Intershop Marketplace Toolkit Enables Businesses to Build B2B Electronic Marketplaces.

Business Editors

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2000

AppNet, Commerce One, Compaq support Intershop Marketplace Toolkit

for developing and deploying marketplace solutions

Intershop Communications, Inc., the world's leading provider of sell-side electronic commerce software, today announced the availability of the Intershop Marketplace Toolkit, a best-in-class set of products and technologies for building, selling onto and enabling electronic marketplaces on the Internet.

The Intershop Marketplace Toolkit, which supports Intershop's Sell Anywhere strategy, enables a variety of marketplace-oriented business models and targets:

-- Sellers, wishing to sell their products and services into

marketplaces;

-- Marketplace Organizers who enable marketplaces by aggregating

sellers and linking them to buyers; and

-- Marketplace ASPs who provide technology platforms to

marketplace organizers.

"Intershop has been supplying solutions for businesses who develop, deploy and connect to a multitude of electronic marketplaces, and the Intershop marketplace Toolkit formalizes this offering," said Keith Costello, President, Intershop Communications. "The Intershop Marketplace Toolkit is comprised of Internet standard marketplace technologies and products that are relevant to Sellers, Marketplace Organizers and Marketplace ASPs. Partners such as AppNet, Commerce One and Compaq use the Intershop Marketplace Toolkit to delivers scalable and flexible solutions that allow marketplace customers to Sell Anywhere."

AppNet, a premier provider of end-to-end e-business solutions is the architect for eMarketplaces, providing integration services to corporate buyers and sellers. AppNet plans to utilize Intershop Marketplace Toolkit application to offer customers comprehensive sell-side business solutions.

Intershop customers wishing to sell on marketplaces can connect to Commerce One MarketSite Global Trading Portal, as well as other portals on the Commerce One Global Trading Web, through Intershop's support of Commerce One's xCBL 2.0 and the Intershop Marketplace Connector. Marketplace organizers who build and deploy marketplaces with the Intershop Marketplace Toolkit can aggregate sellers and present them on the Commerce One MarketSite.

Compaq, one of Intershop's global strategic partners, uses Intershop technology to build comprehensive solutions that meet the requirements of next-generation marketplaces. Solutions include Compaq hardware, the Intershop Marketplace Toolkit and complementary technologies from vendors such as Commerce One as well as planning and implementation services.

"The Intershop Marketplace Toolkit which enables businesses of all sizes around the world to connect their sell-side solutions to the Global Trading Web, which can provide economies of scale for buyers," said Chuck Donchess, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer, Commerce One. "Intershop's Sell Anywhere strategy, Commerce One's marketplace solutions and the performance of the Compaq server platform are a winning combination for buyers and suppliers worldwide."

"With Intershop's Marketplace Toolkit we can help our customers reduce development costs as well as deployment time of any electronic marketplace without compromising its features," said Ray Villareal, Vice President and General Manager, Solutions Division, Compaq Computer Corporation. "The addition of Intershop marketplace technology helps extend Compaq's industry leadership in Internet access, infrastructure, services and solutions by enabling businesses to sell anywhere on the Internet or to build their own marketplaces solutions more cost-efficiently."

The Intershop Marketplace Toolkit includes

-- Intershop enfinity, the world's first sell-side e-commerce

software developed on Java and XML that enables enterprises to

Sell Anywhere on the Internet.

-- Intershop ePages, a scalable and rapidly deployable solution

that enables sellers with self- e-commerce on sellside

marketplaces;

-- The Intershop Marketplace Connector, a development tool for

selling on remote business-to-business Web sites by exchanging

catalog and transaction data with marketplaces in real time;

-- the eSyndication cartridge for ArcadiaOne that uses the

Internet Content Exchange (ICE) protocol to enable market

makers to aggregate and centralize multiple product catalogs

from multiple suppliers.

"We recognize the Intershop Marketplace Toolkit as one of the most complete and flexible solutions to develop, deploy and enable multiple marketplace business models," said Scott Fisher, Senior VP at AppNet. "This partnership offers our customers the benefits of Intershop's best-in-class technology and AppNet's industry consulting expertise."

About Intershop Communications, Inc.

Intershop Communications is the world's fastest growing provider of e-commerce software and solutions for the enterprise. Intershop software offers the quickest time-to-market today with the greatest flexibility for tomorrow. Intershop e-commerce solutions enable customers to "Sell Anywhere" by supporting the widest range of current and rapidly emerging e-commerce business models.

With more than 100,000 licenses sold worldwide, Intershop customers include some of the world's largest commerce service providers and enterprises such as AltaVista, Concentric, Deutsche Telekom, Go2Net, Mindspring, Nortel, PSINet, U S West Dex, Bosch, Canon USA, Columbia-Tri Star, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Hewlett-Packard, Kraft, Lufthansa, Mercedes Benz U.S. International, Motorola, Sony and Waterstone's. Founded in 1992, Intershop is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in the U.S., Germany, France, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Sweden, Finland, Hong Kong, Singapore and the United Kingdom.

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