ComputerLiteracy.com Builds Custom Online Resource Store for Sun Microsystems; Companies Partner to Bring Instant Access to Technical Information and Business Resources to the Desktop of Every Sun Employee

Business Wire, Jan 5, 1999

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 1998--Computer Literacy, the leading online retailer of books, manuals and training materials for technology professionals, today announced a agreement with Sun Microsystems. Through this venture, Computer Literacy has built a customized resource store on Sun's corporate intranet, providing Sun's more than 27,000 employees worldwide with easy, instant desktop access to the world's largest selection of technical and business books, manuals and training materials.

Through the co-branded SunLibrary Bookstore, employees are pre-approved to order technical information resources to help them address their particular critical computing issues. The SunLibrary Bookstore offers full access to Computer Literacy's more than 800 technical subject categories and provides recommended reading lists designed specifically for Sun employees. In addition, Computer Literacy has created special tools and advanced services to assist Sun employees in locating the right resource to solve their technology issues.

"The SunLibrary Bookstore adds measurable value to our intranet, making it a place where our employees can source important materials that they would otherwise have to go elsewhere to find," said Cindy Hill, manager of library resources for Sun Microsystems. "We're eliminating the need for employees to spend valuable work time searching for resources they need on a day-to-day basis."

For the SunLibrary Bookstore, Computer Literacy maintains a special inventory of SunU course materials as well as general business bestsellers among Sun employees, enabling same-day shipping for these titles. Accessible from Sun's corporate network, the SunLibrary Bookstore is hosted by Computer Literacy. Computer Literacy's e-commerce security is approved by Sun, and all data transactions are carried out in secure zones which provide network traffic encryption. The bookstore Web site is protected from intruders with a firewall, and incoming orders are validated to ensure that they are from Sun.

Last month, Computer Literacy announced FindITNow, an innovative new program that allows businesses to provide customized technical resource stores within their corporate intranets. Through this program, Computer Literacy builds a custom storefront on the corporate partner's intranet, providing every employee with a quick, easy way to find and order technical books, manuals and training materials.

The program offers personalized support by a designated Computer Literacy account manager, unique expertise in technical and business books, manuals and training materials and a business-to-business model that works easily with most purchase order and inter-departmental charge procedures. Some corporate partners may qualify for discounts or rebates for quantity orders. For more information on corporate options available from Computer Literacy's FindITNow business-to-business program, call 800-789-8590, email sales@clbooks.com or visit www.computerliteracy.com. To see an online demo, visit www.computerliteracy.com/findit.> About Computer Literacy

Computer Literacy (Nasdaq: CMPL) is the leading online retailer of information resources singularly focused on technical professionals. With more than 300,000 technology-focused information resource titles from more than 8,000 publishers, Computer Literacy offers individual and corporate customers online access to the broadest, most comprehensive selection of technical and business books, technology-based training solutions, product manuals, research reports and other information resources. The company offers discounts of up to 40 percent on books and resources and ships all in-stock orders placed by 4 PM PST on the same day the order is placed weekdays. Visit Computer Literacy on the web at www.computerliteracy.com.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The Computer," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW), to its position as a leading provider of high quality hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $10 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com.

This announcement may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties including, among others, Computer Literacy's limited operating history, anticipated losses, the unpredictability of its future revenues, competition, risks associated with system development and operation risks, management of potential growth, and risks of new business areas, international expansion, business combinations, and strategic alliances. Actual results could differ materially from those discussed. More information about factors that potentially could affect Computer Literacy's financial results is included in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Registration Statement filed on Form SB-2 on November 19, 1998, as amended. All forward looking statements are based on information available to the Company on the date hereof, and the Company assumes no obligation to update such statements.