Dotzer Selects Excedent Technologies as Anti-Spam & Email Hosting Partner

Blacksburg, VA (April 21, 2003) - Excedent Technologies, a global leader in business email hosting, anti-virus and Spam filtering solutions today announced a Channel Partnership with Dotzer Internet of the United Kingdom. Excedent will work with Dotzer to provide small business and individual customers in the UK with secure, reliable, Spam-free, Virus-free email hosting services. Dotzer will offer email hosting through its Symbrace.com Web site, formerly known as BigFamily.org and a subsidiary of Dotzer Internet.

"We are excited about our partnership with Symbrace and Dotzer Internet," commented Pat Matthews, CEO of Excedent Technologies. "Spam is quickly becoming a tremendous problem for many businesses in the UK. Dotzer Internet will now bring our cutting edge anti-Spam technology to their customers as one of our Channel Partners in Great Britain."

Dotzer also sees tremendous potential with the new partnership. "We needed a partner that could work with us to offer premium email and webmail hosting services with integrated anti-virus and Spam Filtering capabilities to our customers and partners," said Kevin Lee President of Dotzer Internet. "Excedent offers a great service and their support is fast and detailed. I am totally satisfied."

Excedent currently provides email and webmail hosting with integrated anti-virus and junk email protection to over 1,000 customers worldwide. Every customer is provided with a secure control panel for administering email accounts, aliases, Spam filtering settings and a multitude of other administration options. In addition, service providers like Dotzer Internet are able to group customer domains into sub-accounts and have the capability to assign delegated administration rights to their customers and end users.

According to a January 13, 2003 report by Silicon.com, Spam constituted 40% of all email messages in the UK during December of 2002. This information, coupled with a recent research report by Ferris Research that indicates that Spam will cost U.S. businesses over $10 billion in 2003 makes controlling Spam a prime concern for many corporations in the United Kingdom. "We plan to be a leader in the UK small business and consumer email services market," commented Lee. "Being a leader requires strong business partners. We have found one in Excedent Technologies."

About Dotzer Internet (http://www.dotzer.com)
Dotzer helps individuals, small groups and small companies make their websites and Email applications faster, more scalable, secure and highly reliable. An Efficient and Cost-effective Service is what Dotzer has become known for.

About Symbrace.com (http://www.symbrace.com)
Symbrace was founded in 2001 as BigFamily.org and provides web based email service for individuals. In early 2003, Symbrace joined Dotzer Internet (Dotzer.com), a Scotland based web services provider.

About Excedent
Excedent Technologies is a global leader in business 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 serves more than 1,000 customers worldwide.