Bluestone Software Ships Total-e-B2B E-Business Integration Server; Any-to-Any B2B Communications Platform Creates Plug-and-Play Integration Solution Based on J2EE and XML, Features Bluestone's Legendary Performance and Scalability.

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PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2000

Bluestone(R) Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLSW), a leading provider of Enterprise Interaction Management software, today announced the general availability of Total-e-B2B(TM), the e-business Integration Server edition of the company's comprehensive, standards-based Total-e-Business(TM) platform. With Total-e-B2B, a company can rapidly and reliably establish a truly virtual corporation with seamless, any-to-any communications between its extraprise partners, suppliers, and customers, as well as internal users and systems.

"Total-e-B2B is not a trading partner network. Total-e-B2B is a pre-assembled hub and spoke environment for business-to-business (B2B) exchange that lets a company distribute real-time, enterprise information throughout its established global extraprise and accomplish the real work of inter-company communications," said John H. Capobianco, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Bluestone Software. "By facilitating information transfer-- automatically and by demand -- between themselves, their trading partners, vendors, and select third parties in the most appropriate format for each, Total-e-B2B enables the virtual corporation. Companies, in turn, can capitalize on the array of compelling B2B opportunities that lie beyond initial bidding and procurement steps to include the entire supply chain management process."

To provide solutions that extend Total-e-B2B to the ERP supply chain through wireless technology, Bluestone has also established strategic relationships with Acsis, Inc., a worldwide leader in data collection enabling products and solutions for the ERP marketplace, and Symbol Technologies Inc., a global leader in wireless and Internet-based mobile data transaction systems and services. Together, the three companies will offer an array of supply chain management solutions for any organization seeking complete and immediate visibility into its virtual corporation supply chain. The B2B solutions will employ Bluestone's hub and spoke intra- and inter-company communication model. (See separate release, Bluestone Software and Allies to Establish Wireless Supply Chain Visibility for the Virtual Corporation, 5/22/00).

Emphasizing the need for complete, start-to-finish B2B communications solutions, Steven G. Selfridge, president of Acsis, added, "In order to compete in today's business environment, companies have a need for the continuous exchange of mission-critical information. Acsis' Datapass(R) and Event Manager(TM) products provide for the capture, integration and distribution of this information. Bluestone's Total-e-B2B provides the framework for the distribution of the information to partners, better preparing them to meet the constantly changing needs and demands."

Based on Bluestone's proven, high-performance Application Server, Integration Server, and related technologies, Total-e-B2B allows any-to-any B2B communications, while demonstrating the legendary performance, scalability, fault tolerance, and application availability that have become the company's trademarks. Total-e-B2B is designed for rapid, plug-and-play e-business deployments and pre-assembles all the components that companies, net-markets, and ASPs (Application Service Providers) need to quickly and easily set up a hub-and-spoke, business-to-business environment, based on Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standards. In particular, Total-e-B2B utilizes advanced JavaServer Pages (JSPs), Java Servlet API, Enterprise JavaBeans, 100% Pure Java, and eXtensible Markup Language (XML) technologies to establish an open, extensible B2B solution.

Behind Total-e-B2B

Today, companies face the daunting challenge of satisfying customer and market demands in real time - or risk losing business and market share to more agile, responsive competitors. In this environment, competitive advantage goes to the company that most effectively automates the user-to-application and application-to-application communications that underpin supply chain management. As organizations grow increasingly aware of these B2B opportunities, time to market joins performance and scalability as a critical factor in the deployment and success of a B2B solution.

To create a B2B solution that meets organizations' most pressing communication and integration needs, Bluestone's Total-e-B2B combines the following essential components:

-- Bluestone XML-Server for TeB(TM)

-- Bluestone Universal Listener Framework for TeB(TM)

-- Bluestone Universal Business Server for TeB(TM)

-- Bluestone Application Manager for TeB(TM)

-- Bluestone Security Console for TeB(TM)

-- Bluestone Visual-XML for TeB(TM)

Total-e-B2B relies on Bluestone XML-Server for TeB to provide robust XML and legacy integration services, establishing an unparalleled level of e-business systems integration. An advanced XML-based Integration Server for data interchange and application integration, Bluestone XML-Server for TeB draws data from heterogeneous sources, dynamically converts it to XML, and performs event-based data transformations. As a result, Total-e-B2B ties together disparate data sources and applications to unite business systems within a company, as well as with third-party partners, suppliers, and vendors, creating a powerful, cost-effective engine for sharing data and documents for EDI, supply chain, and other B2B communications.

"Planalytics provides vital, future intelligence into supply chain planning and forecasting, so our whole business model depends on the fast, reliable delivery of information to our strategic partners," said Stephen Worden, chief technology officer for Planalytics, the supply chain planning portal serving the retail, agriculture, and energy markets. "The heart of the Planalytics service is to quantify how, where, and when weather, demographic, economic, and competitive shifts from year to year will affect supply and demand for specific products and services. Total-e-B2B will ensure this time-sensitive information is delivered to our clients and partners, regardless of communications media and back-end systems they employ."

Bluestone Universal Listener Framework (ULF) for TeB further automates application-to-application interaction within Total-e-B2B. Through its Mobile Device Server, Message Server, Queuing Server, and Scheduling Server, the ULF monitors and acts on data communications transmitted via email, FTP, Web, Wireless Access Protocol, Java Message Service, MQSeries, CICS, and other services. For instance, a retailer's internal inventory application may transmit a "low stock" alert, which prompts the ULF to initiate a purchase order request and then issue the approved purchase order to the appropriate vendor. The ULF Console provides a graphical interface to the ULF servers, eliminating the need to hand code ULF service parameters and expediting company response to customer and partner demands for new or enhanced services.

Working in concert, Bluestone Universal Business Server for TeB and Bluestone Application Manager for TeB create a platform-independent, 100% Pure Java Application Server framework for the deployment and management of B2B applications. As component technologies of Bluestone's award-winning Sapphire/Web(R) Application Server, Bluestone Universal Business Server for TeB and Bluestone Application Manager for TeB create a dynamic, Web-enabled environment that automatically scales applications to meet fluctuating needs, balances loads to prevent performance decline, provides a fault tolerant architecture, and manages transactions across the entire Web infrastructure. The resulting B2B platform provides the scalable, fault tolerant, high-performance infrastructure required to conduct mission-critical, non-stop B2B activities.

Also proven in Sapphire/Web, Bluestone Security Console for TeB gives users highly granular control over B2B applications security, providing role-based access control at every level. Developers can set security levels for applications, pages within applications, user interaction points on pages, or on each information resource that an application accesses. The console also has enhanced authentication support for X.509 certificates and simplified implementation of SSL to non-SSL switching.

Bluestone Visual-XML for TeB establishes an approachable, easy-to-use development environment for Total-e-B2B. Highlighting Bluestone Visual-XML for TeB is the transformation engine that performs XML-to-XML document translations and DTD-to-DTD translations to facilitate communications with customers and partners via disparateDTDs and documents. Another key feature is the dynamic XSL (XML Stylesheet Language) engine that lets companies customize the look-and-feel of an XML document on a per-user or per-device basis and then distribute the XML document to any defined device, including Web phones, pagers, Palm Pilots, as well as PCs.

Bluestone's Total-e-B2B is available today starting around $100,000 for a pre-configured hub and spoke environment.

About Bluestone Software

Bluestone(R) Software, Inc. is a leading provider of Enterprise Interaction Management software. Companies deploying e-business applications, like Avnet, CDNow, Food.com, MCI WorldCom, Planalytics, Reliance National, and Time Inc., rely on Bluestone Total-e-Business(TM), Bluestone Sapphire/Web(R), and Bluestone XML Suite(TM) 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.

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Bluestone and Sapphire/Web are registered trademarks, and Bluestone XML Suite, Total-e-Business, Total-e-B2B, and the Total-e-B2B components listed above are trademarks of Bluestone Software, Inc. DataPass(R) is a registered trademark and Event Manager(TM) is a trademark of Acsis, 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.

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