Beyond.com, ITC Awarded $4.5 Million Government Contract for Digital Delivery of Software.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 1999--

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Contract Expands

Relationship With Department of Treasury

Internet software superstore Beyond.com(TM) (Nasdaq:BYND) and Intellisys Technology Corporation (ITC) of Fairfax, Va., have been awarded a five-year, $4.5-million contract by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for the electronic delivery and maintenance of Microsoft software to approximately 3,500 desktop computers within the OCC.

The agreement covers licenses for Microsoft's Windows NT Server, Windows NT Workstation, Office Professional, Exchange Server 5.5 and other BackOffice software, along with additional products, for OCC employees.

The new contract strengthens the relationship Beyond.com and ITC have established with the Department of Treasury, which began when the two companies were awarded a $120-million contract with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in June of 1999. Beyond.com also provides software electronically to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) and the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), a division of the Department of Commerce.

"The OCC contract is further verification of Beyond.com's value proposition of digitally downloading and managing software in the enterprise arena," said Steven Cooker, newly appointed vice president of government sales for Beyond.com. "We believe the contract represents a trend by government agencies to help reduce the total cost of software ownership by using electronic delivery."

ITC President and Chief Executive Officer Steve Baldwin said: "ITC understands the challenges facing the Federal government and the ways the Internet and e-commerce can help meet these challenges. We are pleased to join with leaders in the software enterprise arena such as Microsoft and Beyond.com."

The contract allows the OCC to utilize Beyond.com's Electronic Download Manager (EDM) technology to distribute, manage and support products across the Internet to their various sites. EDM is a proprietary service developed by Beyond.com to ease the deployment, management and maintenance of software throughout government agencies and large enterprises.

Under terms of the contract, the OCC will also be able to use Beyond.com as its Web-based store for the electronic purchase of additional Microsoft products.

About Beyond.com

Beyond.com provides commercial, off-the-shelf software and related products and services to the government, enterprise, corporate and consumer markets. Visitors to the company's online store http://www.beyond.com/ enjoy an expansive selection of software backed by customer service and competitive pricing. Beyond.com offers more than 1.6 million software and other digital products, including software stock-keeping units (SKUs) for online purchase from such major publishers as Adobe Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Lotus Development Corp., Microsoft Corp., Network Associates Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc. and Symantec Corp; hardware; computing devices; and digital images in different file formats, including jpeg, gif and mpf through a strategic marketing alliance with IMSI.

The company has established strategic marketing alliances with America Online Inc., CNET Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., Excite@Home, Road Runner/ServiceCo, Yahoo! Inc. and ZDNet. Additionally, Beyond.com offers e-commerce solutions such as site design and construction, site operation, including transaction processing, physical and electronic order fulfillment, customer support, marketing, and merchandising support and reporting to software publishers, hardware manufacturers and systems OEMs.

Customers include Autodesk, Executive Software Inc., McAfee.com Inc., Symantec Corp., Systran Software Inc. Palm Computing, Compaq Computer and HP Shopping Village (a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard). The company has applied for federal registration of the marks BEYOND.COM and BEYOND DOT COM. Beyond.com Corporation trades on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol ("BYND"). More information on the company can be found in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC").

About ITC

Founded in 1983, ITC is at the forefront of government e-commerce applications and provides Enterprise Technology services and products to organizations throughout the government. ITC was recently selected as one of two contractors to prime the three-year, $300-million U.S. Army Personal Computer - 3 (PC-3) contract. ITC has experienced exceptional growth since President and CEO Steve Baldwin and his management team joined the company last year.

Safe Harbor Statement

Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking 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. This includes statements relating to expectations about government trends in using electronic software download and Beyond.com's agreement with the Office of Comptroller and Currency for electronic delivery, maintenance and technical support of Microsoft software products. The Government is obligated only to the extent of authorized purchases actually made under the contract. Such statements are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties, including the risk that the contract is terminated prematurely and that the government ceases to procure software through electronic delivery. Beyond.com's business is subject to risks including reductions in or cancellations of customer orders, changes in relationships with software suppliers, changes in relationships with strategic partners, changes in the product mix sold by the company, competition from other online software resellers or publishers, inability to raise sufficient capital on satisfactory terms, or at all, and other factors described in the company's filings with the SEC.