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NaviSite and Angstrom Microsystems Announce Alliance Agreement
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NaviSite and Angstrom Microsystems Announce
Alliance Agreement

ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2000--NaviSite, Inc.
(Nasdaq:NAVI), a leading ASP and Web hosting company and a
majority-owned operating company of CMGI, Inc., today announced it had
entered an alliance agreement with Angstrom Microsystems, pioneers of
the first turnkey Linux-powered e-commerce solution.
As part of the agreement, Angstrom Microsystems will join
NaviSite`s list of premier development partners, allowing NaviSite to
work with Angstrom Microsystems to offer a complete, end-to-end
Linux-based e-business system, including hardware, operating system,
software and support.
In order to thrive in the e-business era, synergies must be
created between organizations that can enhance and complement each
other`s products and services. The NaviSite Alliance Program was
created as a result of this basic tenet. By combining efforts,
Angstrom and NaviSite are providing a one-stop shop for designing,
developing, deploying and servicing present and future solutions.
Angstrom`s goal is to reduce customers` time-to-market by
offering a menu of Linux-based pre-configured and easy-to-operate
solutions such as web, cache, application, e-mail, firewall security
and database servers. Angstrom delivers these solutions by providing
end-to-end service designed to quick-start e-businesses.
"We entered into this agreement with Angstrom because they offer
a complete Linux-based e-commerce solution," said Jay Seaton, vice
president of marketing for NaviSite, "We view Angstrom`s end-to-end
e-business solutions as having the potential to help companies stay
competitive."
"The NaviSite relationship makes sense for Angstrom because
NaviSite provides our clients with premier managed Web hosting
solutions," said Angstrom CEO Lalit Jain. "Together we provide the
technology expertise, hardware, software and support system
e-businesses need to move forward at the rapid pace demanded in
today`s competitive climate."
About NaviSite, Inc.
NaviSite, Inc., is a leading provider of outsourced Web hosting
and application services for companies conducting mission-critical
business on the Internet. The company`s goal is to help customers
focus on their core competencies by outsourcing the management and
hosting of mission critical Web sites and applications. NaviSite is a
majority-owned operating company of CMGI, Inc. with minority
investment from Microsoft Corporation.
NaviSite`s SiteHarbor(R) solutions provide secure, reliable,
co-location and high-performance hosting services, including
high-performance Internet access, and high-availability server
management solutions through load balancing, clustering, mirroring and
storage services. In addition, NaviSite`s enhanced management
services, beyond basic co-location and hosting, are designed to meet
the expanding needs of businesses as their Web sites and Internet
applications become more complex and as their needs for outsourcing
all aspects of their online businesses intensify. The company`s
application services, which include application hosting, management
and rental, provide cost-effective access to, as well as rapid
deployment and reliable operation of, business-critical applications.
For more information about NaviSite, please visit
www.navisite.com or by phone on the East coast call 888.298.8222, on
the West coast call 888.755.5525. NaviSite is headquartered at 400
Minuteman Road, Andover, MA 01810.
About Angstrom Microsystems
Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Angstrom Microsystems
(www.angstrommicro.com) provides end-to-end e-commerce server
solutions that reduce time to market and I/T staffing expenses for
fast moving e-businesses. Angstrom`s Linux-powered e-commerce servers
such as web-hosting, transaction-processing, firewall, and database
servers solutions, are pre-configured, secure, and easy to operate.
Angstrom maintains a large menu of off-the-shelf e-commerce solutions
that can be mixed and matched to form a custom solution.
This release contains forward-looking statements based on current
expectations or beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions about
future events, and these statements are subject to important factors
and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from those described in the forward-looking statements. The
forward-looking statements in this release address a variety of
subjects including, for example, the expected benefits resulting from
the agreement between NaviSite and Angstrom, the expected
functionality of the combination of NaviSite`s and Angstrom`s
technologies and products and the expected ability of NaviSite to
offer the Angstrom products and technologies to its customers. The
following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ
materially from those described in these forward-looking statements:
NaviSite`s products and technologies may not successfully interoperate
with those of Angstrom, Angstrom may not successfully execute on its
business plan, and increased competition and technological changes in
the markets in which NaviSite and Angstrom compete. For a detailed
discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to
the filings made by each of NaviSite and CMGI with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K of each
of NaviSite and CMGI for the most recently ended fiscal year.
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CONTACT: TechMarcom, Inc.
Jon Boroshok
978-502-1055
jbtechmarcom.com
or
Angstrom Microsystems
Rachel Sun
617-695-0313 x 17
rsunangstrommicro.com
or
NaviSite, Inc.
Brenda Suarez
978-946-8660
bsuareznavisite.com

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