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To: Gary105 who wrote (4040)	2/1/2000 8:23:00 AM
From: Frost Byte	Respond to of 4337

ISLD - Any comments? Digital Island Announces the Wall Street Journal as a Customer to Ensure Subscribers Fast, Reliable Access to Content WSJ.com Uses Digital Island's Footprint Content Delivery Services to Manage Traffic Spikes Triggered by Super Bowl XXXIV Commercial SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 2000-- Digital Island, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISLD - news), a leading global e-Business Delivery Network, announced today that The Wall Street Journal© is using its network services to provide subscribers with fast and guaranteed access to selected content from the online Wall Street Journal at WSJ.com©. In addition to using the Footprint(TM) content delivery services for day-to-day distribution of portions of its online edition, The Wall Street Journal is also relying on Digital Island's e-Business Delivery Network to manage expected traffic spikes generated by its Super Bowl commercial promoting WSJ.com. Digital Island's Footprint infrastructure, a global network of 1,200 content distributors, deploys content in proximity to the ultimate consumer, giving The Wall Street Journal's readers fast and dependable access to all major content formats, including streaming media and dynamic content. ``The Wall Street Journal's readership relies on the online edition for 24-hour-a-day news updates and market information when, where and how they want it,' said Ruann F. Ernst, chairman and CEO of Digital Island. ``Digital Island's approach to content delivery for e-Businesses gives The Wall Street Journal the scalable platform it needs to expand its online presence worldwide.' ``We're pleased to be working with Digital Island to ensure the quality of our subscribers' experience,' said Neil Budde, editor and publisher of WSJ.com. ``We anticipate a tremendous surge in our traffic as a result of advertising during the Super Bowl and it's important to us to secure a content-delivery strategy that is timely and reliable.' Introduced in April 1996, the online Wall Street Journal features continuously updated coverage of the full spectrum of business news both in the U.S. and around the world, prepared by a dedicated news staff, supported by the global resources of The Wall Street Journal. Subscribers have access to more than 22,000 in-depth background reports on companies, an archive of news articles, and personal news and stock portfolios. Subscribers can also access the vast Dow Jones Publications Library that features current and past articles from 6,000 newspapers, magazines and business-news sources. WSJ.com has paid circulation of more than 375,000 subscribers and was recently cited by Forbes magazine as ``Simply the best online news site on the Web.' Digital Island© is a leading global e-Business Delivery Network. The company's suite of application services for interactive e-Business allows customers and partners to readily integrate hosting, content delivery, network and application services to guarantee the ultimate consumer a fast and relevant experience. Strategically located Data Centers in the United States, Europe and Asia are directly connected to leading access service providers in 23 countries. In addition, Digital Island operates a network of more than 1,200 content distributors across the Internet, which improves the performance and reduces the cost of hosting high-volume Web applications in target markets. This network is expected to grow to more than 6,000 content distributors in 350 locations worldwide by the year 2003. Digital Island is headquartered in San Francisco. www.digitalisland.net. Important Notice

To: Gary105 who wrote (4040)	2/2/2000 3:05:00 AM
From: steve harmon - analyst	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4337

cmgi - one thing that could drive the stock is its new b2b funds...venture investing is a high-risk field but all the profits on the b2b return to cmgi, assuming it has any softbank had better than 15x on its venture investing and cmgi has done well since booklink, lycos, geocities, engage and a few more that doesn't necessarily mean cmgi can turn over the b2b fund the challenge is putting the capital to work since a lot of capital chases deals today