Alliance with Staples.com Provides Small Businesses with Secure, Private Work Space on the Web

BOSTON (September 4, 2001) - Intranets.com (www.intranets.com), the world's largest provider of Web-based intranets, today announced an alliance with Staples.com to deliver an intranet solution to Staples Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS) small business customers. Staples.com provides office supplies, services, content and community over the Internet. Staples small business customers can quickly and easily create their own intranet on the Web through a fully functional version of Intranets.com's business communication applications. The service is now available through Staples.com on its Business Services site at www.staples.com/BizServices/tech_comm/intranets.asp. "Staples is a leading player in the small business Web space, and this partnership will expose a broad small business customer base to our product," said Rick Faulk, CEO of Intranets.com. "Intranets.com will help Staples increase the breadth of its strong Business Services area and further gain customer loyalty." Staples.com users will be able to take advantage of Intranets.com's extensive applications selection, including document libraries, communication tools, polling capabilities, as well as wireless access, 100MB of storage, task management tools, and expense report applications. "A growing number of small businesses are looking to intranets to facilitate collaboration and improve productivity," said Mitch Gross, vice president of business services at Staples. "Intranets.com is a strong addition to Staples Business Services as we work to provide small businesses with a full set of web services, from dial up and broadband Internet access to web design to hosting to e-commerce solutions. Now our customers have access to a valuable tool that will enable them to effectively communicate with their employees, customers and suppliers."

For more information on partnering with Intranets.com, please contact Glenn Sinclair at 781-932-0960 or gsinclair@intranets.com.

About Staples
Staples, Inc. is an $11 billion retailer of office supplies, business services, furniture and technology to consumers and businesses from home-based businesses to Fortune 500 companies in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal. Headquartered outside Boston, Staples invented the office superstore concept and today is the largest operator of office superstores in the world. The company has over 50,000 employees serving customers through more than 1,300 office superstores, mail order catalogs, e-commerce and a contract business. More information about the company is available at http://www.staples.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.

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