ADVISORY/Atlanta's Clarus Corporation to Spotlight Customers' Use of Microsoft's Commerce Server At Launch of Microsoft Enterprise 2000 in San Francisco.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Tuesday (Sept. 26)

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Southeast U.S. Firms Shine as Wachovia, HispanB2B, AvidXchange and

LabBook Show How Clarus(TM) eMarket Powers Their eMarketplaces

- avidXchange of Charlotte, NC provides an online marketplace solution for
commercial real estate management. avidXchange fosters procurement between real
estate companies and property managers, and various suppliers, distributors and
vendors via the web.

- LabBook, Inc., of McLean, VA, is an informatics and information-service
provider for biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and academic researchers. It
provides a digital marketplace solution to procure research services and
information utilized in the drug discovery process of the burgeoning life
science research industry.

- HispanB2B.com of Atlanta is the first business-to-business digital
marketplace to bring Hispanic-owned businesses together with the Fortune 500
and other companies interested in doing business with Hispanic-owned
businesses. Its unique "Internet-Free Payment" system will provide safe, secure
transactions between companies through the site's banking partners, who will
also provide traditional banking services including corporate cash management;
private banking; trust and asset management; trade finance; derivatives and
hedging; and other services.

- Wachovia, an Atlanta- and Winston-Salem, NC-based financial

holding company, provides a Clarus(TM) eMarket-powered trading

exchange through a Web portal as a means to inexpensively

enable e-procurement. It offers Wachovia corporate customers

the benefits of aggregated buying power and the capability to

integrate supply chain management with payment settlement.

- avidXchange of Charlotte, NC provides an online marketplace solution for
commercial real estate management. avidXchange fosters procurement between real
estate companies and property managers, and various suppliers, distributors and
vendors via the web.

- LabBook, Inc., of McLean, VA, is an informatics and information-service
provider for biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and academic researchers. It
provides a digital marketplace solution to procure research services and
information utilized in the drug discovery process of the burgeoning life
science research industry.

- HispanB2B.com of Atlanta is the first business-to-business digital
marketplace to bring Hispanic-owned businesses together with the Fortune 500
and other companies interested in doing business with Hispanic-owned
businesses. Its unique "Internet-Free Payment" system will provide safe, secure
transactions between companies through the site's banking partners, who will
also provide traditional banking services including corporate cash management;
private banking; trust and asset management; trade finance; derivatives and
hedging; and other services.

The Media Kit for the Microsoft.NET Enterprise 2000 Launch will be available on the Clarus Corporation Web site (www.claruscorp.com) on Tuesday, September 26th. For additional information about Clarus and its customers, please contact Tim Boivin of Tech Image at 847.632.0040, ext. 229, or [e-mail].