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Online Business Shopping Made Easy by Vinimaya

12 September 2000

Online Business Shopping Made Easy by Vinimaya

         First Business-to-Business Comparison Shopping Site Launched

    TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Sept. 12 Looking for Russian aircraft
parts?
    The best price on potassium chloride?
    Online comparison shopping for businesses has finally arrived.
ViniShopper(TM) from Vinimaya is the Web's first business-to-business
comparison shopping service.  It can search hundreds of B2B sites and millions
of products online for best prices or specific business products -- chemicals,
computer chips, construction equipment, industrial equipment, office supplies,
and more.
    "Comparison shopping Web sites like MySimon are fairly common for consumer
goods, but business products need quite a bit more computer intelligence to
sort," said Dr. Somesh Nigam, CEO of Vinimaya.  "A VCR is a VCR, but
hydrochloric acid, for instance, can come in hundreds of different assay
strengths and quantities.  A search engine may not help you find
"2-Aminonicotinic acid," and entering "circuit" in a regular search engine
will give the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, rather than electronic
components.  Now, businesses finally have a comparison shopping service of
their own.  It can save businesses considerable time and money in finding
exactly what they need at the best possible price."
    ViniShopper can be found on the Vinimaya web site at
http://www.vinimaya.com/shopper.html .
    The service is currently being offered free of charge to all users for a
limited time.
    Vinimaya (which means "exchange" in Sanskrit) is a leading developer of
tools to help businesses manage B2B, or business-to-business transactions,
which are forecast to grow to $6.3 trillion in the next four years as
businesses move much of their purchasing to the Internet.
    Vinimaya is the leading provider of directories, comparison shopping
services and other advanced tools for business-to-business e-commerce.
ViniShopper is the most comprehensive B2B comparison shopping service.
Vinimaya is headquartered in Tarrytown, New York, with research and
development facilities in Bangalore, India.  Additional information is
available on the company's web site at http://www.vinimaya.com or by calling
(914) 524-0700.

    Vinimaya and ViniShopper are registered trademarks of Vinimaya Inc.
All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their
respective owners.