BellSouth and Intershop Extend Web Hosting Alliance; Offering E-business Future to Small Companies.

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ATLANTA & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2001

`BellSouth Site Builder' Upgrades to Intershop 4 to Offer `One-Click' Scalability and Greater Web Hosting Flexibility to Small and Mid-Sized

Businesses Poised for Growth

BellSouth (NYSE BLS) and Intershop Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISHP; Neuer Market: ISH), a leading provider of e-business software, today announced the two companies will reinforce the 1998 strategic alliance that created the Web hosting application, BellSouth Site Builder(SM).

By combining BellSouth's e-business network infrastructure with Intershop's latest Web applications, BellSouth brings the most feature-rich version of Site Builder to the small business market. Today's announcement supports BellSouth's commitment to provide small and mid-sized companies with innovative e-business solutions and underscores the power of the Intershop 4 Web hosting solution.

"We have had tremendous success with BellSouth's Site Builder product, and we are excited about these latest enhancements," said Bruce MacMillan, director of BellSouth Web Hosting Marketing. "We always want to offer our customers the best, most current solutions available in the market. The breadth of Intershop's features, combined with superior scalability, flexibility and ease-of-use, make it the perfect solution for small and mid-sized businesses."

"BellSouth helped to pioneer the ISP market, and its continued success is a testament to the strength of Intershop's solutions," said Phil Oreste, president of Intershop Americas. "Intershop 4 gives BellSouth's customers the ability to quickly create, customize and manage their own online sites, and the time saved frees them up to focus on the core business activities of selling products and services."

Site Builder's dynamic design provides small and mid-sized companies reaching out to new customer markets an expandable Web-based tool tailored to meet the needs of businesses competing in a rapidly changing marketplace. BellSouth's newest e-business application offers a wide range of capabilities, allowing customers to advertise online or build a manageable e-commerce network. Site Builder's "one-click" scalability allows businesses to rapidly expand Web-based solutions, keeping small companies in step with the evolving e-business economy, without increasing IT or equipment costs.

Incorporating Intershop 4's latest enhancements into Site Builder now offers thousands of BellSouth business customers a reliable Web-based application designed specifically to meet the needs of small businesses.

BellSouth Site Builder enables customers to:

      --  Quickly deploy e-commerce sites without major IT investments

      --  Easily create, customize and manage online stores

      --  Focus on selling products or services rather than on the
        technical aspects of e-commerce

      --  Easily scale to manage high volumes of traffic and
        transactions

      --  Add more sophisticated features as their businesses grow

"This has opened up a new door for me in the field of advertising my products," said Ron Short, owner of Ron Short Photography in Brentwood, Tennessee. "BellSouth Site Builder allows me to quickly and easily make changes to my site as my business needs change. I have spoken to other business owners who wait weeks for Web developers to update their sites. I can make changes to my Web site in a matter of minutes."

BellSouth leads the industry as the first company to use the Intershop hosting solution, and has had remarkable success with the product. Currently, BellSouth uses Intershop to service thousands of hosting customers. More information about BellSouth Site Builder is available at www.bellsouth-hosting.net.

About BellSouth Corporation

BellSouth Corporation is a Fortune 100 communications services company headquartered in Atlanta, GA, serving more than 44 million customers in the United States and 16 other countries.

Consistently recognized for customer satisfaction, BellSouth provides a full array of broadband data and e-commerce solutions to business customers, including Web hosting and other Internet services. In the residential market, BellSouth offers DSL high-speed Internet access, advanced voice features and other services. BellSouth also provides online and directory advertising services, including BellSouth(R) RealPages(SM).com.

BellSouth owns 40 percent of Cingular Wireless, the nation's second largest wireless company, which provides innovative wireless data and voice services.

About Intershop

Intershop is a leading provider of e-business solutions for global enterprises. The Intershop Enfinity e-commerce platform, combined with proven, flexible industry and cross-industry solutions, enable companies to optimize relationships with their trading partners, improve business efficiencies, reduce costs and grow revenues and margins. Intershop's solutions, which leverage partner industry knowledge and best practice information from successful customer implementations, deliver extensive packaged functionality for maximum flexibility and fast ROI. They can be quickly implemented and seamlessly integrated into existing systems, which increases time-to-market and delivers more value in less time. Intershop provides applications and solutions to some of the world's largest enterprises, including Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Motorola, Shell and Time Warner. Founded in 1992, Intershop has offices in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Korea, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Singapore, Taiwan and the United Kingdom and can be found at http://www.intershop.com.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future financial and operational performance of Intershop. Actual events or performance may differ materially from those contained or implied in such forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties that could lead to such difference could include, among other things: Intershop's limited operating history, the unpredictability of future revenues and expenses and potential fluctuations in revenues and operating results, consumer trends, the level of competition, seasonality, the timing and success of international expansion efforts, risks related to electronic security, possible governmental regulation, and the ability to manage a rapidly growing business. Additional information regarding factors that potentially could affect Intershop's business, financial condition and operating results is included in Intershop's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in the prospectus dated September 28, 2000, relating to Intershop's public offering of common stock.