Acuity Inc. Selects eTEAM, InfoCast LLC's Innovative, Multimedia Collaborative Software to Facilitate Customer Service.

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 1999--

Acuity Inc. and InfoCast LLC jointly announced today that Acuity has selected eTEAM as their customer service communication and collaboration tool and has also become InfoCast's newest representative for institutional sales.

"We are excited to have Acuity as a customer and solution provider," said Norbert Chien, InfoCast's president. "Acuity's product line and commitment to help their customers gain the best competitive advantage and return on investment from their computer-based tools are a perfect fit to InfoCast's mission. Acuity provides design solutions and world-class products for the CAD/CAE/CAM market and InfoCast develops net-based tools for team communication and collaboration."

"Our customers often work with colleagues, clients, and vendors on projects across town, as well as across different time zones and locations," said Tom McKasson, president of Acuity. "Quite often, communication tools like e-mail, fax and telephone are not adequate to share and communicate design changes. Several face-to-face meetings (and travel) are usually required over the duration of the project. This increases costs and the time necessary to complete the projects."

"As a solution provider," continued McKasson, "we believe that eTEAM will increase our customers' competitive advantage and improve the return on their investments in Alias, SDRC's I-DEAS, Solid Edge, CADKEY, and other computer-based tools. As users ourselves, we are very excited about the potential of eTEAM and its positive impact in Acuity's technical support and design services."

eTEAM minimizes the frustration and maximizes the productivity of engineers and designers by giving them a new, more effective way to communicate with each other independent of their CAD/CAE/CAM tools, working schedule and location. eTEAM allows the sender to take a "snapshot" of any image on his or her computer screen effortlessly. The sender can then easily mark up the complex drawing, diagram, 3D model, structural analysis, project plan -- or whatever it happens to be -- and simultaneously record a voice track commenting on the document and the markings. The entire communication can then be sent as an e-mail attachment with a couple of mouse clicks using the sender's existing e-mail client, groupware or server.

The single-user price for eTEAM is $399. Discounts are available for multi-user packs and corporate, site, and educational licenses. eTEAM readers are available free from the InfoCast LLC Web site: www.i-cast.net