Interliant Successfully Transports New Customer to ASP Model; ASP Accelerates e-Business Presence for ROUTEMaster's Revolutionary Transportation Management Application

Business Wire, Sept 11, 2000

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PURCHASE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 2000

Interliant, Inc. (NASDAQ: INIT), a leading global application service provider (ASP), today announced it has been selected by ROUTEMaster, a nationwide provider of mission-critical transportation facilitating services, to host its unique Web-based Total Transportation Management Marketplace (T2M2) application. Interliant will provide ROUTEMaster with managed dedicated hosting, along with firewall and virtual private network (VPN) security solutions.

ROUTEMaster's revolutionary solution provides integrated online business processes for freight transportation. Its national and international transportation marketplace -www.routemaster.com-- provides small to midsize companies with the tools previously only available to large companies with large IT budgets and staffs. The T2M2 product offers transportation professionals a complete solution for managing their transportation processes. It includes a marketplace to buy and/or sell transportation services, online management of in-transit shipments, secure ACH payments, and online reporting and analysis. A community page keeps the transportation marketplace abreast of current topics of interest.

When ROUTEMaster originally went online in July 1999, the company founders quickly learned that their then-service/hosting provider could not provide the services they required, according to Stuart Miller, vice president of e-commerce for ROUTEMaster. "Interliant delivers the reliability and the wealth of resources we needed to launch our mission-critical application to the entire business community," he said. "Our application is our core business; if our site goes down, our customers' operations go down, and that is not acceptable.

"We chose Interliant because they provided the most flexible solutions and demonstrated the ability and the initiative to live up to what they proposed," said Miller. "With Interliant we receive constant communication in every step of the process and are given every opportunity to make the decisions. We reviewed the capabilities of a number of ASPs, and Interliant's service is far better than any we've ever seen before."

"Interliant is the technology partner best positioned to lead companies like ROUTEMaster into the future with minimal risk and maximum flexibility," said David Caples, Interliant VP for Eastern Region Sales. "This is a great example of a Web-based company that has realized the value of letting a dedicated team of technology professionals worry 24/7 about maintaining operating systems, providing security, and backing up data. Because we have the experience and resources to handle all these issues, ROUTEMaster can concentrate on adding and enhancing services to meet its customers' needs."

About ROUTEMaster

ROUTEMaster is all about the freedom and control to do what's best for you. We're a neutral, B2B transportation exchange matching shipper needs with carrier availability, 24/7. A one-stop shop, with hundreds of years of transportation and logistics knowledge available in a single source site focusing on improving the efficiency of the entire transportation management process; Buying and Selling, Execution, Intransit Management, Communication, Payment, Collections, Reporting and Analysis. For more information, visit www.routemaster.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) and Lotus Development Corp. For more information, visit www.interliant.com.

Interliant is a registered trademark of Interliant, Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective companies.

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Actual results and the timing of certain events may differ significantly from the results anticipated or discussed in the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based largely on Interliant's current expectations and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. In addition to this press release, other important factors to consider in evaluating the forward-looking statements include, without limitation, Interliant's Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on March 29, 2000, and Interliant's registration statement on Form S-1, as amended, that was filed with the SEC on May 16, 2000, and in other reports of Interliant filed from time to time with the SEC. In light of these risks and uncertainties, there can be no assurance that the forward-looking statements contained herein will in fact be realized and Interliant assumes no obligation to update this information.