Partner Press Release
webPLAN® Joins RosettaNet to Champion Adoption of e-Business Standards

For Release April 14, 2000

OTTAWA, ON

webPLANInc., the leading provider of e-Businesssolutions for manufacturers, has joinedRosettaNet as a Solution Partner tosupport the deployment of globalstandards for business-to-business (B2B)transactions.

RosettaNet, aconsortium of more than 60 businessesthat represent more than $600 billion inrevenue, is focussed on developingbusiness-process standards based oneXtensible Markup Language (XML) - anInternet communication protocol that israpidly becoming the transactionalbackbone for the e-Business revolution.

"XML is an amazing technology,but the full potential of its e-Businesscapabilities will not be realized untilXML-based standards are defined anduniversally adopted," said Michael Ker,webPLAN's President and CEO. "It is theresponsibility of e-Business companiesthat base their products on XML, such aswebPLAN, to support those standards andexpedite the implementation process."

"The involvement of e-Businesscompanies, like webPLAN, is critical toour success," said Jennifer Hamilton,CEO of RosettaNet. "webPLAN, and ourother Solution Partners, are playing animportant role in defining the future ofbusiness-to-business communication andcommerce."

With the recentdramatic growth of B2B e-Business, it iscrucial that companies' systems areinteroperable with other systems intheir supply chain. By participatingwith RosettaNet in the adoption andintegration of e-Business standards,webPLAN will enable members of supplychains - including manufacturers,distributors, resellers and customers -to conduct transactions over the Web ina synchronized, integrated manner.

AboutRosettaNet
Launched in June 1998, RosettaNet is an independent, self-funded, non-profit consortium dedicated to the development and deployment of standard electronic business interfaces to align the processes between supply chain partners on a global basis. A complete list of member companies and more information on RosettaNet can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.rosettanet.org.

About webPLAN
webPLANInc. is a privately held company withcorporate offices in Chicago, Illinoisand Ottawa, Canada. A global communityof over 8,000 users now employs webPLANas their platform for e-Business. Formore information on the company and itsweb-intrinsic e-Business solution, visit www.webplan.com.