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Geobot Announces Commercial Availability

Memphis, TN (September 18, 2001) -- Geobot Inc., a developer of configurable messaging software, today announced the commercial availability of its information-switching product, the Geoswitch™. Following two years of development and successful customer testing, Geobot enters the integration broker market with the purpose of providing businesses with a product that can solve their integration issues today and provide a foundation for creating and supporting the services of tomorrow.

Regardless of the industry, efficiency and speed are critical components for success. There is more pressure than ever before to cut costs and improve operations, but many organizations are frustrated by new technology that is not only difficult to integrate with their existing systems, but will most likely be outdated in the near future.

Built on the principles of multi-threaded messaging and distributed processing technology, Geobot’s software can reliably transform and route information from any number of disparate systems and applications to any other in real-time. This offering is further enhanced with the capability to quickly add and remove functionality during operation reducing the downtime associated with software upgrades and new service deployment.

The Geoswitch™ is comprised of two main components: a proprietary messaging architecture, and pluggable logic modules in the form of software agents for processing information. The messaging layer provides the backbone for communication and data persistence between multiple data sources with the reliability and scalability of a telecommunications switch. By adding logic such as protocol translation on the message pathways between the systems, those that were once incapable of communicating can share information.

Geobot’s Java-based agents can perform more than data translation. In fact, many of today’s integration challenges can be solved with a combination of translation, transformation, routing, and aggregation functionality, all of which can be found in Geobot’s basic package of agents. As customer needs change, agents can be quickly configured to perform any number of functions including those that normally require customization of third party applications. Geobot also provides the capability for companies who have highly specialized and sensitive environments (such as complex proprietary processes or applications) to quickly and easily develop their own agents.

Features included in this release:

Messaging System
-- Real-time messaging, Account based access control, Run-time configuration, Event Management, Fail-over, Browser-based administration, Test Suite, Persistence

Support for
Unix, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Oracle 8, Apache Web Server, JDSK 2.x

Agents and Interface Support -- Translation, Transformation, Aggregation, Routing, XML mapping using XSLT, HTML Harvester, JDBC, HTTP, RMI, XML, MQ, FTP, SNA, TCP/IP

Web Services -– The Geoswitch™ leverages emerging XML-based standards such as SOAP and UDDI to provide an ideal environment for the deployment of web services.

For a complete list of product features and capabilities contact Geobot directly at 901.681.0161 or send an email to info@geobot.com.

About Geobot, Inc.
Geobot is a developer of dynamically configurable messaging software known as the Geoswitch™. Geobot’s information switching technology provides a single framework for allowing multiple disparate systems and applications to share information in real-time with the added capability of extending functionality through the use of run-time pluggable logic. The Geoswitch™ is currently deployed within the Financial Services industry. Founded in February 1999, Geobot is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, and is privately held.


Contact:
Darren Raybourn
Geobot, Inc.
901-261-8961
draybourn@geobot.com

David Latham
Delta Capital Management LLC
901-755-0949
yearwood@deltacapital.com