OASIS Member News - XMLSolutions Continues Among DC's Top 50 to Watch

[Stephanie Oakley <stephanie@parnold.com>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                         Peter Arnold
Associates

Stephanie Oakley

781-239-1030

stephanie@parnold.com

XMLSolutions Continues Among DC's Top 50 to Watch According to
LocalBusiness.com

For the Third Quarter in a Row XMLSolutions Is Considered One of DC's
Strongest Performers

October 16, 2000, McLean,VA -XMLSolutions Corporation, a leading worldwide
provider of software for conducting XML-based direct materials procurement,
today announced they have been named to the LocalBusiness.com (formerly
dBusiness.com) Top 50 to Watch list for the Washington, DC region.
LocalBusiness.com is the leading Internet provider of local business
applications, breaking local news and intelligence, tools and research
resources for small and medium-sized businesses in over 28 major markets
across the United States. The Top 50 to Watch list from LocalBusiness.com
spotlights emerging publicly and privately held companies throughout various
regions of the United States and identifies companies with the potential to
be strong performers in the upcoming financial quarter.

"We are thrilled that media outlets and industry analysts regularly
recognize our leadership in the development and deployment of XML technology
and services," said Ron Shelby, CEO, XMLSolutions Corporation.  "For the
third quarter in a row LocalBusiness.com has acknowledged our impact in the
local and national marketplace."

XMLSolutions delivers products and services not only for managing XML
dialects, but also creating relationships between those dialects to
facilitate the electronic transfer of information over the Internet using
XML.  The LocalBusiness.com Top 50 announcement comes on the heels of a very
exciting period of growth for XMLSolutions.

In late August, XMLSolutions hired Ron Shelby as its new CEO.  Mr. Shelby
has held a number of executive positions within General Motors (NYSE: GM),
including the Information Systems and Services' Chief Technology Officer,
where he led the General Motors strategy for employing XML for
system-to-system integration.  Mr. Shelby's most recent role was the CIO of
e-GM, where he headed GM's web development efforts, including the global
rollout of GM BuyPower, the company's award-winning vehicle shopping site.

In September, XMLSolutions introduced Business Integration Platform 2.0(, a
comprehensive B2B product platform.  This universal interpreter for business
information exchange enables companies to share information real-time with
all business partners and marketplaces, regardless of size.  XMLSolutions
Business Integration Platform delivers the functionality necessary for
companies to conduct direct and indirect/MRO materials procurement
transactions with increased business process efficiency and a dramatic
time-to-market advantage over competing products.

About XMLSolutions Corporation
XMLSolutions Corporation (www.xmls.com) enables the secure, real-time B2B
exchange of direct materials transactions over the Internet.  By eliminating
a company's EDI and XML dialect dependencies, XMLSolutions removes trade
barriers, enabling uniform transactions among customers, exchanges, and
trading partners of all sizes.  The XMLSolutions integrated solution
includes support for XML-to-XML transformations; EDI-to-XML translation; and
over 3000 mission-critical, industry-specific EDI business documents.

XMLSolutions is headquartered in Northern Virginia's technology corridor
with offices in Atlanta; Charlotte; Chicago; New York; San Francisco;
Bangalore, India; Seoul, Korea; South Africa; The Netherlands; Denmark;
Austria; Sweden; Switzerland; Belgium; Germany; France; Italy; Spain; and
the United Kingdom.


For more information about XMLSolutions, contact:

Stephanie Oakley
Peter Arnold Associates
One Hollis Street, Suite 350
Wellesley, MA 02482
Phone: 781-239-1030
Fax: 781-239-1204
Stephanie@parnold.com

Lisa Faust
XMLSolutions Corporation
7929 Westpark Drive, Suite 100
McLean, VA 22102
Phone: 703-506-1111
Fax: 703-556-9602
Lisa.Faust@xmls.com