ADVISORY/eBusiness Conference and Expo Will Be Held June 13-15.

Business Editors & High Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Tuesday (June 13)

eBusiness Conference & Expo 2000

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

    WHAT:  eBusiness Conference and Expo
           www.ebusinessexpo.com

    WHEN:  June 13-15, 2000

    WHERE: San Jose Convention Center
           408 S. Almaden Avenue, San Jose, CA  95110-2715

    HOURS: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, June 13
           10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 14
           10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Thursday, June 15

    WHY: The eBusiness Conference and Expo is the only business event
         to focus on E-technologies and services. Over 8,000 senior
         level business managers and IT professionals are expected to
         attend to discuss implementation strategies, and evaluate
         first-hand the latest products transforming companies when
         they interact with customers, suppliers, and employees
         through an E-business driven environment.

    HIGHLIGHTS:

    -- The eBusiness Conference Program featuring "New Economy"
       leaders in an in-depth seminar program focusing on three
       critical themes: Power Shift! Customers Take Charge;
       Reinventing Business Models: The B2B Imperative; and eValues:
       A New Equation of Ideas & Capital. Featured speakers include:
       Doug Alexander, ecampus.now; Bob Bozeman, Angel Investors;
       Erik Brynjolfsson, Center for eBusiness, MIT; Greg Cain,
       ShipLogix; Carl Carrie, TheBEAST.com; Peter Danzig, Akamai;
       J. Scott Dinsdale, FirstLook.com; Bob Johnson, AGENCY.COM;
       Hank Kashiwa, XLSports.com; Pam Kleier, constructionzone.com;
       Bob Krause, United States Postal Service; Steve Leiterstein,
       Burson Marsteller; Chris Locke, The Cluetrain Manifesto;
       Michael Mazza, Chase; Garrett Melby, Safeguard Scientifics;
       Chuck Mitchell, Consumer's Digest; Pete Nicoletti,
       Byebyenow.com; William W. Orrison, Jr., MD, University of Utah,
       Department of Radiology; Rudy Puryear, Lante; David Weinberger,
       The Cluetrain Manifesto; Fulton Wilcox, BOC Gases; Ann Winblad,
       Hummer Winblad Ventures; and Robert Wrubel, Ask Jeeves.

    -- Daily keynote addresses given by Mark Bregman, general manager,
       pervasive computing, IBM, "Wireless Meets the Internet Economy:
       The Role of Wireless in the E-business Revolution;" Paul
       Otellini, executive vice president, general manager, Intel,
       "Beyond the Hype: The Real Impact the Internet;" and Nick
       Earle, president, e-services.solutions, Hewlett-Packard,
       "Ecosystem Thinking."

    -- Sold-out exhibit floor with more than 150 E-business solutions
       providers demonstrating a wide array of technologies including
       end-to-end and b2b solutions, ERP/supply chain management
       tools, Web-based servers, commerce and security applications.
       Premier sponsors include EMC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel,
       Intershop, JD Edwards, Oracle, Rational, Siebel, Skyva, Sprint,
       StorageTek, WRQ, and Xpedior. Press conferences are being given
       by Cyber SIGN, eturn.com, Hewlett-Packard, Skyva and Syntax.

    HOW: For more information or to register as press, call Annie
         Scully at 800/652-2578, ext. 8278 or 201/828-5904. To
         register on-site come to the Press Office (Concourse Area)
         of the San Jose Convention Center, beginning at 8:00 a.m.
         on June 13.