ADVISORY/ Making Sense of Microsoft NGWS; Bowstreet Interview Opportunity: Third Party Commentary for Microsoft Next Generation Windows Services Announcement.

Business/Technology Editors

ADVISORY for...Thursday (June 22)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

WHAT: On Thursday, June 22, Microsoft is scheduled to announce the
long-awaited details of its Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS)
initiative.

WHO: Bob Crowley, president and CEO of Bowstreet, and Jack
Serfass, Bowstreet co-founder and co-chairman, will be available for
one-on-one interviews to clarify the announcement's future impact on
consumers, developers, business and Microsoft competitors.

WHEN: INTERVIEWS: Wednesday, June 21 through Friday, June 23

WHY: Bowstreet is the only other company on the market today with
offerings similar to Microsoft's NGWS.

Bowstreet has been in the web services market for two years and is already helping companies publish, find, exchange, customize and deploy XML-based web services like Microsoft's.

On the same day as the Microsoft announcement, Bowstreet will be the first (and to our knowledge, only) company announcing solutions to:

1) Provide "out-of-the-box" assembly and mass-customization of Microsoft-created web services;

2) Link NGWS web services with all other XML-based web services, regardless of platform (including those from Sun, IBM and other software leaders); and

3) Seamlessly connect businesses together with their partners, suppliers and customers on the fly through its vendor-neutral, automated XML platform.