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   AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON OCTOBER 15, 1996.
    
                                                       REGISTRATION NO. 333-3784
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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                                 POST-EFFECTIVE
                                AMENDMENT NO. 1
    
                                       TO
                                   FORM SB-2
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                     UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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                                DELTAPOINT, INC.
 
             (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
 
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          CALIFORNIA                         7372                  77-0216760
 (State or Other Jurisdiction    (Primary Standard Industrial   (I.R.S. Employer
              of                 Classification Code Number)     Identification
Incorporation or Organization)                                      Number)
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       22 LOWER RAGSDALE DRIVE                       JOHN J. AMBROSE
      MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA 93940                 CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
            (408) 648-4000                           DELTAPOINT, INC.
  (Address, including zip code, and              22 LOWER RAGSDALE DRIVE
telephone number, including area code,          MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA 93940
 of registrant's principal executive                  (408) 648-4000
               offices)                    (Name, address, including zip code,
                                           and telephone number, including area
                                               code, of agent for service)
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                                   COPIES TO:
 
   
                              BROOKS STOUGH, ESQ.
                             MARYANNE MINALGA, ESQ.
                            Gunderson Dettmer Stough
                      Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP
                          600 Hansen Way, Second Floor
                          Palo Alto, California 94304
                                 (415) 843-0500
    
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        APPROXIMATE DATE OF COMMENCEMENT OF PROPOSED SALE TO THE PUBLIC
AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT.
 
    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, as amended, check the following box. /X/
 
    If  this Form  is filed  to register  additional securities  for an offering
pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box
and list  the  Securities  Act  registration statement  number  of  the  earlier
effective registration statement for the same offering. / /
 
    If  this Form  is a post-effective  amendment filed pursuant  to Rule 462(c)
under the Securities Act,  check the following box  and list the Securities  Act
registration  statement number  of the earlier  effective registration statement
for the same offering. / /
 
    If delivery of the prospectus is expected  to be made pursuant to Rule  434,
please check the following box. / /
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                        CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
 
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                                                             PROPOSED MAXIMUM    PROPOSED MAXIMUM
        TITLE OF EACH CLASS OF              AMOUNT TO         OFFERING PRICE        AGGREGATE           AMOUNT OF
     SECURITIES TO BE REGISTERED          BE REGISTERED      PER SECURITY (1)     OFFERING PRICE     REGISTRATION FEE
<S>                                     <C>                 <C>                 <C>                 <C>
Common Stock, no par value (1)........       250,000            $9.625(2)           $2,406,250           $830.00
Warrants (1)..........................       261,172                $                   --                  --
Common Stock issuable upon exercise of
 Warrants (3).........................       261,172             $7.20(4)           1,880,439             649.00
Totals................................          --                  --              $4,286,689          $1,479.00
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(1)  Such securities have been registered for resale by the Selling Shareholders
    and their assigns and transferees on a delayed or continuous basis  pursuant
    to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act").
    
(2) Estimated solely for the purpose of computing the amount of the registration
    fee  in accordance with Rule 457(c)  promulgated under the Securities Act of
    1933.
(3) Represents shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants.
(4) Estimated solely for the purpose of computing the amount of the registration
    fee in accordance with Rule 457(g) promulgated under the Act.
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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 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE  COMMISSION,
ACTING PURSUANT TO SUCH SECTION 8(a), MAY DETERMINE.
 
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                     SUBJECT TO COMPLETION OCTOBER 15, 1996
    
 
PROSPECTUS
 
   
                         178,625 SHARES OF COMMON STOCK
    
                     261,172 COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANTS
 261,172 SHARES OF COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF COMMON STOCK WARRANTS
 
   
    THE  178,625 SHARES (THE  "SHARES") OF COMMON STOCK  (THE "COMMON STOCK") OF
DELTAPOINT, INC.,  A CALIFORNIA  CORPORATION (THE  "COMPANY"), AND  THE  261,172
WARRANTS, EACH REPRESENTING THE RIGHT TO PURCHASE ONE SHARE OF COMMON STOCK (THE
"WARRANTS"),  COVERED  BY  THIS  PROSPECTUS ARE  OUTSTANDING  SECURITIES  OF THE
COMPANY THAT  MAY  BE  SOLD  FROM  TIME  TO  TIME  BY  CERTAIN  SHAREHOLDERS  OF
DELTAPOINT,  INC. (THE "SELLING SHAREHOLDERS"). THE COMPANY WILL NOT RECEIVE ANY
OF THE PROCEEDS  FROM THE  SALE OF  THE SHARES OR  THE WARRANTS  BY THE  SELLING
SHAREHOLDERS.  THE 261,172 SHARES OF COMMON  STOCK ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THE
WARRANTS (THE "WARRANT SHARES") MAY BE ISSUED  FROM TIME TO TIME BY THE  COMPANY
UPON  EXERCISE OF THE WARRANTS. THE EXERCISE  PRICE OF THE WARRANTS IS $7.20 PER
SHARE OF COMMON STOCK IF THE WARRANTS  ARE EXERCISED ON OR BEFORE JUNE 26,  1998
AND $8.40 PER SHARE OF COMMON STOCK FROM SUCH TIME UNTIL NOVEMBER 6, 2000.
    
 
   
    The  Company has been advised by the Selling Shareholders that they may sell
all or a portion of the Shares and the Warrants from time to time in the  Nasdaq
Small  Cap Market  System, or  the Pacific  Stock Exchange,  to the  extent such
securities may  be  traded  on  such  markets,  in  negotiated  transactions  or
otherwise,  and on terms and at prices then obtainable. The Selling Shareholders
and any broker-dealers, agents or underwriters that participate with the Selling
Shareholders in the distribution of any of the Shares and Warrants may be deemed
to be  "underwriters"  within  the  meaning  of  the  Securities  Act,  and  any
commission  received by  them and  any profit  on the  resale of  the Shares and
Warrants purchased  by them  may be  deemed to  be underwriting  commissions  or
discounts  under the  Securities Act.  See "Plan  of Distribution."  The Warrant
Shares may be  issued from  time to  time by the  Company upon  exercise of  the
Warrants.
    
 
   
    The  Company  will  bear all  of  the  cost of  preparing  and  printing the
Registration Statement, and  Prospectus and any  Prospectus Supplements and  all
filing fees and legal and accounting expenses associated with registration under
federal   and  state  securities   laws  estimated  at   $100,000.  The  Selling
Shareholders will  pay all  other  expenses including  brokerage fees,  if  any,
related   to  the  distribution  of  the  Shares  and  Warrants.  See  "Plan  of
Distribution."
    
 
   
    On October 11, 1996, the last sale  price of the Company's Common Stock,  as
reported  on  the Nasdaq  Small Cap  Market  System under  the symbol  DTPT, was
$11.25. Prior  to  this  offering, there  has  been  no public  market  for  the
Warrants,  and there can be no assurance that an active market will develop. The
Company has submitted an  application to list the  Warrants on the Nasdaq  Small
Cap Market.
    
 
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    THE  COMMON STOCK AND WARRANTS OFFERED HEREBY INVOLVE A HIGH DEGREE OF RISK.
SEE "RISK FACTORS" COMMENCING ON PAGE 6 FOR A DISCUSSION OF CERTAIN FACTORS THAT
SHOULD BE CONSIDERED BY PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS OF THE COMMON STOCK AND  WARRANTS
OFFERED HEREBY.
    
 
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THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED BY THE SECURITIES AND
    EXCHANGE  COMMISSION OR ANY  STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION  NOR HAS THE
       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE  COMMISSION OR  ANY STATE  SECURITIES
            COMMISSION  PASSED UPON THE  ACCURACY OR ADEQUACY OF
                THIS PROSPECTUS. ANY REPRESENTATION TO  THE
                           CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
 
   
                THE DATE OF THIS PROSPECTUS IS OCTOBER   , 1996
    
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                             AVAILABLE INFORMATION
 
   
    The  Company is subject to the  informational requirements of the Securities
Exchange Act  of  1934, as  amended  (the  "Exchange Act"),  and  in  accordance
therewith  files periodic reports,  proxy statements and  other information with
the Securities and Exchange Commission  (the "Commission"). Such reports,  proxy
statements  and  other information  may be  inspected and  copied at  the public
reference facilities maintained by the Commission at Room 1024, Judiciary Plaza,
450 Fifth Street, N.W.,  Washington, D.C. 20549 and  at the regional offices  of
the  Commission located at Seven  World Trade Center, 13th  Floor, New York, New
York 10048 and Northwestern Atrium Center, 500 West Madison Street, Suite  1400,
Chicago,  Illinois 60661. In addition, registration statements and certain other
documents filed  with  the Commission  through  its Electronic  Data  Gathering,
Analysis  and  Retrieval ("EDGAR")  system  are publicly  available  through the
Commission's   site   on   the   Internet's   World   Wide   Web,   located   at
HTTP://WWW.SEC.GOV.  The Registration Statement,  including all exhibits thereto
and amendments thereof, has been filed with the Commission through EDGAR. Copies
of such material may also be obtained  from the Public Reference Section of  the
Commission  at  450 Fifth  Street, N.W.,  Washington,  D.C. 20549  at prescribed
rates. The Company's Common Stock is traded on the Nasdaq Small Cap Market under
the symbol "DTPT."  Reports, proxy statements  and other information  concerning
the  Company may also be  inspected at the offices  of Nasdaq Operations, 1735 K
Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006.
    
 
    The Company has filed with the  Commission a Registration Statement on  Form
SB-2, including amendments thereto, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the  "Securities Act"),  with respect  to the  shares of  Common Stock  and the
warrants to purchase  shares of  Common Stock offered  hereby (the  "Warrants").
This  Prospectus  does not  contain  all of  the  information set  forth  in the
Registration Statement  and  the exhibits  and  schedules thereto.  For  further
information  with  respect to  the  Company and  the  Common Stock  and Warrants
offered hereby, reference is made to the Registration Statement and the exhibits
and schedules filed therewith. Statements contained in this Prospectus regarding
the contents  of  any  contract  or  any 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 or
otherwise filed  with the  Commission,  each statement  being qualified  in  all
respects  by such reference. The Registration Statement may be inspected without
charge at the offices of the  Commission at 450 Fifth Street, N.W.,  Washington,
D.C.  20549, and  copies of all  or any part  thereof may be  obtained from such
office upon the payment of the fees prescribed by the Commission.
 
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    DeltaPoint and DeltaGraph are registered trademarks of the Company and Chart
Server, Drag 'n Draw,  DeltaPoint, WebAnimator, Web Tools  and QuickSite are  or
may  be trademarks of the  Company. All other product,  brand or trade names are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
 
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                                    SUMMARY
 
    THE  FOLLOWING SUMMARY  IS QUALIFIED  IN ITS  ENTIRETY BY  THE MORE DETAILED
INFORMATION,  INCLUDING  "RISK  FACTORS"  AND  FINANCIAL  STATEMENTS  AND  NOTES
THERETO,  APPEARING ELSEWHERE IN  THIS PROSPECTUS. EACH  PROSPECTIVE INVESTOR IS
URGED TO READ THIS PROSPECTUS IN ITS ENTIRETY.
 
   
                                  THE COMPANY
    
 
   
    DeltaPoint, Inc.  ("DeltaPoint"  or  the  "Company")  develops  and  markets
Internet  software  tools  designed to  allow  users to  effectively  and easily
create, manage and enhance sites on  the Internet's World Wide Web. The  Company
introduced  QuickSite in  February 1996  to enable  novice and  experienced site
publishers to rapidly create, maintain and  enhance robust Web sites. Since  its
introduction,  the Company believes that QuickSite has received more awards than
any other Web site creation and  management tool, winning the PC WEEK  Analyst's
Choice  award in March 1996,  WINDOWS MAGAZINE recommended seal  and the PC WEEK
Labs IT Excellence Award in  April 1996, and the PC  COMPUTING 5 Star rating  in
June  1996. The Company  introduced WebTools in March  1996 to allow developers,
value-added resellers ("VARs") and corporate MIS directors to add Web publishing
capabilities to existing applications and introduced WebAnimator in July 1996 to
allow a  broad range  of Web  users  to easily  add multimedia  and  interactive
animation  to a Web site. In addition,  in September 1996 the Company introduced
QuickSite Developer's Edition, a new high end version of QuickSite designed  for
professional Web developers and corporate Intranet developers.
    
 
   
    A  key element  of the  Company's objective  of becoming  a leading Internet
software tools  provider  is  to  increase  its  strategic  alliances  with  key
partners.  In September 1996, the Company entered  into an agreement with IBM to
develop and license  a customized version  of QuickSite for  inclusion in  IBM's
recently announced World Distributor, an on-line interactive electronic commerce
service.   The   Company  has   also  entered   into  agreements   with  Borland
International, Sony, McGraw-Hill,  Earthlink, Compaq and  Netcom Interactive  to
distribute  existing or  planned versions  of QuickSite  with their  products or
services.
    
 
   
    In the past, the Company has derived  most of its revenues from the sale  of
charting   and  graphics   software  products.  The   Company  currently  offers
DeltaGraph, an  advanced  cross-platform  charting  and  graphics  product.  The
Company  plans to  de-emphasize its charting  and graphics  products and expects
that they will represent a declining percentage of its business in the future.
    
 
    The Company was  incorporated in  California in 1989,  its headquarters  are
located  at  22  Lower  Ragsdale  Drive,  Monterey,  California  93940,  and its
telephone number is (408) 648-4000.
 
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                         NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA INVESTORS
 
    Each purchaser of shares of Common Stock in California must meet one of  the
following  suitability  standards:  (i)  a  liquid  net  worth  (excluding home,
furnishings and automobiles) of $250,000 or more and gross annual income  during
1995,  and estimated during 1996, of $65,000 or more from all sources; or (ii) a
liquid net worth (excluding  home, furnishings and  automobiles) of $500,000  or
more.  Each California resident purchasing shares of Common Stock offered hereby
will be required to  execute a representation  that it comes  within one of  the
aforementioned categories.
 
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                             SUMMARY FINANCIAL DATA
                     (IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)
 
   
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                                                                          YEAR ENDED DECEMBER     SIX MONTHS ENDED
                                                                                  31,                 JUNE 30,
                                                                          --------------------  --------------------
                                                                            1994       1995       1995       1996
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                                                                                                    (UNAUDITED)
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STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS DATA:
  Net revenues..........................................................  $   4,885  $   4,043  $   2,261  $   1,893
  Gross profit..........................................................      3,923      2,706      1,547      1,272
  Income (loss) from operations.........................................        518     (2,486)      (189)    (2,828)
  Net income (loss).....................................................        350     (2,632)      (250)    (2,789)
  Net income (loss) per share (1).......................................  $    0.38  $   (2.42) $   (0.25) $   (1.27)
  Shares used to compute net income (loss) per share (1)................        997      1,086      1,001      2,193
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                                                                                  DECEMBER 31, 1995
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BALANCE SHEET DATA:
  Cash and cash equivalents.....................................................      $   4,629       $     2,802
  Working capital...............................................................          2,915               764
  Total assets..................................................................          6,764             4,689
  Accumulated deficit...........................................................         (8,818)          (11,607)
  Total shareholders' equity....................................................      $   3,449       $     1,450
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(1) For an explanation of the number of shares used to compute net income (loss)
    per share, see Note 1 of Notes to Financial Statements.
 
                                  THE OFFERING
 
   
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Common Stock offered by the Selling
 Shareholders..........................  178,625 shares
Warrants offered by the Selling
 Stockholders..........................  261,172 Common Stock Purchase Warrants ("Warrants")
Common Stock issuable upon exercise of
 Warrants..............................  261,172 shares
Exercise price and term of Warrants....  Each Warrant entitles the registered holder thereof
                                         to purchase, at any time over a five-year period
                                          commencing on November 6, 1995, one share of
                                          Common Stock at a price of $7.20 per share through
                                          June 26, 1998 and at a price of $8.40 per share
                                          thereafter through November 6, 2000.
Common Stock to be outstanding after
 the offering (1)......................  2,254,243 shares
Nasdaq Small Cap Symbol................  Common Stock -- DTPT; Warrants -- DTPTW (Proposed)
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(1)  Excludes (i)  110,000 shares  of Common Stock  issuable upon  exercise of a
    warrant (the "Representative's  Warrant") granted to  the representative  of
    the  several  underwriters  (the "Representative")  in  connection  with the
    initial public offering of the Company's  Common Stock on December 20,  1995
    ("IPO"),  (ii) 261,172 shares of Common  Stock issuable pursuant to warrants
    outstanding at June 30, 1996 at an exercise price of $7.20 per share,  (iii)
    653,133  shares of Common Stock issuable  pursuant to outstanding options at
    June 30,  1996, (iv)  up to  555,556 shares  of Common  Stock issuable  upon
    exercise of Notes (as defined below) that may be issued in the proposed Debt
    Financing  (as defined  below), based  upon an  assumed conversion  price of
    $9.00 per share, and (v) up to  26,316 shares of Common Stock issuable  upon
    exercise  of a placement  agent's warrant (the  "Placement Agent's Warrant")
    that would be issued in the proposed Debt
    
 
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    Financing. See  "Management  -- 1990  Key  Employee Incentive  Stock  Option
    Plan,"  "Management -- 1992 Non-Statutory Stock Option Plan," "Management --
    1995 Stock  Option Plan,"  "Description of  Capital Stock  -- Warrants"  and
    Notes 4, 8 and 9 of Notes to Financial Statements.
    
 
                                  RISK FACTORS
 
    The  shares of Common Stock  and the Warrants offered  hereby involve a high
degree of risk and should be considered only by persons who can afford the  loss
of their entire investment. See "Risk Factors" beginning on page 6.
 
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    EXCEPT  AS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED, ALL INFORMATION  IN THIS PROSPECTUS DOES NOT
REFLECT THE EXERCISE OF  OPTIONS OR WARRANTS AFTER  JUNE 30, 1996. IN  ADDITION,
THIS  PROSPECTUS  CONTAINS FORWARD  LOOKING  STATEMENTS THAT  INVOLVE  RISKS AND
UNCERTAINTIES. THE COMPANY'S  ACTUAL RESULTS MAY  DIFFER SIGNIFICANTLY 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,"  MANAGEMENT'S  DISCUSSION  AND  ANALYSIS  OF  FINANCIAL  CONDITION AND
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS" AND "BUSINESS."
    
 
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                                  RISK FACTORS
 
    IN  ADDITION TO THE  OTHER INFORMATION IN  THIS PROSPECTUS, EACH PROSPECTIVE
INVESTOR SHOULD  CAREFULLY  CONSIDER THE  FOLLOWING  FACTORS IN  EVALUATING  THE
COMPANY  AND ITS BUSINESS BEFORE  PURCHASING THE SHARES OF  COMMON STOCK AND THE
WARRANTS OFFERED HEREBY. NO INVESTOR  SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN THE OFFERING  UNLESS
SUCH  INVESTOR  CAN  AFFORD  A  COMPLETE LOSS  OF  HIS  OR  HER  INVESTMENT. THE
DISCUSSION IN THIS PROSPECTUS  CONTAINS FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS THAT  INVOLVE
RISKS  AND UNCERTAINTIES. THE COMPANY'S  ACTUAL RESULTS MAY DIFFER SIGNIFICANTLY
FROM THE RESULTS DISCUSSED IN THE FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS. FACTORS THAT COULD
CAUSE OR CONTRIBUTE TO SUCH DIFFERENCES  INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO,  THOSE
DISCUSSED  BELOW  AND  IN  "MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION  AND  ANALYSIS  OF FINANCIAL
CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS" AND "BUSINESS."
 
RECENT AND EXPECTED LOSSES; ACCUMULATED DEFICIT; QUARTERLY FLUCTUATIONS IN
PERFORMANCE
 
   
    The Company incurred a  net loss of $2,632,000  for the year ended  December
31,  1995 and a net loss  of $2,789,000 for the six  months ended June 30, 1996,
and had an accumulated deficit of $11,607,000  as of June 30, 1996. The  Company
expects  to incur losses  for at least  the next 12  months, and perhaps longer.
There can be no assurance that the Company will not incur significant additional
losses until it successfully markets and sells existing Internet software  tools
or  develops or acquires new Internet software tools or enhancements to existing
Internet software  tools that  generate significant  revenues. Included  in  the
results of operations for 1995 is a charge to operations of $1,240,000 resulting
from  the acquisition of WebAnimator, WebTools  and QuickSite for the portion of
the purchase price determined to be in-process research and development.
    
 
    The Company's results of  operations have historically varied  substantially
from  quarter to quarter and the Company expects they will continue to do so. In
the past, the Company's operating results have varied significantly as a  result
of  a number  of factors, including  the size  and timing of  customer orders or
license agreements, product  mix, the  revenues derived from  product sales  and
license  fees, the  existence and terms  of royalty  and packaging arrangements,
seasonality, the  timing of  the  introduction and  customer acceptance  of  new
products  or product enhancements  by the Company's  competitors, new product or
version releases by the Company, changes  in pricing policies by the Company  or
its   competitors,   marketing  and   promotional  expenditures,   research  and
development  expenditures   and   changes  in   general   economic   conditions.
Furthermore,  the  Company has  often recognized  a  substantial portion  of its
revenues in  the last  month  of the  quarter,  with these  revenues  frequently
concentrated in the last week or weeks of the quarter.
 
   
    The Company's operating and other expenses are relatively fixed in the short
term.  As  a result,  variations  in timing  of  revenues can  cause significant
variations in quarterly results of operations. For example, the Company  intends
to  make significant expenditures to enhance  its sales and marketing activities
and to continue to  make significant expenditures  for research and  development
activities. As such expenditures occur, the Company may be unable to reduce such
expenditures  quickly if  revenue is less  than expected.  The Company generally
does not operate with a significant  order backlog and a substantial portion  of
its  revenue in any quarter is derived from orders booked in that quarter, which
are difficult to forecast and which are typically concentrated at the end of the
quarter. Accordingly, the Company's sales expectations are based almost entirely
on its internal estimates of future demand and not on firm customer orders.  Due
to  the  foregoing  factors,  the  Company  believes  that  quarter  to  quarter
comparisons of  its results  of operations  are not  necessarily meaningful  and
should  not be  relied upon as  indications of future  performance. In addition,
there can be no assurance the Company will be profitable on a quarter to quarter
or any other basis in the  future. See "Management's Discussion and Analysis  of
Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and Financial Statements.
    
 
   
CRITICAL NEED FOR ADDITIONAL CAPITAL; NO ASSURANCE OF FUTURE FINANCING
    
 
   
    The  Company completed  its IPO  in December 1995;  the net  proceeds to the
Company  were  $5,979,000   (including  proceeds  from   the  exercise  of   the
overallotment  option  in  January  1996).  The  Company  estimates  that  as of
September  30,   1996  its   cash  and   cash  equivalents   was   approximately
    
 
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$1,530,000.  The  Company's  existing  and  available  cash  resources  are  not
sufficient to fund its operations at desired levels without obtaining additional
outside financing.  The Company  presently  plans to  seek up  to  approximately
$4,500,000  in  net  proceeds  from  a  convertible  debt  financing  (the "Debt
Financing"). As presently contemplated, the  Company would issue 6%  convertible
subordinated  notes (the "Notes") that would be convertible at the option of the
holder(s) thereof,  into shares  of Common  Stock of  the Company  in three  (3)
separate tranches beginning 60, 90 and 120 days after the latest date of initial
issuance  (the  "Debt Financing  Closing"), at  a conversion  price ("Conversion
Price") equal to 80% of the Common Stock Price (as defined), subject to  certain
adjustments  and limitations.  All unconverted Notes  will convert automatically
into shares of Common Stock of the Company upon the earlier to occur of  certain
events,  including the first anniversary of the Debt Financing Closing. Although
the Company believes that  its existing and  available cash resources,  together
with  the anticipated net proceeds from the Debt Financing, should be sufficient
to meet its needs  for at least the  next 12 months, there  can be no  assurance
that  such cash resources will be  sufficient to satisfy the Company's operating
requirements. The  Company's actual  capital needs,  however, will  depend  upon
numerous  factors, including the progress  of the Company's software development
activities, the cost of increasing the Company's sales and marketing  activities
and  the amount  of revenues  generated from  operations, none  of which  can be
predicted with certainty. There  can be no assurance  that the Company will  not
require  additional capital sooner  than currently anticipated.  There can be no
assurance that the Debt Financing or  any additional required financing will  be
available  to  the Company  on acceptable  terms,  or at  all. The  inability to
successfully consummate the Debt Financing or to obtain required financing would
have a material adverse  effect on the  Company's business, financial  condition
and  results of operation. For example, if the Company is unable to successfully
complete the Debt  Financing, it may  be required to  significantly curtail  its
planned  operations or seek alternative financing  on highly dilutive terms. See
"Management's Discussion  and Analysis  of Financial  Condition and  Results  of
Operations" and Financial Statements.
    
 
   
SUBSTANTIAL DEPENDENCE ON RECENTLY INTRODUCED INTERNET SOFTWARE TOOLS
    
 
   
    In  the  past,  DeltaPoint  has derived  substantially  all  of  its product
revenues from  licenses  of  DeltaGraph,  its  advanced  charting  and  graphics
software  product.  However,  DeltaPoint's  future  revenue  growth  will depend
largely on the successful development, introduction and commercial acceptance of
its recently introduced  Internet software tools.  These consist of:  QuickSite,
its  Web page creation and site  management product introduced in February 1996;
WebTools,  its  Web  publishing  capability  tool  introduced  in  March   1996;
WebAnimator,  its multimedia authoring tool for the Web introduced in July 1996;
and QuickSite Developer's  Edition, its  enhanced version of  QuickSite for  Web
site  developers and corporate Intranet developers introduced in September 1996.
Commercial acceptance of the Company's Internet software tools will require  the
Company  to establish additional  distribution channels and  sales and marketing
methods, of which there can also be no assurance, because these products will be
targeted to existing customers as well as to a significantly different potential
end user population. There can be no assurance that the Company can successfully
manage the introduction  of its existing  Internet software tools  or any  other
potential  Internet  software tools  or that  any of  its existing  or potential
products will  achieve significant  market  acceptance. Failure  of any  of  the
Company's   existing  or  potential  products   to  achieve  significant  market
acceptance will  have  a material  adverse  effect on  the  Company's  business,
financial  condition and results  of operation. See  "Business -- Strategy," "--
Products" and "-- Marketing and Distribution."
    
 
   
DEPENDENCE ON INTERNET
    
 
   
    Sales of the Company's  Internet software tools will  depend in part upon  a
robust  industry and infrastructure  for providing Internet  access and carrying
Internet traffic. The Internet is at an early stage of development. There can be
no assurance that the infrastructure or complementary products necessary to make
the  Internet  a  viable  commercial  marketplace  will  be  developed,  or,  if
developed, that the Internet will become a viable commercial marketplace. If the
Internet does not become a
    
 
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viable   commercial  marketplace,  the  commercial  benefits  derived  from  the
Company's Internet software  tools would be  materially adversely effected.  See
"Business -- Products" and "-- Marketing and Distribution."
    
 
RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH RETAIL DISTRIBUTION; SUBSTANTIAL CUSTOMER CONCENTRATION
 
   
    DeltaPoint  sells  its  products  to  distributors  for  resale  to  certain
retailers, including computer  superstores and  mass merchandisers.  Sales to  a
limited   number  of  distributors  and  retailers  have  constituted,  and  are
anticipated to continue  to constitute,  a significant  portion of  DeltaPoint's
retail  software sales.  In particular,  revenues from  licenses sold  to Nippon
Polaroid Kabushiki  Kaisha,  the  Company's  Japanese  distributor,  constituted
approximately  12%, 38%, 35% and 8% of  the Company's net revenues for the years
ended December 31, 1993, 1994 and 1995  and the six months ended June 30,  1996,
respectively.  Sales to Ingram constituted approximately 8%, 17%, 13% and 18% of
the Company's net revenues for the years ended December 31, 1993, 1994 and  1995
and  the  six  months ended  June  30,  1996, respectively.  Any  termination or
significant disruption of DeltaPoint's  relationship with any major  distributor
or  retailer, or a significant reduction in  sales volume attributable to any of
such entities, could, unless or until replaced, materially adversely affect  the
Company's   business,  financial   condition  and   results  of   operations.  A
deterioration in  financial  condition  or  other  business  difficulties  of  a
distributor or retailer could render the Company's accounts receivable from such
entity  uncollectible,  which  could  have  a  material  adverse  effect  on the
Company's business, financial condition and results of operations. There can  be
no assurance that DeltaPoint's existing distributors and retailers will continue
to  provide  DeltaPoint's  products  with  adequate  levels  of  shelf  space or
promotional support.  In  addition,  personal  computer  hardware  and  software
companies  have generally reported declines in gross margins and greater product
returns as they have increased  sales through the mass merchandise  distribution
channel.  The Company expects that its margins  will be similarly affected as it
increases  sales  through   this  channel.  See   "Business  --  Marketing   and
Distribution."
    
 
RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS
 
   
    The   Company's  revenues   from  international   operations  accounted  for
approximately 20%, 42%, 40% and 15% of the Company's net revenues in 1993,  1994
and  1995  and  the six  months  ended  June 30,  1996,  respectively,  of which
approximately 62%, 90%, 87%  and 52%, respectively, were  derived from sales  in
Japan.  The Company  expects that  revenues from  these international operations
will continue to represent a large percentage of its net revenues. International
revenues are subject  to a number  of risks, including  greater difficulties  in
accounts  receivable  collection, longer  payment  cycles, exposure  to currency
fluctuations, political and  economic instability  and the  burden of  complying
with  a wide  variety of foreign  laws and regulatory  requirements. The Company
also believes  that  it is  exposed  to greater  levels  of software  piracy  in
international  markets because of the weaker protection afforded to intellectual
property  in  some  foreign  jurisdictions.  See  "Management's  Discussion  and
Analysis  of  Financial  Condition  and  Results  of  Operations,"  "Business --
Strategy" and "-- Marketing and Distribution."
    
 
RAPID TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; RISK OF PRODUCT DELAYS; RISK OF PRODUCT DEFECTS
 
    The markets  in which  the  Company competes  are characterized  by  ongoing
technological    developments,   frequent   new    product   announcements   and
introductions, evolving industry standards  and changing customer  requirements.
The introduction of products embodying new technologies and the emergence of new
industry  standards  and practices  can  render existing  products  obsolete and
unmarketable. The Company's future success depends upon its ability on a  timely
basis  to enhance its existing products, introduce new products that address the
changing  requirements  of   its  customers   and  anticipate   or  respond   to
technological  advances, emerging industry standards  and practices in a timely,
cost-effective manner.  There can  be  no assurance  that  the Company  will  be
successful in developing, introducing and marketing new products or enhancements
to  existing products  or will not  experience difficulties that  could delay or
prevent the successful development, introduction or marketing of these products,
or that  its new  products and  product enhancements  will adequately  meet  the
requirements of the marketplace and achieve any significant degree of commercial
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Software  products such as those offered by  the Company often contain errors or
"bugs" that can  adversely affect  the performance of  the product  or damage  a
user's  data. The  Company has  in the past  discovered software  defects in its
products that have adversely affected its business and operating results. If the
Company is unable, for technological or other reasons, to develop and  introduce
new  products or enhancements of existing products  in a timely manner or if new
versions of existing products contain unacceptable levels of product defects  or
do  not achieve a significant  degree of market acceptance,  or any of the above
situations occur  there could  be a  material adverse  effect on  the  Company's
business,  financial  condition  and  results of  operations.  See  "Business --
Marketing and Distribution" and "-- Research and Development."
 
COMPETITION
 
   
    The Company  competes on  the basis  of certain  factors, including  product
quality, first-to-market product capabilities, product performance, ease of use,
customer support and price. The Company believes it currently competes favorably
overall with respect to these factors.
    
 
   
    The  markets  in  which  the Company  competes  are  highly  competitive and
characterized by rapid technological change, frequent new product introductions,
short product lives, evolving industry  standards and significant price  erosion
over  the life of the product.  The Company anticipates increased competition in
these markets  from  both existing  vendors  and  new market  entrants.  In  the
charting  market, the  Company has,  to date,  encountered competition primarily
from larger vendors  such as Adobe  Systems Incorporated, Microsoft  Corporation
("Microsoft"),  Software  Publishing  Corporation,  Lotus,  Corel  and  Computer
Associates International, Inc.  In the  structured drawing  market, the  Company
has,  to date,  encountered competition  primarily from  larger vendors  such as
Corel, Visio and Micrografx Incorporated. In the Internet software tools market,
the Company  anticipates  competition  primarily  from  Netscape  Communications
Corporation, Macromedia, Inc., Adobe Systems Incorporated, Microsoft, NetObjects
and Quarterdeck, Inc. In addition, the Company expects that existing vendors and
new  market entrants will  develop products that will  compete directly with the
Company's products  and  that competition  will  increase significantly  to  the
extent  that markets for  the Company's products  grow. Increased competition is
likely to result in price reductions,  reduced gross margins and loss of  market
share,  any  of  which  could  have material  adverse  effect  on  the Company's
business, financial condition and results  of operations. Most of the  Company's
current   and  potential  competitors   have  substantially  greater  financial,
technical,  marketing,  sales  and  customer  support  resources,  greater  name
recognition  and larger installed customer bases than the Company. Because there
are minimal barriers  to entry into  the software market,  the Company  believes
sources  of  competition  will  continue  to  proliferate.  The  market  for the
Company's products is  characterized by significant  price competition, and  the
Company  expects  it will  face increasing  pricing pressures.  There can  be no
assurance the Company will be able  to maintain its historic pricing  structure,
and  an inability to do so would have a material adverse effect on the Company's
business, financial  condition and  results  of operations.  If the  Company  is
unable  to  compete  effectively  against current  and  future  competitors, the
Company's business,  financial  condition  and results  of  operations  will  be
materially adversely affected. See "Business -- Competition."
    
 
RELIANCE ON MICROSOFT
 
   
    Microsoft  Windows has gained  widespread market acceptance  as the dominant
computer operating system. Accordingly, the Company's products have been and  it
is  intended that they will continue to be designed to function in the Microsoft
Windows, Windows '95 or Windows NT environments, and anticipates future products
will also  be designed  for use  in these  Microsoft environments.  Because  the
Company  expects that  its Microsoft-based  applications of  these products will
account for a  significant portion of  new license revenue  for the  foreseeable
future,  sales of these  products would be materially  and adversely affected by
market developments adverse to  Microsoft Windows, Windows  '95 and Windows  NT.
The  Company's ability to develop products  using the Microsoft Windows, Windows
'95 and NT environments is substantially dependent on its ability to gain timely
access to,  and to  develop expertise  in, current  and future  developments  by
Microsoft,  of which  there can  be no  assurance. Moreover,  the abandonment by
Microsoft of  its  current  operating  system,  product  line  or  strategy,  or
    
 
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the  decision  by Microsoft  to  develop and  market  products that  directly or
indirectly compete with  the Company's  products would have  a material  adverse
effect on the Company's business, financial condition and results of operations.
See "Business -- Strategy" and "-- Competition."
 
DEPENDENCE ON LIMITED NUMBER OF KEY PERSONNEL
 
    The Company's success depends to a significant extent upon the contributions
of  several key personnel, some of whom were only recently hired by the Company.
The failure to attract  and retain key personnel  could have a material  adverse
affect on the Company's business, financial condition and results of operations.
See  "Management  --  Executive  Officers and  Directors"  and  "  -- Employment
Contracts."
 
RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH MANAGING GROWTH
 
    In recent years, the growth of the Company's customer base and expansion  of
its  product line has challenged, and is  expected to continue to challenge, the
Company's management and  operations, including its  sales, marketing,  customer
support, research and development and finance and administrative operations. The
Company's  future  performance will  depend  in part  on  its ability  to manage
growth, should it occur, both in  its domestic and international operations  and
to adapt its operational and financial control systems, if necessary, to respond
to changes resulting from such growth. The Company intends to continue to invest
in  improving its financial systems and  controls in connection with anticipated
increases in the level of its operations. Although the Company believes that its
systems and  controls are  adequate for  its current  level of  operations,  the
Company  anticipates that it may need to add additional personnel and expand and
upgrade its financial systems  to manage any future  growth. The failure of  the
Company's  management to respond  to and manage growth  effectively could have a
material adverse  effect  on the  Company's  business, financial  condition  and
results  of operations. See  "Management's Discussion and  Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations."
 
RELIANCE ON SOLE PRODUCT ASSEMBLER
 
   
    All of the Company's  software products are  currently assembled (i.e.,  the
disk media, operating manual and other documentation are inserted in shrink wrap
packaging)   by  a  related   third  party  assembler   that  beneficially  owns
approximately 1.7% of the Company's Common  Stock as of June 30, 1996.  Although
reliance  on  third party  assemblers  is common  in  the software  industry and
DeltaPoint believes  that other  assemblers are  available, the  Company has  no
formal  contract with the assembler and  the termination or interruption of this
assembly arrangement  could have  a  material adverse  effect on  the  Company's
business,  financial  condition and  results  of operations  until  an alternate
assembler is secured.
    
 
RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH PRODUCT RETURNS; PRICE PROTECTION
 
   
    Consistent  with  industry  practice,   the  Company  allows   distributors,
retailers  and end users to return products  for credits towards the purchase of
additional products. In addition, DeltaPoint's promotional activities, including
free trial and satisfaction guaranteed  offers, and competitors' promotional  or
other  activities could cause returns to  increase sharply at any time. Further,
the Company  expects that  the rate  of product  returns could  increase to  the
extent  that the Company  introduces new versions of  its existing products. For
example, product returns may increase above historical levels as a result of new
product introductions.  In addition,  if  the Company  reduces its  prices,  the
Company  credits its distributors for the  difference between the purchase price
of products remaining  in their inventory  and the Company's  reduced price  for
such  products. Although the Company provides allowances for anticipated returns
and price  protection  obligations,  and believes  its  existing  policies  have
resulted  in the  establishment of  allowances that  are adequate  and have been
adequate in the past, there  can be no assurance  that such product returns  and
price  protection obligations will not exceed  such allowances in the future and
as a result will not have a material adverse effect on future operating results,
particularly since the Company seeks  to continually introduce new and  enhanced
products  and is likely to face  increasing price competition. See "Management's
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations."
    
 
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DEPENDENCE ON NONEXCLUSIVE SOFTWARE LICENSE FOR DRAG 'N DRAW-TM-
    
 
   
    DeltaPoint  publishes  Drag  'n  Draw  under  a  three-year   non-exclusive,
royalty-bearing  agreement licensed from  a third party. Under  the terms of the
license, the Company currently does not have access to the source code for  Drag
'n  Draw, which  may be  obtained upon  payment of  a specified  fee. Therefore,
without paying such fee, the Company  has no right to the technology  underlying
Drag 'n Draw and is dependent on the third party licenser to modify or customize
Drag  'n Draw in a timely manner. The license agreement requires that DeltaPoint
achieve sufficient net revenue from the sale of Drag 'n Draw to pay the licenser
a specified minimum  royalty, which minimum  was achieved in  the first  quarter
term  of the  license. In  addition, the  license agreement  does not  contain a
non-compete clause  and the  licenser is  therefore free  to allow  other  third
parties,  including competitors of  DeltaPoint, to publish  a product similar to
Drag 'n Draw. Termination of the license would, or the grant of a  non-exclusive
license to a third party on the same or more favorable terms as those granted to
DeltaPoint  could, have  a material  adverse effect  on the  Company's business,
financial condition  and results  of operations.  See "Business  --  Proprietary
Rights and Licenses."
    
 
LIMITED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION; TRADEMARK DISPUTE
 
   
    The  Company's ability to  compete effectively depends in  large part on its
ability to develop and maintain  proprietary aspects of its technology.  Despite
precautions  taken by  the Company,  it may  be possible  for unauthorized third
parties to  copy  aspects  of  the  Company's products  or  to  obtain  and  use
information  that the Company regards as proprietary. Moreover, the laws of some
foreign countries  do  not  protect  the Company's  proprietary  rights  in  its
products  to the same  extent as do the  laws of the  United States. The Company
licenses some of its  products under "shrink wrap"  license agreements that  are
included  in products shipped  by the Company  and are not  signed by licensees,
therefore they may be unenforceable under the laws of certain jurisdictions.  In
addition, some aspects of the Company's products are not subject to intellectual
property protection.
    
 
    The  Company cannot  be certain that  others will  not independently develop
substantially equivalent  or  superseding  proprietary technology,  or  that  an
equivalent  product  will  not be  marketed  in competition  with  the Company's
products, thereby substantially reducing the value of the Company's  proprietary
rights.  There can be  no assurance that  any confidentiality agreements between
the Company and its employees will provide adequate protection for the Company's
proprietary information in the  event of any unauthorized  use or disclosure  of
such proprietary information. See "Business -- Proprietary Rights and Licenses."
 
    Since  July  1995,  the  Company  has  received  correspondence  from  Visio
contesting the  Company's  right  to use  the  product  name Drag  'n  Draw  and
asserting  that it  is confusingly  similar to  a registered  trademark owned by
Visio. Although the Company believes that this assertion lacks merit, there  can
be  no assurance  that the  ultimate resolution  of the  matter will  not have a
material adverse  impact  on  the Company's  business,  financial  condition  or
results  of operations.  Although the  Company is  not currently  engaged in any
intellectual property litigation  or proceedings  regarding this  matter or  any
other  similar matters,  there can  be no  assurance that  the Company  will not
become involved in such proceedings. An adverse outcome in litigation or similar
adversarial proceedings could subject the Company to significant liabilities  to
third parties, require disputed rights to be licensed from others or require the
Company  to cease the marketing  or use of certain  products, any of which could
have a material adverse  effect on the  Company's business, financial  condition
and  results of operations.  The Company may  be required to  obtain licenses to
patents or proprietary rights of others, and there can be no assurance that  any
licenses  required  under  any  patents  or  proprietary  rights  would  be made
available on  terms acceptable  to the  Company,  if at  all. See  "Business  --
Property Rights and Licenses."
 
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CONCENTRATION OF SHARE OWNERSHIP
 
   
    As  of  September 30,  1996,  the executive  officers  and directors  of the
Company and  their affiliates,  as a  group,  will continue  to own  or  control
approximately  26.8%  of the  outstanding  capital stock  of  the Company.  As a
result, such persons and entities  will continue to exert significant  influence
over  the  business  and affairs  of  the  Company. See  "Principal  and Selling
Shareholders."
    
 
SHARES ELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE SALE
 
   
    Sale of substantial  amounts of  the Company's  Common Stock  in the  public
market  or  the prospect  of such  sales could  materially adversely  affect the
market price  of  the  Common Stock.  As  of  September, 1996  the  Company  had
outstanding  2,254,243 shares of Common Stock. Of these total outstanding shares
of Common Stock 1,798,354 shares are, freely tradeable without restriction under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), unless  purchased
by  "affiliates" of the  Company as that term  is defined in  Rule 144 under the
Securities Act, including 1,265,000 shares sold  to the public in the  Company's
IPO  and (ii)  the remaining 455,889  shares are  restricted shares ("Restricted
Shares") under the Securities Act.  Holders of approximately 654,050  Restricted
Shares  have entered  into contractual  "lockup" agreements  providing that they
will not  offer, sell,  contract to  sell or  grant any  option to  purchase  or
otherwise  dispose  of  the shares  of  stock owned  by  them or  that  could be
purchased by  them through  the exercise  of options  to purchase  stock of  the
Company, until January 20, 1997 without the prior written consent of H.J. Meyers
&  Co. In addition  62,500 Shares of Common  Stock ("Special Restricted Shares")
and 125,000 of the Warrant Shares  offered hereby have entered into  contractual
lockup  agreements providing that they will not offer, sell, contract to sell or
grant any option to purchase or otherwise  dispose of the shares of stock  owned
by  them or that could  be purchased by them through  the exercise of options to
purchase stock of  the Company, until  December 26, 1996  and January 20,  1997,
respectively.  The remaining  Restricted Shares  are not  subject to contractual
"lock-up" agreements.  If  the holders  of  Special Restricted  Shares  exercise
registration  rights relating to such shares,  additional shares of Common Stock
could be available  for sale  during the  periods indicated  in this  paragraph.
Sales  in the  public market of  substantial amounts of  Common Stock (including
sales in connection with an exercise of certain registration rights relating  to
approximately  shares of Common  Stock) or the perception  that such sales could
occur could depress prevailing market prices for the Common Stock. In  addition,
the  Company has agreed to use its best efforts to register for resale under the
Securities Act the shares of Common  Stock underlying the Notes before the  date
60  days after the Debt  Financing Closing and to  maintain the effectiveness of
such registration for a minimum of two years. See "Description of Capital  Stock
- -- Registration Rights."
    
 
SUBSTANTIAL SHARES OF COMMON STOCK RESERVED
 
   
    The  Company has reserved  261,172 shares of Common  Stock for issuance upon
exercise of outstanding warrants and 887,223 shares of Common Stock for issuance
to key  employees,  officers,  directors  and  consultants  pursuant  to  option
exercises  or sales of Common Stock under  the Stock Plans. The Company has also
issued to the Representative in connection  with the initial public offering  of
the  Company's  Common Stock  in December  1995, a  warrant to  purchase 110,000
shares of Common Stock. In addition, if the Company completes the Debt Financing
as presently contemplated,  it would  be required  to reserve  shares of  Common
Stock for issuance upon exercise of the Notes and the Placement Agent's Warrant.
The  existence of the  aforementioned warrants, options and  notes and any other
options or warrants may prove  to be a hindrance  to future equity financing  by
the  Company.  Further, the  holders  of such  warrants,  options and  notes may
exercise them at  a time  when the  Company would  otherwise be  able to  obtain
additional   equity  capital  on  terms  more  favorable  to  the  Company.  See
"Description of Capital Stock."
    
 
VOLATILITY OF STOCK PRICE; NO PRIOR MARKET FOR WARRANTS; POSSIBLE ILLIQUIDITY OF
TRADING MARKET
 
    The Company's  stock  price has  exhibited  volatility since  the  Company's
initial public offering in December 1995. There has been no prior market for the
Company's  Warrants and there can  be no assurance that  a public market for the
Warrants will develop or be sustained after the Offering. In the absence of such
a market, purchasers of  the Warrants may  experience substantial difficulty  in
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their  securities. The trading price of  the Company's Common Stock and Warrants
could be  subject  to significant  fluctuations  in response  to  variations  in
quarterly  operating results,  changes in analysts'  estimates, announcements of
technological innovations by the Company or its competitors, general  conditions
in  the Internet tools and visualization  software industries and other factors.
In addition, the stock market is  subject to price and volume fluctuations  that
affect  the market  prices for companies  in general,  and small capitalization,
high technology  companies  in particular,  and  are often  unrelated  to  their
operating performance.
    
 
   
    The  shares of Common Stock are traded on the Nasdaq Small Cap Market, which
is a significantly less liquid market  than the Nasdaq National Market, and  the
Pacific  Stock Exchange, and the Company  has submitted an application to permit
trading of the Warrants on the Nasdaq Small Cap Market. Moreover, if the Company
should continue  to experience  losses  from operations,  it  may be  unable  to
maintain  the standards for continued trading on  the Nasdaq Small Cap Market or
the Pacific Stock Exchange, and the shares of Common Stock and the Warrants,  if
traded,  could be  subject to removal  from the  Nasdaq Small Cap  Market or the
Pacific Stock Exchange, as the case may be. Trading, if any, in the Common Stock
and the Warrants would therefore be conducted in the over-the-counter market  on
an  electronic bulletin  board established for  securities that do  not meet the
Nasdaq Small Cap Market listing requirements,  or in what are commonly  referred
to  as the "pink sheets." As a result,  an investor would find it more difficult
to dispose  of,  or to  obtain  accurate quotations  as  to the  price  of,  the
Company's securities. In addition, if the Company's securities were removed from
the  Nasdaq Small Cap Market,  they would be subject  to so-called "penny stock"
rules that impose additional  sales practice and  market making requirements  on
broker-dealers  who sell and/or make a  market in such securities. Consequently,
removal from the Nasdaq Small Cap Market, if it were to occur, could affect  the
ability  or willingness of  broker-dealers to sell  and/or make a  market in the
Company's securities and the ability  of purchasers of the Company's  securities
to  sell their securities  in the secondary  market. In addition,  if the market
price of the Company's Common  Stock is less than  $5.00 per share, the  Company
may  become subject  to certain penny  stock rules  even if still  quoted on the
Nasdaq Small Cap  Market. While  such penny stock  rules should  not affect  the
quotation  of the Company's  Common Stock on  the Nasdaq Small  Cap Market, such
rules may further limit  the market liquidity of  the Common Stock and  Warrants
and  the ability of purchasers  in this Offering to  sell such securities in the
secondary market.
    
 
    The Company has not  previously paid any dividends  on its Common Stock  and
for  the  foreseeable future  intends to  continue its  policy of  retaining any
earnings to finance the development and expansion of its business. See "Dividend
Policy."
 
LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY AND INDEMNIFICATION MATTERS
 
    As permitted by California General Corporation Law, the Company has included
in its Restated Articles of Incorporation a provision to eliminate the  personal
liability  of its directors for monetary damages for breach or alleged breach of
their fiduciary duties as directors, subject to certain exceptions. In addition,
the Bylaws of the Company provide that the Company is required to indemnify  its
officers   and   directors   under   certain   circumstances,   including  those
circumstances in which indemnification would otherwise be discretionary, and the
Company is  required  to advance  expenses  to  its officers  and  directors  as
incurred  in  connection with  proceeding  against them  for  which they  may be
indemnified. The Company  has entered into  indemnification agreements with  its
officers  and directors containing provisions that  are in some respects broader
than the specific indemnification provisions contained in the California General
Corporation Law. See "Management -- Limitations on Liability and Indemnification
Matters."
 
                          PRICE RANGE OF COMMON STOCK
 
   
    The Company's Common Stock  is traded on the  Nasdaq Small Cap Market  under
the  symbol DTPT and on  the Pacific Stock Exchange  under the symbol DTP.P. The
table below sets forth the high and low closing sale prices of the Common  Stock
for the periods indicated, as reported by the Nasdaq Small Cap Market.
    
 
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<PAGE>
    Prior  to this offering, there  has been no public  market for the Warrants,
and there can be no  assurance that an active  market will develop. The  Company
plans  to submit  an application to  list the  Warrants on the  Nasdaq Small Cap
Market.
 
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                         HIGH        LOW
                                                                                       ---------  ---------
<S>                                                                                    <C>        <C>
YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1995
  Fourth quarter (from December 20,1995).............................................  $    8.75  $    8.00
YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1996
  First quarter......................................................................  $    9.75  $    6.50
  Second quarter.....................................................................  $   17.25  $    9.50
  Third Quarter......................................................................  $   13.75  $    5.87
  Fourth quarter (through October 11, 1996)..........................................  $   11.25  $    9.75
</TABLE>
    
 
   
    On October 11, 1996,  the closing sale  price for a  share of the  Company's
Common Stock, as reported on the Nasdaq Small Cap Market, was $11.25.
    
 
                                DIVIDEND POLICY
 
    The  Company has  never declared  or paid any  cash dividends  on its Common
Stock, and the Company currently intends  to retain any future earnings to  fund
the  development of  its business and  therefore does not  anticipate paying any
cash dividends on its Common Stock in the foreseeable future.
 
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                                 CAPITALIZATION
 
   
    The following table sets forth the short-term debt and capitalization of the
Company at June 30, 1996:
    
 
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                           JUNE 30, 1996
                                                                                           -------------
                                                                                                (IN
                                                                                            THOUSANDS)
<S>                                                                                        <C>
LONG-TERM DEBT...........................................................................   $         0
                                                                                           -------------
                                                                                           -------------
 
SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY:
  PREFERRED STOCK, NO PAR VALUE, 4,000,000 SHARES AUTHORIZED, NONE ISSUED OR
   OUTSTANDING...........................................................................   $   --
  COMMON STOCK, NO PAR VALUE, 25,000,000 SHARES AUTHORIZED, 2,222,243 SHARES ISSUED AND
   OUTSTANDING; (1)......................................................................   $    13,057
  ACCUMULATED DEFICIT....................................................................       (11,607)
                                                                                           -------------
    TOTAL SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY...........................................................   $     1,450
                                                                                           -------------
      TOTAL CAPITALIZATION...............................................................   $     1,450
                                                                                           -------------
                                                                                           -------------
</TABLE>
    
 
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(1) Excludes: (i) warrants outstanding as  of June 30, 1996 to purchase  371,172
    shares  of Common  Stock, (ii)  options outstanding as  of June  30, 1996 to
    purchase 653,133 shares of Common Stock (iii) up to 555,556 shares of Common
    Stock issuable upon  exercise of Notes  that may be  issued in the  proposed
    Debt  Financing, based upon an assumed  conversion price of $9.00 per share,
    and (iv) up  to 555,556 shares  of Common  Stock that may  be issuable  upon
    exercise  of  the Placement  Agent's  Warrant that  would  be issued  in the
    proposed Debt  Financing. See  "Management --  1990 Key  Employee  Incentive
    Stock   Plan,"  "Management  --  1992   Non-Statutory  Stock  Option  Plan,"
    "Management -- 1995  Stock Option  Plan," "Description of  Capital Stock  --
    Warrants" and Notes 5, 8 and 9 of Notes to Financial Statements.
    
 
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                            SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
 
   
    The following selected financial data should be read in conjunction with the
Financial  Statements  and related  Notes  thereto appearing  elsewhere  in this
Prospectus and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition  and
Results  of Operations."  The statement of  operations data for  the years ended
December 31, 1994 and 1995 and the  balance sheet data at December 31, 1994  and
1995  have been  derived from  the audited  financial statements  of the Company
included elsewhere in this Prospectus. The statement of operations data for  the
six  months ended June 30, 1995 and 1996  and the balance sheet data at June 30,
1996 are  derived  from  unaudited  financial statements  of  the  Company.  The
unaudited  financial  statements,  in  the opinion  of  management,  include all
adjustments, consisting only  of normal recurring  adjustments, necessary for  a
fair  presentation of the results of operations  for the periods. The results of
operations for the six months ended June 30, 1996 are not necessarily indicative
of results that may be expected for the full year or in any future period.
    
 
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                         YEAR ENDED DECEMBER    SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE
                                                                                 31,                     30,
                                                                        ----------------------  ----------------------
                                                                           1994        1995        1995        1996
                                                                        ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
<S>                                                                     <C>         <C>         <C>         <C>
STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS DATA (IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT FOR PER SHARE
 DATA):
Net revenues..........................................................  $    4,885  $    4,043  $    2,261  $    1,893
Cost of revenues......................................................         962       1,337         714         621
                                                                        ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
  Gross profit........................................................       3,923       2,706       1,547       1,272
                                                                        ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
Operating expenses:
  Sales and marketing.................................................       1,636       1,922         759       2,051
  Research and development............................................         930       2,036         389       1,088
  General and administrative..........................................         839       1,234         588         961
                                                                        ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
                                                                             3,405       5,192       1,736       4,100
                                                                        ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
Income (loss) from operations.........................................         518      (2,486)       (189)     (2,828)
Interest income (expense).............................................        (168)       (146)        (61)         39
                                                                        ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
Net income (loss).....................................................  $      350  $   (2,632) $     (250) $   (2,789)
                                                                        ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
                                                                        ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
Net income (loss) per share (1).......................................  $     0.38  $    (2.42) $    (0.25) $    (1.27)
                                                                        ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
                                                                        ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
Shares used to compute net income (loss) per share (1)................         997       1,086       1,001       2,193
                                                                        ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
                                                                        ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
</TABLE>
    
 
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                     DECEMBER 31,       JUNE 30,
                                                                                 --------------------  -----------
                                                                                   1994       1995        1996
                                                                                 ---------  ---------  -----------
<S>                                                                              <C>        <C>        <C>
BALANCE SHEET DATA (IN THOUSANDS):
  Working capital (deficit)....................................................  $  (2,050) $   2,915   $     764
  Total assets.................................................................      1,147      6,764       4,689
  Current liabilities..........................................................      2,970      3,315       3,239
  Mandatorily redeemable convertible preferred stock...........................      4,177     --          --
  Total shareholders' equity (deficit).........................................  $  (6,041) $   3,449   $   1,450
</TABLE>
    
 
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(1) For an explanation of the number of shares used to compute net income (loss)
    per share, see Note 1 of Notes to Financial Statements.
 
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<PAGE>
                    MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF
                 FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
 
    THIS MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS
OF OPERATIONS SECTION AND OTHER PARTS OF THIS PROSPECTUS CONTAIN FORWARD-LOOKING
STATEMENTS THAT INVOLVE  RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES.  THE COMPANY'S ACTUAL  RESULTS
MAY  DIFFER  SIGNIFICANTLY FROM  THE  RESULTS DISCUSSED  IN  THE FORWARD-LOOKING
STATEMENTS. FACTORS THAT  MIGHT CAUSE  SUCH A  DIFFERENCE INCLUDE,  BUT ARE  NOT
LIMITED TO, THOSE DISCUSSED BELOW AND IN "RISK FACTORS" AND "BUSINESS."
 
OVERVIEW
 
   
    DeltaPoint  was  incorporated on  February 1,  1989  to design,  develop and
market  visualization  software  products  for  personal  computers.  DeltaPoint
commenced  shipments of its initial product, DeltaGraph,  at the end of 1989. In
June 1995, the Company shipped the initial version of Drag 'n Draw for  Windows.
In   November  1995,  the  Company   acquired  technology  required  to  develop
WebAnimator, a multimedia  authoring tool  for the  Web. In  December 1995,  the
Company  acquired  technology  to develop  QuickSite,  a Web  site  creation and
management tool  which was  released in  February 1996.  The Company  introduced
WebTools  in  March 1996,  WebAnimator in  July  1996 and  QuickSite Developer's
Edition in September 1996. The Company plans to incur additional expenditures to
develop Internet software tools or new versions of existing software tools  over
the  next  several  quarters.  Although  the  Company  has  historically derived
substantially all of its revenues  from charting and graphics software  products
for desktop applications, the Company's strategy is to realize a significant and
growing percentage of future revenues from the sale of Internet software tools.
    
 
    The  Company's revenues consist  of license revenues  from sales of software
products to  distributors, resellers  and end  users. In  addition, the  Company
derives  license  revenues from  royalty and  packaging agreements  with certain
customers. Under  these  agreements,  the Company  typically  receives  a  large
percentage of the aggregate revenues in the form of a nonrefundable royalty paid
upon  shipping of  the master  copy of  software, which  allows the  customer to
license a specified number  of copies of the  Company's software, and a  smaller
percentage  of aggregate revenues in the form  of packaging fees, which are paid
to the Company  based on  the manufacturing cost  of products  that the  Company
packages and ships for the customer over the life of the agreement. As a result,
these  agreements  can  lead to  quarterly  fluctuations in  revenues  and gross
profit.
 
   
    Software product sales are recognized upon  shipment of the product, net  of
appropriate allowances for estimated returns. Revenues from software royalty and
packaging  agreements  are recognized  upon  shipment of  a  master copy  of the
software product and packaging if no significant vendor obligations remain under
the term of the license agreements and any amounts to be paid are nonrefundable.
Payments received in  advance of  revenue recognition are  recorded as  deferred
revenue. The Company grants distributors and resellers certain rights of return,
price  protection and stock rotation  rights on unsold merchandise. Accordingly,
reserves for estimated future returns and credits for price protection and stock
rotation rights are accrued at the time of shipment.
    
 
    The Company sustained  significant operating losses  in 1992 and  1993 as  a
result  of expenses incurred in connection  with the introduction of the initial
Windows version of DeltaGraph and the Company's attempt to market and sell  this
product  primarily  through retail  channels  (including mass  merchandisers and
other retail stores). The Company's sales through these channels were lower than
anticipated during 1992 and 1993. Since  the first quarter of 1994, the  Company
has  focused on marketing and selling  DeltaGraph through direct channels to end
users (including direct mail and catalogs).
 
    Net revenues declined  from $4,885,000 in  1994 to $4,043,000  in 1995.  The
decline  of net revenues was  comprised of a decline  in domestic revenues, from
$2,833,000 in  1994  to $2,433,000  in  1995,  and a  decline  in  international
revenues,  from $2,052,000 in 1994 to  $1,610,000 in 1995. Net revenues declined
primarily because of lower  than anticipated customer  demand for the  Company's
Windows   version  of  DeltaGraph,  the  de-emphasis  of  sales  through  retail
distribution channels and sales of graphics utilities products, the reduction of
sales and marketing expenditures until late, 1995 due to
 
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cash constraints, and a refocusing of  the Company's business into the  Internet
market. The Company had anticipated that sales of its Windows version DeltaGraph
would  be above historical sales levels of DeltaGraph. The Company believes that
net revenues  may remain  flat or  continue  to decline  until it  has  realized
significant  revenues from recently introduced  Internet software tools, such as
QuickSite, QuickSite  Developer's Edition,  WebTools and  WebAnimator, and  from
products that the Company develops or acquires in the future.
    
 
   
    The  Company's  gross profit  has  historically fluctuated  from  quarter to
quarter based on the mix of  revenues derived from software product sales,  and,
for  the reasons discussed  above, royalty fees and  packaging fees. The Company
obtains higher than average gross profit  on revenues derived from royalty  fees
on  its  traditional  charting and  graphing  software products  because  of the
negligible costs  associated  with  generating such  revenues,  and  lower  than
average gross profit on packaging fees from these products, because packaging is
sold  at  a price  based  on the  manufacturing  cost of  the  finished software
product. The Company's  gross profit  has also fluctuated  based on  the mix  of
product  revenues derived from  sales of the  Company's higher-margin DeltaGraph
product and sales of lower-margin graphics utilities products where the  Company
must  pay royalties  to third  parties. The  Company believes  these factors may
impact its gross profit in the future. In addition, to the extent the  Company's
QuickSite  and  WebAnimator  product  revenues  increase,  gross  profit  may be
negatively impacted in  the future as  the Company must  pay royalties to  third
parties  on sales of these products. See "Risk Factors -- Substantial Dependence
on  Recent  and  Anticipated  Product  Introductions"  and  "--  Dependence   on
Nonexclusive Software License for Drag 'n Draw."
    
 
   
    The  Company's  limited operating  history  makes the  prediction  of future
operating results difficult or impossible. Future operating results will  depend
on  many  factors,  including demand  for  the  Company's products,  the  mix of
revenues derived from product sales and royalty and packaging fees, the level of
product and price  competition, the  Company's success in  expanding its  direct
sales  efforts for its software products  and indirect distribution channels for
its new  or anticipated  Internet products  and the  ability of  the Company  to
successfully  develop and market new products  and control costs. In particular,
the Company's ability to achieve revenue growth and profitability in the  future
will be significantly dependent on the timely introduction and market acceptance
of products the Company has recently introduced or is developing and the ability
of the Company to successfully develop products for new and existing markets.
    
 
   
    The  Company incurred a loss  for the year ended  December 31, 1995, in part
due to a charge  to operations recorded in  the fourth quarter of  approximately
$1,240,000  resulting from the acquisition  of certain Internet technologies for
the portion  of the  purchase price  determined to  be in-process  research  and
development  and a decline  in revenues from  traditional products. In addition,
the Company incurred a loss  of $2,789,000 for the first  half of 1996, in  part
due  to a continued decline  in revenues from traditional  products that has not
been offset by revenues from  recently introduced products. The Company  expects
to  incur losses from  operations for at  least the next  12 months, and perhaps
longer, particularly if  revenues do  not increase  significantly above  current
levels.  There can be no  assurance that the Company  will not incur significant
additional losses until  it successfully  develops or acquires  new products  or
enhancements  to  existing  products  that  generate  significant  revenues  and
profits. See "Risk Factors --  Recent and Expected Losses; Accumulated  Deficit;
Quarterly Fluctuations in Performance."
    
 
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RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
 
    The  following table sets forth for the periods indicated, certain statement
of operations data as a percentage of net revenues.
 
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                YEAR ENDED             SIX MONTHS ENDED
                                                               DECEMBER 31,                JUNE 30,
                                                         ------------------------  ------------------------
                                                            1994         1995         1995         1996
                                                         -----------  -----------  -----------  -----------
                                                                                         (UNAUDITED)
<S>                                                      <C>          <C>          <C>          <C>
Net revenues...........................................      100.0%       100.0%       100.0%       100.0%
Cost of revenues.......................................       19.7         33.1         31.6         32.8
                                                             -----        -----    -----------  -----------
    Gross profit.......................................       80.3         66.9         68.4         67.2
                                                             -----        -----    -----------  -----------
Operating expenses:
  Sales and marketing..................................       33.5         47.5         33.6        108.4
  Research and development.............................       19.0         50.4         17.2         57.5
  General and administrative...........................       17.2         30.5         26.0         50.8
                                                             -----        -----    -----------  -----------
    Total operating expenses...........................       69.7        128.4         76.8        216.7
                                                             -----        -----    -----------  -----------
Income (loss) from operations..........................       10.6        (61.5)        (8.4)      (149.4)
Interest income (expense)..............................       (3.4)        (3.6)        (2.7)         2.1
                                                             -----        -----    -----------  -----------
    Net income (loss)..................................        7.2%       (65.1)%      (11.1)%     (147.3)%
                                                             -----        -----    -----------  -----------
                                                             -----        -----    -----------  -----------
</TABLE>
    
 
   
    SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 1995 AND 1996
    
 
   
    NET REVENUES.  Net  revenues for the  six month period  ended June 30,  1996
decreased by 16.3% to $1,893,000 from $2,261,000 for the corresponding period in
the prior year. The decrease in revenue is primarily due to a new release of the
Company's  Windows version of DeltaGraph for the U.S. and Japan in the six month
period ended June 30, 1995 and no corresponding releases in the six month period
ended June 30, 1996. In addition, the decrease in revenue was due to the refocus
of the Company's business to the Internet market. For the six month period ended
June 30, 1996, international revenue decreased to 14.8% of net revenues compared
to 42.5%  for the  period ended  June 30,  1995. The  decrease in  international
revenues  was due  to fewer  Japanese license agreements  and the  timing of new
product introductions including the Windows version of DeltaGraph. The Company's
domestic and international  sales are principally  denominated in United  States
dollars.  Movements in currency exchange rates did not have a material impact on
the total revenue in the periods  presented. However, there can be no  assurance
that  future  movements in  currency  exchange rates  will  not have  a material
adverse effect on the Comapany's future revenues and results of operations.
    
 
   
    GROSS PROFIT.    Cost  of  revenues  consists  of  direct  material,  labor,
overhead,  freight,  post  contract  customer  support,  royalties  and contract
manufacturing costs associated with the manufacturing of the Company's products.
The Company  believes  that these  and  other  factors will  contribute  to  the
fluctuations  of gross profit as  a percentage of revenue.  Gross profit for the
six month period ended June 30, 1996  decreased as a percentage of net  revenues
to  67.2% from 68.4% for the corresponding  period in the prior fiscal year. The
Company's gross profit has varied from quarter to quarter as a result of changes
in customer and product mix, inventory  write-offs due to new product  releases,
third  party royalty  obligations for  the Company's  recently released Internet
products and packaging revenues  to the Company's  Japanese distributor. To  the
extent  that the newly  released QuickSite and  WebAnimator products increase in
the future as  a percentage of  the Company's  overall net revenues  and to  the
extent  that the Company  continues to release updated  versions of the existing
product line,  the Company's  gross  profit as  a  percentage of  revenues  will
continue to vary.
    
 
   
    SALES   AND  MARKETING.     Sales  and  marketing   expenses  include  sales
commissions,  compensation  of  sales  and  marketing  personnel  and  cost   of
promotional  activities. Sales and  marketing expenses for  the six month period
ended June 30, 1996 increased to  $2,051,000 or 108.4% of net revenues  compared
to  $759,000 or 33.6% of  sales for the corresponding  period in the prior year.
The increase  in sales  and marketing  expenses  in absolute  dollars and  as  a
percentage of net revenues was primarily due to an
    
 
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increase  in headcount and an increase in the use of direct mail, telemarketing,
consultants, print  advertising,  tradeshows  and  channel  promotions  used  to
promote  DeltaGraph, QuickSite, and WebAnimator.  The Company expects that sales
and marketing  expenses will  increase  in future  periods because  the  Company
intends  to  add  sales  and  marketing  personnel  to  support  the anticipated
introduction of  new products  and updated  versions of  the Company's  existing
products.
    
 
   
    RESEARCH  AND DEVELOPMENT.   Research and  development expenses  for the six
month period  ended  June 30,  1996  increased to  $1,088,000  or 57.5%  of  net
revenues  compared to  $389,000 or 17.2%  of net revenues  for the corresponding
period in the prior year. The increase in research and development expenses  was
primarily  due  to  a  staffing  increase  for  the  development  of  QuickSite,
WebAnimator  and  DeltaGraph.   In  addition,  the   Company  retained   several
consultants to aid in the development process. The Company expects that research
and  development  expenses  will  increase  in  future  periods  due  to further
development of  new products  and updated  and cross  platform versions  of  the
Company's existing products.
    
 
   
    GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE.  General and administrative expenses for the six
month  period ended June 30, 1996 increased to $961,000 or 50.8% of net revenues
compared to $588,000 or  26.0% of net revenues  for the corresponding period  in
the  prior  year.  The  increase  in  general  and  administrative  expenses was
primarily attributable to a severance expense charge of $505,000 relating to the
departure of the Company's former Chief Executive Officer.
    
 
   
    PROVISION FOR INCOME TAXES.  There was no provision for taxes during the six
month periods ended June 30, 1996 and 1995 due to net operating losses.
    
 
    YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994 AND 1995
 
    NET REVENUES.  Net  revenues decreased by 17.2%  from $4,885,000 in 1994  to
$4,043,000  in  1995.  Net revenues  declined  primarily because  of  lower than
anticipated  sales  of  the  Company's   Windows  version  of  DeltaGraph,   the
de-emphasis  of  sales  through  indirect  distribution  channels  and  sales of
graphics utilities  products,  an  overall  reduction  of  sales  and  marketing
expenditures  and  a  refocusing of  the  Company's business  into  the Internet
market. International sales accounted for 42.0% of net revenues during 1994  and
40.0%  for 1995. The decrease in international revenues was partly due to slower
than anticipated DeltaGraph sales in the fourth quarter of 1995 and the delay in
release of  the Japanese  version of  the Drag  'n Draw  product. The  Company's
domestic  and international sales  are principally denominated  in United States
dollars. Movements in currency exchange rates did not have a material impact  on
the  total revenue in the periods presented.  However, there can be no assurance
that future  movements in  currency  exchange rates  will  not have  a  material
adverse effect on the Company's future revenues and results of operations.
 
   
    COST  OF REVENUES.   Cost  of revenues  consists of  direct material, labor,
overhead, freight,  post  contract  customer  support,  royalties  and  contract
manufacturing costs associated with the manufacturing of the Company's products.
Cost  of revenues increased from $962,000, or  19.7% of net revenues, in 1994 to
$1,337,000, or 33.1% of net revenues in  1995. The increase in cost of  revenues
was  primarily due to royalties paid by the  Company on sales of Drag 'n Draw in
1995 and to a lesser extent translation costs associated with the French version
of DeltaGraph. The increase in cost of revenues on a percentage of net  revenues
in 1994 to 1995 was also partially caused because overhead and related costs did
not decrease at the same rate as net revenues in 1995.
    
 
   
    GROSS PROFIT.  The Company's gross profit has varied from quarter to quarter
as  a result of  changes in the mix  of revenues derived  from license fees from
sales to the  Company's Japanese  distributor and other  customers. The  Company
believes  that the decrease in  gross profit on a  percentage basis for the year
ended December 31,  1995 was the  result of  sales of lower  margin upgrades  of
DeltaGraph in Japan and royalties paid by the Company in connection with initial
sales of Drag 'n Draw.
    
 
    SALES   AND  MARKETING.     Sales  and  marketing   expenses  include  sales
commissions,  compensation  of  sales  and  marketing  personnel  and  cost   of
promotional activities. Sales and marketing expenses
 
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increased  by 17.5% from $1,636,000 in 1994  to $1,922,000 in 1995. The increase
in sales and marketing expenses in absolute  dollars and as a percentage of  net
revenues  was  primarily  due  to  an  increase  in  the  use  of  direct  mail,
telemarketing and channel promotions used to promote Drag 'n Draw.
    
 
   
    RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.   Research and  development expenses increased  by
118.9% from $930,000 in 1994 to $2,036,000 in 1995. The increase in research and
development expenses in absolute dollars and as a percentage of net revenues was
due  to a charge to  operations of $1,240,000 resulting  from the acquisition of
certain Internet technologies for the  portion of the purchase price  determined
to  be in-process  technology as such  technology had  not reached technological
feasibility and had  no alternative future  use. This increase  in research  and
development  expenses  was offset  by  a decrease  in  spending in  research and
development because  of  a  lack of  sufficient  cash  during most  of  1995  to
adequately  fund development of anticipated new  products. The increase was also
offset by the reduced development of the Company's graphics utilities products.
    
 
   
    GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE.   General and administrative expenses  increased
47.1% from $839,000 for 1994 to $1,234,000 for 1995. The increase in general and
administrative  expenses in absolute dollars and as a percentage of net revenues
was primarily  attributable  to  additional  provisions  for  specific  doubtful
accounts   receivable  related  to  receivables  from  a  distributor  which  is
experiencing financial difficulties. At  June 30, 1996,  the distributor had  no
outstanding  payment obligations  to the  Company. Management  believes that the
allowance for doubtful  accounts receivable  is adequate to  provide for  losses
incurred in connection with the ultimate realization of accounts receivable.
    
 
   
    PROVISION  FOR INCOME TAXES.   There was  no provision for  taxes in 1994 or
1995 due to  net operating  losses and the  availability of  net operating  loss
carryforwards.  Due  to  certain changes  in  the Company's  ownership,  the net
operating loss  carryforwards  available  to offset  against  future  income  is
limited  to approximately $2,345,000 or $142,000 per year. If certain additional
changes in the  Company's ownership occur,  the Company's use  of net  operating
loss carryforwards may be subject to a lower annual limitation.
    
 
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
 
   
    As  of June 30, 1996, the Company  had a working capital balance of $764,000
and shareholders' equity of $1,450,000. The Company has financed its  operations
primarily  through  private and  public sales  of equity  securities, borrowings
under a term loan and the private sale of debt securities. Since inception,  the
Company  has received  $13,129,000 in proceeds  from private  sales of preferred
stock and from  the Company's initial  public offering of  common stock and  the
related overallotment exercise in December 1995 and January 1996, respectively.
    
 
    The  Company used net cash in operations  of $308,000 in 1994 and $1,646,000
in 1995. Net  cash used  in 1994 consisted  primarily of  decreases in  accounts
payable  and accrued liabilities, partially offset by net income of $350,000 and
depreciation and  amortization of  $241,000.  Net cash  used in  1995  consisted
primarily  of a net  loss of $2,632,000,  an increase in  accounts receivable of
$642,000, largely because of significant sales of the Company's products in  the
last  30  days of  the  third quarter  of 1995  with  extended payment  terms, a
decrease in  accounts payable  of  $751,000, partially  offset by  a  $1,240,000
charge  to operations from the acquisition  of certain Internet technologies for
the portion of the purchase price determined to be in-process technology and  an
increase in accrued liabilities of $670,000.
 
   
    The  Company  used net  cash in  operations of  $2,300,000 in  the six-month
period ended June  30, 1996  and $909,000 for  the corresponding  period of  the
prior  year. Net cash used in the six-month period ended June 30, 1996 consisted
primarily of  a  net  loss  of  $2,789,000 offset  by  a  decrease  in  accounts
receivable  of $336,000 and a decrease in  inventories of $65,000. Net cash used
in 1995 consisted primarily of a net loss of $250,000 and a decrease in accounts
payable of $627,000.
    
 
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    The Company obtained net cash from financing activities of $359,000 in  1994
and  $6,499,000  in  1995. Net  cash  obtained  in 1995  consisted  primarily of
$5,143,000 in net proceeds in 1995 from the Company's initial public offering of
common stock completed in 1995 and other equity financing.
 
   
    Net cash provided by financing activities totalled $745,000 in the six-month
period ended June  30, 1996  and $927,000 for  the corresponding  period of  the
prior  year. Net  cash from financing  activities in the  six-month period ended
June 30, 1996 consisted primarily of $831,000 in net proceeds from the exercises
of the Company's overallotment from the initial public offering of common  stock
offset  by $77,000  in expenses relating  to the registration  statement on Form
SB-2 for the Company's Series E  Preferred Stock and related warrants. Net  cash
from  financing activities in the six-month period ended June 30, 1995 consisted
primarily of  proceeds  from  the  sale  of  preferred  stock  for  a  total  of
$1,050,000.
    
 
   
    The  Company's  capital  expenditures  related  primarily  to  purchases  of
personal  computers  and   computer  workstations  to   support  the   Company's
development  work and other property and  equipment. For the year ended December
31, 1995, the Company's capital expenditures totaled approximately $29,000.  The
Company anticipates capital expenditures for 1996 will be approximately $350,000
due  to an anticipated  increase in personal  computers and computer workstation
equipment needs to  support the increased  development work. For  the six  month
period   ended  June  30,  1996   the  Company's  capital  expenditures  totaled
approximately $272,000.
    
 
   
    In November and December of  1995, the Company acquired technology  required
to  develop  WebAnimator,  QuickSite,  and WebTools.  The  Company  acquired the
technologies for an aggregate purchase  price of $1,690,000 of which  $1,090,000
will  be paid in aggregate cash payments. As of June 30, 1996, $815,000 of these
aggregate cash  payments  had  been  made. The  Company  recorded  a  charge  of
$1,240,000  to operations in 1995 from the acquisition of these technologies for
the portion of the purchase price determined to be in-process technology.
    
 
   
    The Company  estimates that  as of  September  30, 1996  its cash  and  cash
equivalents  was approximately $1,530,000. The  Company's existing and available
cash resources  are not  sufficient to  fund its  operations at  desired  levels
without  obtaining additional outside financing. The Company plans to seek up to
approximately $4,500,000  in  net proceeds  from  the proposed  Debt  Financing.
Although  the Company believes  that its existing  and available cash resources,
together with the anticipated  net proceeds from the  Debt Financing, should  be
sufficient  to meet its cash requirements for at least the next 12 months, there
can be no assurance that such cash  resources will be sufficient to satisfy  the
Company's  operating requirements. To the extent  the Company continues to incur
losses or grows in  the future, its operating  and investing activities may  use
cash  and, consequently, such losses or growth may require the Company to obtain
additional sources of financing. In addition, the Company's actual capital needs
will depend  upon numerous  factors,  including the  progress of  the  Company's
software  development activities, the cost of increasing the Company's sales and
marketing activities and the amount of  cash generated from operations, none  of
which  can  be predicted  with certainty.  There  can be  no assurance  that the
Company will not require additional  capital sooner than currently  anticipated.
There  can be no  assurance that the  Debt Financing or  any additional required
financing will be available to the Company  on acceptable terms, or at all.  The
inability  to successfully consummate  the Debt Financing  or to obtain required
financing would  have  a material  adverse  effect on  the  Company's  business,
financial  condition and  results of operation.  For example, if  the Company is
unable to  successfully complete  the  Debt Financing,  it  may be  required  to
significantly  curtail its planned  operations or seek  alternative financing on
highly dilutive terms. See "Risk Factors  -- Future Capital Needs; No  Assurance
of Future Financing."
    
 
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                                    BUSINESS
    
 
   
    DeltaPoint,  Inc.  ("DeltaPoint"  or  the  "Company")  develops  and markets
Internet software  tools  designed to  allow  users to  effectively  and  easily
create,  manage and enhance sites on the  Internet's World Wide Web. The Company
introduced QuickSite  in February  1996 to  enable novice  and experienced  site
publishers  to rapidly create, maintain and  enhance robust Web sites. Since its
introduction, the Company believes that QuickSite has received more awards  than
any  other Web site creation and management  tool, winning the PC WEEK Analyst's
Choice award in March  1996, WINDOWS MAGAZINE recommended  seal and the PC  WEEK
Labs  IT Excellence Award in  April 1996, and the PC  COMPUTING 5 Star rating in
June 1996. The Company  introduced WebTools in March  1996 to allow  developers,
value-added resellers ("VARs") and corporate MIS directors to add Web publishing
capabilities to existing applications and introduced WebAnimator in July 1996 to
allow  a  broad range  of Web  users  to easily  add multimedia  and interactive
animation to a Web site. In  addition, in September 1996 the Company  introduced
QuickSite  Developer's Edition, a new high end version of QuickSite designed for
professional Web developers and corporate Intranet developers.
    
 
   
    A key element  of the  Company's objective  of becoming  a leading  Internet
software  tools  provider  is  to  increase  its  strategic  alliances  with key
partners. In September 1996, the Company  entered into an agreement with IBM  to
develop  and license  a customized version  of QuickSite for  inclusion in IBM's
recently announced World Distributor, an on-line interactive electronic commerce
service.  The   Company  has   also  entered   into  agreements   with   Borland
International,  Sony, McGraw-Hill,  Earthlink, Compaq and  Netcom Interactive to
distribute existing  or planned  versions of  QuickSite with  their products  or
services.
    
 
   
    In  the past, the Company has derived most  of its revenues from the sale of
charting  and  graphics  software  products  such  as  DeltaGraph,  an  advanced
multi-platform  charting and graphics product. The Company plans to de-emphasize
its charting  and graphing  products  and expects  that  they will  represent  a
declining percentage of its business.
    
 
   
BACKGROUND
    
 
   
    The  rapid growth of the Internet, combined  with the emergence of the World
Wide Web, the graphical multimedia-rich portion of the Internet, has resulted in
the development of the Internet as a new mass communications medium. The  demand
to  access the World Wide  Web has fueled the  rapid growth and proliferation of
"Web browsers," such as the Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet  Explorer,
which  allow  users to  passively view  information  on the  World Wide  Web. In
addition, search engines such as those provided by Yahoo! and InfoSeek  simplify
the process of locating information on the Web.
    
 
   
    Increasingly,  however, Web users  are no longer  satisfied simply to browse
and search the Web. The worldwide, cost-effective communication benefits of  the
Web  are  leading  many  individuals  and  organizations  to  actively "publish"
information on the Web by creating a Web "site," a collection of individual  Web
pages,  each hand-crafted  using a relatively  new and  quickly evolving tagging
language called HTML.
    
 
   
    Many large corporations, having already established sophisticated Web  sites
for external communications, and are now encouraging smaller internal groups and
departments  to build private "Intranet" Web sites. Small businesses, home-based
businesses, individuals and others are also  creating Web sites to reach  target
audiences.
    
 
   
    For  many  individuals and  organizations,  establishing a  robust  Web site
remains a time-consuming and expensive proposition. The free-form nature of HTML
has inhibited  the emergence  to date  of  a standard  for HTML  page  creation.
Further,  an increasing number of competing  extensions and modifications to the
HTML language  continue  to  be  proposed, making  it  difficult  for  Web  site
publishers to support the latest technical advances.
    
 
   
    A  first generation  of third-party Web  "page creation"  tools has emerged.
These limited-function tools focus on the creation  of a single page at a  time.
Content within pages and between pages must be
    
 
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manually linked and manually maintained. Further, the content of the site has no
inherent  structural intelligence, making global  changes, consistency of design
and reorganization of sections difficult and time-consuming. A second generation
of Web  page creation  tools, such  as Microsoft's  Front Page  and  NetObjects'
Fusion,   has  also  been  introduced.  Although  this  generation  offers  some
ease-of-use improvements over the first  generation, these products continue  to
be based on architectures that primarily emphasize the layout and design aspects
of individual pages.
    
 
   
    The  Company believes that  a compelling Web  site consists of  a robust and
growing collection of  interrelated pages and  links. As a  result, the  Company
believes  that effective software tools for creating and managing Web sites must
not only simplify  initial content creation  but enable site  authors to  easily
update,  maintain, expand and manage their sites on an ongoing basis, regardless
of whether the sites consist of five pages or 5,000 pages. Further, the  Company
believes   that  an  open  architecture  is  important  to  maintaining  maximum
flexibility as Internet standards emerge and evolve rapidly.
    
 
   
DELTAPOINT APPROACH
    
 
   
    The Company offers a  family of products that  enables Web site creators  to
easily  and cost-effectively  generate, manage and  enhance Web  content using a
structured approach. QuickSite and QuickSite Developer's Edition, the  Company's
Web  site creation and  management products, utilize  an advanced product design
featuring a  database  architecture  and incorporate  a  series  of  query-based
"wizards" that guide the site developer through a "point and click" process that
results  in  a  completed,  fully  linked Web  site  structure  in  minutes. The
Company's database design  enables the automatic  generation and maintenance  of
links  between Web pages, eliminating or reducing the need for any programmer or
technical intervention. Additionally, this approach enables all components of an
entire Web site to  be captured, collected and  easily managed as fully  indexed
data  objects within the database engine. The Company believes that its database
approach to Web  site creation  and management  provides fundamental  advantages
over  existing  page  creation  methodologies  which  will  become  increasingly
apparent as the  volume and  complexity of content  contained in  the Web  sites
increases.
    
 
   
    The  Company's Web site creation and management tools are designed with full
client-side  functionality  to  free  the  site  designer  from  costly   server
connection  time during  the site creation  and testing  process. Further, these
tools  utilize  an   open  architecture  that   provides  browsers  and   server
independence.  The Company intends to incorporate this level of flexibility into
all of its Internet software tools.
    
 
   
DELTAPOINT STRATEGY
    
 
   
    DeltaPoint's objective is to be a leading provider of software products that
enable users of all experience levels  to quickly and easily create, manage  and
enhance  compelling  sites on  the World  Wide Web.  The Company's  strategy for
achieving this objective includes the following elements:
    
 
   
    CREATE BRAND AWARENESS.  The Company intends to increase its brand awareness
through a coordinated strategy of building brand equity in the QuickSite product
name, emphasizing  QuickSite's Web  site  management capabilities  and  database
architecture,  and demonstrating its growing  acceptance through a growing array
of relationships  with  industry leaders.  Since  March 1996,  the  Company  has
entered into agreements with companies such as IBM, Borland International, Sony,
McGraw-Hill,  Earthlink, Compaq and Netcom Interactive. To build brand identity,
the Company also plans to increase  and expand its print and online  advertising
efforts  and to  increase its  participation in  major industry  conferences and
trade shows.
    
 
   
    EXPAND DISTRIBUTION.    The Company  plans  to expand  distribution  of  its
Internet  software tools by increasing  its retail distribution relationships to
ensure wide  commercial  availability  of its  shrink-wrapped  products  and  by
partnering  with  alternative channel  and  vertical segment  leaders, including
distribution and  co-marketing  relationships  with  key  PC  manufacturers  and
Internet  Service Providers (ISPs) that can increase market penetration and that
offer revenue sharing business models.
    
 
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    BROADEN PRODUCT  OFFERING.   The Company  intends to  identify and  develop,
license  or acquire  technologies or products  to extend market  position in two
areas: Web  site creation  and Web  site management.  In the  area of  Web  site
creation,  the Company intends  to continue expanding  the range of pre-designed
templates, graphics, forms and wizards  contained within the QuickSite  product.
The  Company also plans to develop  and market complementary content enhancement
products, such as WebAnimator, which allow Web site creators to improve  content
through special effects. In the area of Web site management, the Company expects
to continue to update and enhance the management features of QuickSite.
    
 
   
    DEVELOP  PRODUCTS  THAT SUPPORT  OPEN ARCHITECTURE.    The Company  plans to
introduce Internet software tools based on an open, client-based  architectures.
The  Company intends to develop Web products  which will support any widely used
Web browser, including  Netscape Navigator and  Microsoft Internet Explorer,  as
well  as any major  server software environment,  including Windows NT, Netscape
Commerce  Server  and  Unix.  Additionally,  the  Company  plans  to   architech
additional  products that  will enable the  entire Web site  creation process to
occur on a client-side desktop personal computer.
    
 
   
    TARGET CORPORATE  INTRANET MARKET.   The  design of  the Company's  Internet
software  tools enable  them to be  used with  little or no  modification in the
corporate Intranet environment.  The Company  plans to develop  and implement  a
focused  effort to  target the  Intranet marketplace.  Specifically, the Company
plans to create a dedicated market  development and sales team with  specialized
expertise in providing corporate solutions.
    
 
   
DELTAPOINT PRODUCTS
    
 
   
    The  Company has introduced four Internet  software tools in 1996. QuickSite
is designed as a  low cost, easy  to use Web site  creation and management  tool
that  is designed  to enable novice  and experienced site  publishers to rapidly
create, maintain  and grow  a  robust Web  site. QuickSite  Developer's  Edition
offers  additional  functionality  and  is  targeted  for  software programmers,
Webmasters, commercial  Web site  developers and  corporate Web  site  managers.
WebTools  has  been  designed  to enable  developers,  VAR's  and  corporate MIS
directors  to  add  Web   publishing  capabilities  to  existing   applications.
WebAnimator  is  designed to  allow a  broad range  of Web  users to  easily add
multimedia and interactive animation to a Web site.
    
 
   
    The Company's  charting and  graphics  software products  currently  include
DeltaGraph,  a cross platform  application which is  used to transform numerical
data into charts and graphs.
    
 
   
    QUICKSITE
    
 
   
    In December  1995,  the  Company  acquired  an  exclusive  license  to  core
technologies  which serve  as the basis  for a  family of Web  site creation and
management software  tools. QuickSite,  the  first of  these tools  which  began
shipping  to retail distributors on  March 28, 1996, is  designed to enable non-
technical individuals and organizational users to rapidly create and efficiently
manage a  Web site.  The following  are  the key  attributes of  the  DeltaPoint
solution:
    
 
   
    EASE  OF  SITE CREATION.   The  Company  has designed  a collection  of site
creation wizards aimed at eliminating  the initial stumbling blocks  encountered
by   novice  Web  site   authors.  These  wizards  guide   the  user  through  a
point-and-click process that  designs and  builds an entire  Web site,  complete
with  page links, table of contents,  and other important site creation elements
such as e-mail return addresses, copyright notices, consistent menu designs  and
flags  for pages containing special content. The Company believes that QuickSite
can significantly shorten  the time  required to design  and build  a Web  site.
Wizards  also enable users to select and modify the stylistic elements of a site
such as the colors and textures  of backgrounds, graphics, headers and  footers.
By  masking the complexities of HTML,  Java and other site creation conventions,
these wizards  eliminate  the  requirement  for  Web  site  authors  to  develop
specialized technical expertise before they can become productive.
    
 
   
    EASILY  UPDATABLE  CONTENT.   The  Company's product  architecture passively
enforces a Web  structure such that  as the author  populates the site,  content
components are captured as data objects which
    
 
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are  automatically indexed and stored within the product's database engine. As a
result, content can be more quickly updated and global changes can be  reflected
through  an entire Web site  with a few simple  keystrokes. Further, any content
element, including text,  graphics, data files,  and images, can  be stored  and
re-used,  savings users time as  they build additional sites  or add to existing
sites.
    
 
   
    EXTENSIBLE ARCHITECTURE.   By  employing a  componentized architecture,  the
Company  provides  an  extensible  platform  that  can  adapt  as  new technical
innovations evolve. Tables, forms, and other new extensions to HTML, as well  as
user-definable  functions,  are  supported through  a  point-and-click component
library management system.
    
 
   
    BROWSER AND  SERVER INDEPENDENCE.   QuickSite  supports most  Web  browsers,
including Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, which together are
estimated  to account  for over  90% of  the current  marketplace. Additionally,
QuickSite is architected to enable all  the entire Web site creation process  to
occur on a client-side desktop personal computer. The Company believes that this
client-biased   approach  provides   several  key   advantages,  including:  (i)
elimination of dependencies on any single third-party Internet or network-server
technology; (ii) lower  overall cost  by eliminating the  need to  connect to  a
server  for interim testing  of an in-progress  site; and (iii)  reduced risk of
investing in the "wrong" server environment.
    
 
   
    QUICKSITE DEVELOPER'S EDITION
    
 
   
    QuickSite Developer's Edition is designed  for Internet Web site  developers
and  corporate  Intranet  developers. The  QuickSite  Developer's  Edition gives
professional Web site  developers significantly  enhanced control  over the  web
site  creation  and  management  process. Among  the  new  features  included in
QuickSite Developer's Edition are: (i)  support for the emerging WWW  Consortium
web  style sheets  standard; (ii)  3D Web Site  Builder, a  visual VRML (virtual
reality mark-up language) creation tool  from Virtus included with the  product;
(iii)   advanced  web  site  automation,  including  the  QuickScript  scripting
language, powerful  page  macros  and  unique  caret  technology  that  automate
repetitive  tasks that  bog down  large-scale projects;  (iv) embedded "graphics
factory" technology, based on a  variety of DigitalStyle templates, that  allows
developers  to create  custom graphics and  style elements  on-the-fly, and also
helps to enforce stylistic consistency throughout a site; and (v)  sophisticated
project  reporting capabilities that  help the developer  track and document the
on-going status of their work.
    
 
   
    WEBTOOLS
    
 
   
    WebTools is  designed  to  allow database  developers  to  add  Web-enabling
features  to existing database applications. DeltaPoint will license WebTools to
software development companies including Borland  International in return for  a
license  fee or royalty arrangement. Currently  WebTools is available for Visual
dBASE for Windows and for CA Clipper.
    
 
   
    WEBANIMATOR
    
 
   
    In November 1995, the Company acquired core technologies which serve as  the
basis  for WebAnimator,  a multimedia  authoring tool  for the  Web from Richard
Blum, d.b.a. Knowledge Vision ("Knowledge  Vision"). WebAnimator is designed  to
enable  a broad  range of  Web users  to easily  add multimedia  and interactive
animation to a  Web site. The  Company believes that  WebAnimator represents  an
advance  over current commercially available  products by offering the following
key attributes: (i) extensive use of predefined templates that will enable users
to  combine  text,  graphics  and  sound  to  produce  multimedia  rich  content
components;  (ii) content components created  in WebAnimator's native format are
vector based and therefore are expected to be compressed to small files that can
be quickly  downloaded and  played  from within  a  Web browser;  (iii)  graphic
objects in WebAnimator act as interactive buttons that enable users to branch to
different  Web  site  locations;  and (iv)  advanced  digital  sound  and motion
synchronization tools are expected to enable users to easily and accurately  add
sound and motion to an animated content component.
    
 
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    GRAPHICS PRODUCTS
    
 
   
    The  Company's charting  and graphics  software product,  DeltaGraph, can be
used as either  a stand-alone product  or as a  complement to software  programs
such  as spreadsheets, databases and  presentation graphics. DeltaGraph offers a
broad  range  of  business,  scientific  and  technical  charts  with   flexible
formatting  features that enables  charts to be fine  tuned with high resolution
output. Presentation tools  such as  slide show managers  and outliners  enhance
DeltaGraph's   functionality.   DeltaGraph  is   primarily  used   by  chemists,
biologists,  geologists,  pharmacists,  and   professionals  in  the   financial
services, aerospace and publishing industries.
    
 
   
PRODUCTS UNDER DEVELOPMENT
    
 
   
    The  Company believes that its future success depends in part on its ability
to maintain and improve its core  technologies, enhance and expand its  products
and  develop new products that meet  evolving customer requirements and industry
standards. The  Company's current  efforts  are focused  on the  development  of
products  that further enhance development capablities  in the areas of Web site
creation and Web site management.
    
 
   
COMPETITION
    
 
   
    The Company  competes on  the basis  of certain  factors, including  product
quality, first-to-market product capabilities, product performance, ease of use,
customer support and price. The Company believes it currently competes favorably
overall with respect to these factors.
    
 
   
    The  markets  in  which  the Company  competes  are  highly  competitive and
characterized by rapid technological change, frequent new product introductions,
short product lives, evolving industry  standards and significant price  erosion
over  the life  of a product.  The Company anticipates  increased competition in
these markets  from  both existing  vendors  and  new market  entrants.  In  the
charting  market, the  Company has,  to date,  encountered competition primarily
from larger vendors  such as Adobe  Systems Incorporated, Microsoft  Corporation
("Microsoft"),  Software  Publishing  Corporation,  Lotus,  Corel  and  Computer
Associates International, Inc.  In the  structured drawing  market, the  Company
has,  to date,  encountered competition  primarily from  larger vendors  such as
Corel, Visio and  Micrografx Incorporated.  In the Internet  add-in market,  the
Company   anticipates   competition  primarily   from   Netscape  Communications
Corporation,  Macromedia,  Inc.,  Adobe  Systems  Incorporated,  Microsoft   and
Quarterdeck, Inc. In addition, the Company expects that existing vendors and new
market  entrants  will  develop products  that  will compete  directly  with the
Company's products  and  that competition  will  increase significantly  to  the
extent  that markets for  the Company's products  grow. Increased competition is
likely to result in price reductions,  reduced gross margins and loss of  market
share,  any  of which  could have  a  material adverse  effect on  the Company's
business, financial condition and results  of operations. Most of the  Company's
current   and  potential  competitors   have  substantially  greater  financial,
technical,  marketing,  sales  and  customer  support  resources,  greater  name
recognition  and larger installed customer bases than the Company. Because there
are minimal barriers  to entry into  the software market,  the Company  believes
sources  of  competition  will  continue  to  proliferate.  The  market  for the
Company's products is  characterized by significant  price competition, and  the
Company  expects  it will  face increasing  pricing pressures.  There can  be no
assurance the Company will be able  to maintain its historic pricing  structure,
and  an  inability  to do  so  would  adversely affect  the  Company's business,
financial condition  and results  of operations.  If the  Company is  unable  to
compete  effectively  against  current  and  future  competitors,  the Company's
business, financial  condition  and results  of  operations will  be  materially
adversely affected.
    
 
   
MARKETING AND SALES
    
 
   
    The  Company markets and sells its  products through the coordinated efforts
of its corporate  marketing department  and its direct  sales organization.  For
retail, the Company uses a two-tier distribution model with product sold through
Ingram,  TechData Merisel and other distributors to more than 500 retail outlets
such as  Best Buy,  Computer City,  Comp  USA, Egghead,  Fry's and  others.  The
Company  intends  to expand  the  number of  U.S.  retail locations  through the
balance of 1996 and will seek to selectively add major new distributors.
    
 
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    Internationally, the  Company's strategy  is to  work with  highly-motivated
publishers  who can invest in a full array of local services including marketing
and localization support as well as provide access to distribution. The  Company
will  continue to  localize its  products first  for the  Japanese market, which
accounted for 35% of revenues in 1995 and 8% of revenue in the first six  months
of  1996.  Furthermore,  the Company  intends  to  pursue the  expansion  of its
international presence by establishing new partnerships in key European  markets
such as the U.K. and Germany.
    
 
   
    The Company also allows fully functional versions of many of its products to
be downloaded from its secure Web site server (Deltapoint.com). The downloadable
versions enable worldwide access to the products 24-hours a day and allow people
to  become productive with  and reliant on the  product functionality. Users are
prompted to purchase a license to the  product with a 30-day grace period  after
which  encrypted  technology  within  the  downloadable  versions  automatically
disables the product. The Company will promote and encourage the availability of
its downloadable products.
    
 
   
    The Company pursues  relationships and  alliances with a  broad spectrum  of
industry  leaders. Distribution alliances in the PC manufacturing area have been
announced with  Compaq  and  Sony,  and  in  the  ISP  marketplace  with  Netcom
Interactive,  Earthlink, HoloNet  and more than  half a dozen  regional ISPs. In
addition, the Company  has entered  into an agreement  with IBM  to develop  and
license  a  customized  version of  QuickSite  for inclusion  in  IBM's recently
announced World Distributor electronic service and announced a relationship with
McGraw Hill which will offer site licenses to QuickSite to school districts  and
State  Boards of  Education. To address  the developers market,  the Company has
established an  alliance  with  Borland International,  a  leading  provider  of
language  tools for software programmers.  Under the agreement, Borland licenses
the Company's  WebTools product  and bundles  a version  of QuickSite  with  all
Borland  products  through  the end  of  1996.  The Company  also  has announced
relationships with technology partners such as DigitalStyle, a leading maker  of
on-the-fly graphics generation tools, and Virtus, a leading developer of Virtual
Reality Modeling Language technology for creating 3D Web sites.
    
 
   
    Historically  a  significant portion  of  the Company's  revenues  have been
derived from sales of  upgrades of its DeltaGraph  charting product to its  user
base  through  direct  mail  campaigns. Presently  the  Company  is  focusing on
strengthening its distribution network by adding distributors and retailers, and
entering  into   additional  partner   relationships  that   will  enhance   the
distribution  of  the  Company's  Internet products.  In  addition,  the Company
intends to continue  to implement its  OEM strategy by  pursuing other major  PC
manufactures of the Sony and Compaq caliber.
    
 
   
    In  support  of its  sales organization,  the Company  conducts a  number of
marketing programs  intended  to  promote  and  market  the  Company's  Internet
products.  These efforts include product advertising, public relations and press
tours, trade  show  participation,  direct  mail  and  telemarketing  campaigns,
preparation of marketing collateral and participation in industry programs, user
groups  and forums. The Company also maintains a QuickSite Web site on the World
Wide Web  that  contains information  on  its products,  distribution  channels,
awards, personnel and other information relating to the Company.
    
 
   
    As  of June 30, 1996,  the Company had 10  employees in marketing and sales.
For the six-month  period ending June  30, 1995, the  Company spent $759,000  or
33.6% of revenue as compared to $2.1 million and 108.3% of revenue in the period
ending June 30, 1996.
    
 
   
STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
    
 
   
    A  key  element of  the  Company's strategy  is  the continued  creation and
development of strategic alliances with key participants. The Company's goals in
establishing these relationships  are to  create marketing  alliances that  will
endorse  and promote the Company's products  to a larger potential customer base
than can be reached through the Company's direct marketing efforts. To date  the
Company has entered into strategic alliances with companies such as IBM, Borland
International, Sony, McGraw-Hill, Earthlink, Compaq and Netcom Interactive.
    
 
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    IBM.   The Company entered into an agreement with IBM to develop and license
to IBM  a  customized version  of  QuickSite  for inclusion  in  IBM's  recently
announced World Distributor, an on-line interactive electronic commerce service.
The  agreement requires the Company to develop a customized version of QuickSite
and requires IBM, to the extent  it sublicenses or otherwise provides  QuickSite
on  a revenue-bearing basis as  part of its electronic  commerce service, to pay
the Company a royalty based on the number of copies of QuickSite so  sublicensed
or provided. The agreement may be terminated by IBM on 60 days' advance notice.
    
 
   
    BORLAND  INTERNATIONAL.  The Company entered  into an agreement with Borland
International in  May  1996  under  which  Borland  may  bundle  and  distribute
QuickSite  with its programming tools through December 1996 in consideration for
license fees, brand promotion activities and certain marketing services.
    
 
   
    SONY.  The Company entered into an agreement in June 1996 whereby Sony  will
pre-install  a custom version of the Company's QuickSite product on its new line
of Vaio personal computer systems. This  version of the product incorporates  an
encrypted algorithm that allows the Sony customers to use the full functionality
of  the product for  a 30-day trial period  after which the  user is required to
purchase the product electronically from DeltaPoint for continued use.
    
 
   
    MCGRAW-HILL SCHOOL  SYSTEMS.   In June  1996, the  Company entered  into  an
agreement  under which McGraw-Hill will market and distribute QuickSite products
and site licenses to the education sector, including school districts and  state
boards of education.
    
 
   
    EARTHLINK.    The  Company  entered  into an  agreement  in  June  1996 with
Earthlink, a leading Internet Service  Provider, under which the companies  will
perform  mutually beneficial  cross-bundling and  cross merchandising. Earthlink
has agreed to purchase a minimum number of QuickSite licenses.
    
 
   
    COMPAQ.  In  July 1996,  the Company entered  into an  agreement under  with
Compaq will offer QuickSite as part of an optional software bundle on one of its
Pressario  systems and has  rights to bundle  on other platforms  for a per unit
license fee.
    
 
   
    NETCOM INTERACTIVE.   The  Company  entered into  an agreement  with  Netcom
Interactive  in July  1996 under  which the companies  intend to  cooperate on a
custom developed, jointly marketed integrated offering.
    
 
   
    Many of these relationships are in the early stages of development and  have
not  yet  resulted  in material  revenue  for the  Company.  Generally, existing
agreements outlining the Company's alliances do not impose significant financial
obligations or liabilities  on either party  and have terms  no longer than  one
year. There can be no assurance these relationships will successfully develop to
the  extent  that they  will contribute  materially  to the  Company's financial
results in the future.
    
 
   
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
    
 
   
    Historically, the Company has licensed or acquired core technologies and has
expended its  development  expertise  on transforming  these  technologies  into
commercially  viable,  easy-to-use  products.  In  November  1995,  the  Company
acquired core  technology  including  source  code  and  related  documentation,
required to develop WebAnimator from KnowledgeVision. The purchase price for the
technology  was $250,000, payable  in installments. The Company  will also pay a
royalty based on net  revenue from sales  of WebAnimator, if  any, subject to  a
maximum.  Under the terms of the acquisition agreement, the individual will work
as a consultant to the Company to assist in developing WebAnimator.
    
 
   
    In December 1995,  the Company  acquired core  technology, including  source
code  and  related documentation,  required  to develop  QuickSite,  from Global
Technologies, and individuals.  The purchase  price for the  technology was  (i)
$800,000  in  cash, payable  in installments  and (ii)  the issuance  of 100,000
shares of Common Stock. The Company will also pay a royalty during the first two
years of commercial shipments of QuickSite  based on net revenues from sales  of
QuickSite, if any, subject to a
    
 
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maximum  and subject to the right of the Company to pay a portion of the royalty
in its  Common  Stock. Pursuant  to  the  agreement, the  individual  became  an
employee of the Company to assist in the development of QuickSite.
    
 
   
    The  Company has  made substantial  investments in  research and development
through both  internal  development  and  technology  acquisition.  The  Company
believes  its future  performance will  depend in large  part on  its ability to
maintain and enhance its  current product line,  develop new products,  maintain
technological   competitiveness  and   meet  an  expanding   range  of  customer
requirements.
    
 
   
    As of  June 30,  1996  the Company  had 15  employees  in its  research  and
development  organization. The  Company's research and  development expenses for
the six months  ended June 30,  1995 and  1996 were $389,000  and $1.1  million,
respectively.  The Company plans to continue  to make significant investments in
research and development. See "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations."
    
 
PROPRIETARY RIGHTS AND LICENSES
 
    The Company relies on  a combination of  copyright, trademark, trade  secret
laws,  confidentiality  procedures  and other  intellectual  property protection
methods to protect its proprietary  rights. The Company owns certain  registered
trademarks  in the United  States and abroad.  Although the Company  relies to a
great extent  on  trade  secret  protection for  much  of  its  technology,  and
generally  obtains written confidentiality agreements  from its employees, there
can be no assurance that third  parties will not independently develop the  same
or  similar technology, obtain unauthorized  access to the Company's proprietary
technology or misuse the technology to which the Company has granted access. The
Company believes that, due to the  rapid proliferation of new technology in  the
industry,  legal protection through means such  as the patent and copyright laws
will be less influential on the  Company's ability to compete than such  factors
as  the  creativity of  its development  staff  and its  ability to  develop new
markets and  to service  its customers.  The Company  licenses its  products  to
individual  end users primarily under "shrink  wrap" license agreements that are
included in products  shipped by  the Company  and that  are not  signed by  the
licensees  and  therefore  may  be  unenforceable  under  the  laws  of  certain
jurisdictions. These agreements  provide that  by breaking the  "shrink wrap"  a
software purchaser agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions of the license
agreement.
 
    There  has been substantial industry  litigation regarding patent, trademark
and other intellectual  property rights involving  technology companies. In  the
future,  litigation  may  be necessary  to  enforce  any patents  issued  to the
Company, to protect  trade secrets, trademarks  and other intellectual  property
rights  owned by the Company, to defend the Company against claimed infringement
of the  rights  of  others and  to  determine  the scope  and  validity  of  the
proprietary  rights of others. Any such litigation could be costly and result in
a diversion of management's attention, which could have material adverse effects
on the  Company's  business,  financial condition  and  results  of  operations.
Adverse  determinations  in such  litigation  could result  in  the loss  of the
Company's proprietary rights,  subject the Company  to significant  liabilities,
require  the Company to seek licenses from  third parties or prevent the Company
from manufacturing or  selling its products,  any of which  could have  material
adverse  effect on  the Company's business,  financial condition  and results of
operations. See  "Risk  Factors  -- Limited  Intellectual  Property  Protection;
Trademark Dispute."
 
    The  laws of certain  foreign countries treat  the protection of proprietary
rights of  the Company  in its  products differently  from those  in the  United
States, and in many cases the protection afforded by such foreign laws is weaker
than  in the United States. The Company believes that its products and their use
do not  infringe  the proprietary  rights  of third  parties.  There can  be  no
assurance, however, that infringement claims will not successfully be made.
 
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    The  Company has  received and  will continue to  receive from  time to time
communications from  third  parties  asserting  infringement  upon  intellectual
property rights of such parties as a result of either features or content of its
software   products.  Since   July  1995   the  Company   has  received  various
correspondence from Visio  Corporation ("Visio") each  contesting the  Company's
right  to use the product name Drag 'n Draw and asserting that it is confusingly
similar to a  registered trademark owned  by Visio. Visio  markets a  structured
drawing product that competes with Drag 'n Draw. See "Competition." Although the
Company believes that this assertion lacks merit, there can be no assurance that
the ultimate resolution of the matter will not have a material adverse impact on
the  Company's business, financial condition  or results of operations. Although
the Company is not currently engaged in any intellectual property litigation  or
proceedings  regarding this matter or any other similar matters, there can be no
assurance that the  Company will  not become  involved in  such proceedings  for
which  the  ultimate resolution  could  have a  material  adverse effect  on the
Company's business financial condition and results of operations.
 
    In April 1995, SmartDraw Software, Inc. ("SmartDraw") granted the Company  a
non-exclusive   license  to  prepare,   package,  reproduce,  use,  sub-license,
distribute and sell SmartDraw Pro, version  2.00 ("SmartDraw Pro") for use  with
Microsoft  Windows 3.1, Microsoft  Windows 95 and  the Macintosh (the "SmartDraw
Products") and any derivative of the above products developed by SmartDraw  that
incorporates  any  part of  the licensed  source code  or modifications  of such
source code. The license has a three-year term and is renewable upon the  mutual
written  consent of the parties  upon such terms and  conditions as agreed to by
the parties. SmartDraw  Pro is  packaged software  designed for  use in  drawing
flowcharts  and other business graphics. The Company's product, Drag 'n Draw, is
a derivative product of SmartDraw Pro. The Company pays SmartDraw a royalty on a
per product basis from the licensing,  sale or other commercial exploitation  of
the  SmartDraw Products. In addition, the Company pays royalties on its revenues
from the derivative  products developed  by SmartDraw.  Under the  terms of  the
agreement,  SmartDraw  is  required  to  indemnify  the  Company  to  the extent
SmartDraw does  not  own SmartDraw  Pro  or to  the  extent that  SmartDraw  Pro
infringes  any copyright, patent, trademark,  trade secret or other intellectual
property rights  of any  third party.  The agreement  may be  terminated if  the
Company   fails  to  generate  net  revenues  derived  from  SmartDraw  Products
sufficient to  pay SmartDraw  a specified  minimum in  royalty payments  in  any
twelve-month  period. The Company has the right during the term of the agreement
to obtain  a license  to  view and  modify the  source  code for  the  SmartDraw
Products for a specified fee.
 
    In  June 1992, the  Company entered into an  agreement (the "Halcyon License
Agreement") with Halcyon  Software, Inc. ("Halcyon")  pursuant to which  Halcyon
granted  the  Company  a  non-exclusive,  perpetual,  sub-licensable  license to
prepare, make, reproduce, use, perform, modify, adapt, sell or otherwise dispose
of or distribute the following programs and derivative works thereof, whether or
not in combination with or incorporated into any other product: Snap, Thumbnail,
Viewer, Conversion, Trace and Paint (the "Products"). The Company pays Halcyon a
royalty equal to two to five percent of the Company's net revenues received from
sales of the Products, depending on the extent to which the Products incorporate
technology not  provided by  Halcyon.  To date,  the  Company has  paid  Halcyon
non-refundable  license  fees  in the  amount  of $150,000.  No  further royalty
payments are payable until accrued royalty payments exceed $150,000. Pursuant to
the Halcyon License Agreement, in November  1992 the Company granted Don Hsi  an
option  to purchase 18,867 shares of Common  Stock at an exercise price of $6.63
per share. The option lapsed on  February 20, 1996 without being exercised.  The
Halcyon  License  Agreement has  an indefinite  term, but  is terminable  at the
Company's option upon  written notice if  the Company determines  in good  faith
that  it is  not technically  and commercially  advantageous to  continue with a
Product.
 
    The Company  has also  licensed  from Altura  Software Inc.  ("Altura")  the
Mac2Win  Software for use in creating  a Windows platform version of DeltaGraph.
The Company  was  granted  a  non-exclusive  license  to  copy,  distribute  and
sublicense  the  Mac2Win  Software only  when  packaged  with, and  as  part of,
DeltaGraph ported to run on the Windows platforms. The Company has made a series
of payments to Altura in the total amount of $36,000. License fees of $3,000 per
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in advance during each month the  agreement remains in effect. The Company  also
pays  a royalty equal  to three percent  of net revenues  received from sales of
DeltaGraph ported for the Windows platform with a first year minimum of  $36,000
and  a  minimum of  $48,000 for  the next  two years.  The license  agreement is
terminable by the Company upon 30 days  prior written notice and the payment  of
all amounts owed to Altura.
 
   
    In  November 1995,  the Company  acquired core  technology, including source
code and related documentation, required  to develop WebAnimator from  Knowledge
Vision.  The  purchase  price  for  the  technology  was  $250,000,  payable  in
installments. The Company  will also pay  a royalty based  on net revenues  from
sales  of WebAnimator,  if any,  subject to  a maximum.  Under the  terms of the
acquisition agreement, the individual  works as a consultant  to the Company  to
assist in developing WebAnimator.
    
 
   
    In  December 1995,  the Company  acquired core  technology, including source
code and  related  documentation, required  to  develop QuickSite,  from  Global
Technologies  Corporation,  and  an  individual.  The  purchase  price  for  the
technology was  (i) $800,000  in cash,  payable in  installments, and  (ii)  the
issuance  of 100,000 shares of the Company's Common Stock. The Company will also
pay a royalty during  the first two years  of commercial shipments of  QuickSite
based  on net revenues from sales of QuickSite, if any, subject to a maximum and
subject to the right of  the Company to pay a  portion of the royalty in  Common
Stock.  Pursuant  to the  agreement, the  individual became  an employee  of the
Company to assist in developing QuickSite.
    
 
FACILITIES
 
    The Company  currently leases  an approximately  12,000 square  foot  office
suite  located at  22 Lower Ragsdale  Drive, Monterey, California  under a lease
that expires in September 1998 with  a monthly rental of approximately  $16,200.
The  Company holds an option to renew such  lease at the end of the initial term
for an  additional  three  year  term.  The  Company  believes  that  these  new
facilities  will be adequate to meet its requirements for the near term and that
additional space will be available on commercially reasonable terms if needed.
 
   
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
    
 
   
    There are no material pending legal proceedings against the Company.
    
 
EMPLOYEES
 
   
    As  of  June  30,  1996,  DeltaPoint  had  37  full-time  employees  located
throughout  the United States.  This number includes 19  persons in Research and
Development and  Technical Support,  10 persons  in Marketing,  Sales and  Sales
Support and 8 persons in Operations and Finance. None of the Company's employees
is  represented  by a  labor  union or  is  subject to  a  collective bargaining
agreement. DeltaPoint believes that its relations with its employees are good.
    
 
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                                   MANAGEMENT
    
 
   
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
    
 
   
    The current executive officers and directors of the Company, and their  ages
as of October 10, 1996 are as follows:
    
 
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
NAME                                  AGE                 POSITION
- ------------------------------------  ----  ------------------------------------
<S>                                   <C>   <C>
John J. Ambrose.....................   35   Chief Executive Officer and Director
Donald B. Witmer....................   43   Chief Operating Officer, Chief
                                            Financial Officer and Director
William G. Pryor....................   46   Vice President of Development and
                                            Director
John Hummer.........................   48   Director
Patrick Grady.......................   29   Director
</TABLE>
    
 
   
    MR.  AMBROSE joined  the Company in  April 1996 as  Chief Executive Officer.
From October 1994 until  March 1996 he served  as Vice President, Marketing  and
Corporate  Officer and Director at Phoenix  Publishing Systems, Inc., a software
publishing company. From August 1986 until October 1994 Mr. Ambrose was employed
by  Phoenix  Technologies,  Ltd.,  a  software  development  company  where  his
positions  included Manager Marketing  Communications, Director, European Market
Development, Director,  Worldwide  Business Development  and  Director,  Product
Management  and Business Development. Mr. Ambrose holds a B.S. in Humanities and
Social Science from Drexel  University and an M.S.  from Columbia University  in
1984.
    
 
   
    MR.   WITMER  joined   the  Company  as   Vice  President   of  Finance  and
Administration and Chief Financial Officer  in November 1995, became a  director
of  the Company in December 1995 and  became Chief Operating Officer in February
1996. From 1990 to 1995 he served as controller and then Chief Financial Officer
of Catalyst  Semiconductor, Inc.  From 1987  to 1990,  Mr. Witmer  served as  an
accountant  for Price Waterhouse LLP,  independent accountants. Prior to joining
Price Waterhouse LLP, Mr. Witmer was a senior controller at United  Technologies
and  a legislative analyst for the State of  Montana. Mr. Witmer holds a B.A. in
History from  Northern Montana  College and  an M.B.A.  from the  University  of
Montana. Mr. Witmer is a Certified Public Accountant.
    
 
   
    MR.  PRYOR co-founded the  Company in February  1989 and has  served as Vice
President of Development and as a director since such time to the present.  From
June  1988  to  February  1989,  Mr.  Pryor  served  as  a  Director  of Product
Development at Access Technology, Inc. From May 1986 to June 1988, he served  as
Vice  President of Research and Development  at Working Software, a developer of
word processing  software.  Prior thereto,  Mr.  Pryor served  as  President  of
Pryority  Software, an entertainment software publisher. Mr. Pryor holds an A.A.
in Liberal Arts from the Monterey Peninsula College.
    
 
   
    MR. HUMMER has been a director of  the Company since October 1990. In  1989,
Mr.  Hummer  founded, and  is  currently a  partner  at, Hummer  Winblad Venture
Partners. Mr. Hummer serves  as a director of  several privately held  companies
including  Books That Work, Centerview Software  and Netgravity. From April 1991
to February  1995  he was  a  director of  Powersoft  Corporation prior  to  its
acquisition  by Sybase Incorporated and from August  1990 to April 1995 he was a
director of Wind River Systems, Inc. Mr. Hummer received a B.A. in English  from
Princeton  University  and  an  M.B.A.  from  the  Stanford  Graduate  School of
Business.
    
 
   
    MR. GRADY became  a director of  the Company  in August 1996.  Mr. Grady  is
currently  Managing Director Venture Capital of H.J. Meyers & Co. Inc. From June
1993 to  March 1996  Mr. Grady  served  as Senior  Vice President  of  Corporate
Finance  at H.J.  Meyers & Co.,  Inc. from  March 1991 to  May 1993  he was Vice
President of Corporate Finance at Josephthal,  Lyon & Ross. Mr. Grady serves  as
director of Borealis Technology Corp & SoloPoint, Inc.
    
 
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    Directors  receive  reimbursement of  expenses  incurred in  attending Board
meetings. Except as otherwise described in this Prospectus, the Company has  not
paid  cash or  other compensation  to its directors.  See "--  1995 Stock Option
Plan."
 
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
 
    The following  table sets  forth the  compensation earned  by the  Company's
Chief  Executive Officer and  two other executive officers  who earned (or would
have earned) salary and  bonus for the  1995 fiscal year  in excess of  $100,000
(collectively,  the "Named Officers") for services rendered in all capacities to
the Company and its subsidiaries for that fiscal year:
 
                           SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                          LONG-TERM
                                                                                        COMPENSATION
                                                                                        -------------
                                                                                           AWARDS
                                                                                        -------------
                                                        ANNUAL COMPENSATION               NUMBER OF
                                             -----------------------------------------   SECURITIES
                                                                         OTHER ANNUAL    UNDERLYING       ALL OTHER
NAME AND PRINCIPAL POSITION                    YEAR         SALARY       COMPENSATION      OPTIONS       COMPENSATION
- -------------------------------------------  ---------  --------------  --------------  -------------  ----------------
<S>                                          <C>        <C>             <C>             <C>            <C>
Raymond R. Kingman, Jr. (1)                       1995  $   108,000      $   4,708(2)        100,000     $      66(3)
  Chairman of the Board,                          1994      105,576              0             4,283     $      66(3)
  President and Chief Executive Officer
William G. Pryor                                  1995       92,500              0           100,000            87(3)
  Vice President of Development and               1994       90,721              0             1,894            87(3)
  Director
Donald B. Witmer                                  1995       19,845(4)       5,000(5)        135,000             0
  Vice President of Finance and                   1994            0              0                 0             0
  Administration, Chief Operating Officer,
  Chief Financial Officer and Director
</TABLE>
 
- ------------------------
(1) Mr. Kingman resigned  as an officer and  director of the Company,  effective
    April  5, 1996. Mr.  John J. Ambrose  joined the Company  as Chief Executive
    Officer on April 22, 1996. His annual salary is currently set at $120,000.
 
   
(2) Represents automobile allowance.
    
 
(3) Represents  life insurance  premiums made  by the  Company with  respect  to
    insurance policies on the lives of Messrs. Kingman and Pryor.
 
(4)  Mr.  Witmer joined  the  Company in  November  1995; his  annual  salary is
    currently set at $120,000.
 
(5) Represents a $2,000  per month housing  allowance and a  $500 per month  car
    allowance.
 
EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS
 
    On  November 10, 1995,  the Company entered  into employment agreements with
Raymond R. Kingman, Jr., who served as President and Chief Executive Officer  of
the  Company until his resignation as an  officer and director on April 5, 1996,
and William G. Pryor, Vice President of Development. The agreements provide  for
a  grant to each  individual of an  option to purchase  100,000 shares of Common
Stock at  an  exercise price  of  $3.50 per  share.  The option  is  immediately
exercisable  but subject to a right of repurchase by the Company at the original
exercise price paid per share upon the optionee's cessation of service prior  to
vesting  in such shares. The repurchase right lapses and the optionee vests in a
series of equal monthly installments over 36 months, beginning on the  one-month
anniversary  of the grant  date, and lapses  in full upon  a specified Change in
Control of the Company. A Change in Control includes liquidation or  dissolution
of  the Company  or a merger  or consolidation  in which at  least fifty percent
(50%) of the Company's  shares are transferred to  an entity different than  the
entity  holding such shares prior  to such Change in  Control. Each option has a
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ten (10) years, subject  to earlier termination in  the event of the  optionee's
cessation  of service with the Company. The agreement also provides that each of
Messrs. Kingman and Pryor will receive a severance payment in the amount of  six
to  twelve months  of his base  salary and  other benefits if  his employment is
terminated in certain  circumstances, such as  an involuntary termination  other
than  for cause  (six months base  salary) or an  involuntary termination within
twenty-four months of a Change in Control (twelve months base salary).
 
    In November, 1995,  the Company  entered into an  employment agreement  with
Donald  B. Witmer, pursuant to which Mr. Witmer became Vice President of Finance
and Administration and  Chief Financial  Officer of the  Company. The  agreement
provides  for an annual salary of $120,000, a $2,000 per month housing allowance
and a $500 per month car allowance.  The agreement also provides for a grant  of
an  option to purchase  135,000 shares of  Common Stock at  an exercise price of
$3.50 per share. The option is immediately exercisable but subject to a right of
repurchase by the Company at the original exercise price paid per share upon the
optionee's cessation of service prior to vesting in such shares. The  repurchase
right  lapses and the optionee  vests in a series  of equal monthly installments
over 36  months, beginning  on the  date Mr.  Witmer commences  employment,  and
lapses  in full upon  a specified Change  in Control of  the Company, as defined
above. The option  has a  maximum term  of ten  (10) years,  subject to  earlier
termination  in  the  event of  the  optionee's  cessation of  service  with the
Company. The agreement also  provides that Mr. Witmer  will receive a  severance
payment  in the  amount of  six to twelve  months of  his base  salary and other
benefits if his employment  is terminated in certain  circumstances, such as  an
involuntary  termination other than for cause (six months base salary plus bonus
and other benefits) or an involuntary termination within twenty-four months of a
Change in Control (twelve months base salary plus bonus and other benefits).
 
   
    In March 1996  John J. Ambrose  executed an offer  letter with the  Company,
pursuant  to which Mr. Ambrose became Chief Executive Officer in April 1996. The
offer letter  provides for  an annual  salary of  $120,000, a  signing bonus  of
$25,000 and a grant of an option to purchase 145,000 shares of Common Stock.
    
 
    On  April  5, 1996,  the  Company entered  into  a Separation  Agreement and
Release with Mr. Kingman in connection  with his resignation which, among  other
things, provided for certain payments and other financial compensation. Pursuant
to  the Separation Agreement, the Company agreed  to pay Mr. Kingman a severance
payment of $108,000  and to accelerate  vesting of 62,500  of his  100,000-share
option  grant. The Company  also agreed to  provide continued health  care for a
period of up to 12 months.
 
EXECUTIVE BONUS PLAN
 
    The Company plans to  adopt a bonus plan  for executive officers that  would
provide  for payment  of cash  bonuses based  on individual  and overall Company
performance in 1996. Aggregate bonuses payable  under the plan would not  exceed
10%  of  the Company's  1996  net income.  Adoption of  the  plan is  subject to
approval by the Company's Compensation Committee.
 
STOCK OPTION INFORMATION
 
    The following table contains information concerning stock option grants made
to the  Named  Officers  during the  year  ended  December 31,  1995.  No  stock
appreciation rights were granted to these individuals during such year.
 
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                       OPTION GRANTS IN LAST FISCAL YEAR
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                    INDIVIDUAL GRANTS (1)
                                                                    -----------------------------------------------------
                                                                     NUMBER OF
                                                                    SECURITIES     % OF TOTAL      EXERCISE
                                                                    UNDERLYING   OPTIONS GRANTED     PRICE
                                                                      OPTIONS    TO EMPLOYEES IN    ($/SH)     EXPIRATION
NAME                                                                  GRANTED      FISCAL YEAR        (2)         DATE
- ------------------------------------------------------------------  -----------  ---------------  -----------  ----------
<S>                                                                 <C>          <C>              <C>          <C>
Raymond R. Kingman, Jr............................................     100,000            20%      $    3.50     11/09/05
William G. Pryor..................................................     100,000            20%           3.50     11/09/05
Donald B. Witmer..................................................     135,000            27%           3.50     11/09/05
</TABLE>
 
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(1) Each  of the  options listed  in the  table is  immediately exercisable. The
    shares purchasable thereunder are  subject to repurchase  by the Company  at
    the  original exercise price paid per share upon the optionee's cessation of
    service prior to vesting in such shares. The repurchase right lapses and the
    optionee vests in  a series  of equal monthly  installments over  thirty-six
    months  of service  commencing on  the date  of grant  of the  option. These
    options were granted at an exercise price equal to the fair market value  of
    the  Company's Common Stock as  determined by the Board  of Directors of the
    Company on the date  of grant. Each  option has a maximum  term of ten  (10)
    years,  subject  to  earlier  termination in  the  event  of  the optionee's
    cessation of employment with the Company.
 
(2) The exercise price may be  paid in cash, in  shares of the Company's  Common
    Stock valued at fair market value on the exercise date or through a cashless
    exercise  procedure involving a  same-day sale of  the purchased shares. The
    Company may  also  finance  the  option exercise  by  loaning  the  optionee
    sufficient  funds  to  pay  the exercise  price  for  the  purchased shares,
    together with any  federal and state  income tax liability  incurred by  the
    optionee in connection with such exercise.
 
    The  following table sets  forth information concerning  option holdings for
the year ended December 31, 1995 with respect to each of the Named Officers.  No
options  were  exercised  by  the  Named Officers  during  such  year.  No stock
appreciation rights were exercised during such  year or were outstanding at  the
end of that year.
 
    AGGREGATED OPTION EXERCISES IN LAST FISCAL YEAR AND FY-END OPTION VALUES
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                    VALUE OF UNEXERCISED
                                                                 NUMBER OF UNEXERCISED              IN-THE-MONEY OPTIONS
                                                               OPTIONS AT FISCAL YEAR END          AT FISCAL YEAR END (1)
                                                            --------------------------------  --------------------------------
NAME                                                        EXERCISABLE     UNEXERCISABLE     EXERCISABLE     UNEXERCISABLE
- ----------------------------------------------------------  -----------  -------------------  -----------  -------------------
<S>                                                         <C>          <C>                  <C>          <C>
Raymond R. Kingman, Jr....................................     104,283                0       $   455,868               0
William G. Pryor..........................................     101,894                0           452,595               0
Donald B. Witmer..........................................     135,000                0           607,500               0
</TABLE>
 
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(1) Based on the closing price per share of the Company's Common Stock as listed
    on  the Nasdaq Small Cap  Market as of December 31,  1995 of $8.00, less the
    per share exercise price.
 
1990 KEY EMPLOYEE INCENTIVE STOCK OPTION PLAN
 
   
    The Company's  1990 Key  Employee  Incentive Stock  Option Plan  (the  "1990
Plan")  was originally  adopted by  the Board of  Directors and  approved by the
Company's shareholders effective July 1, 1990  and was restated by the Board  on
June  17, 1992, which restatement was approved by the shareholders on August 27,
1992. The 1990 Plan authorizes for issuance 38,922 shares of Common Stock. As of
September 30, 1996, 2,143 shares had been issued under the 1990 Plan, options to
purchase an  aggregate  of  9,414  shares were  outstanding  and  29,508  shares
remained  available  for  future  grant.  Shares  of  Common  Stock  subject  to
outstanding options  which  expire  or  terminate  prior  to  exercise  will  be
available for future issuance under the 1990 Plan.
    
 
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<PAGE>
    Under  the  1990  Plan,  key  employees  (including  officers)  may,  at the
discretion of the plan administrator, be  granted options to purchase shares  of
Common  Stock at an exercise  price not less than the  fair market value of such
shares on the grant date. Options granted under the 1990 Plan become exercisable
for 25% of the option shares on the first anniversary of the grant date and  for
the  balance of the  shares in 36 equal  monthly installments thereafter, unless
otherwise provided by the  plan administrator. In the  event the Company or  its
shareholders  enter into an agreement to dispose  of all or substantially all of
the assets or  stock of  the Company  by means of  a sale,  a reorganization,  a
liquidation  or  otherwise,  each outstanding  option  shall  become immediately
exercisable in  full  for all  of  the option  shares.  Each such  option  shall
thereupon terminate. Each option shall have a maximum term of ten (10) years.
 
    The 1990 Plan may be administered by the Board or the Compensation Committee
of  the Board. The plan administrator has complete discretion to determine which
eligible individuals are to receive option grants, the number of shares  subject
to  each such  grant, the status  of any  granted option as  either an incentive
option or  a  non-statutory option  under  the  Federal tax  laws,  the  vesting
schedule  to be in effect  for each option grant and  the maximum term for which
each granted option is to remain outstanding.
 
    The exercise price for options  granted under the 1990  Plan may be paid  in
cash or in outstanding shares of Common Stock.
 
    The  Board may amend or modify the 1990 Plan at any time. Certain amendments
require shareholder approval.  The 1990 Plan  will terminate on  June 30,  2000,
unless sooner terminated by the Board.
 
1992 NON-STATUTORY STOCK OPTION PLAN
 
   
    The  Company's 1992  Non-Statutory Stock Option  Plan (the  "1992 Plan") was
originally adopted  by the  Board of  Directors and  approved by  the  Company's
shareholders  effective July 1, 1992  and was restated by  the Board on June 17,
1992, which restatement was approved by the shareholders on August 27, 1992. The
1992 Plan authorizes for issuance 28,301 shares of Common Stock. As of September
30, 1996, no shares had been issued under the 1992 Plan, options to purchase  an
aggregate  of 8,063 shares were outstanding and 20,238 shares remained available
for future grant. Shares  of Common Stock subject  to outstanding options  which
expire  or terminate  prior to  exercise will  be available  for future issuance
under the 1992 Plan.
    
 
    Under the 1992 Plan, key  employees (including officers) and consultants  of
the  Company or of any subsidiary and certain entities may, at the discretion of
the plan administrator, be granted  non-statutory options to purchase shares  of
Common  Stock at an exercise  price not less than the  fair market value of such
shares on the grant date. Options granted  under the 1992 Plan are fully  vested
and  immediately exercisable on the grant date.  In the event the Company or its
shareholders enter into an agreement to  dispose of all or substantially all  of
the  assets or  stock of  the Company by  means of  a sale,  a reorganization, a
liquidation or otherwise, each outstanding option shall thereupon terminate.  In
no event, may an option have a term of more than five (5) years.
 
    The 1992 Plan may be administered by the Board or the Compensation Committee
of  the Board. The plan administrator has complete discretion to determine which
eligible individuals are to receive option grants, the number of shares  subject
to each such grant and the terms and conditions of exercise with respect to each
option grant.
 
    The  exercise price for options  granted under the 1992  Plan may be paid in
cash, in outstanding shares of Common Stock, or through the net exercise of  the
option.  Shares may be deducted from the shares to be issued upon exercise of an
option granted  under  the  1992  Plan to  satisfy  the  optionee's  income  tax
withholding  obligations.  Options may  also be  exercised  on a  cashless basis
through the same-day sale of the purchased shares.
 
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<PAGE>
    The plan administrator has the authority  to effect, from time to time,  the
cancellation  of outstanding  options under the  1992 Plan, in  exchange for the
grant of new options for the same  or different number of option shares with  an
exercise price per share based upon the fair market value of the Common Stock on
the new grant date.
 
    The  Board may amend or modify the 1992 Plan at any time. Certain amendments
require shareholder approval.  The 1992 Plan  will terminate on  June 30,  2002,
unless sooner terminated by the Board.
 
1995 STOCK OPTION PLAN
 
   
    The  Company's 1995 Stock Option  Plan (the "1995 Plan")  was adopted by the
Board of Directors  on November  8, 1995, and  approved by  shareholders of  the
Company  in December,  1995. The  Company initially  reserved 620,000  shares of
Common Stock for issuance under  the 1995 Plan. On  February 15, 1996 and  April
22,  1996, the  Board of  Directors approved a  total share  increase of 200,000
shares to be reserved for issuance under the 1995 Plan to 820,000 shares,  which
was  subsequently approved  by the Company's  shareholders. As  of September 30,
1996, 39,000 shares  had been issued  under the 1995  Plan, options for  654,066
shares  were outstanding and 126,934 shares reserved for issuance under the 1995
Plan remained available  for future  grant. Shares  of Common  Stock subject  to
outstanding  options  which  expire  or  terminate  prior  to  exercise  will be
available for future issuance under the 1995 Plan.
    
 
    Under  the  1995  Plan,  employees  (including  officers)  and   independent
consultants may, at the discretion of the plan administrator, be granted options
to purchase shares of Common Stock at an exercise price not less than 85% of the
fair  market value of such shares on the grant date. Non-employee members of the
Board of Directors will be eligible solely for automatic option grants under the
1995 Plan.
 
    The 1995  Plan may  be administered  by the  Compensation Committee  of  the
Board.  The Compensation  Committee has  complete discretion  to determine which
eligible individuals are to receive option grants, the number of shares  subject
to  each such  grant, the status  of any  granted option as  either an incentive
option or  a  non-statutory option  under  the  Federal tax  laws,  the  vesting
schedule  to be in effect  for each option grant and  the maximum term for which
each granted option is to remain outstanding. In no event, however, may any  one
participant  in the 1995 Plan acquire shares of Common Stock under the 1995 Plan
in excess of 360,000 shares of Common Stock, subject to shareholder approval  at
the 1996 Annual Meeting, of the total share reserve.
 
    The  exercise price for options  granted under the 1995  Plan may be paid in
cash or in outstanding shares of Common Stock. Options may also be exercised  on
a  cashless  basis  through  the  same-day sale  of  the  purchased  shares. The
Compensation Committee may also  permit the optionee to  pay the exercise  price
through  a promissory note payable  in installments over a  period of years. The
amount financed may  include any Federal  or state income  and employment  taxes
incurred by reason of the option exercise.
 
    Each  option granted to an officer of the Company subject to the short-swing
profit restrictions  of the  Federal securities  laws includes  a special  stock
appreciation  right that provides that, upon the acquisition of more than 50% of
the Company's outstanding voting stock pursuant to a hostile tender offer,  such
option,  if  outstanding for  at least  six  months, may  be surrendered  to the
Company in exchange for a cash distribution to the officer based upon the tender
offer price per share  of Common Stock  at the time  subject to the  surrendered
option.
 
    The  Compensation Committee has the authority  to effect, from time to time,
the cancellation of outstanding  options under the 1995  Plan in return for  the
grant  of new options for the same or  different number of option shares with an
exercise price per share based upon the fair market value of the Common Stock on
the new grant date.
 
    In the event the Company is acquired by merger, consolidation or asset sale,
except as provided  otherwise in specific  option grants, the  shares of  Common
Stock subject to each option outstanding at
 
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<PAGE>
the time under the 1995 Plan will immediately vest in full, except to the extent
the  Company's repurchase rights with respect to those shares are to be assigned
to the acquiring entity, and options  will accelerate to the extent not  assumed
by  the  acquiring entity.  The Compensation  Committee  also has  discretion to
provide for the acceleration of one  or more outstanding options under the  1995
Plan  and  the  vesting  of  shares  subject  to  outstanding  options  upon the
occurrence of certain  hostile tender  offers. Such accelerated  vesting may  be
conditioned upon the subsequent termination of the affected optionee's service.
 
    Under the automatic grant program, each individual who first joins the Board
as  a non-employee director on or after the effective date of the 1995 Plan will
receive at that  time, an  automatic option grant  for 20,000  shares of  Common
Stock. In addition, at each annual shareholders meeting, beginning in 1997, each
non-employee  director will automatically be granted at that meeting, whether or
not he or she is  standing for re-election at  that particular meeting, a  stock
option  to purchase 1,000  shares of Common Stock,  provided such individual has
served on the Board for at least  six months prior to such meeting. Each  option
will  have an exercise price equal to the  fair market value of the Common Stock
on the automatic grant date and a maximum term of ten years, subject to  earlier
termination  following the  optionee's cessation  of Board  service. Each option
will be immediately exercisable  for all of  the shares but  the shares will  be
subject to repurchase at original cost. The repurchase right shall lapse and the
optionee vest in a series of three equal annual installments over the optionee's
period  of  Board service,  beginning  one year  from  the grant  date. However,
vesting of the shares will automatically  accelerate upon (i) an acquisition  of
the  Company by merger, consolidation or asset sale, (ii) a hostile take-over of
the Company effected by tender offer for more than 50% of the outstanding voting
stock or proxy contest for Board membership or (iii) the death or disability  of
the optionee while serving as a Board member.
 
    In  the event that more  than 50% of the  Company's outstanding voting stock
were to be acquired  pursuant to a hostile  tender offer, each automatic  option
grant  that has been outstanding  for at least six  months may be surrendered by
the optionee in return for a cash  distribution from the Company based upon  the
tender offer price per share of Common Stock at the time subject to the canceled
option.
 
    The  Board may amend or modify the 1995 Plan at any time. The 1995 Plan will
terminate on November 7, 2005, unless sooner terminated by the Board.
 
401(K) PLAN
 
    During 1992,  the  Company established  a  deferred compensation  plan  (the
"401(k)  Plan") pursuant  to Section  401(k) of  the Internal  Revenue Code (the
"Code"), whereby substantially all  employees are eligible  to contribute up  to
20% of their pre-tax earnings, not to exceed amounts allowed under the Code. The
Company may make contributions to the 401(k) Plan at the discretion of the Board
of  Directors. No Company contributions have been made to the 401(k) Plan by the
Company.
 
LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY AND INDEMNIFICATION MATTERS
 
    The Company has adopted provisions in its Restated Articles of Incorporation
that eliminate  to  the fullest  extent  permissible under  California  law  the
liability  of its directors to the Company for monetary damages. Such limitation
of liability does  not affect  the availability  of equitable  remedies such  as
injunctive  relief or rescission. The Company's  Bylaws provide that the Company
shall indemnify its directors  and officers to the  fullest extent permitted  by
California law, including in circumstances in which indemnification is otherwise
discretionary under California law. The Company has entered into indemnification
agreements  with  its officers  and  directors containing  provisions  which may
require the Company, among other things, to indemnify the officers and directors
against certain liabilities that may arise by reason of their status or  service
as directors or officers (other than liabilities arising from willful misconduct
of a culpable nature), and to advance their expenses incurred as a result of any
proceeding against them as to which they could be indemnified.
 
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    Insofar  as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act
may be permitted  to directors, officers  and controlling persons  of the  small
business  issuer pursuant to  the foregoing provisions,  or otherwise, the small
business issuer  has been  advised that  in the  opinion of  the Securities  and
Exchange  Commission such indemnification is  against public policy as expressed
in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.
 
    In the  event that  a  claim for  indemnification against  such  liabilities
(other  than the payment  by the small  business issuer of  expenses incurred or
paid by a director, officer or  controlling person of the small business  issuer
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 small business issuer 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 Securities Act and will be governed by
the final adjudication of such issue.
 
    At the present time, there is no pending litigation or proceeding  involving
a   director,  officer,  employee  or  other  agent  of  the  Company  in  which
indemnification would be required or permitted. The Company is not aware of  any
threatened  litigation  or  proceeding which  may  result  in a  claim  for such
indemnification.
 
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                              CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS
 
TRANSACTIONS WITH FOUNDERS
 
    On  May 31, 1994, the Company  entered into a Software Acquisition Agreement
with Cary Wyman, a founder pursuant to which Mr. Wyman acquired all the  rights,
title and interest in and to certain software products. In addition, the Company
received  from Mr. Wyman all of Mr. Wyman's  right, title and interest in and to
11,792 shares of DeltaPoint's Common Stock  previously owned and held by and  in
the name of Mr. Wyman.
 
PRIVATE PLACEMENT TRANSACTIONS
 
    The  Company has issued and sold the following securities to persons who are
principal shareholders or  directors of  the Company.  Each share  of Series  A,
Series  B, Series C and  Series D Preferred Stock  was affected by a one-for-5.3
reverse stock split before giving effect  to the conversion of such  outstanding
Preferred  Stock upon  the closing of  the Company's initial  public offering in
December 1995 (the "IPO"):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                           SHARES OF COMMON
                                         SHARES OF    SHARES OF    SHARES OF    SHARES OF    WARRANTS TO    STOCK ISSUABLE
                                         SERIES A     SERIES B     SERIES C     SERIES D      PURCHASE      UPON PROMISSORY
                                         PREFERRED    PREFERRED    PREFERRED    PREFERRED      COMMON            NOTE
             INVESTOR (1)                STOCK (2)    STOCK (3)    STOCK (4)    STOCK (5)     STOCK (6)     CONVERSION (7)
- --------------------------------------  -----------  -----------  -----------  -----------  -------------  -----------------
<S>                                     <C>          <C>          <C>          <C>          <C>            <C>
Entities Affiliated with Hummer
 Winblad Venture Partners (8).........      55,341       22,641       43,620       26,801        27,629           31,667
Entities Affiliated with Oak
 Investment Partners V. Fund, L.P.....      --           60,377       34,269       48,242        45,209           31,667
</TABLE>
 
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(1) Shares held by all affiliated persons and entities have been aggregated. See
    "Principal and Selling Shareholders."
 
(2) The shares  were issued  in October  1990. The  per share  purchase for  the
    Series A Preferred Stock was $18.10 per share.
 
(3)  The shares were issued  in June 1992. The per  share purchase price for the
    Series B Preferred Stock was $33.13.
 
(4) The shares were issued in April  1994. The per share purchase price for  the
    Series C Preferred Stock was $5.78.
 
(5)  The shares were  issued in May 1995.  The per share  purchase price for the
    Series D Preferred Stock  was $9.33. The consideration  paid for such  stock
    was a combination of cash and cancellation of indebtedness.
 
(6) The warrants were issued in March 1992, March 1993 and May 1995.
 
(7)  Represents  shares of  Common  Stock issuable  upon  the conversion  of the
    Convertible Notes at a conversion price of $3.25 per share. Of the  $300,000
    principal  amount of the  Convertible Notes, $150,000 was  issued to each of
    entities affiliated with  Hummer Winblad Venture  Partners ("Hummer  Winblad
    Ventures")  and entities  affiliated with  Oak Investment  Partners V., L.P.
    ("Oak Investment"). In November  1995, each of  Hummer Winblad Ventures  and
    Oak  Affiliates agreed to  convert the principal  amount of said Convertible
    Note, plus  accrued  interest,  into  63,334  shares  of  Common  Stock.  In
    consideration  for such agreement, in November  1995 the Company issued each
    of Hummer Winblad Ventures  and Oak Investment  warrants to purchase  31,667
    shares  of Common  Stock exercisable  at a  price of  $7.20 per  share for a
    period of 30 months following December 26, 1995 together at a price of $8.40
    per share  thereafter through  November 6,  2000. In  addition, in  November
    1995,  each of Hummer Winblad Ventures and Oak Investment agreed to exchange
    outstanding warrants  to  purchase  Common  Stock for  the  same  number  of
    warrants   with  the  terms   described  in  the   preceding  sentence.  See
    "Description of Capital Stock -- Convertible Notes and Warrants."
 
(8) Mr.  Hummer,  an affiliate  of  Hummer  Winblad Technology  Partners,  is  a
    director of the Company.
 
   
    In  November 1995, the  Company issued 125,000  units (the "Unit Offering"),
each unit consisting of two shares of Series E Preferred Stock and a warrant  to
purchase  one share of Common Stock, for $8.00  per unit. Each share of Series E
Preferred Stock converted into one share of Common Stock upon the closing of the
Company's initial public  offering in  December, 1995.  Hummer Winblad  Ventures
purchased  3,125 units. Oak Investment purchased  6,113 units and Oak Affiliates
purchased 137 units. High Growth Equities Retirement Fund Trust purchased 50,000
units. See "Description of Capital Stock -- Warrants," and "-- Convertible Notes
and Warrants."
    
 
    The Company  believes  that the  foregoing  transactions were  in  its  best
interests.  All future transactions by the  Company with officers, directors, 5%
shareholders and  their affiliates  will be  entered into  only if  the  Company
believes  that such transactions are reasonably  expected to benefit the Company
and the terms of  such transactions are  no less favorable  to the Company  than
could be obtained from unaffiliated parties.
 
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H.J. MEYERS & CO., INC.
    
 
   
    Patrick  W. Grady, a director of the Company, is a Managing Director Venture
Capital of H.J. Meyers  & Co., Inc. ("H.J.  Meyers"). The Company retained  H.J.
Meyers  to act  as placement  agent in  connection with  the Unit  Offering. For
acting as placement agent, H.J.  Meyers received a fee  of 10% of the  aggregate
proceeds from the Unit Offering and a non-accountable expense allowance of 3% of
such  gross  proceeds. The  Company  also agreed  to  indemnity H.J.  Meyers for
certain liabilities,  including  those arising  under  the Securities  Act,  for
serving  as placement agent.  The Company also retained  H.J. Meyers as managing
underwriter in the IPO. For acting as managing underwriter, H.J. Meyers received
a portion of the 6% underwriting commission, a non-accountable expense allowance
equal to 2.5%  of the  gross proceeds  from the IPO  and a  warrant to  purchase
110,000  shares of  Common Stock exercisable  for a  four-year period commencing
December 20, 1996. The exercise price  of the Representative's Warrant is  $7.20
per  share. The Company  has granted the holder  of the Representative's Warrant
certain registration rights with respect to the warrant and the shares of Common
Stock issuable upon  its exercise.  The Company  also agreed  to indemnify  H.J.
Meyers  for certain  liabilities, including  those arising  under the Securities
Act, for serving as managing underwriter.
    
 
   
    The Company  has also  retained H.J.  Meyers to  act as  placement agent  in
connection  with the proposed  Debt Financing. Under the  terms of the placement
agent agreement, H.J. Meyers  will receive a  placement fee of  7% of the  gross
proceeds  from the Debt Financing, reimbursement  of accountable expenses not to
exceed 1% of such gross proceeds and a warrant to purchase a number of shares of
Common Stock equal to 5% of such  gross proceeds divided by 9.5 (the  "Placement
Agent's  Warrant"). The warrant would be exercisable  for five years and have an
exercise price of $9.50  per share of  Common Stock. The  Company has agreed  to
grant  the holder of the warrant certain registration rights with respect to the
warrant and the shares of Common  Stock issuable upon its exercise. The  Company
has  also agreed  to indemnify  H.J. Meyers  for certain  liabilities, including
those arising  under the  Securities  Act, for  serving  as placement  agent  in
connection with the Debt Financing.
    
 
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                       PRINCIPAL AND SELLING SHAREHOLDERS
 
   
    The  following  table sets  forth  certain information  regarding beneficial
ownership of  the  Company's Common  Stock  as of  September  30, 1996,  and  as
adjusted to reflect the sale of shares offered hereby, by (i) each person who is
known  by the Company to  own beneficially more than  5% of the Company's Common
Stock, (ii) each director of the Company, (iii) each Named Officer, and (iv) all
directors and executive officers as a group and (v) by the Selling Shareholders.
Except as otherwise indicated, the  Company believes that the beneficial  owners
of  the Common Stock listed below, based on information furnished by such owners
have investment  and  voting power  with  respect  to such  shares,  subject  to
community property laws where applicable.
    
 
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                             SHARES BENEFICIALLY                  SHARES BENEFICIALLY
                                                                OWNED PRIOR TO                    OWNED AFTER OFFERING
                                                                   OFFERING          SHARES TO
                                                            ----------------------  BE SOLD IN   ----------------------
NAME AND ADDRESS OF BENEFICIAL OWNER                         NUMBER      PERCENT    OFFERING (1)  NUMBER      PERCENT
- ----------------------------------------------------------  ---------  -----------  -----------  ---------  -----------
<S>                                                         <C>        <C>          <C>          <C>        <C>
Entities affiliated with
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (2).......................    248,739       10.7%       68,671     180,068        7.2%
  5900 Hollis St., Suite R
  Emeryville, CA 94608
Entities affiliated with Oak Investment
 Partners V, L.P. (3).....................................    270,180       11.6%       95,626     174,554        7.0%
  One Gorham Island
  Westport, CT 06880
American High Growth Equities Retirement
 Fund Trust(4)............................................    100,000        4.3%      100,000           0        0.0%
Raymond R. Kingman, Jr. (5)...............................     47,899        2.1%       --          47,899        1.9%
William G. Pryor (6)......................................    144,535        6.1%       --         144,535        5.5%
  c/o DeltaPoint, Inc.
  2 Harris Court, Suite B-1
  Monterey, CA 93940
Donald B. Witmer (7)......................................    163,750        6.8%       18,750     145,000        5.5%
  c/o Delta Point, Inc.
  2 Harris Court, Suite B-1
  Monterey, CA 93940
John Ambrose (8)..........................................    145,000        6.0%                  145,000        5.5%
  c/o DeltaPoint, Inc.
  22 Lower Ragsdale Drive
  Monterey, CA 93940
John Hummer...............................................         (2)
Patrick W. Grady (9)......................................     20,000       *           --          20,000          *%
George L. Black (10)......................................     15,750       *           15,750           0        0.0%
Leon Feldan (11)..........................................      6,250       *            6,250           0        0.0%
Ronald Mickwee (11).......................................      9,375       *            9,375           0        0.0%
Joan Plastiras-Myers (11).................................      9,375       *            9,375           0        0.0%
Nicholas W. and Geraldine Perilli (11)....................      9,375       *            9,375           0        0.0%
James R. Ratliff (10).....................................     18,750       *           18,750           0        0.0%
David Rosenberg (11)......................................      3,125       *            3,125           0        0.0%
Alan J. Rubin (11)........................................     18,750       *           18,750           0        0.0%
</TABLE>
    
 
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<CAPTION>
                                                             SHARES BENEFICIALLY                  SHARES BENEFICIALLY
                                                                OWNED PRIOR TO                    OWNED AFTER OFFERING
                                                                   OFFERING          SHARES TO
                                                            ----------------------  BE SOLD IN   ----------------------
NAME AND ADDRESS OF BENEFICIAL OWNER                         NUMBER      PERCENT    OFFERING (1)  NUMBER      PERCENT
- ----------------------------------------------------------  ---------  -----------  -----------  ---------  -----------
The Salzman Group, Ltd. (10)..............................     18,750       *           18,750           0        0.0%
<S>                                                         <C>        <C>          <C>          <C>        <C>
Donald L. & Lucy A. Stoner Trust (10).....................     18,750       *           18,750           0        0.0%
Lawrence Weisman (10).....................................     13,750       *           13,750           0        0.0%
Jack Balter (11)..........................................      7,375       *            7,375           0        0.0%
Dr. Mannie Magid (11).....................................      7,375       *            7,375           0        0.0%
All directors and executive officers as a group (5
persons) (12).............................................    722,024       26.7%       87,421     634,603       21.7%
</TABLE>
    
 
- ------------------------
 * Less than 1%.
 
 (1)  Assumes that all shares of Common Stock owned or issuable upon exercise of
    Warrants are sold in the Offering.
 
 (2) Consists of 2,860  shares of Common Stock  held by Hummer Winblad  Ventures
    and  151,791 shares of  Common Stock held by  Hummer Winblad Technology Fund
    ("Hummer Winblad Technology").  In addition, Hummer  Winblad Ventures  holds
    immediately  exercisable warrants to purchase 60,695 shares of Common Stock,
    and Hummer  Winblad Technology  holds  immediately exercisable  warrants  to
    purchase  1,726 shares of  Common Stock. Hummer  Winblad Ventures and Hummer
    Winblad Technology  also  hold  notes that  are  convertible,  with  accrued
    interest,  into 30,084 and  1,583 shares of  Common Stock, respectively. See
    "Description of  Capital  Stock  -- Convertible  Notes  and  Warrants."  Mr.
    Hummer,  a director of the  Company, is a General  Partner of Hummer Winblad
    Equity Partners, which is the General Partner of Hummer Winblad Ventures and
    Hummer Winblad Technology. Mr. Hummer disclaims beneficial ownership of  the
    securities  held by  these entities  except to  the extent  of his pecuniary
    interest therein arising  from his  general partnership  interest in  Hummer
    Winblad Equity Partners.
 
 (3) Consists of 151,972 shares of Common Stock, held by Oak Investment Partners
    V,  L.P. ("Oak Investment") and  3,415 shares of Common  Stock held by Oak V
    Affiliates Fund, L.P. ("Oak Affiliates"). In addition, Oak Investment  holds
    immediately  exercisable warrants to purchase  81,299 shares of Common Stock
    and Oak Affiliates holds immediately exercisable warrants to purchase  1,827
    shares  of Common Stock.  Oak Investment and Oak  Affiliates also hold notes
    that are convertible, with accrued interest,  into 30,970 and 697 shares  of
    Common Stock, respectively. Edward F. Glassmeyer is a general partner of Oak
    Investment and Oak Affiliates. Mr. Glassmeyer disclaims beneficial ownership
    of  the  securities held  by these  entities,  except to  the extent  of his
    pecuniary interest  therein  arising from  his  general partnership  in  Oak
    Investment.  See  "Description of  Capital  Stock --  Convertible  Notes and
    Warrants." Oak Affiliates is an affiliate of Oak Investment.
 
   
 (4) Consists  of 50,000  shares of  Common Stock.  In addition,  American  High
    Growth  Equities Retirement  Fund Trust holds  a Warrant  to purchase 50,000
    shares of Common Stock.
    
 
   
 (5) Includes 4,283 shares of Common  Stock, subject to stock options  currently
    exercisable  or  exercisable before  June 5,  1996,  including an  option to
    purchase 43,611 shares of Common Stock granted on November 10, 1995 that  is
    exercisable  within  sixty (60)  days of  May 15,  1996. See  "Management --
    Employment Contracts."
    
 
 (6) Includes 1,894 shares  of Common Stock subject  to stock options  currently
    exercisable  or  exercisable  within sixty  (60)  days after  May  15, 1996,
    including an option to  purchase 100,000 shares of  Common Stock granted  on
    November  10,  1995  that  is  immediately  exercisable  but  subject  to  a
 
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    right of  repurchase upon  termination of  employment that  lapses in  equal
    monthly  installments over  36 months  and lapses  in full  upon a specified
    change in control. See "Management -- Stock Option Information."
 
 (7) Consists  of 12,500  shares  of Common  Stock, an  immediately  exercisable
    warrant  to purchase 6,250 shares of Common  Stock and an option to purchase
    135,000 and 10,000 shares of Common Stock, respectively granted on  November
    10,  1995 and April  22, 1996, respectively  that is immediately exercisable
    but subject to  a right of  repurchase upon termination  of employment  that
    lapses  in equal monthly installments over 36 months and lapses in full upon
    a specified change in control. See "Management -- Employment Contracts."
 
 (8) Consists of an immediately exercisable option to purchase 145,000 shares of
    Common Stock granted on April 22,  1996 that is immediately exercisable  but
    subject  to a right of repurchase upon termination of employment that lapses
    in equal  monthly  installments over  36  months and  lapses  in full  on  a
    specified change in control. See "Management -- 1995 Stock Option Plan."
 
   
 (9)  Consists of an option to purchase 20,000 shares of Common Stock granted on
    August 13, 1996 that  is immediately exercisable but  subject to a right  of
    repurchase  upon termination of  service as a director  that lapses in equal
    annual installments  over three  years and  lapses in  full on  a  specified
    change  in control.  See "Management  -- 1995  Stock Option  Plan." Does not
    include 110,000 shares of Common Stock  that may be acquired by H.J.  Meyers
    upon  exercise of  the Representative's  Warrant commencing  on December 20,
    1996 and shares of  Common Stock that  may be acquired  by H.J. Meyers  upon
    exercise  of the  Placement Agent's  Warrant expected  to be  granted at the
    closing of the proposed Debt Financing.
    
 
(10) Includes a warrant to purchase 6,250 shares of Common Stock.
 
(11) Includes a warrant to purchase 3,125 shares of Common Stock.
 
   
(12) Consists  of  209,792  shares  of  Common  Stock,  immediately  exercisable
    warrants  to purchase  68,671 shares of  Common Stock and  411,894 shares of
    Common Stock subject to stock  options currently exercisable or  exercisable
    within sixty (60) days of September 30, 1996.
    
 
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                          DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK
 
   
    As  of  September 30,  1996 the  Company is  authorized to  issue 25,000,000
shares of Common Stock, no par  value, and 4,000,000 shares of Preferred  Stock,
no par value.
    
 
COMMON STOCK
 
   
    As  of  September 30,  1996,  there were  2,254,243  shares of  Common Stock
outstanding held  of record  by approximately  40 shareholders.  The holders  of
Common Stock are entitled to one vote per share on all matters to be voted on by
shareholders.  In  the  election  of directors,  however,  cumulative  voting is
authorized for all shareholders  if any shareholder gives  notice at a  meeting,
prior  to  voting for  the election  of directors,  of his  or her  intention to
cumulate votes. Subject to  the prior rights of  holders of Preferred Stock,  if
any, the holders of Common Stock are entitled to receive such dividends, if any,
as may be declared from time to time by the Board of Directors in its discretion
from  funds legally  available therefor. The  Common Stock has  no preemptive or
other subscription rights and  there are no conversion  rights or redemption  or
sinking  fund provisions  with respect  to such  shares. All  of the outstanding
shares of Common Stock are fully paid and non-assessable.
    
 
PREFERRED STOCK
 
   
    At the  closing  of the  Company's  IPO  in December  1995,  all  previously
outstanding  shares of Preferred  Stock were converted into  Common Stock. As of
June 30, 1996,  the Company is  authorized to  issue up to  4,000,000 shares  of
undesignated  Preferred Stock. The Board of Directors will have the authority to
issue the undesignated  Preferred Stock in  one or  more series and  to fix  the
rights,  preferences, privileges and restrictions granted to or imposed upon any
wholly unissued shares of  undesignated Preferred Stock, as  well as to fix  the
number  of shares constituting  any series and the  designations of such series,
without any further vote or action by the shareholders. The Board of  Directors,
without  shareholder  approval,  may  issue  Preferred  Stock  with  voting  and
conversion rights which could  materially adversely affect  the voting power  of
the holders of Common Stock. The issuance of Preferred Stock could also decrease
the  amount  of earnings  and assets  available for  distribution to  holders of
Common Stock. In addition, the issuance  of Preferred Stock may have the  effect
of delaying, deferring or preventing a change in control of the Company.
    
 
WARRANTS
 
    The  Company issued Warrants  to purchase an aggregate  of 125,000 shares of
Common Stock on November 6, 1995.  The Warrants are exercisable for a  five-year
period  commencing on November  6, 1995. The  exercise price of  the Warrants is
$7.20 per share of  Common Stock through  June 26, 1998 and  $8.40 per share  of
Common   Stock  thereafter  through  November  6,  2000.  The  Warrants  contain
anti-dilution  provisions   providing   adjustment   in   the   event   of   any
recapitalization,  stock  dividend,  stock  split  or  similar  transaction. The
Warrants do not entitle the holder thereof to any rights as a shareholder of the
Company until such warrant is exercised and shares are purchased thereunder. The
Warrants and the shares of Common Stock  thereunder may not be offered for  sale
except  in  compliance with  the applicable  provisions  of the  Securities Act.
Holder  of  Warrants   have  registration  rights   as  summarized  below.   See
"Registration Rights."
 
    The  Company issued  to the  Representative the  Representative's Warrant to
purchase for  investment  a maximum  of  110,000  shares of  Common  Stock.  The
Representative's  Warrant is exercisable  for a four-year  period commencing one
year from December 20, 1995. The exercise price of the Representative's  Warrant
will  be $7.20 per share. The  Representative's Warrant will not be transferable
prior to its exercise date except to officers of the Representative and  members
of  the selling  group and officers  and partners  thereof. The Representative's
Warrant contains anti-dilution provisions providing  adjustment in the event  of
any  recapitalization, stock dividend,  stock split or  similar transaction. The
Representative's Warrant does not entitle the Representative to any rights as  a
shareholder  of  the Company  until  such warrant  is  exercised and  shares are
purchased thereunder.  The Representative's  Warrant and  the shares  of  Common
Stock  thereunder may  not be  offered for  sale except  in compliance  with the
applicable provisions of the Securities Act. The Company has agreed that, if  it
shall  cause to be filed  with the Securities and  Exchange Commission either an
 
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amendment to the Registration Statement  filed upon the initial public  offering
of  the  Company in  December, 1995  or a  separate registration  statement, the
Representative has  the right  during the  five-year period  which commenced  on
December  19,  1995  to  include in  such  amendment  or  Registration Statement
Representative's Warrant  and  the shares  of  Common Stock  issuable  upon  its
exercise  at  no expense  to the  Representative  Additionally, the  Company has
agreed that, upon written request by a holder  or holders of 50% or more of  the
warrant  which is made  during the exercise  period of the  warrant, the Company
will, on two separate occasions, register  the warrant and the shares of  Common
Stock  issuable upon exercise thereof. The  initial such registration will be at
the Company's expense and the second such registration will be at the expense of
the holder(s) of such Warrant.
 
CONVERTIBLE NOTES AND WARRANTS
 
    In March 1993, the Company issued Convertible Notes in the principal  amount
of  $150,000 to each of Hummer Winblad  Ventures and Oak Affiliates. In November
1995, each of Hummer Winblad Ventures  and Oak Investment agreed to convert  the
principal  amount of the Convertible Notes,  plus accrued interest, into a total
of 63,334 shares of Common Stock on December 26, 1995. In consideration for such
agreement, in November 1995 the Company  issued each of Hummer Winblad  Ventures
and  Oak  Investment  a  warrant  to  purchase  31,667  shares  of  Common Stock
exercisable at a price of  $7.20 per share for a  period of 30 months  following
December  26, 1995 and a  price of $8.40 per  share thereafter through that date
which is 60 months following December  26, 1995. In addition, in November  1995,
each   of  Hummer  Winblad  Ventures  and  Oak  Investment  agreed  to  exchange
outstanding warrants to purchase  Common Stock for the  same number of  warrants
with the terms described in the preceding sentence.
 
    In  November 1995, the  Company issued Series  E Preferred Stock convertible
into 250,000 shares of Common Stock  and warrants to purchase 125,000 shares  of
Common  Stock for $765,000, net of issuance  costs. See "Warrants." The terms of
these warrants are identical to  those aforementioned warrants issued to  Hummer
Winblad Ventures and Oak Investment. See "Certain Transactions."
 
    In  addition,  the Company  has other  outstanding  warrants to  purchase an
aggregate of 72,838 shares  of Common Stock  at an exercise  price of $7.20  per
share.
 
REGISTRATION RIGHTS
 
   
    After  this Offering, the holders of  approximately 528,316 shares of Common
Stock ("Registrable Securities"), representing shares issued upon conversion  of
the  Company's outstanding  Preferred Stock  and Convertible  Notes and issuable
upon conversion of  outstanding warrants,  are entitled to  certain rights  with
respect  to the  registration of  such shares under  the Securities  Act. If the
Company proposes to register any of its securities under the Securities Act  for
its  own account,  holders of Registrable  Securities are entitled  to notice of
such registration and  are entitled to  include Registrable Securities  therein,
provided,  among other  conditions, that the  underwriters of  any such offering
have the  right to  limit the  number of  shares included  in such  registration
(subject  to certain limitations).  The Company is not  obligated to effect more
than two  of  these  shareholder-initiated registrations.  Further,  holders  of
Registrable  Securities may require the  Company to file additional registration
statements on Form S-3, subject to certain conditions and limitations.
    
 
    The Company has agreed with (i)  Hummer Winblad Ventures and Oak  Affiliates
as  to the warrants issued  by the Company to  them in November 1995 exercisable
for 63,334 shares of Common Stock and as to the Convertible Notes held by  them,
convertible  along with accrued interest, into 63,334 shares of Common Stock and
(ii) the other  holders of  warrants, excluding  the 125,000  Warrants that  are
being registered hereby, exercisable for an aggregate of 82,213 shares of Common
Stock,  that it will file a registration statement to register the resale of the
Common Stock  issuable  upon the  conversion  and  exercise of  such  notes  and
warrants,  respectively. Further, the Company has agreed that, thereafter to the
extent necessary to permit  resale of such Common  Stock, the Company shall  use
its  best efforts to  maintain the effectiveness  of such registration statement
and keep current the
 
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prospectus included therein until the Company  is satisfied that Rule 144(k)  is
available  for the resale by the then-current  holders of such Common Stock, but
in no event later than three years following effective date of this Offering.
 
    The Company  has also  granted  registration rights  to  the holder  of  the
Representatives'  Warrant,  which provide  such  holder with  certain  rights to
register such warrant and the shares of Common Stock underlying such warrant.
 
TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR
 
    The Transfer Agent and Registrar for the Common Stock is U.S. Stock Transfer
Corporation.
 
                        SHARES ELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE SALE
 
   
    Sale of substantial  amounts of  the Company's  Common Stock  in the  public
market  or  the prospect  of such  sales could  materially adversely  affect the
market price  of  the  Common Stock.  As  of  September, 1996  the  Company  had
outstanding  2,254,243 shares of Common Stock. Of these total outstanding shares
of Common Stock 1,798,354 shares are, freely tradeable without restriction under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), unless  purchased
by  "affiliates" of the  Company as that term  is defined in  Rule 144 under the
Securities Act, including 1,265,000 shares sold  to the public in the  Company's
IPO  and (ii)  the remaining 455,889  shares are  restricted shares ("Restricted
Shares") under the Securities Act.  Holders of approximately 654,050  Restricted
Shares  have entered  into contractual  "lockup" agreements  providing that they
will not  offer, sell,  contract to  sell or  grant any  option to  purchase  or
otherwise  dispose  of  the shares  of  stock owned  by  them or  that  could be
purchased by  them through  the exercise  of options  to purchase  stock of  the
Company, until January 20, 1997 without the prior written consent of H.J. Meyers
&  Co. In addition  62,500 Shares of Common  Stock ("Special Restricted Shares")
and 125,000 of the Warrant Shares  offered hereby have entered into  contractual
lockup  agreements providing that they will not offer, sell, contract to sell or
grant any option to purchase or otherwise  dispose of the shares of stock  owned
by  them or that could  be purchased by them through  the exercise of options to
purchase stock of  the Company, until  December 26, 1996  and January 20,  1997,
respectively.  The remaining  Restricted Shares  are not  subject to contractual
"lock-up" agreements.  If  the holders  of  Special Restricted  Shares  exercise
registration  rights relating to such shares,  additional shares of Common Stock
could be available  for sale  during the  periods indicated  in this  paragraph.
Sales  in the  public market of  substantial amounts of  Common Stock (including
sales in connection with an exercise of certain registration rights relating  to
approximately  shares of Common  Stock) or the perception  that such sales could
occur could depress prevailing market prices for the Common Stock. In  addition,
the  Company has agreed to use its best efforts to register for resale under the
Securities Act the shares of Common  Stock underlying the Notes before the  date
60  days after the Debt  Financing Closing and to  maintain the effectiveness of
such registration for a minimum of two years. See "Description of Capital  Stock
- -- Registration Rights."
    
 
                              PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION
 
    The  Company has been advised by the Selling Shareholders that they may sell
all or a portion of the Shares and the Warrants from time to time on the  Nasdaq
Small  Cap Market System at prices and at  terms prevailing at the time of sale.
The Shares and the Warrants may be sold by one or more of the following methods:
(a) a block trade in which the broker or dealer so engaged will attempt to  sell
the  Shares and the Warrants as an agent,  but may position and resell a portion
of the block  as principal  to facilitate the  transaction; (b)  purchases by  a
broker  or dealer as principal  and resale by such broker  or dealer for its own
account pursuant to  this Prospectus;  (c) an  over-the-counter distribution  in
accordance with the rules of the Nasdaq Small Cap Market System and (d) ordinary
brokerage transactions and transactions in which the broker solicits purchasers.
There  is no assurance that any of the Selling Shareholders will sell any or all
of the Shares or Warrants offered by them.
 
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    In effecting sales, brokers or  dealers engaged by the Selling  Shareholders
may  arrange for other brokers or dealers to participate. Brokers or dealers may
receive commissions or discounts from the Selling Shareholders in amounts to  be
negotiated  prior to the sale. Participating brokers or dealers may be deemed to
be "underwriters" within the meaning of  the Securities Act, in connection  with
such  sales. The  Company will  not receive  any proceeds  from the  sale of the
Shares or Warrants by the Selling Shareholders.
 
    The Company may  at its  discretion withdraw the  Registration Statement  of
which this Prospectus constitutes a part at any time.
 
    The  Warrant Shares  may be issued  from time  to time upon  exercise of the
Warrants.
 
                                 LEGAL MATTERS
 
   
    The validity of  the Shares,  the Warrants  and the  Warrant Shares  offered
hereby  have  been  passed upon  for  the  Company by  Gunderson  Dettmer Stough
Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP, Palo Alto, California.
    
 
                                    EXPERTS
 
   
    The financial statements as of  December 31, 1994 and  1995 and for each  of
the  two years in the period ended December 31, 1995 included in this Prospectus
have been  so  included in  reliance  on the  report  of Price  Waterhouse  LLP,
independent  accountants,  given on  the authority  of said  firm as  experts in
auditing and accounting.
    
 
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                                DELTAPOINT, INC.
                         INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
   
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<CAPTION>
                                                               PAGE
                                                              ------
<S>                                                           <C>
Report of Independent Accountants...........................    F-2
Balance Sheets as of December 31, 1994 and 1995 and June 30,
 1996 (unaudited)...........................................    F-3
Statements of Operations for the Years Ended December 31,
 1994 and 1995 and for the six months ended June 30, 1995
 and 1996 (unaudited).......................................    F-4
Statements of Shareholders' Equity (Deficit) for the Years
 Ended December 31, 1994 and 1995 and for the six months
 ended June 30, 1996 (unaudited)............................    F-5
Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31,
 1994 and 1995 and for the six months ended June 30, 1995
 and 1996 (unaudited).......................................    F-6
Notes to Financial Statements...............................    F-7
</TABLE>
    
 
                                      F-1
<PAGE>
                       REPORT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS
 
To the Board of Directors and
Shareholders of DeltaPoint, Inc.
 
    In  our opinion, the accompanying balance sheet and the related statement of
operations, of shareholders' equity (deficit) and of cash flows present  fairly,
in all material respects, the financial position of DeltaPoint, Inc. at December
31,  1994 and 1995, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the
years then ended, in conformity  with generally accepted accounting  principles.
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 of these  statements in accordance with
generally accepted auditing standards which 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,
assessing  the  accounting principles  used  and significant  estimates  made by
management, and  evaluating the  overall  financial statement  presentation.  We
believe  that our  audits provide a  reasonable basis for  the opinion expressed
above.
 
PRICE WATERHOUSE LLP
 
San Jose, California
February 22, 1996
 
                                      F-2
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                                DELTAPOINT, INC.
                                 BALANCE SHEET
   
                       (IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT SHARE DATA)
    
 
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                 DECEMBER 31      JUNE 30,
                                                              ------------------  --------
                                                                1994      1995      1996
                                                              --------  --------  --------
                                                                                  (UNAUDITED)
<S>                                                           <C>       <C>       <C>
                                          ASSETS
 
Current assets:
  Cash and cash equivalents.................................  $     30  $  4,629  $ 2,802
  Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful
   accounts of $184, $259 and $125..........................       583     1,225      889
  Inventories...............................................       226       182      117
  Prepaid expenses and other current assets.................        81       194      195
                                                              --------  --------  --------
    Total current assets....................................       920     6,230    4,003
Property and equipment, net.................................       171        49      259
Purchased software, net.....................................     --          438      398
Deposits and other assets...................................        56        47       29
                                                              --------  --------  --------
                                                              $  1,147  $  6,764  $ 4,689
                                                              --------  --------  --------
                                                              --------  --------  --------
</TABLE>
    
 
                 LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY (DEFICIT)
 
   
<TABLE>
<S>                                                           <C>       <C>       <C>
Current liabilities:
  Accounts payable..........................................  $  1,416  $    665  $ 1,075
  Accrued liabilities.......................................       707     2,202    1,919
  Reserve for returns and exchanges.........................        72       398      240
  Notes payable to preferred shareholders...................       300     --       --
  Notes payable.............................................       289     --       --
  Current portion of capital lease obligations..............       186        50        5
                                                              --------  --------  --------
    Total current liabilities...............................     2,970     3,315    3,239
Long term capital lease obligations.........................        41     --       --
                                                              --------  --------  --------
Mandatorily redeemable convertible preferred stock..........     4,177     --       --
                                                              --------  --------  --------
Commitments and contingencies (Note 6)
Shareholders' equity (deficit):
  Preferred stock, no par value, 4,000,000 shares
   authorized, none issued or outstanding...................     --        --       --
  Common stock, no par value, 25,000,000 shares authorized
   182,717, 2,025,243, and 2,222,243 shares were issued and
   outstanding..............................................       145    12,267   13,057
  Accumulated deficit.......................................    (6,186)   (8,818) (11,607 )
                                                              --------  --------  --------
    Total shareholders' equity (deficit)....................    (6,041)    3,449    1,450
                                                              --------  --------  --------
                                                              $  1,147  $  6,764  $ 4,689
                                                              --------  --------  --------
                                                              --------  --------  --------
</TABLE>
    
 
   The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
 
                                      F-3
<PAGE>
                                DELTAPOINT, INC.
                            STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
                     (IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)
 
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                             YEAR ENDED         SIX MONTHS ENDED
                                                                            DECEMBER 31             JUNE 30,
                                                                        --------------------  --------------------
                                                                          1994       1995       1995       1996
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                                                  (UNAUDITED)
<S>                                                                     <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>
Net revenues..........................................................  $   4,885  $   4,043  $   2,261  $   1,893
Cost of revenues......................................................        962      1,337        714        621
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
  Gross profit........................................................      3,923      2,706      1,547      1,272
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Operating expenses:
  Sales and marketing.................................................      1,636      1,922        759      2,051
  Research and development............................................        930      2,036        389      1,088
  General and administrative..........................................        839      1,234        588        961
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                            3,405      5,192      1,736      4,100
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Income (loss) from operations.........................................        518     (2,486)      (189)    (2,828)
Interest income (expenses)............................................       (168)      (146)       (61)        39
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Net income (loss).....................................................  $     350  $  (2,632) $    (250) $  (2,789)
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Net income (loss) per share...........................................  $    0.38  $   (2.42) $   (0.25) $   (1.27)
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Shares and share equivalents used in per share calculations...........        997      1,086      1,001      2,193
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                        ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
</TABLE>
    
 
   The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
 
                                      F-4
<PAGE>
                                DELTAPOINT, INC.
                  STATEMENT OF SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY (DEFICIT)
                       (IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT SHARE DATA)
 
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                      COMMON STOCK
                                                                 ----------------------  ACCUMULATED
                                                                   SHARES      AMOUNT      DEFICIT       TOTAL
                                                                 -----------  ---------  ------------  ---------
<S>                                                              <C>          <C>        <C>           <C>
Balance at December 31, 1993...................................      194,509  $     145   $   (6,536)  $  (6,391)
  Retirement of common stock...................................      (11,792)    --           --          --
  Net income...................................................      --          --              350         350
                                                                 -----------  ---------  ------------  ---------
  Balance at December 31, 1994.................................      182,717        145       (6,186)     (6,041)
  Exercise of stock options....................................          382          1       --               1
  Issuance of warrants.........................................      --               6       --               6
  Issuance of common stock.....................................    1,100,000      5,143       --           5,143
  Issuance of common stock for acquisition of purchased
   software....................................................      100,000        600       --             600
  Conversion of mandatorily redeemable convertible preferred
   stock.......................................................      578,810      5,992       --           5,992
  Conversion of notes payable and accrued interest.............       63,334        380       --             380
  Net loss.....................................................      --          --           (2,632)     (2,632)
                                                                 -----------  ---------  ------------  ---------
Balance at December 31, 1995...................................    2,025,243     12,267       (8,818)      3,449
  Issuance of common stock (unaudited).........................      190,000        755       --             755
  Exercise of stock options (unaudited)........................        7,000         35       --              35
  Net loss (unaudited).........................................      --          --           (2,789)     (2,789)
                                                                 -----------  ---------  ------------  ---------
Balance at June 30, 1996 (unaudited)...........................    2,222,243  $  13,057   $  (11,607)  $   1,450
                                                                 -----------  ---------  ------------  ---------
                                                                 -----------  ---------  ------------  ---------
</TABLE>
    
 
   The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
 
                                      F-5
<PAGE>
                                DELTAPOINT, INC.
                            STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS
                                 (IN THOUSANDS)
 
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                YEAR ENDED         SIX MONTHS ENDED
                                                                               DECEMBER 31,            JUNE 30,
                                                                           --------------------  --------------------
                                                                             1994       1995       1995       1996
                                                                           ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                                                     (UNAUDITED)
<S>                                                                        <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>
Cash flows from operating activities:
  Net income (loss)......................................................  $     350  $  (2,632) $    (250) $  (2,789)
  Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash used in
   operating activities:
    Depreciation and amortization........................................        241        163         77        102
    In process research and development..................................     --          1,240     --         --
    Other................................................................     --             40     --         --
    Change in assets and liabilities:
      Accounts receivable................................................         27       (642)      (440)       336
      Inventories........................................................        (46)        44         35         65
      Prepaid expenses and other current assets..........................        101       (113)       (89)        (1)
      Accounts payable...................................................       (460)      (751)      (627)       410
      Accrued liabilities................................................       (490)       670        228       (283)
      Reserve for returns and exchanges..................................        (31)       326        151       (158)
      Deposits and other assets..........................................     --              9          6         18
                                                                           ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
        Net cash used in operating activities............................       (308)    (1,646)      (909)    (2,300)
                                                                           ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Cash flows used in investing activities:
  Acquisition of property and equipment..................................        (32)       (29)       (16)      (272)
  Acquisition of purchased software......................................     --           (225)    --         --
                                                                           ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
        Net cash used in investing activities............................        (32)      (254)       (16)      (272)
                                                                           ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Cash flows from financing activities:
  Proceeds from issuance of preferred stock , net........................        451      1,815      1,050     --
  Proceeds from issuance of common stock and warrants, net...............     --          5,150          6        790
  Proceeds from line of credit...........................................     --         --            269     --
  Repayment of note payable..............................................     --           (289)      (299)    --
  Repayment of capitalized lease obligations.............................        (92)      (177)       (99)       (45)
                                                                           ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
        Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities..............        359      6,499        927        745
                                                                           ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents.........................         19      4,599          2     (1,827)
                                                                           ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period.........................         11         30         30      4,629
                                                                           ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period...............................  $      30  $   4,629  $      32  $   2,802
                                                                           ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                           ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
</TABLE>
    
 
   The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
 
                                      F-6
<PAGE>
                                DELTAPOINT, INC.
                         NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
NOTE 1 -- THE COMPANY AND ITS SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES:
    DeltaPoint,  Inc. (the Company)  was incorporated in  California in February
1989. The Company designs, develops and markets visualization software  products
that are designed to facilitate the collection, interpretation and management of
business  and technical information across  multiple computing environments such
as desktop and client/server applications and the Internet's World Wide Web. The
principal markets for the Company's products are North America and Japan.
 
    The following is a summary of the Company's 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.
 
    REVENUE RECOGNITION
 
    The  Company recognizes revenue in accordance with the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants' Statement of Position 91-1 (SOP 91-1) on  Software
Revenue Recognition.
 
   
    Software  product sales are recognized upon  shipment of the product, net of
appropriate allowances for estimated returns. Revenues from software royalty and
packaging agreements  are recognized  upon  shipment of  a  master copy  of  the
software product and packaging if no significant vendor obligations remain under
the  terms of the agreements, any  amounts paid are nonrefundable and collection
is probable. Payments received in advance of revenue recognition are recorded as
deferred revenue. The Company grants  distributors and resellers certain  rights
of  return, price  protection and stock  rotation rights  on unsold merchandise.
Accordingly, reserves for estimated future returns, credits for price protection
and stock  rotation  rights are  accrued  upon shipment  based  upon  historical
experience.
    
 
    The Company provides a limited amount of free telephone technical support to
customers. These activities are generally considered insignificant post contract
customer support obligations. Estimated costs of these activities are accrued at
the time of product shipment.
 
   
    Revenue  from international customers, primarily in Japan accounted for 42%,
40%, 43% and 15% of net revenues in 1994, 1995 and the six months ended June 30,
1995 and 1996, respectively. Sales to customers in excess of 10% of net revenues
is presented below:
    
 
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                             SIX MONTHS ENDED
                                                                                     YEAR ENDED DECEMBER
                                                                                             31,                 JUNE 30,
                                                                                     --------------------  --------------------
                                                                                       1994       1995       1995       1996
                                                                                     ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                                                               (UNAUDITED)
<S>                                                                                  <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>
Customer A.........................................................................        38%        35%        37%        --%
Customer B.........................................................................        17%        13%        10%        18%
</TABLE>
    
 
                                      F-7
<PAGE>
                                DELTAPOINT, INC.
                   NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 1 -- THE COMPANY AND ITS SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES: (CONTINUED)
    CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
 
    The Company  considers  all  highly  liquid  investments  with  an  original
maturity  of three months or  less to be cash  equivalents. Included in the cash
equivalent balance  at December  31, 1995,  were $2,000,000  in certificates  of
deposit.  Effective January 1, 1994, the  Company adopted Statement of Financial
Accounting Standards No. 115,  "Accounting for Certain  Investments in Debt  and
Equity  Securities"  (FAS 115).  FAS 115  requires  investment securities  to be
classified as  either held  to  maturity, trading  or  available for  sale.  The
Company did not have any short-term investments outstanding at December 31, 1994
and 1995.
 
    STOCK BASED COMPENSATION
 
    The  Company accounts for its employee  stock option plan in accordance with
provisions of the Accounting  Principles Board Opinion  No. 25, "Accounting  for
Stock  Issued to Employees" (APB 25).  In October 1995, the Financial Accounting
Standards Board released  Statement of  Financial Accounting  Standards No  123,
"Accounting  for  Stock  Based  Compensation" (FAS  123).  FAS  123  provides an
alternative to APB 25 and is effective for fiscal years beginning after December
15, 1995. The  Company expects to  continue to account  for it's employee  stock
option  plan in accordance with the provisions of APB 25. Accordingly FAS 123 is
not expected to have  a material impact on  the Company's financial position  or
results of operations.
 
    INVENTORIES
 
    Inventories are stated at the lower of cost or market. Cost is determined on
the first-in, first-out method.
 
    PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT
 
    Property  and equipment are  stated at cost.  Depreciation is provided using
the straight-line method  based upon  the estimated  useful life  of the  assets
ranging  from three to five years. Leasehold improvements are amortized over the
shorter of the remaining term of the  lease or the estimated useful life of  the
asset.
 
    PURCHASED SOFTWARE
 
    Purchased software is recorded at cost and amortized using the straight line
method over the three-year estimated useful life of the asset.
 
    SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COSTS
 
    Research  and  development  costs  are expensed  as  incurred.  Statement of
Financial Accounting Standards No.  86 (FAS 86)  requires the capitalization  of
certain   software   development   costs  once   technological   feasibility  is
established. The capitalized costs are  then amortized on a straight-line  basis
over  the estimated product life,  or on the ratio  of current revenues to total
projected product  revenues,  whichever is  greater.  Based upon  the  Company's
product  development  process,  technological  feasibility  is  established upon
completion of a working model. Costs incurred by the Company between  completion
of  the working model  and the point at  which the product  is ready for general
release have been  insignificant and  accordingly have not  been capitalized  as
software development costs.
 
    CONCENTRATION OF CREDIT RISKS
 
    Financial  instruments that  potentially subject the  Company to significant
concentrations  of  credit  risks  consist  principally  of  cash  and  accounts
receivable.  The  Company  places  its cash  in  interest  bearing  accounts and
certificates of  deposit in  high quality  financial institutions.  The  Company
sells  its  products primarily  to end-users,  distributors  and resellers  in a
variety of industries  located primarily  in the  United States  and Japan.  The
Company performs ongoing credit evaluations
 
                                      F-8
<PAGE>
                                DELTAPOINT, INC.
                   NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 1 -- THE COMPANY AND ITS SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES: (CONTINUED)
of  its customers' financial condition and generally requires no collateral from
its customers. The  Company maintains  an allowance  for uncollectible  accounts
receivable based upon the expected collectibility of all accounts receivable. To
date, the Company has not experienced any material losses.
 
   
    At  December  31,  1994  three  customers  accounted  for  49%  of  accounts
receivable. At December 31,  1995 five customers accounted  for 86% of  accounts
receivable.  At  June 30,  1996 three  customers accounted  for 66%  of accounts
receivable.
    
 
    NET INCOME (LOSS) PER SHARE
 
   
    Net income (loss)  per share is  based upon the  weighted average number  of
common  and  common  equivalent  shares outstanding  during  the  period. Common
equivalent shares  consist of  warrants and  stock options  (using the  treasury
stock  method). Common  equivalent shares are  excluded from  the computation if
their effect  is  anti-dilutive except  that,  pursuant to  the  Securities  and
Exchange  Commission Staff  Accounting Bulletins,  common and  common equivalent
shares issued during the  period from November 1994  to November 1995 have  been
included  in the calculation as if they were outstanding for all periods through
November 1995 (using the treasury stock  method for the options and warrants  at
the initial public offering price). As a result of the loss incurred in 1995 and
for  the  six months  ended June  30,  1996, the  common equivalent  shares were
anti-dilutive and, accordingly, were excluded  from the computation of loss  per
share for that year.
    
 
    FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
 
    The  carrying  amount  of  the  Company's  financial  instruments, including
accounts receivable and notes payable, approximates fair values.
 
    INCOME TAXES
 
    The Company utilizes the liability method of accounting for income taxes  as
set forth in Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 109 "Accounting for
Income  Taxes" (FAS 109). Under FAS 109, deferred tax liabilities and assets are
recognized for the  expected future  tax consequences  of temporary  differences
between  the carrying  amounts and  the tax  bases of  the Company's  assets and
liabilities.
 
    INTERIM RESULTS (UNAUDITED)
 
   
    The accompanying  balance sheet  as  of June  30,  1996, the  statements  of
operations  and of cash flows  for the six months ended  June 30, 1995 and 1996,
and the statements of  shareholders' equity (deficit) for  the six months  ended
June  30, 1996 are unaudited. In the  opinion of management, the statements have
been prepared on the same basis as the audited financial statements and  include
all  adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, necessary for
the fair statement  of the  results of interim  periods. The  data disclosed  in
these notes to financial statements for these periods are also unaudited.
    
 
                                      F-9
<PAGE>
                                DELTAPOINT, INC.
                   NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 2 -- BALANCE SHEET DETAILS (IN THOUSANDS):
 
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                           DECEMBER 31
                                                                       --------------------
                                                                         1994       1995
                                                                       ---------  ---------   JUNE 30,
                                                                                             -----------
                                                                                                1996
                                                                                             -----------
                                                                                             (UNAUDITED)
<S>                                                                    <C>        <C>        <C>
Inventories:
  Raw materials......................................................  $     170  $     119   $     105
  Finished goods.....................................................         56         63          12
                                                                       ---------  ---------  -----------
                                                                       $     226  $     182   $     117
                                                                       ---------  ---------  -----------
                                                                       ---------  ---------  -----------
Purchased software:
  Purchased software.................................................  $  --      $     450   $     450
  Less: accumulated amortization.....................................     --            (12)        (52)
                                                                       ---------  ---------  -----------
                                                                       $  --      $     438   $     398
                                                                       ---------  ---------  -----------
                                                                       ---------  ---------  -----------
Property and equipment:
  Computer equipment and software....................................  $     927  $     936   $   1,084
  Furniture and fixtures.............................................        139        139         139
  Leasehold improvements.............................................         36     --              30
                                                                       ---------  ---------  -----------
                                                                           1,102      1,075       1,253
  Less: accumulated depreciation.....................................       (931)    (1,026)       (994)
                                                                       ---------  ---------  -----------
                                                                       $     171  $      49   $     259
                                                                       ---------  ---------  -----------
                                                                       ---------  ---------  -----------
Accrued liabilities:
  Accrued royalties..................................................  $     225  $     351   $     365
  Accrued compensation...............................................        300        303         684
  Amounts due for purchased software.................................     --            865         275
  Other..............................................................        182        683         595
                                                                       ---------  ---------  -----------
                                                                       $     707  $   2,202   $   1,919
                                                                       ---------  ---------  -----------
                                                                       ---------  ---------  -----------
</TABLE>
    
 
   
    Included  in the December  31, 1994 and  1995 and June  30, 1996 balances of
computer  equipment   and  software   are  $531,000,   $531,000  and   $547,000,
respectively,  of assets acquired under capital leases. Accumulated depreciation
associated with these  leases approximates  $438,000, $481,000  and $542,000  at
December 31, 1994, December 31, 1995 and June 30, 1996, respectively.
    
 
    In  November  and  December  1995,  the  Company  acquired  certain Internet
technologies, including the source code and related documentation. The aggregate
purchase price of these technologies was $1,690,000, which was comprised of  (i)
$1,090,000  in cash,  payable in installments  through August 1996  and (ii) the
issuance of 100,000 shares of the Company's common stock. The Company will  also
be  required to  pay royalties  on sales  of the  products developed  from these
technologies. No amounts were due under the royalty agreement during 1995.
 
    Approximately $1,240,000 of the purchase  price was allocated to  in-process
technology.  In connection with these  acquisitions, the Company determined that
the majority of the purchase price represented in-process technology and because
such technology had not reached the  stage of technological feasibility and  had
no alternative future use, the amount was immediately charged to operations.
 
                                      F-10
<PAGE>
                                DELTAPOINT, INC.
                   NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 3 -- SUPPLEMENTAL STATEMENT OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION
    In  May 1994, the Company exchanged  intellectual property with a book value
of $0 for 11,792 shares of common stock from an existing common shareholder.
 
    In December 1995, upon the closing of the Company's initial public offering,
all outstanding  shares  of Series  A,  B, C,  D  and E  Mandatorily  Redeemable
Convertible  Preferred  Stock  converted  into common  stock.  In  addition, the
Company converted related  party notes  payable totaling $300,000  (Note 4)  and
accrued  interest on  the notes  totaling $80,000  into 63,334  shares of common
stock. The Company  also issued  the preferred shareholders  63,334 warrants  to
purchase  shares of common stock  exercisable at a price  of $7.20 per share for
the first 30 months of the warrant term and $8.40 per share for the remaining 30
months of the warrant terms.
 
    In November and  December 1995, the  Company acquired intellectual  property
for a total purchase price of $1,690,000 which was comprised of the (i) issuance
of  100,000 shares of  common stock at $6.00  per share, (ii)  a cash payment of
$225,000 and (iii) $865,000 to be paid in installments through August 1996.
 
   
    Cash paid for interest totaled  $123,000, $146,000, $61,000 and $26,000  for
the  years ended December 31,  1994 and 1995, and the  six months ended June 30,
1995 and 1996, respectively.
    
 
NOTE 4 -- NOTES PAYABLE TO PREFERRED SHAREHOLDERS AND RELATED PARTY
          TRANSACTIONS:
    At December 31, 1994, the Company had $300,000 of 10% interest bearing notes
due to certain preferred  shareholders. In connection with  the issuance of  the
notes, the Company granted the note holders warrants to purchase 1,358 shares of
common stock at an exercise price of $6.63. The Company reserved 1,358 shares of
common stock for issuance under the exercise of these warrants. The warrants are
exercisable through March 1998. The value of the warrants was considered nominal
at  the date of grant.  Under the terms of the  note agreement, each note holder
had the option to convert the unpaid principal and accrued interest into  shares
of  mandatorily  redeemable  convertible  preferred  stock  any  time  after the
original due date of the notes.
 
    In November 1995, preferred shareholders agreed to exchange the $300,000  of
interest-bearing  notes, plus accrued interest  of $80,000 for notes convertible
into an aggregate  of 63,334  shares of common  stock and  warrants to  purchase
63,334  shares of common stock exercisable at a price of $7.20 per share for the
first 30 months of  the warrant term  and $8.40 per share  for the remaining  30
months  of the warrant term. The warrants are exercisable through November 2000.
Such notes and  accrued interest  thereon were  converted into  common stock  in
connection with the Company's initial public offering in December 1995.
 
   
    The  Company  purchases  goods  and  services  from  a  supplier  who  is  a
shareholder of  the  Company. Purchases  from  this supplier  totaled  $470,000,
$354,000,  $187,000 and $101,000 for the years  ended December 31, 1994 and 1995
and the six months ended  June 30, 1995 and  1996, respectively. Amounts due  to
this  supplier are included in  accounts payable at December  31, 1994, 1995 and
June 30, 1996 and totaled $525,000, $55,000 and $33,000, respectively.
    
 
                                      F-11
<PAGE>
                                DELTAPOINT, INC.
                   NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 5 -- NOTES PAYABLE:
    In August 1994,  the Company's outstanding  line of credit  of $289,000  was
converted into a term note. The term note was secured by accounts receivable and
required  monthly principal  and interest  payments through  September 1996. The
term note was paid in full as of December 31, 1995.
 
NOTE 6 -- COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES:
 
    COMMITMENTS
 
   
    The Company leases its facilities and certain equipment under noncancellable
operating leases. In October  1995 the Company entered  into a three-year  lease
for  a new facility. Rent expense was  $203,000 and $262,000 for the years ended
December 31, 1994 and 1995, respectively. Rent expense for the six months  ended
June 30, 1995 and 1996 was $100,000 and $95,000.
    
 
    The Company leases certain other equipment under a long term lease agreement
which  has been  classified as  a capital  lease. This  lease is  secured by the
equipment acquired under the lease and expires in 1996.
 
    Future minimum lease payments are as follows (in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                       CAPITAL     OPERATING
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31,                                                               LEASES       LEASES
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------  -----------  -----------
<S>                                                                                  <C>          <C>
1996...............................................................................   $      51    $     212
1997...............................................................................      --              194
1998...............................................................................      --              146
                                                                                          -----        -----
Total minimum lease payments.......................................................          51    $     552
                                                                                                       -----
                                                                                                       -----
Less: amount representing interest.................................................           1
                                                                                          -----
Present value of capitalized lease obligations.....................................          50
Less: current portion of capital lease obligation..................................          50
                                                                                          -----
Long-term portion of capital lease obligation......................................   $  --
                                                                                          -----
                                                                                          -----
</TABLE>
 
    CONTINGENCIES
 
    On March 21, 1995,  Ameriquest/Kenfil Inc. ("Kenfil")  filed a complaint  in
the  Superior Court  of the  State of California  before the  county of Monterey
naming the  Company as  defendant  and alleging  (i)  breach of  a  distribution
agreement between Kenfil and the Company (ii) and indebtedness to Kenfil for the
sum  of $233,000 together  with interest thereon  at the rate  of 10% per annum.
Kenfil was seeking damages,  cost of suit  and other relief.  In April 1996  the
Company  entered into a settlement agreement with Kenfil for the sum of $50,000.
Kenfil has filed a dismissal of the  complaint with prejudice on April 26,  1996
with the Superior Court of California.
 
   
    In  the normal course  of business, the  Company from time  to time receives
inquiries with regards to possible patent infringement. Management believes that
it is unlikely that the outcome of these inquiries will have a material  adverse
effect  on  the  Company's  financial  position  or  results  of  operations  or
liquidity.
    
 
NOTE 7 -- INCOME TAXES:
    No provision for income  taxes has been recorded  for any periods  presented
due  to  net  operating  losses  and  the  availability  of  net  operating loss
carryforwards. At December 31, 1995, the Company had approximately $2,345,000 of
federal net operating loss carryforwards which expire in varying amounts through
2010. Due to certain changes  in the ownership of  the Company, the majority  of
these losses are subject to an annual limit of approximately $142,000.
 
                                      F-12
<PAGE>
                                DELTAPOINT, INC.
                   NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 7 -- INCOME TAXES: (CONTINUED)
    A  reconciliation of  the Company's effective  tax rate to  the U.S. federal
statutory rate follows:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                     YEAR ENDED
                                                                    DECEMBER 31,
                                                              ------------------------
                                                                 1994         1995
                                                              -----------  -----------
<S>                                                           <C>          <C>
U.S. federal statutory rate.................................       34.0%       (34.0)%
State and local taxes, net of U.S. federal benefit..........        9.3         (9.1  )
Utilization of operating loss carryforwards.................      (43.3  )    --
Reserved net deferred tax assets and other..................     --             43.1
                                                                  -----        -----
                                                                 --%          --%
                                                                  -----        -----
                                                                  -----        -----
</TABLE>
 
    The components of the net deferred  tax assets consist of the following  (in
thousands):
 
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                  DECEMBER 31,
                                                              --------------------
                                                                1994       1995
                                                              ---------  ---------
<S>                                                           <C>        <C>
Deferred tax assets:
  Net operating losses......................................  $     780  $     940
  Reserves, accruals and depreciation.......................        288        885
  Tax credit carryforwards..................................         18         10
                                                              ---------  ---------
                                                                  1,086      1,835
    Deferred tax valuation allowance........................     (1,086)    (1,835)
                                                              ---------  ---------
Net deferred tax asset......................................  $  --      $  --
                                                              ---------  ---------
                                                              ---------  ---------
</TABLE>
    
 
    The  Company has determined that, under FAS  109, it is more likely than not
that the deferred tax  assets at December  31, 1995 would  not be realized  and,
accordingly,  a  full  valuation  reserve  has  been  established.  Management's
assessment is based on the Company's history of net operating losses.
 
NOTE 8 -- COMMON STOCK AND MANDATORILY REDEEMABLE CONVERTIBLE
          PREFERRED STOCK:
 
   
    COMMON STOCK:
    
 
    In December  1995, the  Company  completed its  initial public  offering  of
1,100,000  shares of its common stock at a per share price of $6.00 and realized
net proceeds of $5,143,000.
 
    MANDATORILY REDEEMABLE CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK:
 
   
    The Company  had authorized  731,022  shares of  Preferred Stock,  of  which
57,553,   83,018,  77,889,  112,562  and   400,000  shares,  respectively,  were
designated Series  A, Series  B, Series  C, Series  D and  Series E  Mandatorily
Redeemable  Convertible Preferred Stock (Series A, B, C, D and E, respectively).
Series A,  B,  C,  D  and  E had  certain  rights  with  respect  to  dividends,
liquidation,  redemption,  conversion and  voting.  In December  1995,  upon the
closing of the Company's initial public  offering, all outstanding Series A,  B,
C,  D, and E  Mandatorily Redeemable Convertible  Preferred Stock were converted
into common stock.
    
 
    WARRANTS:
 
    In connection  with the  issuance  of Series  A,  the Company  issued  2,212
warrants  to purchase  Series A  preferred stock.  Each warrant  has an exercise
price of  $18.07  and are  exercisable  through March  1997.  The value  of  the
warrants  was considered nominal  at the date  of grant. In  connection with the
issuance of notes payable  to the preferred shareholders  (Note 4), the  Company
issued 1,358 warrants to purchase its common stock at an exercise price of $6.63
per share. These warrants are exercisable through March 1998.
 
                                      F-13
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                                DELTAPOINT, INC.
                   NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 8 -- COMMON STOCK AND MANDATORILY REDEEMABLE CONVERTIBLE
          PREFERRED STOCK: (CONTINUED)
    In  connection with  the issuance  of Series  E, the  Company issued 125,000
warrants to purchase common stock  at an exercise price  of $7.20 per share  for
the  first thirty (30)  months of the warrant  term and $8.40  per share for the
remaining warrant term. The warrants are exercisable through November 2000.
 
    In connection with its  initial public offering, the  Company issued to  the
underwriters a warrant to purchase 110,000 shares of common stock at an exercise
price of $7.20 per share. The warrant is exercisable through December 2000.
 
    The  Company has reserved  371,172 shares of common  stock for issuance upon
the exercise of the outstanding warrants.
 
NOTE 9 -- STOCK OPTION PLAN:
   
    The Company  has three  Stock Option  Plans (the  Plans) which  provide  for
issuance  of stock options to employees of the Company. The Company has reserved
an aggregate of 885,462 shares of Common Stock, including a 200,000 increase  to
the  1995 Plan approved by  the Company's shareholders at  the annual meeting in
June 1996 under these plans. Options  to purchase 33,381 and 41,588 shares  were
vested  and  exercisable at  December 31,  1994  and 1995  respectively. Options
granted under the  Plans are for  periods not to  exceed 10 years.  Non-employee
members of the Board of Directors are eligible for automatic option grants under
the  1995 Stock Option Plan (the 1995 Plan). All options granted under the Plans
must be at prices not less than fair value at the date of grant as determined by
the Board  of Directors,  except for  the 1995  Plan for  which options  can  be
granted  at prices not less than 85% of the fair value at the date of grant. The
Board of Directors may amend, modify or terminate the Plans at their discretion.
    
 
    The following table  summarizes activity  under the  Company's Stock  Option
Plans:
 
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                OPTIONS OUTSTANDING
                                                                   SHARES    --------------------------
                                                                 AVAILABLE                 PRICE PER
                                                                 FOR GRANT     SHARES        SHARE
                                                                 ----------  ----------  --------------
<S>                                                              <C>         <C>         <C>
Balance at December 31, 1993...................................      19,612      45,745  $         6.63
Options granted................................................     (10,677)     10,677  $         6.63
Options canceled...............................................      18,295     (18,295) $         6.63
                                                                 ----------  ----------
Balance at December 31, 1994...................................      27,230      38,127  $         6.63
                                                                 ----------  ----------
Additional shares reserved.....................................     620,000      --            --
Options granted................................................    (525,000)    525,000  $   3.50-$6.63
Options exercised..............................................      --            (382) $         6.63
Options canceled...............................................       3,321      (3,321) $         6.63
                                                                 ----------  ----------
Balance at December 31, 1995...................................     125,551     559,424  $   3.50-$6.63
                                                                 ----------  ----------
Additional shares authorized (unaudited).......................     200,000      --
Options granted (unaudited)....................................    (258,594)    258,594  $    7.83-1.25
Options exercised (unaudited)..................................      --          (7,000) $         4.20
Options canceled (unaudited)...................................     157,885    (157,885) $   3.50-$7.83
                                                                 ----------  ----------
Balance at June 30, 1996 (unaudited)...........................     224,842     653,133  $    3.50-6.63
                                                                 ----------  ----------
                                                                 ----------  ----------
</TABLE>
    
 
    In  connection with certain options granted  in December 1995 under the 1995
Plan, the  Company  will  recognize  compensation expense  of  $42,000  for  the
difference  between the grant price and the  fair value of the Common Stock over
the thirty-six month vesting period of the options.
 
                                      F-14
<PAGE>
                                DELTAPOINT, INC.
                   NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE 10 -- 401(K) PLAN:
    During 1992,  the  Company established  a  deferred compensation  plan  (the
401(k)  Plan)  pursuant to  Section  401(k) of  the  Internal Revenue  Code (the
"Code"), whereby substantially all  employees are eligible  to contribute up  to
20% of their pre-tax earnings, not to exceed amounts allowed under the Code. The
Company may make contributions to the 401(k) Plan at the discretion of the Board
of Directors. No employer contributions have been made to the 401(k) Plan by the
Company.
 
                                      F-15
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    NO  DEALER,  SALESPERSON OR  OTHER PERSON  HAS BEEN  AUTHORIZED TO  GIVE ANY
INFORMATION OR TO MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS NOT 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 BY  ANY OTHER PERSON. THIS  PROSPECTUS
DOES  NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER TO SELL, OR A SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY, ANY
SECURITY OTHER  THAN THE  SHARES OF  COMMON  STOCK OFFERED  HEREBY NOR  DOES  IT
CONSTITUTE  AN OFFER TO  SELL OR A  SOLICITATION OF AN  OFFER TO BUY  ANY OF THE
SECURITIES OFFERED  HEREBY TO  ANY PERSON  IN ANY  JURISDICTION IN  WHICH IT  IS
UNLAWFUL  TO MAKE  SUCH AN  OFFER OR  SOLICITATION TO  SUCH PERSON.  NEITHER THE
DELIVERY OF  THIS  PROSPECTUS  NOR  ANY SALE  MADE  HEREUNDER  SHALL  UNDER  ANY
CIRCUMSTANCES  CREATE ANY IMPLICATION  THAT THE INFORMATION  CONTAINED HEREIN IS
CORRECT AS OF ANY DATE SUBSEQUENT TO THE DATE HEREOF.
 
                            ------------------------
 
                               TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
   
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<CAPTION>
                                                   PAGE
                                                  -------
<S>                                               <C>
Available Information.............................       2
Summary...........................................       3
Risk Factors......................................       6
Price Range of Common Stock.......................      13
Dividend Policy...................................      14
Capitalization....................................      15
Selected Financial Data...........................      16
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial
 Condition and Results of Operations..............      17
Business..........................................      23
Management........................................      33
Certain Transactions..............................      41
Principal and Selling Shareholders................      43
Description of Capital Stock......................      46
Shares Eligible for Future Sale...................      48
Plan of Distribution..............................      48
Legal Matters.....................................      49
Experts...........................................      49
Financial Statements..............................     F-1
</TABLE>
    
 
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<PAGE>
                                    PART II
                     INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS
 
ITEM 24. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
 
    As  permitted by Section  204(a) of the  California General Corporation Law,
the Registrant's  Articles  of  Incorporation eliminate  a  director's  personal
liability  for monetary damages to the  Registrants and its shareholders arising
from a breach  or alleged breach  of the director's  fiduciary duty, except  for
liability  arising  under  Sections  310  and  316  of  the  California  General
Corporation Law or liability for (i) acts or omissions that involve  intentional
misconduct or knowing and culpable violation of law, (ii) acts or omissions that
a  director believes to be  contrary to the best  interests of the Registrant or
its shareholders or that involve  the absence of good faith  on the part of  the
director,  (iii)  any  transaction from  which  a director  derived  an improper
personal benefit, (iv) acts or omissions that show a reckless disregard for  the
director's  duty to the Registrant or its shareholders in circumstances in which
the director was aware,  or should have  been aware, in  the ordinary course  of
performing a director's duties, of a risk of serious injury to the Registrant or
its  shareholders and (v) acts or omissions that constitute an unexcused pattern
of inattention  that amounts  to an  abdication of  the director's  duty to  the
Registrants   or  its  shareholders.  This  provision  does  not  eliminate  the
directors' duty of  care, and  in appropriate  circumstances equitable  remedies
such  as  an  injunction or  other  forms  of non-monetary  relief  would remain
available under California law.
 
    Sections 204(a) and 317 of the California General Corporation Law  authorize
a  corporation to indemnify its directors,  officers, employees and other agents
in terms sufficiently broad  to permit indemnification (including  reimbursement
for  expense)  under certain  circumstances  for liabilities  arising  under the
Securities Act  of 1933,  as amended  (the "Securities  Act"). The  Registrant's
Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws contain provisions covering indemnification
of  corporate directors, officers  and other agents  against certain liabilities
and expenses incurred as a result of proceedings involving such persons in their
capacities as directors,  officers, employees or  agents, including  proceedings
under the Securities Act or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The
Company  has  entered into  Indemnification  Agreements with  its  directors and
executive officers.
 
    At present,  there  is  no  pending litigation  or  proceeding  involving  a
director,   officer,  employee  or  other  agent  of  the  Registrant  in  which
indemnification is being sought, nor is  the Registrant aware of any  threatened
litigation  that  may result  in a  claim for  indemnification by  any director,
officer, employee or other agent of the Registrant.
 
ITEM 25. OTHER EXPENSES OF ISSUANCE AND DISTRIBUTION
 
    The  following  table  sets  forth  the  costs  and  expenses,  other   than
underwriting  discounts and  commissions, payable  by the  Company in connection
with the  sale of  Common Stock,  Warrants and  the Common  Stock issuable  upon
exercise  of the Warrants being registered. All amounts are estimates except the
SEC registration fee.
 
   
<TABLE>
<S>                                                                        <C>
SEC Registration fee.....................................................  $   1,479
Nasdaq Small Cap Market listing fee......................................      2,612
Printing and engraving expenses..........................................     10,000
Legal fees and expenses..................................................     45,000
Accounting fees and expenses.............................................     22,500
Blue sky fees and expenses...............................................     15,000
Transfer agent fees......................................................      2,500
Miscellaneous fees and expenses..........................................        909
                                                                           ---------
    Total................................................................  $ 100,000
                                                                           ---------
                                                                           ---------
</TABLE>
    
 
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<PAGE>
ITEM 26. RECENT SALES OF UNREGISTERED SECURITIES
 
    Since September 30, 1992, the Registrant  has issued and sold the  following
securities  (after giving effect to the  one-for-5.3 reverse split of the Common
Stock effected  on the  closing  of the  Company's  Initial Public  Offering  in
December 1995):
 
    1.   The Registrant has  granted options to purchase  7,165 shares of Common
       Stock and issued and sold 2,143 shares of its Common Stock upon  exercise
       of such options to a number of employees pursuant to direct issuances and
       to exercises of options under its 1990 Stock Option Plan.
 
    2.   The Registrant has  granted options to purchase  8,063 shares of Common
       Stock and issued and sold no shares of its Common Stock upon exercise  of
       such  options to employees and a third party pursuant to direct issuances
       and to exercises of options under  its 1992 Stock Option Plan,  including
       options  granted to Raymond R. Kingman, Jr., William G. Pryor to purchase
       4,283 and 1,894 shares of Common Stock, respectively.
 
    3.  The Registrant has granted options to purchase 499,844 shares of  Common
       Stock  and issued and sold no shares of its Common Stock upon exercise of
       such options to a  number of employees and  directors pursuant to  direct
       issuances and to exercises of options under its 1995 Stock Option Plan.
 
    4.   In  March 1993 Registrant  issued to  a group of  investors warrants to
       purchase 1,358 shares of Common Stock  at an exercise price of $6.62  per
       share  or in  the event Registrant  consummates the sale  of Common Stock
       pursuant to a registration  statement filed on Form  S-1 filed under  the
       Securities Act for an aggregate offering price of $5 million.
 
    5.   On March 29, 1993, Registrant  issued promissory notes in the aggregate
       principal amount of  $300,000 to the  following entities; Hummer  Winblad
       Venture Partners, Hummer Winblad Technology Fund, Oak Investment Partners
       V, Limited Partnership and Oak V Affiliates Fund, Limited Partners.
 
    6.   On  April 6, 1994,  Registrant sold  and issued an  aggregate of 77,894
       shares of its Series C Preferred  Stock for cash in the aggregate  amount
       of  $450,000 to entities affiliated  with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
       and entities affiliated with  Oak V Affiliates Fund,  L.P. pursuant to  a
       Series C Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement. See "Certain Transactions."
 
    7.   On  May 24,  1995 Registrant  sold and  issued an  aggregate of 112,564
       shares of its Series D Preferred  Stock for cash in the aggregate  amount
       of   $1,050,000  to  entities  affiliated  with  Hummer  Winblad  Venture
       Partners, entities  affiliated  with  Oak V  Affiliates  Fund,  L.P.  and
       Pinnacle  Manufacturing Professionals  pursuant to  a Series  D Preferred
       Stock Purchase Agreement. See  "Certain Transactions" and "Capital  Stock
       -- Convertible Notes and Warrants."
 
    8.   On May 24,  1995, Registrant issued to  Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
       and entities affiliated with  Oak V. Affiliates  Fund, L.P., Warrants  to
       purchase  69,272 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $9.33 per
       share, or in  the event  Registrant consummates  the sale  of its  Common
       Stock  pursuant to a registration statement filed on Form S-1 filed under
       the Securities Act  for an aggregate  offering price of  $5 million.  See
       "Certain Transactions."
 
    9.  On November 6, 1995, Registrant sold and issued 125,000 units, each unit
       consisting  of two shares of Series E Preferred Stock, and one Warrant at
       a purchase price of $8.00 per unit, for cash of $765,000, net of issuance
       costs, to  the following  investors  in the  following amount  of  units:
       Hummer Winblad Ventures (3,125 units), Oak V Affiliates Fund, L.P. (6,250
       units),  American High  Growth Equities Retirement  Trust (50,000 units),
       Jack Balter  (3,125 units),  Dr. Mannie  Magid (3,125  units), George  L.
       Black  Trust  (6,250 units),  Leon Feldan  (3,125 units),  Ronald Mickwee
       (3,125 units),  Joan  Plastiras  Myers (3,125  units),  Nicholas  W.  and
       Geraldine  Perilli (3,125 units),  James R. Ratliff  (6,250 units), David
       Rosenberg (3,125 units),
 
                                      II-2
<PAGE>
       Alan J.  Rubin (6,250  units),  The Salzman  Group, Ltd.  (6,250  units),
       Donald  L.  & Lucy  A. Stoner  Trust (6,250  units), Lawrence  S. Weisman
       (6,250  units),   Donald   B.   Witmer  (6,250   units).   See   "Certain
       Transactions."
 
    10.  On  November  10,  1995,  Registrant  granted  options  to  purchase an
       aggregate of 335,000 shares of Common  Stock under its 1995 Stock  Option
       Plan, at an exercise price of $3.50 per share to Raymond R. Kingman, Jr.,
       William  G. Pryor and  Donald B. Witmer to  purchase 100,000, 100,000 and
       135,000 shares of Common Stock, respectively.
 
   
    11. On November 8, 1995  issued to each of  Hummer Winblad Ventures and  Oak
       Affiliates  a warrant to purchase 31,667 of Common Stock exercisable at a
       price of $7.20 per share for a period of 30 months following December 26,
       1995 and a  price of $8.40  per share  from such time  until November  6,
       2000.
    
 
   
    12.  On April 22, 1996, Registrant  granted options to purchase an aggregate
       of 155,000 shares of Common Stock under its 1995 Stock Option Plan, at an
       exercise price of $9.50 per share to John J. Ambrose and Donald B. Witmer
       to purchase 145,000 and 10,000 shares of Common Stock, respectively.
    
 
   
    13. On August 13, 1996, Registrant granted options to purchase 20,000 shares
       of Common Stock under its 1995 Stock Option Plan, at an exercise price of
       $7.50 per share to Patrick Grady.
    
 
    The issuance described in Items  1 through 8 were  deemed to be exempt  from
registration  under the  Securities Act  in reliance  on Section  4(2) under the
Securities Act as transactions by an  issuer not involving a public offering  or
on Rule 701 promulgated under the Securities Act. In addition, the recipients of
securities  in each such transaction represented their intentions to acquire the
securities for investment only and not with a view to or for sale in  connection
with  any distribution thereof and appropriate legends were affixed to the share
certificates issued in  such transactions. All  recipients had adequate  access,
through  their  relationships  with  the Registrant,  to  information  about the
Registrant.
 
ITEM 27. EXHIBITS
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
  EXHIBIT NO.                                               DESCRIPTION
- ---------------  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<C>              <S>
   3.1(1)        Registrant's Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation
   3.2(1)        Registrant's Bylaws
   4.1(1)        Specimen Certificate of Registrant's Common Stock
   4.2(1)        Form of Warrant
   4.3(1)        Form of H.J. Meyers & Co.'s' Warrant
   4.4(1)        Loan and Warrant Agreement between Registrant and certain investors dated as of March 29, 1993
   4.5(1)        Amended and Restated Investor Rights Agreement between Registrant and the investors specified
                  therein dated as of November 6, 1995
   5.1**         Opinion of Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP
  10.1(1)        Real Property Lease between Registrant and Owens Mortgage Investment Fund dated as of August 18,
                  1995
  10.2(1)        1990 Stock Option Plan
  10.3(1)        1992 Stock Option Plan
  10.4(1)(3)     1995 Stock Option Plan
  10.5(1)        Form of Indemnification Agreement
  10.6(1)(2)     License Agreement between Registrant and Smart Draw Software, Inc. dated as of April 19, 1995
</TABLE>
 
                                      II-3
<PAGE>
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
  EXHIBIT NO.                                               DESCRIPTION
- ---------------  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<C>              <S>
  10.7(1)        License Agreement between Registrant and Halcyon Software, Inc. dated as of June 30, 1992
  10.8.1(1)(2)   Distribution Agreement between Registrant and Nippon Polaroid Kabushiki Kaishi dated as of
                  November 12, 1991
  10.8.2(1)(2)   Distributor Software License Agreement between Registrant and Nippon Polaroid K.K. Supplements
                  dated as of December 24, 1993, June 6, 1994 and two supplements dated as of June 28, 1995
  10.9(1)        Series C Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement dated April 6, 1994 among the Registrant and the
                  investors named therein
  10.10(1)       Series D Preferred Stock and Warrant Purchase Agreement dated May 24, 1995 among Registrant and
                  the investors named therein
  10.11(1)       Series E Preferred Stock and Warrant Purchase Agreement dated November 6, 1995 among Registrant
                  and the investors named therein
  10.12(1)       Employment Agreement dated as of November 1, 1995 between Registrant and Donald B. Witmer
  10.13.1(1)     Business Loan Agreement between Registrant and Silicon Valley Bank dated as of August 24, 1994
  10.13.2(1)     Promissory Note between Registrant and Silicon Valley Bank dated as of August 24, 1994
  10.14(1)       Conversion of Promissory Notes and Exchange of Warrants Agreement dated as of November 8, 1995
                  among Registrant, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Hummer Winblad Technology Fund, Oak
                  Investment Partners V, Limited Partnership and Oak V Affiliates Fund, Limited Partnership.
  10.15(1)       License Agreement between Registrant and Altura Software, Inc. dated June 7, 1994
  10.16(1)       Employment Agreement dated November 8, 1995 between Registrant and Raymond R. Kingman, Jr.
  10.17(1)       Employment Agreement dated November 8, 1995 between Registrant and William G. Pryor
  10.18(1)       Offer letter dated December 5, 1995 between the Registrant and Spencer A. Leyton
  10.19(1)(2)    Letter of Intent dated November 21, 1995 between DeltaPoint and Richard Blum
  10.20(1)(2)    Agreement dated December 15, 1995 among Registrant, Global Technologies Corporation and William
                  French
  10.21(1)       Termination Agreement dated as of November 8, 1995 among the Company and certain shareholders of
                  the Company named therein
  10.22(1)       Amendment Agreement dated as of December   , 1995 among the Company and certain shareholders of
                  the Company named therein
  10.23(3)       Employment Agreement dated December 26, 1995 between Registrant and William A. French
  10.24**        Separation Agreement and Release between Registrant and Raymond R. Kingman, Jr. dated April 5,
                  1996
  10.25**        Offer letter dated March 29, 1996 between Registrant and John J. Ambrose
  23.1           Consent of Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP (included in Exhibit
                  5.1)
</TABLE>
 
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<PAGE>
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
  EXHIBIT NO.                                               DESCRIPTION
- ---------------  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<C>              <S>
  23.2*          Consent of Price Waterhouse LLP
  24.1**         Power of Attorney
</TABLE>
 
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(1) Incorporated by  reference to  Registrant's Registration  Statement on  Form
    SB-2, filed December 19, 1995 (File No. 33-99300).
 
(2) Confidential treatment requested as to certain portions of this exhibit.
 
(3) Incorporated by reference to Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-8
    filed March 6, 1996 (File No. 333-2192).
 
*   Filed herewith.
 
**  Previously filed.
 
ITEM 28. UNDERTAKINGS
 
    Insofar  as indemnification by the  Registrant for liabilities arising under
the Securities  Act may  be  permitted to  directors, officers  and  controlling
persons  of the Registrant pursuant  to the provisions referenced  in Item 14 of
this Registration Statement 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 Securities 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  hereunder, 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 Securities Act and will be governed by
the final adjudication of such issue.
 
    The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
 
    That for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, the
information  omitted  from  the  form  of  Prospectus  filed  as  part  of  this
Registration  Statement in reliance  upon Rule 430A  and contained in  a form of
prospectus filed by the Registrant pursuant  to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or  497(h)
under  the  Securities Act  shall  be deemed  to  be part  of  this Registration
Statement as of the time it was declared effective.
 
    To file,  during any  period in  which offers  or sales  are being  made,  a
post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
 
        (i)  To  include  any prospectus  required  by section  10(a)(3)  of the
    Securities Act of 1933;
 
        (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after  the
    effective   date  of  the   registration  statement  (or   the  most  recent
    post-effective amendment thereof) which,  individually or in the  aggregate,
    represent  a  fundamental  change  in  the  information  set  forth  in  the
    registration statement;
 
       (iii) To include  any material information  with respect to  the plan  of
    distribution  not previously disclosed in  the registration statement or any
    material change to such information in the registration statement.
 
    For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities 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.
 
    The Registrant further undertakes to remove from registration by means of  a
post-effective  amendment any  of the  securities being  registered which remain
unsold at the termination of the Offering.
 
                                      II-5
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                                   SIGNATURES
 
   
    Pursuant  to the requirements of the  Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant
has duly  caused  this  Post-effective  Amendment  No.  1  to  the  Registration
Statement  to  be  signed  on  its behalf  by  the  undersigned,  thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Monterey, State of California, on October   , 1996.
    
 
                                          DELTAPOINT, INC.
 
                                          By:         /s/ JOHN J. AMBROSE
 
                                             -----------------------------------
                                                       John J. Ambrose
                                                   CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
 
   
    PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE  SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, THIS  AMENDMENT
TO  THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT HAS BEEN SIGNED ON THE    DAY OF OCTOBER, 1996 BY
THE FOLLOWING PERSONS IN THE CAPACITIES INDICATED:
    
 
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                      SIGNATURE                                         TITLE
- ------------------------------------------------------  --------------------------------------
 
<C>                                                     <S>                                     <C>
                       /s/ JOHN J. AMBROSE
     -------------------------------------------        Chief Executive Officer and Director
                   John J. Ambrose                       (Principal Executive Officer)
 
                                                        Chief Financial Officer, Chief
                      /s/ DONALD B. WITMER               Operating Officer and Director
     -------------------------------------------         (Principal Financial and Accounting
                   Donald B. Witmer                      Officer)
 
                      /s/ WILLIAM G. PRYOR
     -------------------------------------------        Director
                   William G. Pryor*
 
                          /s/ JOHN HUMMER
     -------------------------------------------        Director
                     John Hummer*
 
            *By:      /s/ DONALD B. WITMER
        --------------------------------------
                   Donald B. Witmer                     Director
                   ATTORNEY-IN-FACT
</TABLE>
    
 
                                      II-6

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                                                                    EXHIBIT 23.2
 
                       CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS
 
   
    We  hereby consent to  the use in  the Prospectus constituting  part of this
Registration Statement  on Form  SB-2 of  our report  dated February  22,  1996,
relating  to the financial statements of DeltaPoint, Inc., which appears in such
Prospectus. We also consent to the  reference to us under the heading  "Experts"
in such Prospectus.
    
 
/s/ PRICE WATERHOUSE LLP
 
   
PRICE WATERHOUSE LLP
San Jose, California
October 11, 1996
    


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