Outblaze and iAsiaWorks Partner Across Asia on Turnkey E-Business Solutions Outblaze and iAsiaWorks to Offer Customers Seamless Applications and Web Hosting HONG KONG, May 2nd, 2000/PRNI HK-AsiaNet/ -- iAsiaWorks, a pan-Asian Internet solutions provider, and Outblaze, a portal application and infrastructure provider, today announced a partnership to combine technological capabilities and offer clients advanced, one-stop, e-business solutions based on both companies' services. Under the terms of the agreement, iAsiaWorks will offer Outblaze customers co-location and Web hosting services from its footprint of data centre facilities across the Asia-Pacific region. In turn, Outblaze will make its customizable, integrated, Web-based applications, including e-mail, calendars, and other portal solutions, available to iAsiaWorks clients. In related agreements, Outblaze has chosen iAsiaWorks to provide Web hosting, co-location, dedicated servers, connectivity, and managed professional services as it expands across the region. In turn, iAsiaWorks will implement Outblaze's corporate Web-based e-mail systems throughout iAsiaWorks, and will offer Outblaze portal services to its online communities such as its Hong Kong-based "My Site" portal at www.mysite.com.hk. Both iAsiaWorks and Outblaze are expanding rapidly throughout the Asia-Pacific region. By partnering, the companies form a natural marriage between their technological capabilities and development plans, while benefiting from each other's business expertise and positioning in the region. "This partnership is the result of a natural synergy between Outblaze and iAsiaWorks," said JoAnn Patrick-Ezzell, chairman and CEO of iAsiaWorks. "Outblaze is one of the most dynamic players in the Asian Internet space today. With Outblaze's online applications capabilities, and iAsiaWorks' region-wide co-location and hosting capabilities, we believe we will set a new standard in enabling e-business in the Asia-Pacific region." "The Outblaze-iAsiaWorks alliance benefits both companies by expanding services and reach in the region and offering customers more comprehensive solutions," said Yat Siu, founder and CEO of Outblaze. "The dependability, reliability, and pan-Asian reach of iAsiaWorks services are a significant advantage to Outblaze, which will offer its integrated messaging and portal solutions in return. The iAsiaWorks business model is a good one, and this innovative partnership will keep both companies on the forefront of Web technology." Outblaze, founded in May 1998 in Hong Kong, is Asia's first Internet company to recognize and anticipate the massive market demand for community-oriented portal services and solutions. The mission of Outblaze is to develop, manage, and offer portal services to content or corporate Web sites. Outblaze services are provided free of charge in Co-brand partnerships, or sold on a cost per user per month basis in the Enterprise model. Partners and customers of Outblaze combine their Web site content and audience reach with Outblaze portal services to create compelling vertical portals - sites that combine rich category-specific content with the same community services offered by the major Internet portals. At the time of writing, Outblaze is a key technology solutions provider to thousands of Web sites, with more than eight million daily page views and about five million registered users. Headquarters are in Hong Kong, with offices in Beijing, Germany, and Silicon Valley, with hosting and co-location throughout the world. Outblaze is a privately held company with strategic investments from Pacific Century CyberWorks, Hikari Tsushin, and Lotus Asset Management. For more information, please visit the company's corporate Web site at corp.outblaze.com. iAsiaWorks, a pan-Asian Internet solutions provider, offers one-stop Internet solutions to companies in the Asia-Pacific region, multinational corporations and dotcoms. The company intends to establish a footprint of eight data centers across Asia-Pacific and in Silicon Valley to offer customers world-class hosting, co-location services and technical support, a suite of turnkey Internet solutions and localized, country-specific applications and services. iAsiaWorks is headquartered in Silicon Valley (San Mateo, Calif.), with operations in Australia, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan and the United States. It currently offers Internet solutions, directly and through partners, in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and North America. iAsiaWorks investors include Bechtel Enterprises; BT/Alex Brown; Enterprise Partners; Generation Partners; Hambrecht and Quist; Institutional Venture Partners; Korea Technology Banking Corporation; Morgan Stanley Dean Witter; Newbridge Asia; New Enterprise Associates; Salomon Brothers; Samsung Corporation; the Sprout Group; Walden Group of Funds; Zesiger Capital; and Internet Elite Limited (a subsidiary of Pacific Century CyberWorks, a Hong Kong-listed company which is controlled by Richard Li). iAsiaWorks partners include Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO), iAdvantage (a Sun Hung Kai subsidiary), International Counsel, NetCel360, and Portal (Nasdaq:PRSF). For more information, please visit the company's Web site at www.iasiaworks.com. Statements in this release that are forward-looking involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause iAsiaWorks' actual results in future periods to be materially different from any future performance that may be suggested in this release. Reference is made to the discussion of risk factors detailed in the iAsiaWorks' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its registration statement on Form S-1. iAsiaWorks assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in the press release. iAsiaWorks contact information: Mary Barnsdale iAsiaWorks U.S. Headquarters Tel: 1-510.525.0651 Fax: 1-510-525-0951 [email protected] Chantal M. Teodorovich iAsiaWorks Asia Headquarters Tel: 852-2828-6186 Fax: 852-2506-0536 [email protected] Outblaze contact information: Ibrahim El-Mouelhy Outblaze Ltd. Tel: +852 2591-6060 Fax: +852 2832-7807 [email protected]