(BSNS WIRE) NaviSite Signs 42 New Customers in March NaviSite Signs 42 New Customers in March Business/Technology Editors ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 2000--NaviSite, Inc. (Nasdaq:NAVI), a leading ASP and Web hosting company and a majority-owned operating company of CMGI, Inc. (Nasdaq:CMGI), today announced that the Company signed 42 new customers during March. The Company had previously reported that it had 196 total installed customers at the end of the last fiscal quarter ended January 31. Some of the new customers signed during the last month include AMR Research, Optika, Puma Technology and Predictive Networks. Each of these customers seeks to improve Web site and application performance and reliability by taking advantage of NaviSite's wide range of enhanced services for application hosting and management. "We view this unprecedented one-month sales performance as an indicator of our strong market opportunity, as well as NaviSite's ability to address customer needs by delivering comprehensive solutions for Web site and application hosting and management," said Joel Rosen, CEO of NaviSite, Inc. NaviSite provides proactive monitoring and secure, reliable, high-performance hosting and management for Web sites and Internet applications. NaviSite's value-added management services allow customers to focus on their core business competencies by offloading the burden of technology deployment, monitoring and management. Outsourcing their Web operations to NaviSite allows businesses to improve the reliability and availability of their Web sites, as well as reduce time to market and minimize the costs associated with developing and maintaining business networks and software applications. About NaviSite 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. Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act This release contains forward-looking statements which address a variety of subjects including, for example, the benefits expected to result from NaviSite's products and services and the expected growth in NaviSite's business and customers. The following important factors and uncertainties, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements: NaviSite may not sustain its rate of customer growth in the future; NaviSite's products and technologies may not successfully interoperate with those of third parties; NaviSite may experience difficulties integrating technologies, operations and personnel of recent acquisitions; increased competition and technological changes in the markets in which NaviSite competes; and possible failure of systems or internal infrastructure. 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 most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of NaviSite and the Annual Report on Form 10-K of CMGI for the most recently ended fiscal year. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. --30--kms/bos* CONTACT: NaviSite, Inc. Brenda Suarez 978.946.8660 bsuarez@navisite.com or Beaupre & Co. Public Relations, Inc. Darby Johnson 603.559.5809 djohnson@beaupre.com KEYWORD: MASSACHUSETTS INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS E-COMMERCE INTERNET NETWORKING Today's News On The Net - Business Wire's full file on the Internet with Hyperlinks to your home page. URL: businesswire.com *** end of story *** |