Crossroad Strategies Selects Excedent to Provide Email to Political Campaigns

Blacksburg, VA (December 6, 2002) - Excedent Technologies, a global leader in email hosting solutions, today announced a Channel Parntership with Crossroad Strategies, a Web services firm based in Washington, D.C. Under the terms of this partnership, Excedent will provide a private label Web-based email system and administrative control panel to Crossroad Strategy political campaign clients throughout the Democratic Party.

"We chose Excedent because of their flexibility and support," explained Ben Green, President of Crossroad Strategies. "It is difficult to find technology vendors and partners that care about their customers. We gave Excedent a trial run and they exceeded all of our expectations."

Crossroad Strategies offers Internet and New Media solutions to political campaigns, eliminating the need for them to hire staff to carry out Web production. Their full-service solutions enable political campaigns to avoid dealing with a long list of vendors, saving them time and maintenance costs. But more than that, Crossroad Strategies puts the campaign in direct control of their site without the need for technical know-how. Campaigns can focus on winning, and let Crossroad deal with the programming.

"We are excited to be a Crossroad technology partner," commented Pat Matthews, CEO of Excedent. "Crossroad Strategies has a lot of experience in the political world and many of their clients represent our great country. We are honored to provide email services to such organizations."

Excedent works with service providers like Crossroad Strategies to provide email hosting solutions through its Channel Partner program. Through the Excedent Channel Partner program, service providers enable their customers with enterprise class email hosting, Virus Scanning and Spam filtering solutions. Excedent allows service providers to fully brand the email service and administrative control panel while integrating every aspect of the outsourced service with internal or other third party applications. This is accomplished using an already existing set of Application Programming Interfaces, developed by Excedent. The email is hosted with Excedent bandwidth partners in secure facilities throughout the United States.

Excedent Channel Partners range from small to medium sized Web, Application and Internet Service providers to Fortune 500 and multinational corporations.

About Crossroad Strategies
Crossroad Strategies offers a full range of Web services to political campaigns within the Democratic Party. Member of their team have worked at every level of the political world, ranging from the President and Prime Minister to Congressman and non-profit groups.

About Excedent
Excedent Technologies is a global leader in email hosting solutions, providing small businesses and service providers around the world with secure, reliable, Spam-free, Virus-free email. The company is privately held and has been serving customers since 1999.