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To: Joseph Waligore who wrote (992)	11/25/1999 1:59:00 PM
From: William F. Wager, Jr.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1884

Who just bot Bluemountain? Was it excite@home?bill

To: Joseph Waligore who wrote (992)	11/26/1999 3:08:00 PM
From: William F. Wager, Jr.	Respond to of 1884

Full PR of Sandpiper/Bluemountain alliance... Sandpiper Networks Teams With Bluemountain.com On Content Delivery Business Editors THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 22, 1999-- Sandpiper to Help Ensure Reliability for Interactive Greeting Card Site During Peak Traffic Periods Sandpiper Networks Inc., the leading provider of comprehensive content delivery solutions for e-business, today announced that Bluemountain.com has selected the company's award-winning Footprint(SM) service. Bluemountain.com is using Footprint to help ensure the fast and reliable delivery of interactive greeting card content, especially during peak holiday seasons. Bluemountain.com is a leading communication site on the Internet featuring the best known and most widely used electronic greeting cards in the world. The interactive greeting card company experiences much greater Web site traffic during the holidays (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Valentine's Day) and has selected Sandpiper to help ensure reliability during these peak seasons. By easily integrating with Bluemountain.com's existing network, Sandpiper's content delivery network (CDN) provides the scalability to help meet those holiday traffic surges. "Sandpiper is very proud to be working with such an industry leader and pioneer as Bluemountain.com," said Leo Spiegel, chairman and chief executive officer of Sandpiper Networks. "Many people are unaware the company has been around for more than 30 years, creating and selling hand-crafted greeting cards, and now they've brought their business into the interactive age with a lion's share of the market -- Sandpiper looks forward to being a part of the company's continued growth and success." "As one of the largest sites on the Web, Bluemountain.com is focused on providing the highest performing online visitor experience, especially during peak traffic periods," said Mark Rinella, vice president and general manager for Blue Mountain Arts. "With our integration of Sandpiper's content delivery solution, we are confident our users will continue to have a pleasant experience visiting our site throughout the busy holiday seasons." Launched last year, the Footprint CDN speeds Web site performance up to 10 times by distributing content from a worldwide network of servers, putting Web content closer to the consumer and shortening the delivery path. The Footprint network will have more than 1200 servers worldwide by year-end. Sandpiper has deployed Footprint servers in more than 20 networks worldwide, including America Online, Concentric Networks, Uunet, GTE BBN, Sprint, Cable and Wireless, PSINet, Frontier/Globalcenter, and TCG/Cerfnet. Other customers using the Footprint service to ensure the fast and reliable delivery of online content include: Activision, AdForce, Astound, CallWave, CNBC.com, EarthLink, Eonline.com, LATimes.com, LiveOnLine, PBS, Sabela Media, SCO, University Netcasting, Value America and other leading Internet content providers. Online events delivered by Sandpiper include the 1999 Academy Awards, Woodstock.com's real-time photo gallery, id Software's Quake III Arena and the Starr Report. About Bluemountain.com Bluemountain.com is a leading communication site on the Internet featuring the best known and most widely used electronic greeting cards in the world. With 30 years of publishing experience, Blue Mountain Arts is now pioneering the electronic greeting card industry with a 65% share of the market. The company's Web site hosts millions of loyal users, making it one of the most trafficked sites on the Internet. Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese versions of the Blue Mountain Web site are available respectively at www.monteazul.com, www.montbleu.com, www.it.bluemountain.com, www.pt,bluemountain.com, www.de.bluemountain.com, www.chi.bluemountain.com, www.kr.bluemountain.com, and www.jp.bluemountain.com . To visit the popular site, please go to www.bluemountain.com. About Sandpiper Networks Sandpiper Networks is the world's first content delivery service provider for the Internet. Founded in 1996, Sandpiper has built the largest and most comprehensive Content Delivery Network (CDN). The company's initial service offering, Footprint, gives leading ebusinesses the power to deliver Web sites more efficiently and profitably while dramatically improving site performance. Footprint ensures the delivery of fresh Web content of all types while providing management statistics that are vital to Web-centric businesses. For more information, visit www.sandpiper.net. The network is changing. Adapt to it(SM). --30--ts/sd* CONTACT: Sandpiper Networks Michelle Balconi, 858/457-4888 ext. 132 mbalconi@townsendagency.com Carolyn Ward, 858/457-4888 ext. 156 carolynw@townsendagency.com