Interliant Ranked in Top Five ASPs By Gartner and IDC

Business Wire, May 24, 2001

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

PURCHASE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 2001

Interliant, Inc. (Nasdaq:INIT), a leading global application service provider (ASP), announced today that both Gartner Group and IDC have ranked the Company as one of the country's Top Five ASPs.

The Gartner ranking was published in the Gartner Dataquest 1Q 2001 Update on Application Service Providers. IDC published its findings in its Top 10 ASPs bulletin.

"Interliant is honored to have our industry leadership confirmed by these well-respected market research firms," said Mike Pusateri, Interliant's executive vice president for marketing and sales. "Our goal is to attain product leadership in our core solutions: INIT Managed Messaging, INIT Managed Hosting, INIT Web Hosting (retail and private label/OEM), and INIT Security. With our newly narrowed focus on solutions designed to provide rapid "time-to-value" and generate accelerated return on investment, we believe that Interliant is well positioned to capitalize on market demands for efficiency and cost-reduction."

Gartner Dataquest analyzed revenue, numbers of clients and seats, public information, and interviews with ASP principals of the major North American ASPs to determine its ranking of leading suppliers of ASP in 2000.The San Jose -based market research firm ranked Interliant as third-leading ASP in the marketplace. Researched during the high point of the ASP shakeout, December 2000 through February 2001, the Gartner report analyzes the market leaders for the first quarter of 2001 and predicts their outlook for the future.

IDC, evaluating more than 70 ASPs, weighed total 2000 revenue, customer numbers, average contract size, and the ability to remain competitive in the future as the key criteria for compiling its list of the elite 10. IDC announced the rankings at its annual AppSourcing Forum.

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 managed messaging, managed hosting, security, private label/OEM Web hosting, and professional services.

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), 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.

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