San Jose, CA—February 4, 2003—Metropolis New Media, a leading provider of managed hosting solutions for ESRI server products, announced today that it has successfully completed Federal HUB Zone business certification. The HUBZone Empowerment Contracting Program stimulates economic development and creates jobs in urban and rural communities by providing Federal contracting preferences to small businesses. These preferences go to small businesses that obtain HUBZone (Historically Underutilized Business Zone) certification in part by employing staff who live in a HUBZone. The company must also maintain a "principal office" in one of these specially designated areas. The program resulted from provisions contained in the Small Business Reauthorization Act of 1997.

The HUBZone Empowerment Contracting Program is administered by a staff in Washington, D.C. in cooperation with field staff located in SBA District Offices around the country.

"HUB Zone certification helps demonstrate our committment to creating jobs in our community, while allowing our business to participate in more outsourcing opportunities with the U.S. Government," says David Hunsinger, CEO of Metropolis. "Downtown San Jose is literally in the center of Silicon Valley, which is a great benefit for a technology company like ours. We have access here to some of the best technology professionals and internet infrastructure in the world."

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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