Management Service Provider —MSP— Association Continues Rapid Membership Growth With 24 New Members in One Month; First Membership Meeting Held At COMDEX

Business Wire, Dec 20, 2000

Business/Technology Editors

WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 2000

Solidifying its position as the voice for the management service provider (MSP) industry, the MSP Association continues to grow, aggressively adding 24 members in one month. The addition of the new members increases the size of the consortium to 76 members, including several additional foreign member companies. Headquartered in Massachusetts, the MSP Association, which launched in June 2000 with 18 founding members, was created to define and promote the management service provider market through education, research, standards and best practices of the rapidly evolving MSP model.

The consortium recently held its first General Membership Meeting during COMDEX in Las Vegas. The meeting served as an excellent forum for members and association committees (Education, Research, Technology, Best Practices and Membership) to meet and further the discussions on the association's objectives moving into 2001.

"The continued growth of new members in the consortium shows that the MSP Association has been successful establishing itself as a leader in the MSP industry by providing a dynamic environment for our members," said Linda Shannon-Hills of HP OpenView, chairperson of the MSP Association. "We're very pleased with the progress the group's various committees have made in the last three months and we look forward to sharing our initiatives."

The new members include 15 who have joined at the Executive level of membership: Agilent Technologies - Firehunter (NYSE: A); Aptegrity; Arsenal Digital Solutions; Atesto Technologies, Inc.; Automatos Inc. (Brazil); Bangalore Labs Ltd. (India); BMC Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: BMCS); Chapter 2; esavio; Euclid Inc; NEXL, Inc.; Objective Systems Integrators (NASDAQ: OSII); Precise Software Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ: PRSE); S Net Systems, Inc.- Korea (KOSDAQ: SNET); and Telenisus Corporation.

Nine new members have joined at the Associate level: AVCOM; dbaDIRECT, Inc.; developNET Corporation; Servail Corporation; Managed Objects; Marimba, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRBA); Nuvo Network Management Inc. (CDNX: NNM); Raymond James & Associates, Inc. (NYSE: RJF); and RiverSoft.

The MSP Association has members from across the United States, as well as from the following countries: Brazil, Canada, India, Korea, Singapore and the United Kingdom. For more information on the association and its members, please visit the MSP Association Web site at www.mspassociation.org.

About the MSP Industry

MSP companies deliver information technology (IT) infrastructure management services to multiple customers over a network on a subscription basis. MSPs operate similarly to Application Service Providers (ASPs) in that they deliver services via a network that are billed to their clients. Unlike ASPs, which deliver business applications to end users, MSPs deliver system management services to IT departments and other customers who manage their own technology assets.

About the MSP Association

Founded in June 2000, the MSP Association, Inc. is a consortium of companies that together will define and promote the emerging Management Service Provider sector. Founding members are 2ndWave, Inc.; Candle Corporation; Entuity, Inc.; HP OpenView (NYSE: HWP); InteQ Corporation; iSharp; Luminate; Manage.Com; ManageIT; McAfee.com (NASDAQ: MCAF); NCMX, Inc.; Nuclio Corporation; SilverBack Technologies, Inc.; SiteLite, Inc.; siteROCK Corporation; Storability, Inc.; TriActive, Inc.; and UP 7/24.

Information on the MSP Association is available on the web at www.mspassociation.org; from Association headquarters at 401 Edgewater Place, Suite 500, Wakefield, MA 01880; Tel: 781-876-8830; or by sending email to info@mspassociation.org.