WebRiposte continues to embrace new industry standards for Web enabled application development

Boston, Mass. - October 11, 2001 - Escher Group Limited, a leading provider of peer-to-peer messaging and data management solutions today announced support for XML Web Services in its WebRiposte™ product. WebRiposte with XML Web Services embraces the Microsoft .NET framework and provides a high-volume, fault-tolerant distributed transaction platform environment for building Internet applications. Businesses using WebRiposte are able to move to an Internet based development model within and outside of the enterprise making e-business not only accessible but also optimized for peak performance.

WebRiposte supports XML Web Services standards such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Web Services Description Language (WSDL) that are the building blocks of all Web Services initiatives. By leveraging these open standards WebRiposte customers can build solutions that integrate seamlessly with Microsoft's .NET enabled server applications and development environments such as Visual Studio .NET. WebRiposte also supports Web Services initiatives from many other software vendors including Sun Microsystem's SunONE.

"Support for XML Web Services and Microsoft's .NET related technologies within the WebRiposte product set highlights our continued commitment to consistently adopt the latest Web standards," said a spokesperson for Escher Group. "WebRiposte with XML Web Services will enable our customers to build solutions that can be deployed in more ways than ever before thereby realizing substantial benefits from this new and exciting architecture."

"The WebRiposte platform is a proven solution with the reliability, scalability and performance needed to build e-business applications," the spokesperson continued. "WebRiposte's full support for open standards, such as XML and XML Web Services, enables the development of new business applications and processes that were previously difficult or impossible to perform due to software incompatibilities."

About Escher Group, Limited

Escher Group Limited is a leading provider of distributed transaction processing and data management solutions and services. The company offers a business-to-business XML-based transaction management environment, used in thousands of locations worldwide. Since its introduction in 1993, Riposte®, Escher's flagship messaging solution, has grown to become the market leader in post office counter automation.

Trademarks: WebRiposte and Riposte are trademarks or registered trademarks of Escher Group, Limited in the United States and/or other countries. All other product names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.

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