Bluestone Software Drives E-Business Technology Leadership With Enhanced J2EE-Based Application Server; Message-Driven Beans, Embedded Java Transaction Service, and Mobile Enhancements Highlight Total-e-Server(TM)Release 7.2 to Drive New Generation of M-C.

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Fall Internet World 2000

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 25, 2000

Bluestone(R) Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLSW), a leader in business-to-Web and wireless technologies, today announced general availability of Total-e-Server(TM) Release 7.2, the latest version of its J2EE-based, 100% Pure Java Application Server and the heart of Bluestone's comprehensive, standards-based Total-e-Business(TM) platform. With this release, Bluestone delivers the robust messaging, transactioning, and mobile services that today's mobile commerce (m-commerce) and sophisticated e-business customers require. Bluestone will be demonstrating the new version of Total-e-Server at Internet World Fall 2000 Conference, running October 23-27 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City, at booth no. 1457.

Based entirely on the latest version of Sun Microsystems' J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) specification and powered by XML (eXtensible Markup Language), Bluestone's Total-e-Server Release 7.2 confirms the company's position as an e-business pioneer, as well as its skill at harnessing leading-edge technologies to deliver compelling business advantages, such as minimizing development costs, reducing time-to-market, protecting and leveraging IT investments, integrating existing technologies, scaling to e-business demands, and assuring 24x7x365 availability.

Specifically, the new version of Total-e-Server supports message-driven beans, enabling e-business solutions to accelerate B2B and other application-to-application communications. Support for the J2EE-mandated Java Transaction Service lets Total-e-Server guarantee end-to-end transactions that involve multiple, distributed databases. New mobile components of Total-e-Server benefit both wired and wireless clients, while productivity enhancements reduce coding and delivery times.

"Organizations involved in e-business are demonstrating an insatiable demand for faster, more reliable, and more accessible e-business solutions," said Andre Pino, senior vice president of marketing for Bluestone Software. "Total-e-Server stretches the technology envelope to meet those e-business demands, allowing our customers to focus on business, rather than technology challenges. As a result, we've delivered world-class, standards-based facilities for expediting B2B messaging, ensuring the completion of mission-critical transactions, and communicating with an increasingly wireless world."

Business-Empowering Technologies

To accelerate the performance of solutions based on Total-e-Server, the new version supports message-driven beans. Defined by the Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) 2.0 specification, message-driven beans guarantee message delivery in asynchronous communications, resulting in faster response times for users. Ultimately, users see faster application response times due to this non-blocking message delivery method. Bluestone is also bundling Progress Software's SonicMQ Java Message Service with Total-e-Server to provide the scheduling and queuing services required by message-driven beans. (See separate news release, "Bluestone Software and Progress Software Announce Licensing Agreement," October 25, 2000.)

Bluestone has also enhanced transaction security and integrity for mission-critical e-business applications by embedding Bluestone Java Transaction Service(TM) within Total-e-Server. Bluestone's next-generation distributed transactioning system is the industry's first commercially distributed transactioning system developed entirely with Java technology and based on Sun Microsystems' Java Transaction Service. The result is an Application Server infrastructure that enables guaranteed synchronous and asynchronous transactions for complex, distributed applications. In addition, Bluestone continues to support third-party Java Transaction Services in Total-e-Server via a standardized API.

Mobile enhancements to Total-e-Server open e-business solutions to the growing arena of cell phones, pagers, PDAs, and other wireless devices. In particular, Total-e-Server includes the Universal Session Manager to provide session and state management for mobile devices, as well as for WAP Gateways that do not support cookies or other session management technologies. Total-e-Server also includes a number of pre-built, mobile-specific templates and tag libraries to format content for various wireless device types. In addition to expanding e-business access to wireless devices, the pre-built components improve productivity by reducing developers' coding time.

Along with its latest additions, Total-e-Server continues to distinguish itself in the Application Server arena with the unbeatable, linear scalability established by Bluestone's dynamic load balance broker and persistent state manager. These facilities let Total-e-Server disperse user requests in real-time and scale applications without performance degradation or reduction in fault tolerance. Additional scalability features include multiple deployment modes, zero feedback loop load balancing, database connection caching, independent state server, and total application isolation. Distributed application management remains another Bluestone strength, with Bluestone Application Manager(TM) providing an advanced, agent-based management engine for Total-e-Server.

Bluestone's Total-e-Server Release 7.2 is available today. Pricing starts at $30,000.

About Bluestone Software

Bluestone(R) Software, Inc. is a leader in business-to-Web and wireless technologies. Companies deploying e-business applications, like Avnet, Food.com, Reliance National, SGI, and Time Inc., rely on Bluestone's Total-e-Business(TM) platform to provide comprehensive e-business platforms, Internet-class infrastructures, and robust integration services that e-business success demands. Bluestone is headquartered at 300 Stevens Drive, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19113-1597. For more information, please call 888-Bluestone or 610-915-5000, email [e-mail], or visit http://www.bluestone.com

Bluestone is a registered trademark, and Total-e-Server, Total-e-Business, Bluestone Java Transaction Service and Bluestone Application Manager are trademarks of Bluestone Software, Inc. All other names, brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Certain statements in this press release constitute forward-looking statements as such term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, including those contained in Bluestone's publicly filed reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which may cause Bluestone's actual results, performance, or achievements or those of its customers or its industry to be materially different from the future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward looking statements. Specifically, the Company's beliefs with respect to the business opportunities presented by e-business and the Company's ability to profitably market and deploy its product solutions may prove to be inaccurate. In light of the significant uncertainties inherent in these forward looking statements, the information in this press release should not be considered a representation by the Company or any other person that Bluestone's objectives and plans will be achieved.