Interliant Helps Browz Deliver Dynamic 'e-Business Building Blocks' Via ASP Model

Business Wire, Nov 21, 2000

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

PURCHASE, N.Y. & SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 2000

Interliant's INIT ASP Host Program for ISVs Provides Browz Enhanced

Hosting and Marketing Support

Interliant, Inc. (NASDAQ:INIT), a leading global application service provider, and Browz, Inc., an independent software vendor (ISV), today announced an agreement enabling Browz to offer its customers a world-class hosting option through Interliant's INIT ASP Host program. Browz now can deliver its Internet technology and e-Business applications to its customers with increased scalability, security, reliability and performance.

Browz has developed a unique new Internet technology, which enables Browz to create Web applications such as online document libraries and directories, dynamic events calendars, online conference rooms, and other eBusiness applications, much faster and with more ease than traditional code writing requires. Browz offers a full set of online modules called eBusiness Building Blocks (eB3) - a powerful server-side Web creation and management software infrastructure designed for non-technical end users. eB3 is built on Browz technology and allows clients to build internal and customer-facing Web systems using only a computer and a browser connected to the Internet.

"We were particularly interested in establishing an ASP partnership that would go beyond the seller-buyer relationship, and Interliant came out on top of our extensive search for a number of reasons," said Brent Meikle, senior vice president at Browz. "The INIT ASP Host program met our needs by providing a reliable hosting infrastructure and quality management, along with marketing and promotional support. In addition, the program offers Browz opportunities to leverage Interliant's world-class partnership network.

"Interliant's relationship with Browz reflects our shared commitment to delivering the strongest customer-facing eBusiness solutions," Meikle continued. "Through the INIT ASP Host program, Browz now can offer the security, reliability and performance our customers expect, and we free up internal resources to focus on other critical business issues such as delivering solutions, improving application functionality and strengthening customer relationships."

Interliant's INIT ASP Host program supports the needs of ISVs who want to offer their software via an ASP model. The program includes INIT Managed Hosting, INIT SECURE services, marketing and sales support, and consulting services. Based on Interliant's world-class infrastructure that ensures reliability, availability, and performance, ISVs create an end-to-end solution for their customers.

"With INIT ASP Host, Browz can make a painless, effective transition to the ASP delivery model," said Jim Battenberg, Interliant vice president for product marketing. "Interliant's industrial-strength infrastructure and experience with hosted solutions enable Browz to deliver reliable solutions and extend the company's reach into the small and medium-sized business market. Most ISVs do not have the infrastructure to make a successful transition to Web-delivered applications, and our program was designed to provide them with the technology and expertise they need to make this move."

About Browz Inc.

Browz, a Utah-based company, founded in 1998, offers Web-based solutions designed for non-technical users. Browz technology provides a scalable cost-effective eBusiness infrastructure. Modules include content management, eCommerce, intranet and extranet, and data bridges with multi-level access authorization. More information about Browz is available at www.browz.com.

About Interliant

Interliant, Inc. (Nasdaq:INIT) is a leading global application service provider (ASP) and pioneer in the ASP market. Interliant's INIT Solutions Suite includes messaging and knowledge management, security, e-commerce, customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, distributed learning, Web-site hosting and Web-based rental applications. Interliant, headquartered in Purchase, NY, has forged strategic alliances with the world's leading software, networking and hardware manufacturers including Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq:DELL), Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq:ORCL), BMC Software (Nasdaq:BMCS), Network Solutions (Nasdaq:NSOL), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW), and Lotus Development Corp. For more information about Interliant, visit www.interliant.com.

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