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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 31, 2000

Quadstone(R), a leading provider of customer intelligence software and services for enterprise businesses, today announced that SmarterKids.com (NASDAQ: SKDS), the leading online educational store and resource for parents, selected Quadstone's predictive marketing software to bring the Company to a new level of intensely effective marketing. This software supports SmarterKids.com's goal to build more meaningful, deep, and lasting customer relationships.

see www.quadstone.com

-- MELBOURNE, Fla.--July 31, 2000--AnswerMeNow.com, a privately held Customer Relationship Management software service, announced its new BRAIN(SM) (Bidirectional Rapid Access Information Network) database technology to be unveiled at the ICCM Expo August 1-3 in Chicago, IL.

BRAIN(SM) is a dynamic knowledge base driven by customer interaction. This web-enabled tool expands with each question submitted by customers. The BRAIN(SM) is a powerful resource that can then be accessed for data mining, trend analysis, market research and statistical purposes.

see www.answermenow.com

-- CHICAGO, August 13, 2000 - Offering greater accessibility to publication-quality graphs, SPSS Science announced the release of SYSTAT 10 today at the Joint Statistical Meetings 2000 in Indianapolis. The latest version of the award-winning scientific software now includes GraphExpress(tm), new technology that enables users to create any SYSTAT graph from within SAS* software for Windows(tm) with the click of a button. SYSTAT 10 also includes new statistics capabilities, including Mixed Regression and Power Analysis, as well as a broad range of user interface enhancements. The product is expected to ship domestically in September and internationally in October.

see www.spss.com/press

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