Kirkland WA, May 1999

ADVANCED BusinessLink Corporation is pleased to announce that its Strategi e-business suite has been named a second quarter, 1999 winner in the Powered by AS/400e Program. This program honors solution developers who "demonstrate continued commitment to creating new business opportunities for IBM's AS/400 customers". Strategi is currently the only native AS/400 Web Application Server (not ported from another platform) on the market.

Strategi is an AS/400 browser/server suite that contains Java based 5250, Push technology for active delivery of reports and files, native Web serving, browser based file sharing and High Speed Messaging for Web Application Serving.

In her letter of congratulations to ADVANCED BusinessLink, Debra Thompson, VP of Enterprise Servers - AS/400 Brand, says, "Your solution plays an integral role to solving marketplace requirements for business-critical applications."

As a winner in the Powered by AS/400e Program, ADVANCED BusinessLink is the subject of a solution brief produced by IBM to highlight their solution, their customer references, the AS/400 technologies their solution leverages, and the value-net they created to solve a customer problem. This solution brief will be distributed at numerous worldwide events in 1999, including COMMON, BPCS, and Solutions '99.

The Powered by AS/400e Program is limited to nominated Solution Developer Partners who have been evaluated and chosen by an IBM panel on such specific criteria as technological innovation, solution applicability to e-business and other pivotal areas such as supply chain management, effect on AS/400 performance, and key release attributes.

ADVANCED BusinessLink, founded in 1987, is an AS/400 solutions development firm specializing in web-enablement, remote connectivity, massively scalable transaction applications, and e-business.

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