Milinx Powers Farmroots.com; New Web Portal for Agriculture.

Business Editors

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER, B.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 3, 2001

Milinx (OTCBB:MIXBA)

Milinx Business Group, Inc. (OTCBB:MIXBA) has been chosen by Farmroots Inc. to create and host a vertical-market portal (vortal) site that will deliver Web-based applications exclusively for the North American agricultural community.

Farmroots.com is a consortium of farm advisors, associations and agribusinesses dedicated to improving farm productivity and profitability. Their goal is to become the leading Internet resource for farmers across the continent. The Farmroots vortal will provide expert agricultural advice, plus Milinx Web-delivered software for communications, productivity and e-commerce.

Farmroots has signed a vortal development contract with Milinx valued at over half a million dollars with provisions for future upgrades and product additions to the vortal.

Farmroots will benefit from one-stop shopping thanks to the multitude of skills and technologies that Milinx offers; vortal design, application hosting and private labeling, integration, quality assurance, content sourcing, and hosting are all in-house. Milinx will be the complete solution for Farmroots.com, allowing the organization to concentrate on its core competencies and serving its subscribers.

Another benefit is that Farmroots will not incur the major hardware and upkeep costs associated with operating an information technology (IT) department and the upkeep of a major backend system. The vortal, its content and software applications will all be securely hosted by Milinx and delivered to subscribers via the Internet. This means that Farmroots will be able to administer its vortal through any Web browser anywhere, securely and conveniently. Milinx will train Farmroots.com technical personnel through the Milinx MXOE/MXSE program.

Farmroots.com will link farm producers to valuable advice through strategic alliances with some of North America's leading farm experts. The vortal will have links and contact numbers for one-to-one advice in many areas including management, finance, taxes, estate planning, trade, and family, all of which is intended to improve the farmer's bottom line. This service will be facilitated by computer-to-computer phone calls using voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) technology, offering substantial savings over regular long distance costs anywhere in the world. Farmroots.com will also offer resourceful information and proprietary databases dealing with industry segments, suppliers, markets, associations, regulations, and innovations. Milinx will also help Farmroots deliver Web-based applications to assist farmers in managing their businesses and improving their production and bottom line.

About Milinx

Milinx develops, hosts, manages, and deploys its proprietary business applications on its Milinx Managed Application Platform (MMAP(tm)) at its Application Data Center. Milinx defined the Systems/Mobile Application Provider (S/MAP) sector, in which businesses deliver infrastructure, access, products and services. Milinx markets its hosted software to application service providers, Internet service providers, competitive local exchange carriers, wireless service providers and telephone companies for resale to the end-user marketplace. Milinx subsidiary ASP TechONE is an ASP that resells the licensed products and services of Milinx or other companies to corporate or individual users. For more information visit www.milinx.com.

Forward-looking statements in this news release include creating and hosting a vortal; contract provisions for future upgrades and product additions; training of technical personnel; computer-to-computer phone calls; and helping Farmroots deliver applications. Important factors that could cause results to differ materially include without limitation the possibilities of: delay in or failure of payment; delay in the creation and hosting of a vortal; delay or cancellation of upgrades and additions; delay or cancellation of technical training programs; delays or defects involving computer telephony; and other significant risk factors detailed in the latest Milinx 10-Q filing with the SEC.