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Narragansett Technologies Launch At Microsoft Conference

12th October 2001

## Press Release ##

Business & Technology Editors

LIMERICK, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 2001--Narragansett Technologies announced today that they will be launching at the Microsoft PDC conference later this month. Established by industry veterans from ERP vendors such as Infinium (NASDAQ:INFM) and B2B vendor Clarus corp. NASDAQ:CLRS), Narragansett Technologies will be announcing a range of Web Service Applications developed from the ground up on the Microsoft .NET platform and the industry standards of XML/SOAP/WSDL. Narragansett Technologies core competency is in the development of best-in-class applications based on Microsoft technology and Open standards.

Web Services are poised to have a significant effect on how we build the Applications of the future", said Christopher J Byrne, co-founder, in a conference call today, "Our Web Service Applications will dramatically accelerate the ways in which business can do business."

Further, we believe that Web Services Infrastructure is a fundamental Operating system component. Both IBM and Microsoft have made great strides in executing on this vision. Our Applications, built on the .NET platform, will provide Customers with outstanding value, longevity and industrial-strength functionality."

CONTACT:

Narragansett Technologies
Joanne Allen,
t: +353 61 234500
f: +353 61 234550

http://www.narragansett.ie/