Appliant, Inc. Announces Strategic Alliance with Lotus; Appliant Joins Messaging and Collaboration Leader's Business Partners Program.

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 1999--

Appliant, Inc., a leading developer of enterprise application management software, today announced that it has joined Lotus Development Corporation's Business Partner Program.

The joint strength of Appliant and Lotus will provide customers with comprehensive solutions to manage the performance of business-critical enterprise applications.

"We're pleased to partner with a recognized industry leader such as Lotus," said Alisa Nessler, president and CEO of Appliant. "By delivering precise usage and performance information for enterprise applications, Appliant's technology enables Lotus customers to leverage and extend the powerful capabilities of Lotus messaging and collaboration products in order to help them meet their business objectives."

Already the industry leader in groupware for messaging and collaboration, Lotus continues to raise the bar for end-user productivity applications. With this increasing functionality comes new levels of complexity which require innovative, new solutions for management, planning and support. Appliant's management products provide Lotus administrators, IT managers and Lotus Network Service Providers (or ASPs) with the ability to establish and monitor accurate service levels.

As a member of the Lotus Business Partner Program, Appliant will reach the extensive community of Lotus customers, VARs and consultants.

Award-Winning Product from Appliant

Appliant also recently introduced its first product for application management, Appvisor for Microsoft Exchange. The product monitors Exchange in real time, measures performance and usage at a transaction level, correlates client and server metrics and provides a variety of reports for help desk, service level agreements, and performance and usage analysis to provide effective support and assist in planning for growth. The product recently won a Best of Show award at the Electronic Messaging Association show in the Messaging Management category.

About Appliant, Inc.

Appliant, Inc. develops software products to manage business-critical enterprise applications through a patented technology that provides a precise and detailed view of applications via Appliant's unique Business Activity Profiling(TM). The company's Appvisor(TM) series includes application performance management products for messaging, collaboration and other business-critical distributed applications. Appliant is a privately held, Seattle-based corporation founded in 1997. Visit Appliant at www.appliant.com.

Appliant, Appvisor and Business Activity Profiling are trademarks of Appliant, Inc. Lotus is a registered trademark of Lotus Development Corporation, and Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries.