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Subject: OASIS Member News - WebMethods Founder Receives Entrepreneur Award







FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contacts:
Nicole Keating                          Beth Grupp or Jason
Morris
webMethods, Inc.                                Schwartz
Communications, Inc.
703-460-5960                            781-684-0770
nkeating@webMethods.com         webMethods@schwartz-pr.com


WEBMETHODS' FOUNDER AND CEO RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS ERNST & YOUNG
ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR AWARD

Phillip Merrick Honored for his Leadership Role and
Entrepreneurial Spirit in B2B E-Commerce

FAIRFAX, Va.June 30, 2000webMethods, Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBM), the
leading provider of
business-to-business integration (B2Bi) solutions, today
announced that Founder, President and
CEO Phillip Merrick is the recipient of the Greater Washington
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the
Year Award in the eBusiness category. Merrick has been recognized
for his entrepreneurial spirit,
creativity and leadership in the B2B industry. After an extensive
search, Merrick was announced the
winner on June 29 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Tysons Corner, VA.
The winners were selected by
elite, blue-ribbon panels of judges composed of community
business and civic leaders,
academicians and award winners from the previous year.

webMethods provides a comprehensive B2Bi solution that allows
organizations to effectively
realize their B2B e-commerce strategies. Through broad support of
open standards and protocols,
the webMethods B2B(tm) family of products provides the critical
B2B integration software that
enables companies to form powerful trading networks with
customers, suppliers and partners. With
webMethods B2B, companies can conduct business-to-business over
the Internet with minimal
stress to corporate resources and existing technology
infrastructure.

"Winning the Entrepreneur of the Year award is a monumental
accomplishment not only for me,
but for the entire webMethods team," said Merrick. "To be
recognized for our achievements tops
off an already an amazing year. Everyone at webMethods has had a
direct impact on our success in
the B2B industry. Without the drive of every member of our
company, winning this award would
not have been possible."

Since co-founding the company in 1996, Mr. Merrick has
aggressively grown his company from a
three-person team to more than 300 employees. Under his
leadership, webMethods has won more
than 160 customers, including SAP, Dell and Dun & Bradstreet and
solidified strategic partnerships
with Microsoft, Oracle, Ariba and KPMG. Through his tenacity and
hard work, Mr. Merrick has
established webMethods as a leader in the B2B e-commerce
integration market, as evidenced by the
company's successful initial public offering which ranked among
the top five of first-day offerings
in history and was the fourth largest first day software offering
ever.
The judges of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award selected Mr.
Merrick from a total of 52 nominees
in the Greater Washington area.  Mr. Merrick will now go on to
compete in one of several national
Entrepreneur of the Year categories and the national Entrepreneur
of the Year at the Ernst & Young
EOY International Conference awards gala in Palm Springs,
California, November 9-12, 2000.


About webMethods, Inc.

webMethods, Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBM) is the leading provider of
software solutions for business-to-
business integration (B2Bi). Leveraging the open standards of the
Internet, the award-winning
webMethods B2B(tm) family of products provides the B2Bi
infrastructure that enables Global 2000
companies and B2B marketplaces to connect customers, suppliers
and partners to form real-time
B2B trading networks. webMethods B2B allows companies to create
new revenue opportunities,
strengthen relationships with customers and substantially reduce
supply chain inefficiencies.

Founded in 1996, webMethods is based in Fairfax, Va., with
offices across the U.S. and Europe.
webMethods has more than 160 customers worldwidefrom Global 2000
leaders such as Dell
(Nasdaq: Dell), Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN), Lucent
Technologies (NYSE: LU) and
Grainger (NYSE: GWW) to major B2B marketplaces like ChemConnect,
e-STEEL and Ventro
(Nasdaq: VNTR). webMethods' strategic partners include Ariba
(Nasdaq: ARBA), Commerce One
(Nasdaq: CMRC), Deloitte Consulting, EDS (NYSE: EDS), i2
Technologies (Nasdaq: ITWO),
KPMG Consulting, Microsoft Corp.(Nasdaq: MSFT), Oracle Corp.
(Nasdaq: ORCL), Sterling
Commerce (NYSE: SE) and SAP AG (NYSE: SAP). More information
about the company can be
found at www.webMethods.com.

###

webMethods and webMethods B2B are trademarks of webMethods, Inc.
All other company and product names are
property of their respective owners.

This press release contains various remarks about the future
expectations, plans and prospects of webMethods that constitute
forward-looking
statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The actual
results of webMethods
may differ materially from those indicated by these
forward-looking statements as a result of various important
factors, including those discussed in
the Risk Factors section of webMethods' recent Registration
Statement on Form S-1, which is on file with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.




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