VitaminShoppe.com CTO Phil Teplitzky Speaks at InternetWeek Seminar in New York City; Focusing on 100% Uptime, Teplitzky Addresses IT Managers About E-Commerce Uptime

Business Wire, March 22, 2000

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2000

Phil Teplitzky, chief technical officer of VitaminShoppe.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:VSHP), the leading e-commerce provider of vitamins, nutritional supplements and minerals, will be speaking at InternetWeek's seminar Managing E-Commerce Sites for 100% Uptime.

Part of InternetWeek's one-day seminar, this one-hour session, scheduled for 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 22, is focused on helping IT managers understand the issues of e-commerce uptime and architect their sites applications, infrastructure and management tools.

As ViatminShoppe.com prepares for the launch of a state-of-the-art, highly scaleable and redundant Web site, Mr. Teplitzky will address the vital issues of e-commerce uptime and high availability, including dealing with 100% uptime, building a site to minimize downtime, and defining the critical issues in building a dynamic e-commerce site.

WHO: Phil Teplitzky, chief technical officer of VitaminShoppe.com

WHAT: Addressing IT Managers on Internet Week's Seminar Managing

E-Commerce Sites for 100% Uptime

WHERE: Marriott East Side Stuyvesant Room

New York City

WHEN: Wednesday, March 22 at 2:00 p.m.

VitaminShoppe.com is the leader in the online sale of products related to healthy living. The Company focuses on providing its knowledgeable customers with superior selection on over 18,000 products and 400 brands, excellent customer service, everyday competitive pricing, and next day delivery. In addition to its extensive selection of vitamins, supplements, nutritional products, personal care, homeopathy and fitness products. VitaminShoppe.com delivers unbiased information that helps its customers make better purchase decisions.

CMP Media's InternetWeek (http://www.internetwk.com) is the news and analysis source for 215,000 IT and corporate managers applying Internet technologies to transform their enterprises. With a history of innovation and thought leadership, InternetWeek is the only newspaper that covers enterprise solutions with an Internet filter-meeting the informational needs of IS/network buyers responsible for building the Internet economy. According to the most recent Simmons and IntelliQuest readership studies, InternetWeek delivers the most powerful audience-it is the best-read and maintains the highest reader loyalty of all networking newspapers.