ComponentSource's .NET ComponentBuilder Program sees First Fruits of Success.

Technology Editors

Microsoft Tech-Ed

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2001

Over 150 Component Authors committed to delivering .NET components

ComponentSource, the world's largest marketplace and community for reusable software components, and first to market as a Software Reuse Infrastructure Provider, today unveiled the first results of its year-old .NET ComponentBuilder program(a).

In a representative study of over 250(a) component authors, 60 percent said they were committed to launching Microsoft .NET versions of their components. Of these, just under 30 percent will be launching final versions of their .NET components at the launch of Visual Studio .NET(R), expected fourth quarter 2001. An additional 44 percent plan to launch within three months of Visual Studio .NET.

A number of ComponentSource's leading component authors are already unveiling first Beta versions of their .NET components based around Visual Studio .NET Beta 2 at this year's Microsoft Tech-Ed conference. Component Authors launching at Tech-Ed include ComponentOne, Infragistics and Xceed Software.

"Since 1995 we have assumed a market-building role to increase the supply of reusable components for all platforms," commented Sam Patterson, CEO of ComponentSource. "Microsoft arguably has the largest developer community globally. In collaboration with Microsoft we have been very proactive in assisting the migration of our component author community to Microsoft .NET by providing white papers, advice and training courses over the past year to help ease the transition."

"ComponentSource plays an important market-builder role," commented Robert Green, lead product manager, Visual Studio .NET at Microsoft Corp. "The availability of third party reusable components for Visual Studio .NET adds tremendous value to the Microsoft developer community building applications for the .NET environment."

(a) Note to Editors:

-- The ComponentSource .NET ComponentBuilder Program was launched at Microsoft
PDC last year and was originally called the "Net Framework Component Authoring
Program." Please see http://www.componentsource.co m/AboutUs/Company/
Announcements/PressRelease071 100.ASP

-- ComponentSource's expanding component author base currently totals 510
component authors and is the largest in the world

About ComponentSource

Founded in 1995, ComponentSource, the pioneer of the open market for reusable software components, established the world's largest marketplace and software component community. The company is first to market in its extended role as a Software Reuse Infrastructure Provider. Its marketplace infrastructure forms the basis of ComponentSource Enterprise Reuse Solution(TM) - the first credible model for enterprise reuse which has been selected as the basis for the multi-state National Software Component Exchange initiative and a number of private organizations' reuse programs. ComponentSource is the marketplace of choice for business and technical decision-makers involved in specifying, locating, procuring, reusing and building software components. Through its award-winning eBusiness model, which combines content, community and transaction services, and its ground-breaking work to establish the first widely accepted reusable component standard, ComponentSource is Making Software Reuse a Reality(TM). The company, which actively recruits and assists new component authors to enter the open market, is headquartered in the Atlanta area and has offices in Reading, England. A global eBusiness, ComponentSource's customer base spans over 100 countries. For more information please see: www.componentsource.com.