Bluestone Software Garners Readers' Choice Award From CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise Magazine; Bluestone Selected as Best XML Suite Integration Server in B2B E-Commerce - IT/Application Development.

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PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2000

Bluestone(R) Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLSW), a leader in business-to-Web and wireless technologies, today announced that Bluestone has won this year's Readers' Choice Award from CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise for best XML Suite Integration Server in the category of B2B E-Commerce - IT/Application Development.

Introduced in 1998 with the inception of Intelligent Enterprise, the Readers' Choice Awards give Intelligent Enterprise readers an opportunity to select their favorite enterprise software solutions in 32 IT categories. Subscribers cast their votes from a ballot compiled by an Intelligent Enterprise editorial board.

Bluestone's comprehensive, standards-based Total-e-Business(TM)platform, featuring Total-e-B2B(TM) and its XML-based Integration Server, is designed for rapid, plug-and-play, e-business deployments, and pre-assembles all the components that companies need to set up a hub-and-spoke, business-to-business environment quickly and easily. Based on Sun Microsystems' J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) standards, Total-e-B2B uses advanced JavaServer Pages, Java Servlet API, Enterprise JavaBeans, 100% Pure Java, and XML technologies to establish an open, extensible, B2B solution.

"As organizations make the transformation to e-business, they face a dire need to tie together disparate data sources and applications to unite business systems within a company, as well as with third-party partners, suppliers, and vendors," said Andre Pino, senior vice president of marketing for Bluestone Software. "Increasingly, companies recognize Total-e-Business as the powerful, cost-effective engine for sharing data and documents for EDI, supply chain, and other B2B communications."

"The readership for Intelligent Enterprise is comprised of more than 100,000 CIOs, CTOs and other strategic IT and business leaders from major corporations and public sector organizations," said David M. Kalman, group publisher of CMP Media's Business Intelligence Group. "Almost no group is more knowledgeable about the requirements of the intelligent enterprise. It speaks volumes that our readers selected Bluestone's B2B E-Commerce application development solution as the best in its category."

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-B2B and Total-e-Business 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.