San Jose, CA—June 24, 2002—Metropolis New Media, a leading supplier of Web hosting solutions for the GIS industry, announced today the launch of its Solution Partners Program. The program is designed to help GIS development firms expand their businesses to include application hosting services to their customers.

The program's focus is on bringing together leading GIS consulting and development firms with comprehensive hosting services from Metropolis to help customers overcome the complexities of developing and deploying online GIS solutions. Through the program, Metropolis will provide its solution partners with discounts on hosting services, lead referrals and joint sales opportunities, collateral print materials to support outbound marketing activities, customer visits, pre-sale technical support, and a Web site listing on the Metropolis Web site.

Metropolis' first partner, GIS Planning, Inc., is a leading GIS consulting and development firm in Berkeley, CA. that is also a Metropolis customer—using Metropolis' managed hosting solution to power its ESRI ArcIMS application hosting service. "Our new solution partners program responds to GIS professional's need for a quality hosting partner." said Matt Monahan, president at Metropolis. " Moreover, forming alliances with companies that provide different, but complementary, services allows both businesses to create a competitive advantage by broadening the scope of their operations, multiplying their sales force, and having a dependable supplier of the aligned product or service."

Currently, the only GIS technology Metropolis supports is made by ESRI. As such, only ESRI business partners can participate in the program. Although Metropolis indicated that they may open up the program for other professional services organizations such as interface design and Web programming firms.

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

About ESRI

For more than 30 years, ESRI has been the leading developer of geographic information system (GIS) software with more than 220,000 clients worldwide. ESRI also provides consulting, implementation, and technical support services. In addition to its headquarters in California, ESRI has regional offices throughout the United States, international distributors in more than 90 countries, and more than 700 resellers and developers. ESRI's goal is to provide users with comprehensive tools to help them quickly and efficiently manage and use geographic information to make a real difference in the world around them. ESRI can be found on the Web at www.esri.com.

ESRI, the ESRI globe logo, GIS by ESRI, ArcMap, ArcView, www.esri.com, and @esri.com are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of ESRI in the United States, the European Community, or certain other jurisdictions. Other companies and products mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective trademark owners.

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