Frontera Builds ASP Solution on BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform; Frontera to Offer BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform as a Hosted Solution

Business Wire, March 12, 2001

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 2001

Frontera Corporation, an application service provider (ASP) that hosts, delivers and manages the best customer-facing applications available in the marketplace, today announced that the BEA WebLogic(R) E-Business Platform will be offered as an outsourced solution through Frontera. BEA Systems is one of the world's leading e-business software infrastructure companies, with over 9,400 customers globally. By delivering hosted solutions on the BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform(TM), Frontera further expands its customer relationship management applications and services to a wide range of industries.

Frontera will be deploying, hosting and managing multiple applications within the BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform, a comprehensive infrastructure that delivers commerce, personalization, enterprise integration, workflow management and business-to-business collaboration, for customers in a variety of key vertical markets.

"The combination of Frontera's application hosting and management services with BEA's e-business infrastructure software creates a simple, powerful and rapid business solution," said Tim Cahill, CEO of Frontera Corporation. "BEA is a clear leader in infrastructure software, and our growing list of customers will benefit from an ASP solution using the WebLogic E-Business Platform. We're extremely excited about our relationship with BEA."

BEA provides the necessary IT infrastructure for customers to develop their company's entire WML, XML or Java-based architecture on the BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform, while Frontera's application hosting and management provides reliability, scalability, security and extensibility. The result is a powerful business process that can be outsourced to a variety of Mid-Sized Enterprises (MSEs) and Global 2000 companies.

About Frontera Corporation

Frontera Corporation (www.fronteracorp.com) is an application service provider that hosts, delivers and manages the best customer-facing platforms and applications available in the marketplace, including Vignette, E.piphany, BroadVision, ATG and BEA. The Company's complementary enterprise software hosting and professional services capabilities enable online businesses to build, manage and extend relationships with consumers through secure, reliable and rapidly deployed solutions. Frontera's clients are Global 2000 companies, including Pioneer Electronics and Conseco Services. Founded in 1999, Frontera is backed by J.& W. Seligman, Moore Capital Management, idealab Capital Partners, idealab! and Robertson Stephens affiliates. Frontera is a member of the ASP Industry Consortium and is based in Los Angeles.

(c) 2001 Frontera Corporation. Frontera is a service mark of Frontera Corporation.