Instruction Set Offers Competitive Advantage to Egghead.com with Online Training; Increased Consumer Reach Boosts Instruction Set's e-Learning Market Position

Business Wire, March 5, 2001

Business/Technology Editors & Education/Training Writers

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2001

Training 2001 Conference--Booth #1902--Instruction Set, a leading Education Solutions Provider(TM) (E*SP(TM)), today announced that it has teamed up with Egghead.com(R), Inc. (NASDAQ: EGGS), a leading Internet direct marketer of technology and related products, to resell Instruction Set's web-based IT training courses to Egghead.com customers. Instruction Set also serves as Egghead.com's hosted learning solutions provider, enabling Egghead.com's customers to access all of Instruction Set's web-based training courses anytime, from any web-connected PC. With this agreement, Instruction Set secures a definitive position in the e-business marketplace and supports its commitment to increase productivity within key small to medium sized businesses.

Over 350 of Instruction Set's web-based courses will be featured on the Egghead.com Online Learning site. Egghead.com customers can access courses through Egghead.com's Business Solutions Center and Customer Club pages. Additionally, Egghead.com customers can participate in free web-based training demo courses vital to IT and e-business professionals. Demo courses in cutting edge technology such as Java Script, XML, Linux, Oracle and C are currently available on the site.

"We realize that training is important for our customers to grow their businesses, and recognize that time is precious in meeting the demands of today's market. We're pleased to offer Instruction Set's wide selection of online classes and give customers the flexibility of taking online courses on site or at home," said Merle McIntosh, Egghead.com's senior vice president of product and site management. "We have been aggressively building our service offerings to meet the needs of our business customers, and believe the addition of Instruction Set's e-learning classes will be a valued one."

Instruction Set is recognized for the content, ease of use and flexibility of their Web-based training courses. Instruction Set will "host" the e-learning portion of the Egghead.com site, as well as provide plentiful content to allow Egghead.com's customers complete access to all of Instruction Set's courses.

"As companies continue to look for differentiation in value-added services, e-learning is proving to be one of the natural add-ons for the business-to-business world," said Stephen Gentile, vice president of marketing for Instruction Set. "Instruction Set's courses being offered to Egghead.com customers serves as a perfect example of our commitment to provide resellers and their customers with a complete and affordable e-learning solution."

About Instruction Set

Headquartered in Natick, MA, Instruction Set, Inc. is a leading Education Solutions Provider (TM) (E*SP(TM)) offering corporations and individuals integrated learning solutions in the field of information technology. Incorporated in 1993, Instruction Set develops and markets more than 400 stand-alone web-based technical training courses in addition to offering customized, instructor-led technical training curriculums with integrated web-based training support. Instruction Set is uniquely qualified to provide turnkey technical training solutions that require minimal up front investments, are highly scalable and customizable, and deliver a measurable ROI. Instruction Set offers a full set of training solutions and services from needs assessment to curriculum development to hosting and delivery of instructor-led training, web-based training and customized education consulting.

Instruction Set's customers include Fortune 1000 companies, emerging corporations and leading dot-com companies such as: Bowstreet, Computer Science Corporation, Critical Path, Gillette, Hewlett-Packard, Kana, Kaplancollege.com, 3Com, Citrix, Monster.com, and Verizon.

Additional information about Instruction Set, its products, clients and services can be found at http://www.instructionset.com or by calling 800-874-6738.

NOTE: Egghead.com is a registered trademark of Egghead.com, Inc.