AlphaServ.com's NQL Spotlight 2.0 Manages Content From Thousands of Web Sources Simultaneously; New Version of `Content Aggregation Engine' Designed for Large-Scale Web Systems.

Business Editors and High-Tech Writers

SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 2000

The AlphaCONNECT(R) Internet division of AlphaServ.com(TM) (Nasdaq:ALMI), which soon will be marketing its technologies under the NQL Solutions name, is Thursday releasing the 2.0 version of its NQL Spotlight(TM) Web &uot;content aggregation&uot; software application.

Designed to automate the compilation of information for Web publishing through its patent-pending use of intelligent agent technologies, the product has new capabilities that expand its versatility for large-scale Web content systems, including Web portals, intranets and e-marketplaces. An online demonstration of the product can be found at www.nqlsolutions.com.

&uot;Our business model is based on providing large quantities of dynamic content to mass audiences in an efficient way,&uot; said Kasper Larsen, sales director/partner for Jubii, the leading Web portal in Denmark and a licensee of NQL Spotlight 2.0.

&uot;Spotlight gives Jubii a competitive advantage by automating the acquisition and publishing of fresh content using intelligent technologies. The product is easy to configure, scales to our growing needs and helps us redirect content management labor to more meaningful initiatives.&uot;

NQL Spotlight is a software application, which enables users to automate the retrieval and organization of Web content into a structured, common database form, where it can be easily accessed and utilized. It is easily customized and expanded to provide users versatility for their various content management solutions.

Jubii uses the application to create a comprehensive Danish real estate listing, amassing listings from many other sites across the country, and plans other similar services, for its nearly two million users.

Other uses for the product include: intranet development; online news engines; product comparison and cataloging systems for e-marketplaces; and personalized Web services, such as localized travel reports that provide weather, flight schedules, lodging and restaurant guides that match travelers' preferences.

&uot;As an increasing portion of the world's business is transferred to the Internet, and access to content is further enabled with broadband communications advances, the ability to efficiently manage and publish content will be critical,&uot; said Douglas J. Tullio, AlphaServ.com chairman, chief executive officer and president.

&uot;NQL Spotlight is a valuable solution for today's e-marketplaces and portals, which, according to analyst firm, the Delphi Group, will facilitate $5 billion in global trade by 2002.&uot;

The new 2.0 version offers users two new features that facilitate large-scale web content systems: a multi-threading architecture and a Network Query Language (NQL) extension feature. Multi-threading significantly speeds the process of accessing multiple Web sites simultaneously.

Rather than a single software agent accomplishing its content management mission on thousands of Web pages in succession, as many as thousands of agents are launched concurrently to their destinations. Users now can crawl, parse and obtain data from as many as thousands of Web pages accessed in parallel, rather than one at a time, providing an expansive content management platform for large-scale Web systems.

The NQL Spotlight 2.0 application is founded on AlphaCONNECT's Object Recognition Engine (ORE), one of the company's multiple patent-pending technologies. Users of NQL Spotlight will be able to extend the capability of the application by integrating its Web-to-database functionality with the multi-platform versatility of Network Query Language (NQL), which places all of the company's intelligent agent-based tools into the hands of users.

NQL is a development language that is expected to be released the first part of this year. Integrating both NQL Spotlight and NQL, users can access and obtain content from virtually any source and populate the information into virtually any source, while retaining the benefit of NQL Spotlight's graphical interface. NQL Spotlight also is scalable to support large corporations and large Web systems with high content traffic.

NQL Spotlight is licensed to Web-based operations such as e-integrators, Web portals, search engines and large organizations that require the integration of content between the public Web and private, internal systems. XML aware, NQL Spotlight is available now for the Windows NT/9x platform. For more information visit http://www.nqlsolutions.com.

About AlphaCONNECT/NQL Solutions

The AlphaCONNECT division of AlphaServ.com, which will be marketing its technologies under the NQL Solutions name, is the premier provider of intelligent agent technologies to the global marketplace.

This division develops and deploys enabling software technologies based on its Network Query Language to partner systems integrators that create information solutions for today's e-businesses, as well as to organizations developing software applications and Internet services. For more information, visit www.NQLSolutions.com or call 888/785-3370.

Certain statements in this news release, including the statement that NQL is expected to be released the first part of this year are &uot;forward-looking statements&uot; within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, including: (i) any unanticipated developments during the pre-release period; (ii) the company's ability to manage personnel and external resources; and (iii) the company's ability to continue developing technology that is competitive according to industry standards. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.