Calico Commerce Ships Calico Market Maker; Full-Featured e-Commerce Application Serves Needs of Large Enterprises, Net Market Makers and Dot-Coms.

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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 29, 2000

Calico Market Maker's 100% Scalable, Open Architecture and

Out-of-the-Box Functionality Brings Digital Marketplaces Live on the

Internet in Less than 90 Days

Calico Commerce (Nasdaq:CLIC), a leading provider of eBusiness applications that enable companies to sell over the Web, today announced the availability of Calico Market Maker, a next-generation e-Commerce catalog, order management and process automation application designed to meet the growing needs of large enterprises, Net market makers and dot-com organizations.

Calico Market Maker streamlines the e-Commerce process by dynamically connecting multiple buying and selling organizations via the Internet and provides the out-of-the-box functionality required for corporations to rapidly and cost-effectively bring their businesses onto the Web and begin taking orders -- in less than 90 days.

Calico Market Maker's scalable, Java-based architecture supports one-to-many and many-to-many digital marketplaces, and provides an out-of-box solution for large to small companies needing to accelerate time to market, drive sales, reduce the cost of maintenance and create a compelling community experience.

Calico Market Maker allows organizations to keep track of their customers' dynamic requirements, enabling them to aggregate product data from many suppliers and provide contractual product and pricing notification to multiple buyers. This functionality is critical for organizations wanting to build communities by grouping appropriate buyers and sellers online, and grow their businesses by successfully meeting the expanding requirements of digital marketplaces.

"Internet-based trading communities have become the new paradigm in B2B e-Commerce, and buyers, sellers and technology suppliers are enthusiastically seizing this growing eMarketplace opportunity," said Albert Pang, e-Commerce software research manager at International Data Corp. "Calico Market Maker's multi-tiered, standards-based architecture offers the scalability to get organizations' websites up and running in rapid deployment and grows with companies to support their Net marketplace strategies.

"The product is a strategic addition to Calico's full-featured eBusiness application suite and it underscores its ability to work with leading organizations across multiple industries to formulate, deploy and manage successful B2B e-Commerce strategies."

About Calico Market Maker

To accelerate time to market and make the selling process more efficient, Calico Market Maker provides an integrated solution that includes cross-supplier catalog, customized pricing, buyer profiling and personalization, back-end system integration and fulfillment tracking information. By integrating selling processes, Calico Market Maker matches the right products with the right buyers more effectively, resulting in increased sales and reduced costs.

In addition, Calico's patented agent technology allows Net market makers to build communities by grouping appropriate buyers and sellers, and proactively notifying buyers about new products and services that are available to them.

Calico Market Maker features can be grouped into the following categories:

--   Standards-based Transaction Platform -- Includes support for the
     latest in Internet security, credit card and credit verification;
     facilitates purchase by providing an easy-to-use electronic
     shopping cart; and increases customer convenience by managing
     order creation, submission, review, duplication and status.
--   Dynamic Catalog and Database Management -- Includes data storage,
     data creation, single and multiple supplier catalogs, the
     capability to group products by supplier, product family, and
     category, and robust search capabilities. These features provide
     users with the capability to easily find products, services and
     buyer specific contractual entitlements during the purchasing
     process.
--   One-to-One Marketing and Selling Capabilities -- Includes many
     relationship management features that assist in the one-to-one
     marketing and selling necessary for both single supplier and
     multiple supplier sites.

Unlike competitive solutions in the marketplace, Calico Market Maker is a completely scalable, 100% Java solution that is built on a standards-based application server. Calico Market Maker's open architecture reinforces Calico's commitment to industry standards, as it enables organizations to spend less time on integration and more time on building feature-rich applications, getting their digital marketplaces up-and-running and rapidly generating revenue.

Calico Market Maker leverages standards-based Java application servers which enable organizations to rapidly grow their businesses from serving thousands to billions of customers, without ever changing their application infrastructure. As a result, multiple buying and selling organizations can quickly sell their products and services online and start providing their customers with the personalized product, pricing and order information they demand.

"Calico has proven that it understands the broad e-Business needs of large enterprises and emerging corporations and is committed to providing truly scalable, best-of-breed e-Commerce solutions that generate significant ROI for our customers," said Alan MacMurray, VP and general manager, Net Markets business unit, Calico Commerce. "Our latest breakthrough solution, Calico Market Maker, gets digital marketplaces up and running in record time and dynamically brings multiple buyers and suppliers together to exchange goods, services and knowledge online.

"Calico Market Maker is already embraced by such industry leaders as Chemdex and The Home Depot's Maintenance Warehouse, and emerging dot-coms such as iCongo.com and TheAgZone, and we believe Calico is well positioned to continue serving the diverse needs of this important growth segment in B2B e-Commerce."

Proven Customer Success

"We chose Calico Market Maker because its many-to-many relationship management capabilities will enable us to bring multiple buyers and sellers together through our one-stop, easy to use, low-cost agricultural electronic commerce community," said Prudence Zalewski, president and CEO, TheAgZone.com.

"In addition, Calico Market Maker's feature-rich and flexible architecture will provide our customers with the ability to buy and sell a wide range of agricultural products and services online from a host of top-name suppliers. This functionality is key to our eBusiness strategy, and we are pleased to partner with Calico to make this possible."

Calico's open-standards e-Business application suite recently broadened with the addition of product catalog, order management and e-Commerce process automation capabilities from ConnectInc.com. This technology is key to Calico's strategy for providing best-of-breed e-Commerce applications for large enterprises that sell products and services over the web.

In addition, dot-com companies are benefiting from Calico's e-Commerce solutions that are turbo-charging their selling channels, resulting in reduced time to market, a compelling customer experience and lasting competitive advantage.

Calico currently powers more than 70 enterprise, dot-com and Net market maker eBusiness initiatives, including Motorola, Dell, Qwest, Nortel, Cisco, General Electric, Kodak, Best Buy, Chemdex, Home Depot, Telia, Winstar, Cabletron, Sunrise Medical, Telxon, Zurn, GrowZone, iCongo.com, edu.com, HomePortfolio.com, TheAgZone, Exclaim Technologies, OneSwoop.com and Promedix.

Pricing and Availability

Calico Market Maker is available now. Call Calico at 877/eSales1 to obtain additional information about its next-generation e-Commerce application suite and how it can be used by organizations to rapidly and effectively bring their businesses onto the Web and begin taking orders.

About Calico Commerce, Inc.

Calico Commerce, Inc. provides an open-standards e-Business application suite that enables leading corporations to sell products and services over the Internet, through existing channels and within online trading communities. Calico's e-Business applications are customer-focused electronic commerce solutions that match unique customer needs to customized products to drive revenue growth, increase customer satisfaction and achieve a competitive advantage. Calico customers include leaders in high-technology hardware, manufacturing, telecommunications services, financial services, home furnishings, chemicals, agriculture and retail. Calico Commerce, Inc. can be found on the World Wide Web at www.calico.com.