`Organic and PetroChemicals on the Internet' -- 3rd Quarter 2000 Grows to 2,301 Sites.

Business Editors & Internet Writers

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2000

The 3rd Quarter 2000 update of the database "Organic and PetroChemicals on the Internet" with 2,301 Web sites profiled and catalogued for chemical industry personnel has been released by Competitive Analysis Technologies.

Known as CATSites(R), the "Organic and PetroChemicals on the Internet" database provides users with immediate access to the Web sites of 569 organic and petrochemical manufacturers, 174 distributors and brokers, 784 support companies, 118 industry associations, 141 industry journals, 184 databases for industry information and 331 additional chemical sites of interest, including access to pricing information, MSDS and patent searching around the world. Users refer to it as "a Yahoo just for the chemical industry."

Kathy Sturgeon, assistant editor of the publication notes, "This update from the 1st Quarter version is a 15% increase in the total number of sites, even after removing inactive sites."

Marilynn Dunker, science and technology librarian at Auburn University, says "...a good job of organizing the sites into categories...a very helpful keyword index". Kevin Miles, manager of library services at Haynes and Boone LLP called this "one of the finest collections of Internet sites."

"Organic and PetroChemicals on the Internet" was updated during September 2000 to ensure that all 2,301 sites for chemical information were current and verified. "Each site in the database was verified in late September for both currency and accuracy. Speed to target site and ease of use, are the real values of the database," said Bill Crowley, editor of the publication. The database contains 16 chapters profiling the organic and petrochemical industry.

"Organic and PetroChemicals on the Internet" is available as a hard copy directory or in electronic format for Intranet or LAN use in various forms to be shared across the corporate spectrum. Corporate site licenses are available. Subscribers of the SageMaker(R) Enterprise Information Portal may access the electronic versions of CATSites(R). Free trial evaluations are available on SageMaker(R), as well as demo disks. Contact Competitive Analysis Technologies at [e-mail] for more information.

CATSites(R) benchmark database, "Oil and Gas on the Internet," is now on the desktops of more than 20,000 personnel in the oil and gas industry including those of Shell Oil, Baker Hughes, Saudi Aramco, Conoco, Kerr-McGee, Ranger Oil and others.

For more information, visit the Competitive Analysis Technologies Web site at http://www.catsites.com/publications.html or contact CAT at 281/890-8255; fax [phone]; e-mail [e-mail].