InCert Makes Fortune Small Business Magazine's "Top 25" Hot New Companies List

CONTACTS:SteveMilmore, InCert Software,
617-621-8080 (smilmore@incert.com)Sandy McLaughlin, Soucy Communications, 978-266-1700 (sandym@scg-pr.com)      FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECambridge, Mass., May 10, 2000 - InCert Software Corporation has been named to Fortune Small Business (FSB) magazine's Big Ideas "Top 25" List of young companies with breakthrough products and services. See www.fsb.com/fortunesb/articles/0,2227,703-1,00.html.The annual FSB list highlights technology innovators who have commercialized a service or product that promises to make an explosive impact on the industry. Before picking the winners, FSB surveyed and interviewed hundreds of businesses, research labs, and universities.This year's top 25 are profiled in the May issue and cited for their "tales of true grit and inspiration." InCert is featured as e-Business and e-Commerce "bugbusters" with its revolutionary agent-based technology that prevents on-line crashes and promotes quick recovery.TraceBack, InCert's failure recovery tool, is referred to as asoftware "black box" that helps
developers record the events that preceded a crash so they can solve them more quickly. InCert customers such as Fidelity and Charles Schwab are also mentioned."Being named to the FSB Top 25 list is further proof that our agent technology is something special and unique," said Alain Hanover, InCert president and CEO. "It's great to be recognized as an e-pioneer. Our InCert agents are indispensable solutions for businesses using the Internet, doing e-Commerce, or maintaining Web-enabled legacy applications. Companies today simply cant afford application failures, and weve got a highly practical way to keep applications available."Unique Suite of Agent-Based ProductsInCerts revolutionary agent technology is offered via a suite of products.InCert Examiner: Allows developers, testing and qualityassurance professionals to check software applications to see precisely how much of a new-or already deployed- application has been tested, and to make existing or newly developed testsmore efficient and less costly.
By using Examiner during testing, IT professionals can increase the quality of software being deployed and streamline test data to correlate more closely with critical production code.InCert TraceBack: Revolutionizes the failure analysis and recovery process by helping IT professionals quickly pinpoint the root cause of an application abend or other failure. TraceBack, through binary instrumentation, monitors application execution and traces the exact sequence of statements leading up to application failure.About InCertBased in Cambridge, Mass., InCert Software Corporation helps organizations maximize e-Business applications availability. InCert products employ a patented, low overhead agent technology that enables actual runtime analysis of software before, during, and after deployment. As aresult, customers can eliminate costly systems downtime caused by application failures and manage their enterprise and e-Business applications more effectively, at less cost and at lowerrisk.Additional information about
InCert and its suite of software products is available on the company web site at http://www.incert.com                                                            ; ####InCert, InCert Examiner and InCert TraceBack are trademarks of InCert Software Corporation. All other products or company names contained herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.