@TheMoment and Calico Commerce Team to Deliver E-business Services to Net Market Makers.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2000

Calico Commerce Selects @TheMoment to Deliver Its Dynamic Trading

Capabilities to Marketplace Operators as a Charter Member

of Calico's Net Markets Alliance

@TheMoment, Inc., the industry's first Internet Exchange Service Provider (IESP), and Calico Commerce, Inc. (Nasdaq:CLIC), a leading provider of eBusiness applications that enable companies to sell over the Web, today announced a strategic alliance to jointly deliver their respective business-to-business (B2B) solutions to Net market makers.

The companies will jointly market their key products -- the @TheMoment Dynamic Trading Suite and Calico's standards-based eBusiness application suite -- to Net market operators, providing them with solutions for building and deploying Internet marketplaces, improving the product configuration and sales processes, and facilitating B2B e-commerce. @TheMoment offers Net market makers the most configurable dynamic trading solution in the industry capable of powering auctions, negotiated exchanges, live bid/ask trading and derivates exchanges. Calico will feature Calico Market Maker(TM), the industry's leading application for establishing Internet marketplaces that provides rich, out-of-the-box functionality to support multiple suppliers and buyers, as well as Calico Loyalty Builder(TM) and Calico Advisor(TM), which provide the ability to personalize Net markets and to sell complex, customizable products and services via the Web.

The combined offering from @TheMoment and Calico will be a powerful platform for buying and selling on B2B marketplaces. By using the two platforms, Net market operators will be able to offer their customers product discovery tools (through Calico's eBusiness application suite) and the industry's leading price discovery engine (@TheMoment's Dynamic Trading Suite). Together, these solutions allow complex goods and services to be traded electronically.

"At Calico, we have seen an intense demand for dynamic pricing applications from our rapidly growing customer base of Net market makers," said Alan Naumann, president and CEO, Calico Commerce, Inc. "After evaluating solutions in the marketplace, we have determined that @TheMoment is an industry leader providing a highly scalable, live bid/ask platform. The flexibility of @TheMoment's platform also will appeal to our customers who want to integrate all types of dynamic pricing functionality into their exchanges."

"Calico is a leader in providing comprehensive sell-side solutions for many-to-many exchanges," said Larry Frye, co-founder, president and CEO, @TheMoment, Inc. "Together we will provide the industry's most comprehensive solution for both product and price discovery on the Internet. By aligning with Calico, we're positioned to deliver the products and services necessary to power fluid, high-transaction Net marketplaces."

Calico Commerce's Net Market Alliance

Calico Commerce today selected @TheMoment as a preferred provider of dynamic trading services for Calico's Net Markets Alliance. The @TheMoment Dynamic Trading Suite met Calico's criteria of advanced flexibility, functionality and scalability in providing marketplace operators with a solution to rapidly build and deploy Net marketplaces. Comprised of 14 industry leaders, the Net Markets Alliance brings together best-in-class applications covering the critical functionality necessary to power leading Net marketplaces.

The Industry's first IESP

@TheMoment is the industry's first Internet Exchange Service Provider (IESP) offering a hosted application service for Internet exchanges. As an IESP, @TheMoment provides customers with a turnkey solution that integrates best-of-breed services necessary for creating, maintaining and scaling a highly functional Internet exchange.

Partners in @TheMoment's IESP solution include VeriSign Payment Services, SAS Institute and eAssist.com. Because @TheMoment features a hosted solution, Internet exchanges are rapidly deployed -- speeding customers' time to market as well as allowing them to focus on their domain expertise.

@TheMoment offers Net marketplaces the premier trading platform -- the @TheMoment Dynamic Trading Suite. The suite enables Net market makers to dynamically sell goods and services in their marketplaces. Additionally, the @TheMoment Dynamic Trading Suite is the industry's most flexible and scalable trading platform enabling customers to build a wide range of marketplaces -- from catalogs (fixed price) to auctions (forward/reverse) to negotiated, derivative or live bid/ask exchanges.

About Calico Commerce, Inc.

Calico Commerce, Inc. provides an eBusiness application suite that enables leading corporations to sell products and services via the web, through existing channels and in Net Markets. Calico's open-standards eBusiness applications match unique customer needs to products to drive revenue growth, increase customer satisfaction and achieve competitive advantage. Calico customers include leaders in high-technology hardware, manufacturing, telecommunications services, financial services, home furnishings, chemicals, agricultural and retail. Calico Commerce, Inc., headquartered in San Jose, Calif., can be found on the World Wide Web at www.calico.com.

About @TheMoment, Inc.

@TheMoment, Inc. is the industry's first Internet Exchange Service Provider (IESP) for business-to-business (B2B) Net marketplaces. Featuring the premier dynamic trading solution - the @TheMoment Dynamic Trading Suite, @TheMoment allows Net market makers to sell goods or services using a variety of dynamic pricing models including auctions, negotiated exchange, "live" bid/ask and derivatives trading. @TheMoment's comprehensive offering is delivered in a hosted model allowing B2B exchanges to speed their time to market, reduce costs and focus on domain expertise.

@TheMoment is funded by VantagePoint Venture Partners and other strategic investors and is headquartered in San Mateo. Additional company information is available at www.themoment.com.