New B2B Portal--Freightek--to Deploy Bluestone Software's e-Business Platform to Deliver Internet-Based Supply-Chain Service; Bluestone's Total-e-Business Platform Provides the Foundation for Ensuring Data Compliance Across the Supply Chain.

Business and Technology Editors

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 2, 2000

Bluestone(R) Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLSW), a leader in business-to-Web and wireless technologies, today announced that Freightek, Inc., a new and innovative Internet logistics company, will deploy Bluestone's comprehensive, J2EE- and XML-based Total-e-Business(TM) platform as the foundation to power its forthcoming business-to-business (B2B) Internet portal--Freightek.com.

Based on Bluestone's Total-e-Global(TM)--the all-encompassing edition of the Total-e-Business platform, Freightek.com will provide a vital service that automates and facilitates the movement of data across the import supply chain, thereby ensuring that retailers and others importing merchandise into the U.S. comply with U. S. Customs regulatory requirements. The new B2B portal also will automate data compliance for the domestic supply chain within the U.S., enabling companies, for example, to automatically receive the required purchase orders and create shipment notifications as requested by their customers and/or trading partners. Freightek.com will give unprecedented visibility into the supply chain, enabling all parties to track the history of a shipment along the way--what has been shipped, its status, condition, value, carton content, and more--at an item, style, or SKU level.

Specifically, Total-e-Global comprises all of Bluestone's e-business software components, including the Total-e-B2B(TM) Integration Server, Total-e-Server(TM) Application Server, Total-e-B2C(TM), and Total-e-Mobile(TM) editions. The Global edition provides a complete e-business foundation for both rapid application development, and robust, ongoing application operation and maintenance.

With Bluestone's technology at the heart of Freightek's application development environment, the company expects to develop its Web-based applications in record time, with full rollout of its B2B portal anticipated before year-end 2000. Because all of Bluestone's software applications are based on Sun Microsystems' 100% Pure Java technology and J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition), and provide comprehensive support for XML, Freightek will be able to seamlessly exchange information among hundreds of customers and their trading partners using different computer platforms, operating systems, application programming languages and wireless devices. Using Bluestone's Internet Operating Environment(TM) framework, Freightek will be able to scale to meet escalating customer demand for personalized, Web-based services, while providing a high level of fault tolerance and security. Bluestone's strong application management capabilities also will enable Freightek to more easily and cost-effectively manage its applications, and will provide the stability to ensure reliable data transfer among customers and partners.

"Bluestone offers a total, proven e-business package, with a level of adherence to industry standards unmatched by other vendors," said Lawrence Antonucci, principal of Freightek. "Our business revolves around facilitating data transfer between systems of all kinds, all over the world. Through comprehensive J2EE- and XML-based standards support, Bluestone provides a solid foundation and helps position Freightek as the leading one-stop portal for data compliance across the supply chain."

Added Andre Pino, senior vice president of marketing for Bluestone Software, "Moving goods around the world has traditionally been a paper-intensive, complex task involving a number of regulations. But providing Web-based automation and visibility into the supply chain is no easy task. It involves transferring data between any number of systems, providing personalized customer interaction and access via any number of wired or wireless devices, while ensuring peak system performance at all times. Bluestone's Total-e-Business provides all the e-business software components Freightek needs to take a standards-based, platform-independent approach to e-enabling all of the information requirements across the global supply chain."

About Freightek, Inc.

Freightek, Inc. is an Internet B2B logistics portal that helps its customers improve the efficiency of their supply chain--financially and operationally--by facilitating the flow of compliant data between its trading partners, customers, internal departments, and government agencies. Freightek, Inc. is headquartered at 721 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106. For more information, please call 215-238-8616.

About Bluestone Software

Bluestone(R) Software, Inc. is a leader in business-to-Web and wireless technologies. Companies deploying e-business applications, like Avnet, Food.com, Hewlett-Packard, Planalytics, Reliance National, SGI, and Time Inc., rely on Bluestone's Total-e-Business(TM) platform to provide comprehensive e-business platforms, Internet-class infrastructures, and robust integration services that e-business success demands. Bluestone is headquartered at 300 Stevens Drive, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19113-1597. For more information, please call 888-Bluestone or 610-915-5000, email [e-mail], or visit http://www.bluestone.com.

Bluestone is a registered trademark, and Total-e-Business, Total-e-Global, Total-e-B2B, Total-e-Server, Total-e-B2C, Total-e-Mobile and Internet Operating Environment are trademarks of Bluestone Software, Inc. All other names, brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Certain statements in this press release constitute forward-looking statements as such term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, including those contained in Bluestone's publicly filed reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which may cause Bluestone's actual results, performance, or achievements or those of its customers or its industry to be materially different from the future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward looking statements. Specifically, the Company's beliefs with respect to the business opportunities presented by e-business and the Company's ability to profitably market and deploy its product solutions may prove to be inaccurate. In light of the significant uncertainties inherent in these forward looking statements, the information in this press release should not be considered a representation by the Company or any other person that Bluestone's objectives and plans will be achieved.