OASIS Member News: Mr. Gordon Ebanks Joins XML Global as ExecutiveVice President, Sales and Marketing

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Press Release

Mr. Gordon Ebanks Joins XML Global as Executive Vice President, Sales and
Marketing.

Vancouver, B.C., December 6th, 2000, XML Global Technologies, Inc. (XMLG
OTC:BB) (www.xmlglobal.com), architects and builders of XML powered
e-business platforms, announced today that it has appointed Gordon Ebanks to
the position of Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing. Mr. Ebanks
will be based in the company's New York office and will be reporting
directly to Peter Shandro, CEO of XML Global.

Mr. Ebanks will be responsible for leading the company's international sales
and marketing efforts aimed at integrating the strengths of XML Global's
products with its comprehensive web service initiatives to build complete
e-business platforms. In this role, he will lead the sales and business
development teams with the objective of securing long term strategic client
relationships. A large portion of XML Global's clients are headquartered in
the northeastern United States and to better serve this customer base Mr.
Ebanks will head XML Global's sales and marketing effort from the Company's
New York office.

"We are very fortunate to have Gordon join our executive team," said Peter
Shandro, CEO of XML Global. "XML Global is entering an exciting phase of its
corporate development. With almost two years of intensive product research
and development successfully completed, the company is now ready to focus on
achieving its sales and marketing objectives. The strategic alliances and
partnerships we form at this stage of market adoption will be a big part of
our future," Shandro continued. "Gordon's experience and prior successes in
the market for e-business platforms will ensure that we are getting maximum
results in pursuit of our initiatives."

"In joining XML Global I look forward to working with companies to assist
them in streamlining and maximizing the return on their e-business efforts,"
stated Gordon Ebanks. "From the standpoint of technology, business process
tools and approach to data infrastructure, XML Global is second to none. I
am excited at the prospect of aggressively building this business and
establishing XML Global as a world class company committed to advancing XML
as an open infrastructure for e-business platforms."

Mr. Ebanks has 20 years of experience in the business and technology field,
most recently as President and Chief Operating Officer of New York based
Performance Wave where he led the successful launch of Performance Wave's
suite of Java-based products prior to the Company being acquired by the
Minneapolis based Gelco Information Network. Gelco serves more than 2,000
U.S. and multinational companies, including many Fortune 1,000 companies as
well as more than 110 government agencies. Mr. Ebanks gained much of his
high tech industry insight during his eight years at Tambrands, a leading
global consumer goods manufacturer. As Chief Technology Officer, he was
responsible for developing and executing the company's global Internet
strategy and then directing a number of Enterprise Application projects in
several countries, including Brazil, China, France, Mexico, Russia, the
Ukraine and the United Kingdom. Prior to joining Tambrands, Mr. Ebanks spent
four years with Mobil Oil as Group Systems Manager, and before this worked
with IBM's logistics group. Mr. Ebanks is a graduate of South Bank
University in London, where he earned a bachelor's degree in both computer
science and mathematics and New York University where he graduated with an
MBA specializing in Finance.

About XML Global Technologies, Inc.
XML Global Technologies, Inc. engineers and deploys XML-based web
infrastructure tools for e-business. Leveraging its patented XML
technologies for searching, EDI/XML transformation, data storage and
transaction authentication, XML Global provides a solid XML-based foundation
for a wide range of e-business programs. XML Global's core products include:

*Searching:      GoXML(tm), a patent pending contextual XML search engine.
*Transformation: ExpressXCHG(tm), a patented EDI/XML transformation
                 software.
*Authentication: Ceremony(tm), a patented authentication software product.

By integrating and applying these core technologies XML Global will profit
by empowering its clients to build and manage successful technology
platforms for web services, net markets and related e-business initiatives.

XML Global supports and is actively involved in a number of industry
infrastructure initiatives and standards bodies including ebXML, UDDI,
OASIS, and W3C.

For further information please visit our website at www.xmlglobal.com or
call the numbers below.

Forward Looking Statements
All statements are based on XML Global Technologies, Inc.'s current
knowledge and specific assumptions with respect to future business
decisions. The actual results of XML Global Technologies, Inc. may differ
materially from those indicated by these forward looking statements as a
result of various important factors, including, but not limited to, those
discussed in the Risk Factors section of XML Global Technologies' recent
prospectus, which is on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.


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