For Immediate Release

CHICAGO - June 12, 2000 - OfficePlanIt.com (www.officeplanit.com), the new Internet company providing the office interiors industry's most comprehensive array of e-commerce solutions, today announced that it has aligned with TechniCon Corp., a leading developer of interactive e-commerce software. As a result of their alliance, OfficePlanIt.com will now enable users of its Internet solutions to easily select, configure and visualize office furniture products. In addition, OfficePlanIt.com will now be able to more quickly and easily create online product catalogs for its Internet marketplace. OfficePlanIt.com made this announcement at the NeoCon World's Trade Fair 2000.

"With TechniCon's software, OfficePlanIt.com solves one of the office interiors industry's biggest problems -- how to most efficiently and cost-effectively present numerous product options to customers in a centralized, online location," said Steven Schmidt, founding partner of OfficePlanIt.com. "TechniCon's product portfolio is a strong complement to OfficePlanIt.com's existing technology platform."

"OfficePlanIt.com delivers a smarter, faster way for its customers to sort through thousands of office furnishings products," said Anthony Mirante, president of TechniCon. "The entire industry will benefit from the uniquely integrated network solutions available through the OfficePlanIt.com and TechniCon alliance."

Under the terms of the agreement, TechniCon will license its CustomCommerce interactive software, which includes Product Visualizer technology and Legacy-to-Web product transformation tools, to OfficePlanIt.com.

Using TechniCon's Product Visualizer software, the OfficePlanIt.com site will feature product descriptions and detailed, multi-dimensional images from various office interiors manufacturers. Users can select and immediately visualize different finishes, colors or sizes for their furniture via an interactive 3-D image. By rotating, tilting or magnifying the image, users can view how their office furniture will appear before it is purchased and installed.

Through TechniCon's Legacy-to-Web product transformation tools, OfficePlanIt.com will take existing furniture industry data, such as AutoCAD and standard industry format (SIF) files, and using TechniCon's proprietary development tools, translate data into an online product catalog. The software also replaces technical jargon and abbreviations, making it easy for all site visitors to conduct product research. For example, OfficePlanIt.com will take an office furniture manufacturer's database that contains thousands of products with, potentially, millions of permutations and transform the data into a Web-ready product catalog.

OfficePlanIt.com is poised to be the premier business-to-business Internet technology provider for the office interiors industry. The company's solutions will provide the industry with a single source to buy and sell office furnishings, reduce supply chain costs, utilize market information from premier sources, build strong information links with other members of the industry, and access design and commerce tools online. OfficePlanIt.com was created in late 1999 and is based in Lisle, Ill. OfficePlanIt.com is a member of the divine interVentures Internet Zaibatsu, a network of business-to- business e-commerce companies aligned with divine interVentures, inc., an Internet operating company.

TechniCon, based in Emeryville, Calif., is a leading developer of mass customization software used for electronic commerce and sales automation. Using the latest 2D/3D graphics and Internet technologies, TechniCon makes it easy for buyers, corporate procurement managers and salespeople to preview and order products that meet today's build-to-order requirements. By allowing buyers to fully visualize and configure products directly over the Internet and at the point of sale, TechniCon's software helps companies shorten the sales cycle, reduce costs, decrease product configuration errors, and increase customer satisfaction.

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Internet Zaibatsu is a trademark of divine interVentures, inc.

TechniCon is a service mark of TechniCon Corp.