bTrade.com Wins EC*CO Award.

WebAccess2000(TM) Named Best Supply Chain Management Product of the Year

IRVING, Texas, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ --

bTrade.com, a leading provider of e-Business infrastructure solutions, has won the inaugural EC*CO Award for WebAccess2000(TM), software that enables rapid, secure and cost-effective data transport and transformation for the small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that traditionally have been locked out of B2B. The announcement was made at the Electronic Commerce World 2000 Conference and Expo in Orlando, Florida.

The EC*CO Awards, which stand for Electronic Commerce Community Ovation Awards, acknowledge cutting-edge products and services in the electronic commerce marketplace. bTrade.com's WebAccess2000 was given the EC*CO Award for "The most innovative and unique supply chain management product of the year" by a panel of judges representing a cross section of academia, media and business. Mark Hoffman, Chairman and CEO of Commerce One, Inc. and a keynote speaker at the Electronic Commerce World 2000 Conference and Expo, presented the EC*CO Award to bTrade.com.

WebAccess2000 is a new desktop software application that seamlessly and bi-directionally translates EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) documents from many of the world's largest supply chain power players to Internet protocols, and then automatically imports the EDI documents into the accounting and other back-office systems used by more than 9.5 million SMEs. WebAccess2000 allows SMEs to easily expand their reach to the supply chain without changing the way they do business or incurring the prohibitively expensive use of VANs (Value- Added Networks) or EDI. In addition, WebAccess2000 can be installed and deployed within minutes, not the typical six to nine months that other solutions offer.

"We are tremendously excited about the honor and recognition given WebAccess2000 by this prestigious panel of judges at Electronic Commerce World 2000," said David Lonsdale, CEO of bTrade.com. "The EC*CO Award is additional validation of not only the technological innovation that WebAccess2000 represents, but also the bottom-line business value it represents for so many small to medium-sized enterprises that want to successfully, securely and rapidly participate in the supply chain."

According to the sponsors of the EC*CO Awards, bTrade.com rated superior according to the following criteria:

-- The competitive advantage achieved by the WebAccess2000 users

-- The uniqueness of WebAccess2000 within the eMarketplace

-- The extent to which WebAccess2000 adds business value to a user's

enterprise

-- Industry impact and sustaining value

-- Ease of integration and interoperability with existing technology.

WebAccess2000 is available immediately for a one-time software fee of $750.00. bTrade.com provides ASP services for an additional $90.00 per month fee.

About EC Media Group

EC Media Group, a Thomson Financial Media company, is a leading provider of information for e-business professionals across a wide range of sectors, including business intelligence, financial services and health care technology. Backed by an extensive intelligence network, the industry's most experienced analysts and journalists, and the full resources of Thomson Financial Media, EC Media Group is uniquely positioned to keep subscribers and conference attendees apprised of leading-edge e-business trends. Currently, EC Media Group offers a number of the market's most widely read and highly respected publications, including Electronic Commerce World, Financial Service OnLine, Health Data Management, DM Review, Internet Health Care Magazine, and EC Technology News. In addition, EC Media Group sponsors some of today's leading professional convocations, including Electronic Commerce World Conference and Exhibition, the preeminent event in its field. For more information, visit the EC Media Group website at http://www.ecmediagroup.com.

About bTrade.com

bTrade.com (www.bTrade.com) has more than ten years of experience providing over 100,000 trading partners in a Global 2000 customer base with universal platforms that offer secure data transport, translation and transformation applications. bTrade.com links e-Business partners and communities without requiring changes to any existing applications while dramatically reducing, if not eliminating, the associated risk, complexity, time, and cost.

For more information, please contact:

Katherine Kirkpatrick Susan Lee Butts

Director of Marketing Communications Associate

bTrade.com Peter Arnold Associates

kkirkpatrick@btrade.com susan@parnold.com

972/580-2982 781/239-1030