NetObjects Fusion is an award-winning web site building solution that helps small businesses with the tremendous challenges created by today’s fast paced e-business environment.  Hosting the web site is integral in creating an online business, a process which has been made easier and less costly for NetObjects Fusion 4.0 customers through this promotion with Concentric Network.  Concentric Network’s uptime guarantee, round-the-clock customer care, regular system back-ups high performance hosting service make them a standout as an excellent solution for NetObjects Fusion customers.

NetObjects Fusion maximizes productivity while creating and maintaining great-looking web sites. NetObjects Fusion offers award-winning usability with intuitive, drag-and-drop editing and site management. With NetObjects Fusion's open and extensible platform, it's easy for small businesses to create e-business sites with on-line catalogs, e-commerce and web applications – all without writing code.

“We teamed with Concentric Network because they are one of America’s top hosting companies.  Their service is well supported and is well suited toward small businesses looking for reliability and speed,” said Janelle Pedersen, Director Product Management and Marketing.  “This promotion offers our customers a valuable package of the best web site building software with the best web hosting service – removing barriers for small businesses who need to leverage the Internet to grow their business.”

“NetObjects and Concentric share a common goal of helping small businesses create an e-business presence,” said Connie DeWitt, Director of Marketing for Concentric’s Network Applications Division.  “Providing our web hosting service to NetObjects Fusion customers expands our reach and offers a broader customer base a chance to experience the reliability we provide.”

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About NetObjects
NetObjects, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETO), majority owned by IBM (NYSE:IBM), is a leading provider of e-Business software and services that enable small businesses as well as large-scale enterprises to build, deploy and maintain Web sites on the Internet and corporate Intranets. The NetObjects product family includes NetObjects Fusion™ and NetObjects Authoring Server Suite. In addition, NetObjects offers its customers on- line solutions, including content, products and services to help them register, host, build, maintain and promote their Web sites.

NetObjects has been ranked by Softletter 100, NewMedia 500 and as one of Fortune's 25 Very Cool Companies. Its products have won over 50 awards including InfoWorld's

Analyst Choice award, CNET's Internet Excellence award, PC Magazine's Editors

Choice award and InternetWorld's Industry Award. More information about

NetObjects and its products can be found at www.netobjects.com.

About Concentric Network Corporation
Concentric Network Corporation (NASDAQ: CNCX) provides complete, easy-to-use Internet business solutions for small- to medium-sized companies and customized Virtual Private Network and data center services for larger organizations. Concentric's portfolio of services for small- to medium-sized companies includes high-speed DSL access, Web hosting and e-commerce. For larger enterprises, the company offers dedicated Web hosting and application infrastructure services, providing a key enabling solution for securely delivering applications and Web-based services over the Internet or a VPN. Concentric’s VPN solutions enable an organization to securely and reliably communicate with its offices, mobile sales force, business partners, vendors and customers. Concentric's services rely on a high-performance, ATM-based network that covers North America, and through various partnerships, reaches internationally. Concentric also operates state-of-the-art hosting centers at strategic locations across the U.S. All Concentric services are backed by 24 hour/7 days a week customer support, and many are backed by strong service level agreements.