Clarus To Acquire iSold.com
– Clarus adds distinct market advantage with addition of dynamic pricing and complex auctioning –

ATLANTA April 27, 2000 – Clarus Corporation (NASDAQ: CLRS), a leading business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce solution provider, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire iSold.com™, a dynamic pricing and complex auctioning company. Following the closing of the acquisition, these value added trading services will be seamlessly integrated with the Clarus SupplierUniverse™ network and immediately available with Clarus™ eProcurement and Clarus™ eMarket. With this offering, Clarus will provide an end-to-end solution including sourced purchasing through eProcurement and eMarket, which will be complimented with dynamic pricing and complex auctions.

“Clarus continues to build and strengthen the network trading services available for use with the Clarus solutions and independent exchanges,” said Steve Jeffery, president and CEO of Clarus. “The acquisition of iSold.com will allow us to offer complex auctioning and dynamic pricing under the Free Trade, no transaction fees pricing model.”

The iSold solution is differentiated through its ability to provide seamless integration of both traditional auctioning services and custom auctions. This agreement will allow Clarus to offer 10 auction types, out-of-the-box, such as English, Dutch or Reverse. A wizard-based administrator also will allow for quickly configuring custom auctions based upon buyer, supplier and market maker requirements. The iSold.com auction engine is designed to be configurable and enables companies to integrate dynamic pricing applications quickly and easily into e-commerce initiatives.

“The alignment of the Clarus and iSold.com visions was obvious from our first meeting,” said Eric B. Schorvitz, Ph.D. and co-founder of iSold.com. “By integrating the ability to provide dynamic pricing to the Clarus B2B commerce offerings, Clarus customers will benefit from decreased development time and iSold.com’s theoretical and practical expertise with dynamic pricing.”

Clarus provides a comprehensive suite of B2B e-commerce solutions, including Clarus™ eProcurement, Clarus™ eMarket, Clarus SupplierUniverse™, Clarus™ eXpense, Clarus™ View and Clarus™ Fusion. The Clarus solutions are built exclusively to take advantage of the latest Microsoft Windows DNA technologies to deliver reliability, scalability and cost performance advantages essential for e-commerce solutions.

The closing of the acquisition is subject to the completion of customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed within the next five business days.

About iSold.com
iSold.com develops state of the art auction software for businesses interested in developing an auction site or adding auction technology to an existing site. Rather than having to spend months creating an auction site, iSold.com enables you to integrate dynamic commerce applications quickly and easily into your e-commerce initiatives.

About Clarus
Atlanta-based Clarus Corporation (www.claruscorp.com; NASDAQ: CLRS), a leader in business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce, provides Web-based procurement software and services that exploit the global marketplace of the Internet to manage corporate purchasing and enable digital marketplaces. Clarus is the clear alternative in B2B e-commerce supporting the open, direct Internet model based on the ClarusDirect™ architecture. This architecture directly connects buyers and suppliers to maximize cost savings, improve procurement efficiencies, and create new revenue opportunities for large and mid-sized companies. Clarus solutions leverage its SupplierUniverse trading network for managed content, trading services and supplier integration. Clarus solutions are being deployed at customer sites including Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., Cinergy, Comcast Corporation, First Data Corporation, Gjensidige NOR, MasterCard International, MetLife, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Perot Systems and Wachovia.

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