AlphaServ.com Wins First Patent for Internet Technologies; New Patent for Data Conversion Technology is First in a Series of Applications For the Company's NQL Solutions Division.

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SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 2000

AlphaServ.com(TM) (Nasdaq:ALMI) has received a notice of allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office on a utility patent application -- the first in a series of patent applications on its Internet software technologies, marketed by the company's NQL Solutions Division, formerly known as the AlphaCONNECT(R) Internet Division.

The subject matter of the patent filing is technology that applies a systematic approach to retrieving, filtering and "re-purposing" data. The company has two additional utility patent applications pending before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Douglas J. Tullio, AlphaServ.com chairman, chief executive officer and president, said, "We believe this validation of NQL technologies is important, and we expect that our two other patent applications pending achieve the same status in the future."

Representing the advent of what is now NQL Solutions, the data conversion technology was initially founded when the company's innovative development team solved an internal technical challenge. The promise of the technology led to five years of research and development and two other -- progressively significant -- patent applications.

This data conversion technology and the company's patent-pending Object Recognition Engine (ORE) technology, which uses intelligent agents to identify and obtain various components of Web pages in a more sophisticated manner, are now incorporated into NQL, the company's third patent application.

The company's data conversion technology enables a unified process for converting data from multiple formats such as the Web, legacy system report listings and text files, to common business applications including Microsoft Access databases, Word documents and Excel spreadsheets -- essentially re-purposing the data. Without this technology, using other methods, data must be converted from a single source to a single destination -- a much less efficient approach.

Additionally, systematic data transformation from a Web page to structured formats such as an Excel spreadsheet is far more difficult without this specific technology and the intelligent agents executing these processes.

One practical utilization of the data conversion process is demonstrated in StockVue 2000, the company's award-winning investment-tracking software. What distinguishes StockVue from other investment products, is that users can transform information in forms such as SEC Filings or Web pages into useful Word documents or Excel spreadsheets, as well as export financial data into Quicken.

NQL is an Internet software development platform, which utilizes sophisticated intelligent agent technologies to streamline Internet computing. As a programming language, NQL incorporates all of the company's technologies, as well as others, and makes these technologies accessible to a broad worldwide market.

NQL 1.0 is currently available for a 30-day trial in a pre-release version from the company's Web site at www.nqlsolutions.com. The full-release version of NQL 1.0 is anticipated to be available in three to four weeks. Pricing will be announced at that time.

About AlphaServ.com

AlphaServ.com, the d.b.a. name for Alpha Microsystems, operates an Internet technologies division, NQL Solutions, and the DCi professional services division. NQL Solutions is a premier provider of Internet software solutions to the global marketplace. This division develops and deploys enabling software technologies based on its Network Query Language to partner systems integrators, Fortune 1000 corporations, Internet communities and marketplaces, software vendors and Internet-based service providers.

For more information, visit www.NQLSolutions.com or call 888/785-3370. The company's professional services division is a premier provider of Internet and intranet consulting and networking, onsite network support for customers primarily located in the Northeastern United States. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.alphaserv.com.

Certain statements in this news release, including the statements that we expect that our two other patent applications pending achieve the same status in the future, the full-release version of NQL 1.0 is anticipated to be available in three to four weeks and that pricing will be announced at that time are "forward-looking statements" 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 NQL 1.0 pre-release period (ii) the company's ability to manage personnel and external resources (iii) the company's ability to continue developing technology that is competitive according to industry standards and (iv) whether or not the United States Patent and Trademark Office approves the two additional utility patent applications pending and (v) the economic and competitive environment of the Internet software industry, in general, and in the company's specific market areas. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.