Andover.Net Names William M. Dwyer Vice President of Publishing; Dwyer Brings High-Tech Advertising Experience to Andover.Net.

ACTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 14, 1999--

Andover.Net, (www.andover.net), the award-winning online IT network and leader in e-Tools, today announced the addition of William M. Dwyer as the company's vice president of publishing. Dwyer will serve to identify and develop new sales and marketing strategies for the company.

"Bill brings many years of experience in the high-tech advertising market having worked at IDG, Ziff-Davis Publishing, Cahners and McGraw Hill," said Bruce Twickler, president and CEO of Andover.Net. "We are honored to have him join the Andover.Net team. As our network of sites continues to grow and gain popularity, Bill's vast experience and insight will prove essential to the company's leadership as we move forward."

"Andover.Net puts all of the fundamentals of a truly great new media company in one place," Dwyer stated. "First, we serve the special interest community of Internet builders. Next, we provide a unique brand of content and cool e-Tools that fulfill their specific Internet information needs and create an Internet-based computing platform to help them do their work. We reach over a million Internet builders each month and Andover.Net's capacity to serve this growing audience is expanding. That's a recipe for success."

Dwyer comes to Andover.Net from IT/World Inc., where as publisher, he founded BackOffice Magazine, the first monthly magazine covering the Windows NT marketplace. He later developed Windows 2000 Review and ITWorldLink.com the official magazine and Web site for a quarter million members of the Worldwide Association of NT User Groups (WANTUG). Prior to IT/World, Dwyer was vice president of sales for BYTE Magazine at McGraw-Hill, Inc.

Dwyer began his high-tech advertising career at ComputerWorld Communications, a division of the International Data Group (IDG) that produced the first nationally syndicated broadcast TV series about computers, ComputerWorld on Television. In addition, he contributed to the launch of ComputerWorld on Communications, which later became NetworkWorld, a newspaper serving the computer-networking marketplace.

In 1983, Dwyer left IDG to join the launch team for PC Week, an entrepreneurial start-up that was quickly snapped up by Ziff-Davis Publishing. He spent six years at PC Week, rising to the rank of associate publisher. Dwyer left PC Week to take on the publisher's role at another Ziff Davis newsweekly, Digital Review, serving the Digital Equipment VAX/VMS marketplace. During his nearly 10 years at Ziff-Davis, Dwyer also served as a Director of the Ziff-Davis Magazine Networks (1993-1994) and was instrumental in creating the Cahners/Ziff Limited Publishing Partnership in 1990.

Andover.Net is pioneering innovative e-Tools that enable the Internet to be used as a powerful and cost-effective computing platform. GIFWorks (www.gifworks.com), Andover.Net's first e-Tool, allows users to select, process and create animations directly on-line through their browsers--at absolutely no cost to the user. With free e-Tools like GIFWorks, IT professionals do more than just visit, they come to work. More specifically, these workers come to e-Work and spend the majority of their time using these tools. As a result, advertising on Andover.Net is extremely effective given the audiences' target demographic, time spent on site and high return visit rates.

About Andover.Net

Andover.Net (www.andover.net) is the award-winning online IT network and pioneer of e-Tools. Andover.Net includes a unique combination of Web-building e-Tools and content; free downloadable software applications and programming code; and information technology news and reviews. Andover.Net also provides advertisers with the most effective online advertising programs for targeting IT professionals including IT Managers, Corporate Buyers, Web Builders, Programmers and Power Users. For the latest news, reviews and resources visitors go to AndoverNews(tm) (www.andovernews.com); and this site also includes The IT Managers Journal(tm) (www.itmanagersjournal.com), providing news and advice for IT managers; the Internet Traffic Report, providing Internet performance data every 15 minutes; and TechSightings, reviews of the Web's best sites. MediaBuilder(tm) (www.mediabuilder.com) is the online Web-building resource with over 10,000 free images and unique e-Tools. Programmers and Power Users download products at DaveCentral(tm) which provides over 6,000 free downloadable Internet software products for Windows; FreeCode (www.freecode.com), where users can easily view and use free code; and Slaughterhouse(tm) (www.slaughterhouse.com), that pal, Free Code, IT Managers Journal and Slaughterhouse are trademarks of Andover.Net.