HotOffice Technologies Strengthens Management Team
Norman G. Mainer Appointed Vice President of Technology

BOCA RATON, FL (Mar. 6, 2000) - HotOffice Technologies (www.hotoffice.com) today announced that it has appointed Norman G. Mainer as vice president, technology. Bringing twenty years of technology strategy, design, and deployment experience to HotOffice, Mainer will be responsible for product development and the overall technical direction of the company's award-winning virtual office service.

"Norman brings tremendous technical depth to our leadership team and we're pleased to have him on board," said R. Michael Franz, chairman and CEO of HotOffice Technologies, Inc. "We're committed to delivering the fastest, most comprehensive intranet service to our customers. Norman will help ensure we continue to exceed expectations for functionality, innovation and speed. His immediate contributions in scaling our technology infrastructure to handle our record company signups since the launch of our free, advertising-supported service in January is a testament to Norman's technical management strengths."

Mainer brings with him two decades of experience in leading-edge technology design and delivery. For the last eleven years he has served in senior-level technical management and consulting capacities at Fortune 500 firms, including AT&T Wireless, Nike, Visa International and Columbia Health Care. Mainer has been responsible for designing, implementing and running sophisticated, high-volume, mission-critical Web and client/server applications in complex finance, telephony/telecom, manufacturing and real-time process control, wholesale distribution, document management, retail point-of-sale, health services and insurance environments.

Most recently, Mainer was chief technical officer and vice president, engineering at Interactive Search, Inc., a leader in on-line recruiting and staffing solutions. His prior experience also includes serving as vice president of architecture and technologies for Wells Fargo Bank and as the senior technical manager for the Revelation and Advanced Revelation database products.

Mainer's technical skills include extensive knowledge of DBMS engine design, compiler design, construction of code generators and other CASE tools, API and gateway software design, knowledge engineering and automated SQA tools development. He has extensive hands-on experience in large-scale database implementation and the manipulation of semi and un-structured data, and has been responsible for several innovative advances in these areas. Mainer is a graduate of the University of Washington, and completed post-graduate work in artificial intelligence.

About the HotOffice Service
Designed to improve the way teams communicate and collaborate, the HotOffice service allows any team member to connect via a private intranet with colleagues and clients from any Internet connection. With document and contact management, e-mail, calendaring, and other tools, the HotOffice service helps teams maximize productivity with improved communications and real-time collaboration. HotOffice is available in both a free version, which is supported by ads, and an affordable monthly subscription service.

About HotOffice Technologies
HotOffice aims to maximize the productivity potential of the Internet for small businesses and teams through smart and secure collaboration and communication tools - teamware solutions. To help small businesses thrive in the digital economy, HotOffice has contracted with Staples and other innovative businesses to offer special packages of solutions and services specifically designed to meet the needs of small businesses and teams. HotOffice is led by experienced communications professionals from Sprint who have executed a unique distribution and pricing strategy by making the HotOffice service available to customers in both a subscription-based and a free (ad-supported) version. The privately held company is based in Boca Raton, Fla.