Jon Friedman Elected to Board of Directors Of ASP Industry Consortium.

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CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 2000

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Jon Friedman, Vice President of Marketing Operations, EPiCON, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Application Service Provider (ASP) Industry Consortium, an international advocacy group formed to promote the application service provider industry by sponsoring research, promoting best practices and articulating the measurable benefits of the burgeoning application service provider segment of the computer industry.

Launched with 25 founding members in May 1999, the Massachusetts-based ASP Industry Consortium has grown in one year to include more than 460 of the world's leading technology companies, including EPiCON.

The Board of Directors for 2000 was chosen during the Consortium's Global Members Meeting in London on May 2. The 44-member Board was expanded from the original 25 members to reflect the tremendous growth in the Consortium during its first year.

"I am extremely honored to be working with Jon Friedman on our Board of Directors," said Traver Gruen-Kennedy, chairman of the ASP Industry Consortium. "This is a group made up of some of the top names in the ASP field, representative of the international nature of the Consortium. I know their talent and dedication will result in much success for the Consortium this year."

EPiCON is a leading provider of application hosting infrastructure software, offering an innovative software platform that allows ASPs and other service providers to improve "Application Quality of Service" (AQoS), increase revenues by hosting more applications, and reduce deployment and support costs. EPiCON was one of the first 50 companies to join the ASP Industry Consortium at the Executive Member level, and has been active in the organization from the time of its first members' meeting.

"The ASP Industry Consortium has played a major leadership role in the development of the application hosting market. We are proud that Jon Friedman's contribution to that effort has been recognized by the Consortium's membership," said Jack Sweeney, President of EPiCON. "Jon is able to combine top-down industry analysis and strategy with bottom-up implementation, and we are confident he will be a major asset to the ASPIC board."

Jon Friedman has been serving as Chair of the ASPIC Membership Products and Services Committee. In that capacity he is responsible for identifying the needs and interests of the members of the Consortium and for communicating the services the organization provides back to its membership. He played a major role in organizing and presenting the first two ASPIC membership surveys, and in designing the membership newsletter. He is currently spearheading the efforts to enhance the members-only web site and to create an ASP Infrastructure special interest group within the Consortium.

"I am very excited about helping lead the ASP Industry Consortium over the coming year," said Jon Friedman. "The organization has been tremendously successful in promoting the application hosting industry. The challenge for the ASPIC now is to deliver enhanced services to its members as it continues to educate the marketplace. I plan to play an active role on the board of directors to assure that the Consortium provides value to its members and to the wider marketplace for hosted applications."

About the ASP Industry Consortium

Founded in May of 1999, the Application Service Provider Industry Consortium is an international advocacy group of more than 460 companies formed to promote the application service provider industry by sponsoring research, promoting best practices, and articulating the measurable benefits of this evolving delivery model. Its goals include educating the marketplace, developing common definitions for the industry, as well as serving as a forum for discussion and sponsoring research. Information on the ASP Industry Consortium is available at www.allaboutasp.org.

About EPiCON, Inc.

EPiCON's innovative ALTiS software platform allows Application Service Providers and other firms to provide managed application services including the deployment, installation, update and "self-healing" of desktop applications and application components to target PCs. ASPs can deliver and manage a wide variety of applications and components ranging from browsers and Internet plug-ins, to email and networking clients, to the client portion of enterprise resource planning and accounting applications, to full "fat client" office suites. Details at: http://www.epicon.com.