Berens Industries Selects Interliant as ASP Business Partner.

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HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 2000

Berens Industries Inc. (OTCBB:BEII) announced that it has signed an agreement with Interliant (Nasdaq:INIT), a leading Application Service Provider (ASP), to roll-out a complete hosting solution for Streaming Auctions(TM). Under the terms of the agreement, Berens may bundle Interliant's hosting services with Berens' eBusiness solutions, and Interliant may co-market Berens brand and products through its website and collateral marketing. The first step in this agreement is to immediately implement an Interliant-managed domain for artmovement.interliant.com to host all Berens' applications.

"Since we focus on enabling our clients to exploit both the creative and technological possibilities of the Internet, we needed an ASP that would not throttle us with arbitrary limits," says Kevin Willcutts, VP of Business Development at Berens Industries. "Our solutions require support for high-bandwidth, creative mediums such as Webcasting channels using streaming audio and video. With unmatched managed-hosting experience, Interliant gives us peace of mind to know we can always achieve maximum speed, capacity, and security for our Internet solutions. Interliant also provides the unique ability to support all major development platforms, such as Oracle, IBM and Microsoft enterprise messaging and eCommerce solutions, and all major OS's such as NT, Sun and Linux. Interliant will not tie us to one technology paradigm."

Expected roll-out date for artmovement.interliant.com is April 3rd, at which time Berens will begin formal testing of Streaming Auctions in an ASP environment. While initial testing will not be open to the general public until mid-May, Berens is registering Platinum Beta and Sales Channel partners at this time. The final release of Streaming Auctions will represent the world's first, commercially available auction network to bundle managed, ASP services.

About Interliant Inc.

Interliant Inc. (Nasdaq:INIT) is a leading application service provider (ASP) and pioneer in the ASP market. Interliant's solutions enable companies of all sizes to capitalize on the latest Web-based technologies and packaged software applications quickly and cost-effectively by relieving them of the burdens associated with building, managing and maintaining the infrastructure required to support mission-critical applications. Interliant's offerings include solutions in the following areas: Web site hosting, messaging and knowledge management, security, e-commerce, customer relationship management, distributed learning, and Web-based rental applications via AppsOnline.com. Interliant is headquartered in Purchase, N.Y., and has formed strategic alliances with leading software, networking and hardware companies including Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq:DELL), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Lotus Development Corp., Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), BMC Software (Nasdaq:BMCS), and Network Solutions (Nasdaq:NSOL). For more information, please visit the Interliant Web site, http://www.interliant.com.

About Berens Industries Inc.

Berens Industries provides eBusiness solutions that are instantly deployable on client websites and portals using simple, rent-based pricing. In partnership with leading solutions providers, Berens provides a turn-key solution by bundling proprietary software with managed, ASP hosting and value-added news and information services. Its flagship product, Streaming Auctions, is the first auction network for the art and antique community to aggregate Private-Label auctions under an affinity community of buyers and sellers. Each licensee receives an Auction Hall for their own website. As part of Berens' complete solution, dealers and galleries also receive managed-server hosting and scalable bandwidth from Interliant. Product features include: automated billing, invoicing, shipping, escrow services, Mayer Book appraisals, and category subleasing with useful amenities such as messaging, calendaring, discussion groups, and event advertising. Berens Industries owns exclusive rights to bundle the Mayer International Auction Records database, distributed by Artlibrary.com, with commercial Internet applications.

Interliant is a registered trademark of Interliant Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective companies.

This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27a of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove correct.