Bluestone Software Ships Wireless Application Infrastructure for Faster, Easier Delivery of Mobile Device Applications; Total-e-Business(TM)Platform with Mobile Services Creates World-Class Infrastructure for Deploying E-Business and Intranet Applications.

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

Fall Internet World 2000

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 25, 2000

Powering fast and easy delivery of mobile device applications, Bluestone(R) Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLSW), a leader in business-to-Web and wireless technologies, today announced the general availability of its wireless application infrastructure--delivered as a set of mobile services to the company's award-winning, standards-based Total-e-Business(TM) platform. Bluestone will be debuting its wireless infrastructure at Internet World Fall 2000 Conference, running October 23-27 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City, at booth # 1457.

Bluestone's wireless infrastructure, which includes Total-e-Server(TM) and Total-e-Mobile(TM) services, offers an elegant blend of power and ease-of-use in mobile access to existing enterprise applications. The new offering also establishes the reliable, scalable, and fault-tolerant infrastructure required for next-generation mobile commerce, wireless portals, and other applications geared specifically for mobile users of cell phones, pagers, PDAs, and thin-client devices. In addition, by providing access to industry standard mobile portals and gateways, like Nokia and Infinite Technologies, Bluestone makes it easier for its clients to address the needs of mobile commerce and computing.

"Organizations with little to no mobile expertise have huge expectations for their mobile applications," said John H. Capobianco, executive vice president of strategic planning for Bluestone Software. "Bluestone's wireless infrastructure can meet these expectations--first, by enabling an organization to support any thin-client device with one URL, or as we like to say `One URL Fits All,' and second, by ensuring the no-compromise performance, reliability and availability demanded by anytime, any device computing."

Specifically, Bluestone's wireless application infrastructure unites its Internet Operating Environment(TM), the world-class, standards-based foundation of Total-e-Business, with state-of-the-art mobile components and services. Highlights include Bluestone's Dynamic XSL Stylesheet Engine, which dynamically formats and parses content specifically for each client accessing mobile applications, as well as hybrid mobile and wired applications. As a result, organizations can reuse existing Web applications, supporting all mobile and wired users with a single application infrastructure. The bundled WAP technologies make Bluestone's Total-e-Business platform a one-stop source for mobile application development. The new wireless offering also includes a rich array of training tools and jump-start applications for developers who are just starting to work in the mobile arena.

In addition, Bluestone's wireless infrastructure brings proven high performance, fault tolerance, security, and scalability to the mobile environment. Based on Sun Microsystems' J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) specification and using XML as its internal communications vehicle, Bluestone's Internet Operating Environment lays the open, non-proprietary foundation critical to supporting emerging and evolving technology sets in the mobile arena. Bluestone's distributed, pure Java transactioning system further delivers transactional integrity and security for mobile commerce and other mission-critical mobile applications.

At Swisscom, the principal provider of telecommunications services in Switzerland, Bluestone's heritage of high performance and adherence to open standards was the decisive factor in the selection of Bluestone's Total-e-Business platform for its wireless projects. "Swisscom's secure, mobile commerce portal is being built from the ground up to support sustained, aggressive growth," said Urs Loher, head of Mobile e-Business Services for Swisscom. "Such growth demands Bluestone's proven scalability and fault tolerance, as well as its standards-based architecture, which lets us extend our portal with support for the latest protocols and technologies to keep us on the mobile forefront."

Bluestone's Wireless Infrastructure Revealed

The business value at the heart of Bluestone's wireless infrastructure is reducing the time and streamlining the effort required to develop and deploy mission-critical mobile applications. Bluestone backs up this promise with the following industry-leading technologies that comprise mobile computing portal extensions and Bluestone's Internet Operating Environment.

Total-e-Mobile Services

-- Universal Session Manager. The USM creates a server-side session management
proxy, enabling mobile communications for any device, including ones that do
not support cookies or other locally stored session management information.

-- Trail map. Nine trails provide graduated, step-by-step tutorial direction
that demonstrates key mobile application services, including use of Client
Sensing and Dynamic XSL Stylesheet Engine. Examples range from a multi-device
"hello, world" through a small e-commerce example.

-- Reference implementations. Calendar, Contact, and Task List reference
applications -- complete with source code

-- enable customers to study, customize, and use their own mobile application
development. The reference implementations are built using the Model View
Controller architecture (MVC), making them easy to extend and maintain.

-- WAP gateway. Infinite Technologies' WAPlite gateway is included to provide
standard WAP 1.1 communications, allowing customers to easily adapt to and
support alternative mobile communications protocols, such as DoCoMo, as they
become available.

-- WAP and phone emulators. To help developers accurately test WAP
applications, phone emulators from Nokia and phone.com are included.

Added Bob Bickel, executive vice president of products and executive technology officer for Bluestone Software, "We believe that the training and reference components bundled in our wireless infrastructure are critical to the growth and adoption of mobile solutions. There's just not a lot of experience in the marketplace today in building sophisticated mobile applications that can be hit with any kind of Web-enabled device. Mobile applications require a whole new set of design skills to create usable interfaces for cell phones, PDAs, and other devices with severe screen, storage, input, and bandwidth constraints. We've taken these issues very seriously and produced tutorial and training materials that make it easier for organizations to build robust mobile applications and get them deployed quickly to enjoy the competitive advantages of universal mobile communications."

Continued Swisscom's Loher, "Building a mobile portal is brand new to most developers and Bluestone's step-by-step tutorials and reference implementations are greatly expediting the learning process for our team. As a result, we have been able to dramatically accelerate the time-to-market for our portal."

Bluestone's Internet Operating Environment

-- Bluestone Universal Business Server(TM)is the 100% Pure

Java Application Server deployment engine for delivering

Bluestone's hallmark performance services, such as

Customer-Facing Fault Tolerance, Hot Versioning(TM),

Internet Quality of Service (IQS(TM)), scalability, and

security. Based entirely on J2EE and including robust

implementations of JSP 1.1 and Taglibs, Bluestone

Universal Business Server also features a complete

implementation of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 1.1, Java

Servlets API 2.2, and a Dynamic XSL Stylesheet Engine with

mobile enhancements to let users automatically detect

client device types and generate the proper delivery

format, whether it is a cell phone, palmtop device,

desktop browser, application, or other client type.

-- Bluestone XML-Server(TM) is the advanced XML-based

Integration Server providing robust XML and legacy

integration services to establish an unparalleled level of

mobile integration with existing and emerging e-business

systems.

-- Bluestone Universal Listener Framework(TM) (ULF) is a

unique feature to Bluestone and further automates

application-to-application and application-to-device

interaction. Mobile enhancements to the ULF monitor and

act on data communications transmitted via WAP, email,

FTP, Web, Java Message Service, MQSeries, CICS, broadcast,

multicast, and other services. The ULF supports Guaranteed

Message Delivery to ensure message and document delivery

with quality of service options and Secure Sockets Layer

support for secure communications.

-- Bluestone Application Manager(TM) works in concert with

Bluestone Universal Business Server to automatically scale

applications to meet fluctuating needs, balance loads to

prevent performance decline, provide a fault tolerant

architecture, and manage, control, and report upon all

interactions that transpire across the entire Web

infrastructure. The Bluestone Application Manager is also

the natural interface to world-class enterprise management

systems like HP-OpenView, CA-Unicenter and IBM Tivoli.

-- Bluestone Security Console(TM) creates a common security

framework featuring highly granular control over

e-business applications security, providing role-based

access control at every level. Bluestone Security Console

works with LDAP directories and databases, and supports

X.509 certificates.

-- Bluestone Connector Capability provides a broad array of

application integration services to legacy and commerce

systems.

-- Bluestone J2EE Developer(TM) is the development

environment for creating and deploying EJBs. The

environment automates critical development functions, such

as the creation of home and remote interfaces and

deployment descriptors for EJBs.

-- Bluestone Content Management(TM) lets users manage the

registration and dynamic display of content. In addition,

Bluestone Content Management supports integration with

best-of-breed content authoring systems from third

parties, such as Interwoven, Inc.

-- Bluestone Personalization(TM)includes Bluestone's own

XML-based rules engine for customizing content on a 1-to-1

basis with mobile and wired users. Integration with Net

Perceptions, Inc. is also supported.

-- Bluestone Java Transaction Service(TM) is Bluestone's pure

Java, distributed transactioning system optimized for

mobile commerce applications and other mission-critical

applications that demand transactional integrity and

security.

Bluestone's Total-e-Business platform with mobile services is available today starting at $30,000.

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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-Business, Total-e-Server, Total-e-Mobile, Internet Operating Environment, components of the Internet Operating Environment, Hot Versioning, and IQS 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.

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