SEATTLE, WA — Pragmatyxs, a single-source provider of e-business and mobile data solutions, and Digital Forest, a premier database, application, and media hosting company, today announced a partnership which will bring customers Enterprise-class application development and hosting services. Pragmatyxs and Digital Forest both primarily serve small and medium-sized businesses and corporate workgroups.

Under the terms of the partnership, Pragmatyxs and Digital Forest will create a new secure and scalable network application hosting facility in Digital Forest's Seattle data center. The facility will support customers by offering both Microsoft Windows 2000 and Apple MacOS X web servers, in addition to dedicated application servers running Oracle and Apple WebObjects. Pragmatyxs will also provide customers with web and mobile application development.

"Pragmatyxs has proven its ability to develop complex network applications for corporate customers," said Kris Bourne, Digital Forest's President and Chief Executive Officer. "They have deep experience helping customers improve efficiencies and reduce costs through the use of network-enabled applications. Digital Forest is excited to offer these new services to our customers."

Working together, Pragmatyxs and Digital Forest can provide corporate IT customers with complete web and mobile solutions; from conceptualization through development and launch. The new partners hope to capitalize on the ever growing outsourced IT services market; according to Gartner Dataquest the worldwide IT services market will reach $603 billion in 2002, growing at 8.9 percent over 2001.

"Digital Forest's infrastructure and monitoring capabilities enables Pragmatyxs to provide its customers with Enterprise class hosting," said Paul VanHout, Pragmatyxs' CEO. "Proactive site and application monitoring as well as mature response and escalation procedures provides the level of support necessary for mission critical applications."

About Pragmatyxs
Pragmatyxs is a provider of e-business and mobile e-business solutions, focused on helping small and medium sized businesses use Internet technologies to gain a competitive advantage. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Seattle, WA the company's client list includes Paccar, Hexcel, Precor USA and Voicestream. For more information on Pragmatyxs, please visit www.pragmatyxs.com or contact sales@pragmatyxs.com.

About Digital Forest
Founded in 1994, Seattle-based digital.forest is noted for its experience providing responsive, expert technical support to help deploy, maintain, and optimize network-enabled databases and interactive media. Clients include Apple, FileMaker, Sony, Cisco, Seattle International Film Festival, and more than 1700 others. For more information, please visit www.forest.net or email sales@forest.net.

Nate Thompson
Pragmatyxs
206-575-1075
nthompson@pragmatyxs.com

David Anderson
digital.forest
425-483-0483
davida@forest.net