FREE Intranet Solutions Now Available for Insight's Business Customers

Tempe, Arizona and Boston, Mass (May 30, 2000) - Insight Direct Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Insight Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSIT), a leading global direct marketer of name-brand computers, hardware and software, and Intranets.com (www.intranets.com), developers of the world's first free Intranet portals, today announced a strategic alliance partnership that will provide Insight's small- and medium-size business customers with a free Intranet solution.

Insight, the newest member of Intranets.com's Alliance Partner Program, now has a powerful business tool that can help attract new customers as well as retain current ones. By offering a fully functional, co-branded version of the free Intranets.com service, Insight is able to strengthen customer relations, increase stickiness on their corporate web site and build brand awareness. Insight customers can set up their Intranets by visiting Insight's home page at www.insight.com

As a feature of the program, Insight will also offer highly competitive pricing and 110,000 high technology computing products to Intranets.com customers via links on Intranets.com's web site and through co-branded emails.

"The addition of Intranets.com to Insight's network of co-marketing partners adds value for both Insight and Intranets.com customers and users, and provides increased promotional opportunities for both companies," said Dino Farfante, Insight's executive vice president of sales and marketing. "Through this alliance, Insight will offer its customers Intranets.com's free service and will provide Intranets.com users with a customized purchasing page and special electronic promotions designed especially for them."

"Partnering with Insight is a highly strategic way for us to increase our visibility in the small business market," said Steve Fischer, director of business development for Intranets.com. "It is an opportunity for both Intranets.com and Insight to generate incremental business while offering a more robust product for all of our users."

Intranets.com has entered into several strategic partnerships with companies including Hello Direct and Inc.com to provide a co-branded Intranet solution. Each Intranet provides its users with communication and collaboration applications such as document sharing, group discussions, instant messaging, announcement postings and calendar scheduling.

About Insight
Insight Enterprises, Inc. is a holding company with two major subsidiaries - Insight Direct Worldwide, Inc. and Direct Alliance Corporation. Insight Direct Worldwide is a leading global direct marketer of computers, hardware and software, offering a broad line of more than 110,000 brand name products primarily to businesses in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany. Products are sold via the Internet and by a staff of customer-dedicated account executives through proactive outbound telephone-based sales, electronic commerce and electronic marketing. One of Insight Direct Worldwide's subsidiaries, Plusnet Technologies Ltd., is an Internet service provider (ISP) providing Internet access and value-added Internet services within the United Kingdom to residential, small-and medium-sized businesses and corporate customers. Direct Alliance Corporation is a global outsourcing provider of web marketing, sales and transactional management services for traditional and e-commerce companies. For additional Company information, call 800-INSIGHT in the United States or visit www.insight.com, www.plus.net.uk or www.direct-alliance.com .

About Intranets.com
Intranets.com is the world's leading provider of on-demand collaboration services for small businesses or departments and groups inside large organizations. The company serves more than 350,000 users across 10,000 companies worldwide and offers a secure, web-based collaboration suite to share critical business information quickly and easily at any time from anywhere. Privately held and profitable, Intranets.com is led by an experienced team of software industry professionals who are committed to providing a secure, customizable, easy-to-deploy intranet solution supported by world-class customer service. Intranets.com is a PC Magazine "Editor's Choice" winner and is rated one of the world's "Top 25" leading service providers by ASPNews. The company has also been ranked by the Boston Business Journal as one of the fastest growing private companies in Massachusetts for two consecutive years. For more information or to take a FREE 30-day test drive, visit http://www.intranets.com/pr, e-mail corpsales@intranets.com or call 888-932-2600 or 781-565-6000.

About idealab!
idealab! (www.idealab.com ) identifies, creates and operates Internet businesses. Founded in March 1996 by Bill Gross, idealab! currently has approximately 50 businesses in various stages of development. idealab! generates ideas for new Internet businesses and creates, capitalizes and operates a separate company to conduct each new business. Actively participating in the on-going operations of its network companies through board representation, information sharing and facilitating collaboration among the companies, idealab! also recruits management to oversee the day-to-day operations allowing senior management to concentrate on executing the business plan. Additionally, idealab! provides each operating company with a full range of operational support services including office space and the accompanying network infrastructure, technology, graphic design, marketing, competitive research, legal, accounting and business development services. idealab! public companies include eToys (Nasdaq: ETYS), GoTo.com (Nasdaq: GOTO), CitySearch (TMCS), NetZero (Nasdaq: NZRO) and Tickets.com (Nasdaq: TIXX).

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