Interliant's Virtual Team Solution Enables Collaboration Among Young Women in IBM Technology Camps Worldwide

Business Wire, July 23, 2001

Business & Technology Editors

PURCHASE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 2001

Interliant Designs and Hosts Customized Lotus QuickPlace

Application to Facilitate Communication and Collaboration

Note to Editors: Following the release is a list of camps using

QuickPlace. Photos are available on request.

Interliant, Inc. (Nasdaq:INIT), a leading global application service provider (ASP) and a Premier IBM and Lotus Business Partner, announced today that it is providing hosting services, including an Interliant-designed and customized Lotus QuickPlace server, to IBM EXploring Interests in Technology and Engineering (EXITE) Camps. The IBM EXITE camps are designed to encourage more young women to pursue educations and careers in technology by giving them a better appreciation of career opportunities in these fields.

More than 600 sixth- and seventh-grade girls are involved in IBM's innovative program, which includes 21 camps in the Americas, Europe and the Asia Pacific region. Participants learn about technology and engineering from IBM's leading technical women and through hands-on problem solving, collaboration and teamwork. Activities include Web page and computer chip design, laser optics, animation and robotics, as well as work with computer hardware and software. The young women will put the QuickPlace tool to a variety of uses, including journaling, viewing daily agendas and activities, posting results of work, as well as for group and private communications with mentors and between campers within and across sites.

To support the IBM EXITE Camps' collaborative requirements, Interliant is hosting a customized Lotus QuickPlace server. The server provides a virtual team location that allows participants to communicate and collaborate on projects within their camp as well as with others around the world. A Lotus QuickPlace application creates the virtual team spaces and Interliant's QuickPlace 'Team Portal' provides an easy-to-use home-page interface that gives campers a single login to multiple EXITE team spaces. The dedicated server is managed and maintained in one of Interliant's state-of-the-art data centers and supported with a full range of hosting services, including data backup, monitoring, high-speed access and 24x7 product support.

"The worldwide shortage of technical talent - along with the ever-decreasing number of women entering technology and engineering fields - are critical issues today," said Jacelyn Swenson, IBM EXITE Camp program manager and a member of IBM's Women in Technology team. "By providing young women with positive role models, exciting hands-on projects and a collaborative experience, we hope they will realize the difference they can make in our technological future. Through our partnership with Interliant, girls at the camps will be able to meet other young women from around the world and work with them to complete joint projects."

"Interliant is extremely pleased to host enabling technology for the IBM EXITE program, which encourages young women to share ideas with one another. We applaud the program's focus on helping young women explore information technology professions," said Patty Jacobson, vice president of Interliant's INIT Managed Messaging division. "As an executive in a technical field, I understand the importance of introducing young women to the opportunities available to them in the technology and science arenas, fields historically dominated by men. Educating and providing young women with diverse female role models in the technology space will expand their career horizons and increase their potential as participants in our next generation of leaders."

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(TM) includes managed messaging, managed hosting, security, Web hosting (Branded Solutions/OEM and retail), and professional services. Interliant, headquartered in Purchase, N.Y., 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), Verisign/Network Solutions (Nasdaq:VRSN), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW), and Lotus Development Corp. For more information about Interliant, visit www.interliant.com.

Interliant is a trademark of Interliant, Inc., in the United States, other countries, or both. Lotus is a registered trademark of Lotus Development Corporation; Lotus QuickPlace is a trademark of Lotus Development Corporation. Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.

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