Multex.com Introduces Calendaring and Linux Support to its BuzzPower e-Community and Collaboration Platform.

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2000

BuzzPower 4.2 also includes enhanced chat and e-mail digests

Multex.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: MLTX), one of the Internet's leading financial e-marketplaces connecting buyers and sellers of financial services, today unveiled calendaring, Linux support, enhanced chat and e-mail digests to its leading BuzzPower e-community and collaboration platform. The new and enhanced functionality, available on the next-generation BuzzPower 4.2 in December 2000, will allow portals and destination sites to expand the menu of value-added services offered to community members.

The new calendaring function will enable the creation of public and personal calendars for managing and sharing events among community members. Fully integrated with the BuzzPower access control engine, the calendar tool allows individuals to send e-mail invitations to an event, view scheduled events in a web-based graphical user interface and receive e-mail or private message reminders for events. Comprehensive web-based administration allows Web site managers to easily control and manage the community calendars.

New features on BuzzPower 4.2 include:

- Expanded support for industry-leading Java Application Servers, including ATG
Dynamo, iPlanet, and Apache Tomcat

- Enhanced e-mail digests, which let users receive an e-mail copy of every
posting to a forum and which enable quick and easy replies that can be
automatically threaded back into the discussion

- New chat capabilities, which use HTTP Protocol to work through the most
stringent and secure corporate firewalls

Zor Gorelov, Senior Vice President at Multex.com, said, "We are fully committed to creating a robust enterprise software platform for building strong communities on the Internet. BuzzPower's tightly integrated and highly advanced member interaction and collaborative commerce tools greatly increase the effectiveness of online communities, and BuzzPower 4.2 promises to continue to enhance our outstanding track record in this area."

BuzzPower 4.2 also offers a highly scalable e-community, targeted advertising to community members, member ratings, permission or "opt-in" marketing, member incentives or "loyalty points" programs, and the ability to integrate e-commerce catalogs, auctions and exchange software packages. BuzzPower is the leading eCommunity software built on a pure Java platform. It provides ORACLE and LDAP support, survey and polling capabilities, product reviews and XML-based Buzzlets for rapid e-community publishing. It can be deployed as a standalone offering on multiple operating systems including Linux, Solaris, and Windows or as a hosted offering through Multex's Application Service Provider business. The BuzzPower 4.2 Portal Edition is completely brandable, customizable, and offers a high level of security.

About Multex.com, Inc.

Multex.com, Inc. (http://www.multex.com) is one of the Internet's leading financial e-marketplaces connecting buyers and sellers of financial services. Multex.com is a global company providing cutting edge financial intelligence tools that enable and support decision-making processes for the major financial marketplace participants: institutional investors, investment banks, brokerage firms, corporations, and individual investors. The company focuses on three core business areas: Application Service Provider (ASP), which develops, hosts and operates websites and portals for financial institutions; Institutional (B2B), which provides real-time, web-based financial applications and information to institutional investors and other financial institutions; and Individual (B2C), which provides financial applications and information to individual investors through a network of branded and affiliate websites.

Multex.com serves this fast-growing and diverse financial e-marketplace through a number of industry leading brands, including: MultexNET(R), a subscription/transaction based, real-time, online service providing financial information from more than 750 firms such as Merrill Lynch, Salomon Smith Barney and RS Investment Management to more than 10,000 buy-side firms and over 38,000 users; MultexEXPRESS(SM), a web-development and hosting business with 120 sites; BuzzPower, industry leading collaborative commerce tools; and Multex Investor, which has attracted more than 2 million registered members; and Sage Online and Market Guide, with 1.6 million unique users. Multex.com has more than 500 information and distribution partners including: Reuters, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, AOL, Yahoo!, Quicken.com, CBS MarketWatch and CNNfn.com.

This press release includes forward-looking statements that are based on our current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions about Multex.com that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Reported results should not be considered an indication of future performance. Such risks and uncertainties are described in the periodic reports Multex files with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Multex undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release.