Calico Powers Newly Launched GE Capital Web Site.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2000

Calico Commerce, Inc. (Nasdaq:CLIC), a leading provider of software that enables companies to sell over the Web, today announced that GE Capital, the financial services unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), is using Calico's eBusiness application suite in several of its Web initiatives. Calico enables customers and visitors of GE Capital sites to benefit from swift navigation to the GE Capital products and services they need.

"Given the breadth and depth of products and services we offer in our 28 business units, it is imperative that our customers have direct and immediate access to the solutions they want, when they want it, in the most convenient way possible," said Paul Ryder, managing director of marketing, GE Capital's Corporate E-Business. "Calico's eBusiness application suite helps us organize and present our services in a sensible way to site users, providing our customers with an interactive and engaging online experience that matches our specific offerings with their unique interests and needs."

Calico(R) Advisor(TM), the company's configuration and recommendation application based on the Java(TM) 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE(TM)) platform, will power portals containing information on GE Capital solutions for vertical industries such as transportation (www.getrucking.com) and healthcare. Other portals will address the needs and interests of horizontal functions of customer companies, such as chief financial officers (www.gecfosolutions.com).

"As eBusiness matures, customers are becoming more sophisticated in their use of online resources and more demanding of the corporations with whom they work," said Alan Naumann, president and CEO, Calico Commerce, Inc. "We help our customers exceed their customers' expectations. By powering GE Capital web sites, we are helping direct customers to the information they want and recommending tailored solutions. This kind of guided-buying solution is the future of Web-based commerce, and we're helping companies implement it today -- quickly, on an industry-standard platform."

About GE Capital

GE Capital, with assets of more than US$345 billion, is a global, diversified financial services company with 28 specialized businesses. A wholly-owned subsidiary of General Electric Company, GE Capital, based in Stamford, Conn., provides equipment management, mid-market and specialized financing, specialty insurance and a variety of consumer services, such as car leasing, home mortgages and credit cards, to businesses and individuals around the world. GE is a diversified services, technology and manufacturing company with operations worldwide.

About Calico Commerce, Inc.

Calico Commerce, Inc. provides software that enables corporations to sell in Net markets, direct over the Web or through existing channels. Calico's 100% Java, application server-based eBusiness application suite meets the performance, reliability and scalability needs of any business while allowing customers to handle complex products, pricing and relationships via the Web through the entire customer life cycle. As a result, organizations are able to drive revenue growth, increase customer satisfaction and achieve competitive advantage. Calico customers include leaders in high-technology hardware, manufacturing, telecommunications services, financial services, home furnishings, chemicals, agriculture and retail. Calico Commerce, Inc., headquartered in San Jose, Calif., can be found on the World Wide Web at www.calico.com.

This press release may contain projections or other forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future financial performance of Calico Commerce, Inc. that involve risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned that these statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results. The forward looking statements contained in this press release address a variety of subjects and should be considered in the context of the risk factors disclosed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Registration Statements on Form S-1 and Form S-4, as amended, and its reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q, as amended, available online at http://www.sec.gov. All forward-looking statements are based on information available to Calico on the date hereof, and Calico assumes no obligation to update such statements.