Avotus Appoints Alan Gold Senior Vice President.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

TORONTO & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 2003

Avotus(TM) Corporation (TSX V:AVS) today announced that Alan E. Gold has joined the company as senior vice president, marketing and corporate strategy. In this new position, Gold is responsible for managing the company's direction as it introduces new models and products to address its customers' enterprise-level budgeting, provisioning and managing of communication assets, infrastructures and usage. Gold reports to Fred Lizza, Avotus president and CEO.

"Corporate communications environments are quickly evolving," commented Lizza. "Avotus is well-established in communications accounting. We're now moving to the next level of Integrated Communications Management. To make that transition, we've turned to Alan for his strategic vision, marketing expertise and ability to make things happen. He's pivotal in helping us translate market needs into new Avotus products and services."

Gold brings a proven track record in global marketing, product management, business development, channels management and strategic partnering. Most recently, he was a principal at The Benjamin Group, a Boston area consulting firm where he managed market analysis, strategic repositioning, merger & acquisition strategy and opportunity assessment for clients.

Previously, he was executive vice president and chief marketing officer at eXcelon Corporation (now Progress Software) of Burlington, Mass., where he was responsible for global marketing, product management, business development and competitive analysis in the United States, Europe and Japan.

Before joining eXcelon, Gold was vice president, marketing and strategic partnering, for MarketMAX, Inc. (now SAS) of Danvers, Mass., where he established the company's strategic direction, helped raise venture capital funds and increase the company's revenues seven-fold. Gold also has held marketing positions at Symbol Technologies, Inc. of Holtsville, N.Y., Comtec Information Systems (Now Zebra Tech.) of Cumberland, R.I. and other technology companies.

Gold holds a bachelor of arts from Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., and an MBA from Boston College. He is a frequent industry speaker and has published over 100 articles. He has served on the advisory boards of companies and participated in standards and industry committees in the supply chain, healthcare, retail, wireless and transportation industries. He lives in North Andover, Mass.

About Avotus

Avotus provides solutions that dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of enterprise communications. Intelligent Communications Management is Avotus' unique model for a single, actionable environment that enables any company to bring together decision-critical information about communications expenses, infrastructure, and systems usage. Avotus is empowering Fortune 500 companies as well as more than 3,000 organizations worldwide to gain insight into and control over their communications environment. Whether deployed as an onsite or hosted application, or as a completely outsourced value-added solution, Avotus improves productivity and efficiency while enabling savings of as much as 20-40%.

The company has been consistently recognized for product and service excellence and thought leadership for more than two decades in a wide range of communications-intensive markets. Avotus' solutions are strongly supported and endorsed by industry-leading partners such as Avaya, Cisco, and Nortel. For more information, visit www.avotus.com.

Certain information contained in this news release is forward-looking and is subject to unknown risks and uncertainties. The actual results, performance or achievements of the Company may differ materially from the results, performance or achievements of the Company expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. For further information, please visit the Company's website at www.avotus.com and its filings with SEDAR available through www.sedar.com.

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