SAN JOSE, California - August 3, 2003 - Metropolis New Media, Inc., a leading provider of managed hosting services for ESRI® server products, and GeoPrise, a leading GIS consulting firm headquartered in Sacramento, California, announced today that the two companies have formed a strategic alliance to offer state and local government customers turnkey solutions for Web-based GIS.

Under the agreement, GeoPrise will expand its capabilities to offer customers the GeoPrise.Net suite of Internet mapping solutions as a hosted service using Metropolis' high performance Internet infrastructure.

"Metropolis' Solution Partners Program is designed to provide GIS firms like GeoPrise with opportunities to expand their business and provide value-added hosting solutions to their customers," said Matt Monahan, president of Metropolis. "By bringing together leading GIS consultants and developers with comprehensive hosting services from Metropolis, Metropolis and its Solution Partners help customers overcome the complexities of developing and deploying Internet-based GIS solutions while extending each Solution Partners capability to deliver their specialized applications as fully-hosted ASP solutions."

In addition to using Metropolis' Internet infrastructure, which includes a Internet data center and networking infrastructure, GeoPrise will also leverage the hosting company's managed services offerings including systems administration and 24/7 support, server monitoring, managed security, and backup & restore services.

"Through our alliance with Metropolis, we reaffirm our commitment to develop and implement the best available GIS solutions for our customers," said Mark Perry, CTO at GeoPrise. "Among the numerous hosting services we considered, Metropolis was the easiest to work with because they specialize in hosting ESRI software. We are very pleased to be working with Metropolis to offer our customers a state-of-the-art, secure, and high performing option of a fully hosted Internet mapping solution."

About GeoPrise.Net

GeoPrise provides innovative and effective technical Geographic Information Systems (GIS) consulting services to private organizations and state and local governments. GeoPrise specializes in providing web-based GIS products and solutions to planning, economic development, public works agencies, and other local government departments. For more information regarding GeoPrise, visit the company's Web site at www.geoprise.net

About Metropolis

Based in San Jose, CA, Metropolis New Media, Inc. is a premier provider of managed hosting solutions for organizations looking to deploy ESRI server products online. Unlike ordinary hosting providers, Metropolis is focused solely on GIS and is an authorized ESRI business partner that is dedicated to providing customers with Internet infrastructure and operations support for sharing GIS data and applications on the Internet. More information about Metropolis and its services can be obtained on the Web at www.metropolisnewmedia.com

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