Virtacon, WIZNET Partner To Expand E-Commerce Services.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

BOCA RATON & DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 2000

Virtacon Corporation, an emerging leader in the custom e-business application industry, and WIZNET, a leading Internet infrastructure provider, today announced a partnership to expand their B2B e-commerce services. The two companies will cooperate in joint sales and marketing efforts to provide comprehensive e-commerce solutions to their customers.

Under the agreement, Virtacon and WIZNET plan to work closely together to offer specifically tailored business solutions, combining the rapid, custom web and wireless development expertise of Virtacon with WIZNET's proprietary content management technology. The combined effort will significantly expand the potential customer base of both companies.

"We are extremely pleased about this relationship with WIZNET and the fact that it provides new dimension to the e-business solutions available to our clients," said Ray Weadock, Virtacon's President and CEO. "The combination of WIZNET's exclusive catalog management expertise with Virtacon's Rapid Application Development Technology(SM) allows us to develop custom content-rich websites extraordinarily fast."

"This is a logical path for the two companies," said Steve Attanasio, president and CEO, WIZNET. "We both bring substantial capabilities to the e-commerce table, and together offer a robust business solution geared to meet just about any site development or content management need a company might have."

About WIZNET, Inc.

WIZNET is the B2B eCommerce market leader in aggregating and managing legacy catalogs and other supplier content in multiple languages on the Internet. WIZNET is the only company today that has the capability to aggregate on-line original, unabridged, unstructured content (catalogs, specifications, manuals, installation notes, etc.) in paper on electronic format, index this unstructured data and allow buyers to search quickly for any item on any page in any catalog using natural language. WIZNET uses advanced imaging and semantic networking technologies to present a precise, digital replication of a supplier's catalog content in its original, unabridged form. The digital replication is compressed and stored in a library structure suited to the business rules of the e-Procurement community or e-Market. Once the buyer finds the detailed information needed for an informed buying decision, WIZNET's catalog mapping technology facilitates the linking of the supplier's full content to B2B eCommerce transaction processes. WIZNET is a privately held corporation with headquarters in Delray Beach, FL and offices in Boston, Atlanta and Silicon Valley. For further information about the company and its products, visit http://wiznet.com or call 800-297-5377.

About Virtacon Corporation

Established in 1999 in Boca Raton, Florida, Virtacon Corporation is an emerging custom eBusiness application developer known for rapid development of sophisticated, premium web and wireless solutions. Virtacon focuses on transactional B2B exchange, supply chain management and mobile enterprise applications. Propelling the company's success is Rapid Application Development Technology (RADT(SM)), Virtacon's proprietary development tool that utilizes a client's existing business logic and legacy systems to design an advanced-functionality custom solution. Time to deployment is a fraction of the time versus traditional custom development. The firm's flexible, forward-thinking and customer-focused approach reflects the business savvy of its seasoned management team, positioning the company for steady growth. For more information about RADT and Virtacon's custom e-business solutions, visit www.virtacon.com, call Herb Marschang at 561/994-1094, extension 284 or send an inquiry to info@virtacon.com.