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To: marquis103 who wrote (93551)	4/6/2000 7:36:00 AM
From: marquis103	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108040

INSO. Here's the news of the alliance. Russ EBUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES ALLIANCE WITH LEADING PROFESSIONAL E-SERVICES FIRM TECHSPAN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 05, 2000 10:00:00 AM EST PROVIDENCE, RI and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Apr 5, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- eBusiness Technologies (eBT), a division of Inso Corporation (Nasdaq:INSO) and a leading provider of solutions and services for e-business applications, today announced that TechSpan, a global software and services consultancy firm, has joined its Consulting Alliance Program. eBT has also joined TechSpan's e-Alliance program. eBT's Consulting Alliance Program provides Web-based consultancies with the competency and support to develop and implement e-business applications based on the DynaBase Web content management and delivery solution. Under the terms of the agreement, TechSpan will build their expertise in DynaBase through formal training and by working closely with eBT's Professional Services Group. Through its e-Alliance program, TechSpan commits its development and implementation resources to partner companies to speed time-to-market and expand their markets. Under the partnership, TechSpan will add enhanced functionality to eBT's development plans and accelerate implementation and integration of DynaBase. "Our relationship with eBusiness Technologies furthers our strategy of collaborative eCommerce," said Puneet Pushkama, managing partner of TechSpan's e-Alliance program. "DynaBase is a significant solution in the content management space that will enable us to expand our technology capabilities." "TechSpan provides organizations one of the industry's leading end-to-end e-business and eCommerce programs," said James Ringrose, president of eBusiness Technologies. "This partnership offers eBT an extensive global reach and strengthens our ability to provide customers with the Web development and systems integration expertise they need to exploit the full power of DynaBase." DynaBase DynaBase is the industry's first integrated XML-based Web publishing solution. Combining sophisticated content management capabilities with a powerful dynamic serving environment, DynaBase automates the production and enables personalized delivery of content to the Internet, intranet, extranet and wireless networks and devices. Designed for mid- to large-sized organizations, DynaBase is a flexible, scalable solution for building and sustaining interactive, online business-to-business and business-to-consumer activities. About TechSpan TechSpan is an e-Business solutions company delivering End-2-End web enablement assisting organizations in developing, integrating, and deploying Internet-based systems and software. TechSpan's collaborative solutions assist its clients, vendor partners and dot-com companies to reduce their time-2-market to stay ahead of the ever-shortening Internet product life cycle. TechSpan leverages its distributed consulting methodology to harness and deploy the appropriate resources to each task, drawing on software experts from our middleware, applications, database, and programming Centers of Excellence both in the US and overseas. TechSpan, Inc. is a privately held firm founded in 1998. TechSpan has four focused offerings: e-Alliance which provides collaborative resources to Internet product vendors; e-Babes a focused offering that addresses the time- to-market concerns of dot-com companies; e-Integration which delivers an end- to-end web enablment solutions; and e-Wireless which delivers a next generation Internet wireless enablement solution. TechSpan is available on the World Wide Web at techspan.com About eBusiness Technologies A division of Inso Corporation (Nasdaq: INSO), eBusiness Technologies develops and markets industry-leading products, services and best practices for delivering sophisticated business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications via the Web. Leveraging over five years of XML expertise, eBusiness Technologies' flagship product, DynaBase, is the most comprehensive and proven solution for managing and delivering content for e-business and eCommerce sites. eBusiness Technologies powers a growing list of global customers including 3Com Corporation, AT&T, Quantum Corporation, GTE, DirecTV, Cisco Systems and UUNet. Headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, eBusiness Technologies has offices located throughout the United States and Europe. For more information, visit www.ebt.com. Inso and the Inso logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Inso Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. DynaBase is a trademark or registered trademark of eBusiness Technologies-USA, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other company, product or service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. SOURCE eBusiness Technologies

To: marquis103 who wrote (93551)	4/6/2000 8:15:00 AM
From: stock4U	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108040

RESEARCH ALERT-ICICI price target raised BOMBAY, April 6 (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley Dean Witter said in a recent reserach report it had raised its 12-month price target for Indian financial services firm ICICI Ltd (NYSE:IC - news) to 207 rupees per share from 164 factoring in an upside from its e-business initiatives. The firm said that it had valued ICICI's core financial services business at 164 rupees per share for March 2001 and its e-business initiatives at 43 rupees. ``The sum total of the two implies a 12-month price target of 207 rupees a share...,' Morgan Stanley said. The broking firm added that ICICI had significant value in its e-business initiatives, and estimated its worth at $1.04 billion . ``We believe a significant chunk of the incremental value added from ICICI's move into e-commerce is in new businesses. These businesses include a payment gateway, incubation facilities, online trading, a real estate portal and proprietary investment in e-commerce-related fields,' Morgan Stanley said. It said the key catalyst for recognition of value would come from the spin off or listing of some these businesses.