DecisionMarkets.com Launches Revolutionary Decision Marketplace; Website Gives Internet Users Unique Forum to Predict Industry Trends and Track Reputations.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 2000

Decision Markets, Inc. (www.decisionmarkets.com), a pioneer in the industry-analysis and forecasting industry launched its breakthrough Decision Markets and Reputation Mining web services today. A Decision Market works by allowing anyone to buy or short-sell shares of predictions of industry trends or of outcomes of corporate decisions. This allows decision makers to see the current consensus among experts, while giving everyone an opportunity to build an objective reputation.

"This is a novel concept and we are excited to see how it will be received by the industry analysis and decision support community," said Yaroslav Faybishenko, CTO and co-founder of the company.

Industry Decision Markets

Industry Decision Markets provide industry analysts and decision-makers with a finer-grained ability to make and observe predictions than the stock market. For example, one can short-sell the Jini trend on the High-tech Industry Decision Market while going long on Sun Microsystems, Inc. on Nasdaq. Corporate decision-makers can use the market price as an indication of consensus among industry experts.

Corporate Decision Markets

A corporate decision-maker can use an internal corporate decision market to see employee consensus, to let employees share knowledge, and to identify true visionaries. Decision Markets effectively overrides the institutional sclerosis and rigid hierarchical knowledge-sharing mechanisms of today's corporate world.

What's at stake? Reputation.

An employee's or an industry pundit's return-on-investment on a Decision Market can be used as an objective indicator of his or her predictive prowess. DecisionMarkets.com provide an innovative search tool for users to find people who have good track-records predicting trends in multiple industries or in multiple categories of a corporate market. This mining information allows corporate decision-makers to identify and seek advice from those people who have the best track records for making predictions in their respective fields of expertise.

Technology

DecisionMarkets.com's highly-scalable and fault-tolerant market infrastructure, built with a secure and robust application framework, is designed to meet the scalability demands of an electronic marketplace and a top-tier Application Service Provider.

About Decision Markets, Inc.

Decision Markets, Inc. is a pioneer in web based decision marketplace services. Leveraging the work of previous Open Source development efforts, Decision Markets provides a secure and massively scalable infrastructure that enables individuals and companies to track consensus on industry trends through a market mechanism on the web. Decision Markets also provides private Decision Market services for corporate customers. The company provides a competitive advantage to its customers through a more efficient and timely exchange of information between industry pundits and corporate decision makers, as well as between employees and executive management. For more information, please see www.decisionmarkets.com.