TheAgZone.com Goes Live with Calico; Calico Market Maker Powers Trading Community Serving 2.8 Million Agriculture Firms.

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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 28, 2000

Calico Commerce, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLIC), a leading provider of eBusiness applications that enable companies to sell over the Web, announced today that TheAgZone.com, the world's first one-stop, low-cost agricultural electronic commerce community, is ready to go live with Calico Market Maker(tm) to power its agricultural focused trading community that will include product catalog, order management and supply chain integration for business-to-business e-Commerce. TheAgZone.com is the exclusive provider to World Ag Expo, the world's largest agricultural trade show. TheAgZone.com also has the largest audited database of agricultural firms consisting of 2.8 million.

TheAgZone.com, which is set to officially launch in the next thirty days, provides a complete integrated trading community for agriculture-related firms and magnet users. The site provides community capabilities, marketing information, essential services specifically designed for the buying and selling of agricultural products and a supreme list of services customized to each subscriber. To develop this marketplace, TheAgZone looked to Calico Commerce for software and technological expertise.

"What Calico brings to the table is a highly scalable and personalized e-Commerce solution that will provide our customers with the best options to sell and trade agricultural products and services on the Web," said Prudence Zalewski, CEO of TheAgZone.com. "With Calico Market Maker we will be able to offer our subscribers the personalized storefronts and customized information that will prove to be an invaluable resource to their business."

TheAgZone.com is the only agricultural e-Commerce portal that includes in-depth content, including complete options for weather, market prices, research, and trade association and community news. Members of TheAgZone.com can buy and sell a wide range of agricultural products and services online from a host of top-name suppliers. TheAgZone.com chose Calico Market Maker based on its proven ability to provide critical product tracking from the initial point of purchase to the final delivery of the product. TheAgZone was impressed with Calico MarketMaker's ability to develop personalized individual storefronts for TheAgZone's subscribers while giving them access to customized content such as weather, news, prices, research, training, events and finance to meet their specific needs.

"Calico Market Maker's standards-based architecture enables companies like TheAgZone to get their Net markets up and running quickly, while providing the scalability needed for rapid deployment and additional e-Commerce functionality to grow their businesses," said Alan Naumann, president and CEO of Calico Commerce. "This functionality is critical for organizations wanting to build communities by grouping appropriate buyers and sellers online, allowing their businesses to grow and successfully meet the expanding requirements of digital marketplaces."

About Calico Market Maker

To accelerate time to market and make the selling process more efficient, Calico Market Maker provides an integrated solution that includes cross-supplier catalog, customized pricing, buyer profiling and personalization, back-end system integration and fulfillment tracking information. Calico Market Maker streamlines the e-Commerce process by dynamically connecting multiple buying and selling organizations via the Internet and provides the out-of-the-box functionality required for corporations to rapidly and cost-effectively bring their businesses onto the Web and begin taking orders -- in less than 90 days. In addition, Calico's patented agent technology allows Net market makers to build communities by grouping appropriate buyers and sellers, and proactively notifying buyers about new products and services that are available to them.

About The AgZone.com

TheAgZone.com is the first one-stop, easy-to-use, low-cost, agricultural electronic commerce community in the world. TheAgZone.com is made up of storefronts and catalogs of member firms, and charges no mark-ups to storefront owners. In the U.S. alone, the AgZone.com community consists of more than 6 million firms, including 3.2 million firms registered with the U.S.D.A. TheAgZone.com's mission is to provide world-leading, one-stop, low-cost electronic commerce services to the agricultural business sector through the creation of highly valued Internet content and management of an integrated commercial trading community of firms and magnet users. For more information visit www.theagzone.com.

About Calico Commerce, Inc.

Calico Commerce, Inc. provides an eBusiness application suite that enables leading corporations to sell products and services via the Web, through existing channels and in Net Markets. Calico's open-standards eBusiness applications match unique customer needs to products to drive revenue growth, increase customer satisfaction and achieve competitive advantage. Calico customers include leaders in high-technology hardware, manufacturing, telecommunications services, financial services, home furnishings, chemicals, agriculture and retail. Calico Commerce, Inc., headquartered in San Jose, Calif., can be found on the World Wide Web at www.calico.com.

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in news releases contain forward-looking statements that involve substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties are described in detail in public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission such as Calicos Registration Statement on Form S-1 and on Form S-4 in connection with the ConnectInc.com acquisition.