Critical Path Selected by Global Publishing Giant to Provide Messaging Services for Readers of Vogue On-Line.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2000

CondeNet.UK Chooses Critical Path's Advanced Internet Messaging

Solutions To Power Vogue's New Email Service 

Critical Path Inc. (Nasdaq:CPTH), the dominant global provider of business to business Internet messaging and collaboration solutions, today announced that CondeNet.UK, the online division of the world renowned international publishing group Conde Nast, has chosen Critical Path to provide messaging services for millions of Vogue On-Line readers.

Critical Path's outsourced InScribe(TM) Email Messaging solutions are powering CondeNet.UK's new email service, v-mail, which is another value-added service the company is providing to Vogue customers. On-line readers will be able to take advantage of v-mail to check their email while catching up on the latest fashion news and information on the Vogue Web site. Readers can also sign up to Vogue Daily, a daily news service sending fashion news bulletins direct to a users email inbox. Critical Path manages v-mail remotely from its data centers, ensuring the reliability and scalability of the service, for which CondeNet.UK anticipates a great demand.

Critical Path's proven outsourced messaging and collaboration solutions enable companies such as CondeNet.UK to utilize Critical Path's messaging expertise to provide the industry's most reliable, scalable and secure email services to their customers. By outsourcing their messaging needs to Critical Path, CondeNet.UK is free to focus on its core business of providing content for its on-line magazines.

"We consider v-mail a natural extension of the Vogue brand and are expecting a great demand for the service. We partnered with Critical Path because of the strength of its technology and services, and as the brand-behind-the-brand, Critical Path enables us to build on our relationship with our customers," said Jill Thater, director, CondeNet.UK. "We wanted a proven email solution that we could just plug in. Outsourcing to Critical Path has enabled us to provide a value-added service to our customers that is secure and reliable without the associated IT headaches."

Through its allsourcing strategy, Critical Path is the only messaging provider able to offer businesses the ability to outsource, midsource or insource all or part of their Internet messaging applications to best meet individual customer needs.

"By working with Critical Path, CondeNet.UK is able to expand its Internet strategy with v-mail and provide another value-added service to its on-line readers," said Dave Thatcher, president of Critical Path. "Critical Path's strategic mix of technology and the proven expertise to deliver cutting-edge messaging solutions enables companies like CondeNet.UK to further build a strong and loyal on-line community by providing the messaging solutions online readers demand."

CondeNet.UK is considering launching similar email services for its other on-line magazines including Tatler, GQ, Brides, and Conde Nast Traveller. In addition, the company is planning to take advantage of Critical Path's complete end-to-end Internet messaging solutions and is evaluating Critical Path's InSchedule(TM) Calendering solutions to incorporate individual user diaries with interest related content on each of its on-line magazines.

About CondeNet.UK

CondeNet.UK is the on-line division of international publisher Conde Nast and responsible for seven on-line magazines including Vogue, Tatler, GQ, Brides and Conde Nast Traveller. 650,000 users visit CondeNet.UK websites each month.

Conde Nast's stature in international magazine publishing is unrivalled. From the Company's inception in 1909, Conde Nast magazines have set the standard for editorial excellence and integrity. Conde Nast publishes magazines in 15 countries and employs over four thousand people to create sixty-seven magazines, connecting advertisers with over one hundred million affluent and desirable readers around the world.

About Critical Path Inc.

Critical Path, Inc. (Nasdaq:CPTH) is the dominant global provider of complete end-to-end Internet messaging and collaboration solutions for wireless, Internet-centric, telecommunication and corporate businesses. Through its allsourcing strategy, Critical Path is the only advanced messaging provider to offer businesses the flexibility to outsource, midsource or insource all or part of their messaging and collaboration applications. Critical Path has built an industry-leading global infrastructure with data centers connected to key Internet exchange points. Critical Path's technology currently reaches more than 100 million end-users through its customer relationships including more than 25 million wireless devices. Critical Path provides reliable, secure, and scalable e-mail and a flexible suite of enhanced messaging services to partners such as E*TRADE, CompuServe, Network Solutions, U S West, Sprint, France Telecom, British Telecommunications, and ICQ. Critical Path is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in locations nationwide and in Germany, England, Ireland, France, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, Brazil and Argentina. More information on Critical Path can be found at www.cp.net.

The statements in this press release relating to matters that are not historical are forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from these forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties facing Critical Path are described in its prospectus dated June 1, 1999 and with its periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (www.sec.gov).

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