Idapta Announces Support of Open Applications Group to

Drive XML Standards for emarkets

OAGI Partnership Allows Idapta to Further Define

Open and Flexible Communication between Enterprises and Exchanges

ATLANTA, GA. (January 9, 2000) — Idapta™, Inc., a leading business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce operating platform and trading applications provider, today announced it has joined Open Applications Group, Inc. to drive the adoption of standards between enterprise, consortia and Net eMarkets to ensure consistent business processes between buyers and suppliers. Recognizing the importance of the need for standards, Idapta’s Commerce OP™ platform and MarketExchange™ trading application already support the Open Applications Group Interface Specification (OAGIS).

“We are excited to have Idapta join the Open Applications Group consortium,” said David Connelly, president, Open Applications Group, Inc. “Idapta has proven its commitment to OAGI by developing solutions to be OAGIS compliant from the outset. With Idapta’s vast knowledge of B2B marketplaces, we look forward to Idapta’s participation in developing additional standards.”

“From the beginning, Idapta has built its products incorporating industry leading standards including XML, J2EE and OAGIS,” said Anandeep Pannu, CTO of Idapta. “By joining OAGI, Idapta will drive XML standards for emarkets which will be incorporated into public and private exchanges. Through the adoption of these new standards, Idapta will allow for more efficient Inter-market, intra-market and enterprise communication.”

About OAGI

The Open Applications Group is a non-profit consortium focusing on best practices and process based XML content for eBusiness and Application Integration.  It is the largest publisher of XML based content for business software interoperability in the world.  Open Applications Group, Inc. members have over 5 years of extensive experience in building this industry consensus based framework for business software application interoperability and have developed a repeatable process for quickly developing high quality business content and XML representations of that content. For more information, visit www.openapplications.org.

About Idapta, Inc.
Idapta delivers the core Internet exchange platform software that enables enterprises, consortia and Net market makers to build, operate and scale private and public B2B eMarkets. Helping eMarket makers transact the simplest to the most complex online business transactions, Idapta provides sophisticated trading mechanisms and a powerful operating platform that allows intra-market and inter-market integration and infrastructure management. Idapta is privately held and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, visit www.idapta.com.