.

4.7 OPINION OF COUNSEL. The Investors shall have received from Cooley Godward, counsel for the Company, an opinion in substantially the form of Exhibit E attached to this Agreement.

4.8 INVESTORS' RIGHTS AGREEMENT. The Company and Investors shall have entered into the Investors' Rights Agreement.

4.9 AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION. The Certificate shall have been filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware.

SECTION 5 CONDITIONS TO CLOSING OF COMPANY

The Company's obligation to issue and sell the Preferred at the Closing is subject to the fulfillment of the following conditions:

5.1 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. The representations and warranties of the Investors contained in Section 3 shall be true on and as of the Closing with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of the Closing.

5.2 COVENANTS. All covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement to be performed by Investors on or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed or complied with in all respects.

5.3 BLUE SKY. The Company shall have obtained all necessary Blue Sky law permits and qualifications, or secured exemptions therefrom, required by any state for the offer and sale of the Preferred and Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred.

5.4 INVESTORS' RIGHTS AGREEMENT. The Company and Investors shall have entered into the Investors' Rights Agreement.

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5.5 AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION. The Certificate shall have been filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware.

SECTION 6 MISCELLANEOUS

6.1 GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of California as applicable to contracts entered into and performed entirely within the State of California.

6.2 SURVIVAL. The representations, warranties, covenants and agreements made herein shall survive any investigation made by Investors and the closing of the transactions contemplated hereby. All statements as to factual matters contained in this Agreement or in any certificate or other instrument delivered by or on behalf of the Company pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed to be made as of the date of this Agreement, and not necessarily as of some later date.

6.3 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. Except as otherwise provided herein, the provisions hereof shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, the successors, assigns, heirs, executors and administrators of the parties hereto, provided, however, that the rights of Investors to purchase the Preferred shall not be assignable without the consent of the Company.

6.4 ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Agreement and the other documents delivered pursuant hereto constitute the full and entire understanding and agreement between the parties with regard to the subjects hereof and thereof.

6.5 RIGHTS OF INVESTORS. Each holder of the Preferred (and Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Preferred) shall have the absolute right to exercise or refrain from exercising any right or rights that such holder may have by reason of this Agreement or ownership of any Preferred, including without limitation the right to consent to the waiver of any obligation of the Company under this Agreement and to enter into an agreement with the Company for the purpose of modifying this Agreement or any agreement affecting any such modification, and such holder shall not incur any liability to any other holder or holders of Preferred with respect to exercising or refraining from exercising any such right or rights.

6.6 NOTICES, ETC. All notices and other communications required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and shall be mailed by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, or otherwise delivered by hand or by messenger, addressed (a) if to the Investors, to Investors' addresses set forth on the signature page hereof or at such other address as shall have been furnished to the Company in writing by such Investors or (b) if to the Company, to the address of its principal executive office and addressed to the attention of the Corporate Secretary, or at such other address or addresses as the Company shall have furnished in writing to the Investors. All notices and other communications mailed pursuant to the provisions of this Section 8.6 shall be deemed delivered when mailed.

6.7 EXPENSES. Each party to this Agreement shall pay its own costs and expenses with respect to the negotiation, execution, delivery and performance of the Agreement.

9.


6.8 COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be enforceable against the party actually executing such counterpart, and which together shall constitute one instrument.

6.9 SEVERABILITY. In the event that any provision of this Agreement becomes or is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, unenforceable or void, this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect without said provision; provided that no such severability shall be effective if it materially changes the economic benefit of this Agreement to any party.

6.10 CALIFORNIA CORPORATE SECURITIES LAW. The sale of the securities which are the subject of this Agreement has not been qualified with the Commissioner of corporations of the state of California, and the issuance of such securities or the payment or receipt of any part of the consideration therefor prior to such qualification, if required by law, is unlawful. The rights of all parties to this agreement are expressly conditioned upon such qualification being obtained, if required by law.

6.11 APPROVAL OF AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS. Any term of this agreement may be amended or terminated and the observance of any term of this Agreement may be waived (either generally or in a particular instance and either retroactively or prospectively) with the written consent of the Company and the holders of a majority of the outstanding Preferred Stock sold under this Agreement, and Common Stock issued upon conversion thereof (calculated on an as-converted basis), excluding from the determination of such a majority (both in determining the total number of such shares outstanding and the number of such shares consenting or not consenting) all shares previously disposed of by the Investors or transferees pursuant to one or more registration statements under the Securities Act or pursuant to Rule 144 thereunder. Any amendment, termination or waiver effected in accordance with this section shall be binding upon each holder of any securities issued pursuant to this Agreement (including securities into which such securities have been converted or exchanged), each future holder of any or all such securities and the Company.

10.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the foregoing Series E Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement is hereby executed as of the date first above written.

BROADVISION, INC.

By:  /s/Pehong Chen
   ---------------------------
    PEHONG CHEN
    President

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES E PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


  /s/  R. Urushizaki
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Signature

R. Urushizaki

Printed Name

Deputy Senior General Manager
Electronics Div.
Title, if applicable

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES E PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


  /s/  Dan Lynch
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Signature

Dan Lynch

Printed Name


Title, if applicable

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES E PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


  /s/  Thomas M. Siebel
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Signature

Thomas M. Siebel

Printed Name


Title, if applicable

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES E PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


  /s/  William G. McCabe
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Signature

William G. McCabe

Printed Name


Title, if applicable

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES E PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


INVESTORS:

  /s/ Ronald Conway
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Signature

Ronald Conway

Printed Name


Title

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES E PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


  /s/ Andrew Chase
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Signature

Andrew Chase

Printed Name

Trustee
Title, if applicable

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES E PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


  /s/  Norman L. Dawley
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Signature

Norman L. Dawley

Printed Name


Title, if applicable

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES E PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


  /s/  K.R.A. Ibbett
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Signature

K.R.A. Ibbett

Printed Name


Title, if applicable

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES E PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


INVESTORS:

MR. CLEMENT MOK

  /s/  Clement Mok
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Signature

Clement Mok

Printed Name


Title, if applicable

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES E PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


  /s/  Donald A. Peppers
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DONALD A. PEPPERS

PAINE WEBBER INCORPORATED, NOT IN ITS CORPORATE CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS CUSTODIAN OF THE INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OF DON PEPPERS (ACCOUNT #VN-85407-1-44)

By:    /s/  Allison M. Parke
   -----------------------------

   Allison M. Parke
- --------------------------------
Printed Name

Asst. Vice President

Title

PAINE WEBBER INCORPORATED, NOT IN ITS CORPORATE
CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS CUSTODIAN OF THE ROLLOVER INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OF DON PEPPERS (ACCOUNT #VN-84412-1-44)

By:    /s/  Allison M. Parke
   -----------------------------

   Allison M. Parke
- --------------------------------
Printed Name

Asst. Vice President

Title

    /s/ Martha Rogers
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MARTHA ROGERS

    /s/ Robert L. Dorf
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ROBERT L. DORF

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES E PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


  /s/  Francois Stieger
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Signature

Francois Stieger

Printed Name


Title, if applicable

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES E PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


  /s/  Gerald Maguire
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Signature

Gerald Maguire

Printed Name


Title, if applicable

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES E PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


  /s/  Jung Yun Tahk
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Signature

Jung Yun Tahk

Printed Name


Title

SIGNATURE PAGE TO BROADVISION, INC.
SERIES E PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT


                                      EXHIBIT A
                                SCHEDULE OF INVESTORS

                                                     SERIES E
                                                     PREFERRED
                                                       SHARES            PRICE
                                                     ---------           -----

WPP Group (UK) Ltd.                                 250,000         $2,000,000
27 Farm Street
London  W1X 6RD
England
Attn: Mr. Andrew Hall

cc: Carol Weinstein, Esq.
Davis & Gilbert
1740 Broadway
New York, NY  10019

Nichimen Corporation                                112,500           $900,000
1-23, Shiba 4 chome
Minato-ku
Tokyo 108  Japan
Attn: Toshikazu Saito

Seven Seas Group Limited                             62,500           $500,000
Room 821, China Insurance Group Bldg.
141 Des Veoux Road Central
Hong Kong

Daniel C. Lynch                                      31,250           $250,000
25660 Lalanne Court
Los Altos Hills, CA  94022

Robert Devereux                                      31,250           $250,000
186 Campden Hill Road
London W8 7th
United Kingdom

Thomas M. Siebel                                     12,500           $100,000
c/o Siebel Systems
4005 Bohannon Drive
Menlo Park,  CA  94025

William McCabe                                       20,000           $160,000
400 Oyster Point Blvd
Suite 401
South San Francisco, CA 94080

Ronald C. Conway                                     12,500           $100,000
173 Jefferson Drive
Menlo Park, CA  94025

Andrew Chase                                         12,500           $100,000
3000 Sand Hill Road, 3-190
Menlo Park, CA  94025

Norman Dawley                                         2,000            $16,000
301 Johnson Ct.
Lusby, MD 20657

Kenneth Ibbett                                        1,250            $10,000
186 Campden Hill Road
London W8 7th
United Kingdom

Clement Mok                                           1,250            $10,000
600 Townsend Street
Penthouse
San Francisco, CA  94103

Martha Rogers                                         6,250            $50,000
65 Back Bay Road
Bowling Green, OH  43402

Don Peppers                                           5,000            $40,000
Marketing 1:1
700 Canal Street
Stamford, CT  06902

Paine Webber Incorporated, not in its                 3,000            $24,000
corporate capacity, but solely as
custodian of the rollover individual
retirement account of Don Peppers
(Account #VN-84412-1-44)
One Commercial Place
Suite 1120
Norfolk, VA  23510
Attn: Allison Parke


                                          2.

Paine Webber Incorporated, not in its                 1,625            $13,000
corporate capacity, but solely as
custodian of the individual
retirement account of Don Peppers
(Account #VN-85407-1-44)
One Commercial Place
Suite 1120
Norfolk, VA  23510
Attn: Allison Parke

Robert L. Dorf                                        4,000            $32,000
411 Soundview Avene
Wallacks Point
Stamford, CT  06902

Francois Stieger                                     31,250           $250,000
BroadVision Switzerland AG
Rigistrasse 3
CH-8802
Kilchberg, Switzerland

Gerald J. Maguire                                    31,250           $250,000
BroadVision, Inc.
Julianalaan 4-404
3743 JG Baarn
The Netherlands

Jung Y. Tahk                                          2,500            $20,000
15829 Del Cerro Ct.
Los Gatos, CA  95032-4831

                                                  -----------      ------------
   TOTAL                                            634,375         $5,075,000


                                          3.


Exhibit 21.1

Subsidiaries

4C Consultancy AG, a corporation organized under the laws of Switzerland, doing business as BroadVision, Inc.