Ease Technologies to Provide Support and Continued Enhancements to TRIAD Financial Server

COLUMBIA, MD - March 23, 2001-- Ease Technologies, Inc., the developer and licensor of the TRIAD Financial Server, announced today that it has enhanced efforts to provide on-going support for TRIAD users currently supported by its licensee Bridge Information Systems (BRIDGE®), in response to user concerns and uncertainty in the wake of BRIDGE's Chapter 11 Bankruptcy proceedings.

Ease reaffirms its commitment to continue on-going development and enhanced support for the current clients of TRIAD and has increased its efforts to reassure the current TRIAD user community of continued product growth, longevity and viability. "Ease will continue to provide enhancements to ensure TRIAD's premier status in the brokerage community and reassures all TRIAD users of the products evolving future during BRIDGE's current situation and beyond", stated John A. Douglas, Ease Technologies Chief Technology Officer.

Ease Technologies, headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, is the designer and developer of the TRIAD system, the industry's first commercially available FIX-based client-server system. The TRIAD system is currently installed in over 75 of the world's largest financial firms and provides full FIX messaging support, automated order forwarding and routing, reporting, and the most advanced FIX messaging user interface available.

About Ease Technologies, Inc.

Ease Technologies, Inc. is the leading provider of FIX-based transaction server software. The privately-held development and systems integration firm, founded in 1993, designed and wrote TRIAD in 1995 as a centralized server to handle the then growing electronic trading marketplace. TRIAD is the premier consolidator of all FIX traffic; orders, executions, indications, advertisements, and allocations for investment banks and brokerage firms worldwide. Ease has continued to enhance and develop functionality around the TRIAD engine since that time. Ease was recognized as the 50th fastest growing technology firm in the country and has topped many high tech growth lists.

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Contact:

    Ease Technologies, Inc.
    John A. Douglas
    Chief Technology Officer
    301-854-0010
    or
    Charles J. Bubeck
    President & CEO
    301-854-0010