Solidifies First-Mover Advantage with Significantly Increased Performance and Scalability

New York, NY - April 4, 2000 - Cornerstone Internet Solutions (Nasdaq: CNRS), a provider of comprehensive business-to-business (B2B) services and solutions, today announced that its B2Bgalaxy.com subsidiary has significantly enhanced the performance, scalability and deployment speed of its B2B e-commerce solutions using the BEA WebLogic Server^TM platform. Developed by BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), The E-Commerce Transactions Company™, the award-winning BEA WebLogic Server powers B2Bgalaxy’s FOODgalaxy.com, its first Internet marketplace catering to the $350 billion food service industry and VETgalaxy.com, the recently launched online marketplace targeting the $12 billion veterinary service industry.

"Our transition to BEA WebLogic Server is part of our commitment as an application service provider to build-out both the marketplaces we power and e-procurement application services we provide, as rapidly as possible," said David Rowe, COO and CTO of B2Bgalaxy.com. "Since the launch of FOODgalaxy.com last year, our customer base has grown even more rapidly than anticipated, requiring the construction of a robust, Web infrastructure that could handle the increased demand. BEA WebLogic Server provides the performance and flexibility necessary to effectively scale and expand our proprietary PowerPurchasing and associated PowerProducts for our existing e-commerce marketplaces, as well as giving us the ability to rapidly penetrate additional B2B e-commerce verticals with our packaged e-commerce solution."

"BEA WebLogic Server uses Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) components, which provide a tremendous increase in scalability and redundancy," Rowe continued. "Combine this with our cutting-edge architecture and we have a high performance Web-based infrastructure that can accommodate a rapidly growing user base with virtually no degradation in service." The structure of the EJB component architecture has allowed B2Bgalaxy.com to minimize subsequent re-programming to individual modules or ‘common denominators,’ depending on the specific function. The efficiencies of BEA WebLogic Server also translate into decreased hardware requirements, enabling B2Bgalaxy.com to realize cost savings in maintenance and deployment.

BEA WebLogic Server also enables the easy duplication of dynamic, data-driven applications such as B2Bgalaxy.com’s PowerPurchasing technology in order to create online marketplaces to service additional sectors. In this manner, B2Bgalaxy.com’s packaged e-commerce solution can be customized for an industry’s unique look and feel and activated within a very short period of time.

"First-mover solutions providers such as B2Bgalaxy.com are employing BEA WebLogic Server because it provides a reliable and highly scalable infrastructure that can instantly handle the often unpredictable surge in traffic that comes with a company’s online success," said Joe Menard, President of the BEA E-Commerce Server Division. "BEA WebLogic Server enables innovators, such as B2Bgalaxy.com, to speed the development and deployment of e-commerce solutions and ensure rapid delivery of new applications and enhancements across any number of sectors, as was the case recently with VETgalaxy.com."

Through B2Bgalaxy.com’s expanding suite of PowerProducts, including PowerPurchasing and PowerVendor, FOODgalaxy.com and VETgalaxy.com subscribers are able to purchase supplies for their respective organizations online from multiple distributors through virtual private exchanges. These exchanges enable members to post customized inventory lists online and require suppliers to continually submit their latest product prices. The system produces purchase orders based upon best price and availability from buyer-selected distributors, driving down the cost of goods to buyers by as much as 20 percent and significantly reducing the time traditionally devoted to the comparative price shopping process. Sellers share in the efficiencies created by automating the procurement process and benefit from lowered cost of sales and customer acquisition.

About BEA Systems

BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is the E-Commerce Transactions Company™, powering many of the world’s most innovative companies that serve the "e-generation" companies such as Amazon.com, Federal Express, E*TRADE, United Airlines, DIRECTV, Qwest, Nokia and Kaiser-Permanente. The e-generation relies on the Web to conduct their everyday business, demanding richer, more personalized experiences and the guarantee that your Web site is always available – every minute of every day. The award-winning BEA E-Commerce Transaction Platform™, coupled with BEA consulting, education, and support services, helps companies launch reliable e-commerce initiatives quickly. BEA solutions help companies of all sizes build e-commerce infrastructures that leverage existing investments and provide the foundation for running a successful integrated e-business for the e-generation. BEA has more than 50 offices in 24 countries, is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and is on the Web at www.bea.com.

About Cornerstone Internet Solutions

Cornerstone Internet Solutions operates two subsidiaries, USWeb/CKS Cornerstone and B2Bgalaxy.com, which are in separate Internet businesses.

USWeb/CKS Cornerstone is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cornerstone Internet Solutions Inc. and an independent affiliate of USWeb/CKS Corporation. USWeb/CKS Cornerstone is a full-service Internet consulting firm that uses a combination of strategic planning, technology and creative expertise to provide clients with successful solutions.

The B2Bgalaxy.com subsidiary creates industry-specific business-to-business e-commerce marketplaces that link buyers and sellers through competitive on-line exchanges and focuses on improving member profitability through the use of PowerPurchasing, the award-winning marketplace exchange technology.

FOODgalaxy.com enables restaurants and other food service establishments to post a customized inventory list online and requires suppliers to continually submit their latest product bids. This competitive process drives down the cost of goods to buyers by as much as 20 percent and significantly reduces the time traditionally devoted to the comparative price shopping process. Additional functionality is available to distributors allowing them to reduce their cost of customer acquisition, and there cost of conducting business through the power of the Internet.

Cornerstone expects to launch a series of marketplaces over the next few years through its B2Bgalaxy.com unit. New marketplaces will be industry-specific, link buyers directly with suppliers and manufacturers and utilize B2Bgalaxy.com’s PowerProduct suite of e-procurement application services.

USWeb/CKS and the USWeb/CKS logo are trademarks of USWeb/CKS Corporation.

BEA and WebLogic are registered trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. The E-Commerce Transactions Company is a trademark of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the company with which they are associated.

Some paragraphs of this news release, particularly those describing Cornerstone's, FOODgalaxy.com's and B2Bgalaxy.com's future business prospects, contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including difficulties in implementing desired features, delays in completing the B2Bgalaxy and various industry specific web sites, including FOODgalaxy.com, technical challenges, cost overruns, changes in design, competition, and so on, any of which could have an adverse effect on the Company and B2Bgalaxy.com and its communities, including FOODgalaxy.com. Factors such as these could have an adverse effect on the Company's results of operations. In light of significant uncertainties inherent in forward-looking statements included herein, the inclusion of such information should not be regarded as a representation by the Company or any other person that the objectives and plans of the Company will be achieved.