February 6, 2000

Gideon Gartner, Computer Industry Luminary, Joins Soliloquy Advisory Board

Soliloquy is Delighted to Announce Gideon Gartner as the Newest Member of its Advisory Board

"We are thrilled to have such an accomplished industry leader on our Advisory Board," stated Ms. Catherine Winchester, President & CEO of Soliloquy. "Gideon's knowledge and experience in the computer, Internet and finance fields is unparalleled."

Mr. Gartner is the founder and former CEO of The Gartner Group, Soundview Financial Group, and Giga Information Group.

As the founder of the Gartner Group in 1979, Gideon Gartner served as its President, CEO, and Chairman until April 1992. The Gartner Group was ranked one of the fastest growing private firms in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine, until it went public in 1986, whereupon it was ranked one of the best small companies in America by Business Week. In 1988, Mr. Gartner sold the company to Saatchi & Saatchi, but then regained control again in 1990 through a leveraged buyout of the firm. In 1993, Gartner Group went public again and currently trades on the NYSE.

Mr. Gartner also founded Soundview Financial Group, a broker-dealer providing computer-related industry investment advice and banking services to institutional investors. In 1986, the company was spun out to the Gartner Group shareholders. Subsequently, Mr. Gartner founded Giga Information Group, which shipped its first product in 1996 and has since become the fastest growing firm in the IT Advisory space.

Prior to the above noted achievements, Mr. Gartner was a partner at Oppenheimer and Company; before joining Wall Street, he worked for IBM in Europe and the United States. Gideon Gartner studied at M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), earning his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering (1956) and his Masters of Science in Management from M.I.T.'s Sloan School (1960).

About Soliloquy

Founded by Catherine Winchester in mid-1997 in New York, Soliloquy is at the forefront of the next generation of web infrastructure technology. Soliloquy creates natural language user interfaces that humanize e-commerce by making the online shopping experience conversational and interactive rather than passive. Soliloquy's Conversational Sales Experts are natural language products that allow shoppers to hold intelligent two-way dialogues with web sites by typing (and later speaking) using their own words. Talking to a Soliloquy Expert, such as Pick-a-PC™, feels like chatting with a live person — except that it has 100% knowledge of all products, is available 24/7, and is a fraction of the cost.