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CubeWerx Appoints GeoLeaders as its United States Distribution Partner

Washington, DC, April 16, 2004 -- CubeWerx, a leading provider of spatial data warehousing and OGC compliant web services software products, today announced it is expanding its presence in the United States through a distribution partnership with GeoLeaders, LLC.

GeoLeaders will exclusively distribute the CubeWerx product line in the United States to third party service providers, resellers and enterprise customers. "The addition of GeoLeaders as a new distribution partner greatly enhances our presence in the United States, which is an important and strategic market for CubeWerx products," said Edric Keighan, President & CEO of CubeWerx Inc. "CubeWerx already has several strategic customers in the United States and we are looking forward to expanding our market presence through GeoLeaders and its Partner Network."

"In the rapidly growing market for geospatial systems, there is an increasing importance and customer demand for interoperability and multi-vendor support," Keighan said. "As a result, major commercial and public sector clients are particularly receptive to products like CubeWerx which are based on Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) specifications and will help them effectively realize the benefits of interoperability."

"GeoLeaders is pleased to officially launch its Partner Network initiative with the announcement of our partnership with CubeWerx. Our goal is to eliminate procurement and implementation barriers by emphasizing interoperable standards-based solutions like CubeWerx. Our approach assures that users can reap the full benefit of the best technologies that a range of vendors have to offer, and to assure that future offerings can be rapidly mobilized at minimal cost," said Jeff Harrison, Executive Director for GeoLeaders. "GeoLeaders intends to further the development of local, regional and national Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) based on open standards by offering additional geospatial software components and technology to support enterprise systems development."

About CubeWerx Inc.

Founded in 1996, CubeWerx has been developing standards-based off the shelf software products (SCOTS) in response to requirements for interoperable Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI). CubeWerx is an innovative software company whose products and other location-based software product components support the most demanding requirements for the integration, access and management of very large volumes of spatial data over the web. CubeWerx products such as CubeXPLOR, CubeSERV Web Map Server, CubeSERV Web Feature Server, and CubeSTOR Spatial Warehouse were developed using open and interoperable specifications from the OGC. These products including CubeWerx’s WMS Extensions to ESRI ArcGIS and MapInfo products allow organizations to respond to their most demanding client requirements and offer them on-line Web services in a multi-vendor product environment. More information on CubeWerx products and services is available at www.cubewerx.com.

About GeoLeaders, LLC

GeoLeaders was founded on the principle that today’s geospatial solutions built on open standards are not only viable, but offer a better long-term return on investment and meet increasing requirements for interoperability more appropriately than proprietary, single vendor solutions. Through its global Partner Network, GeoLeaders is uniting providers of OGC standards-based technology products, with professional services companies to more effectively deliver on customer requirements with standards based technology, and to reinforce the momentum built by the OGC and its members. In helping address the increasing need for interoperability and multi-vendor support, all software solutions distributed through GeoLeaders will meet guidelines established in the United States Federal Geographic Data Committee's (FGDC) geospatial interoperability reference model, the OGC, and other standards for interoperable geospatial systems. For more information on GeoLeaders or to join the GeoLeaders Partner Network please visit www.geoleaders.com.

For information about this announcement, contact:

Jeff Harrison, Executive Director, GeoLeaders LLC
Tel: +1-703-491-9543
jharrison@geoleaders.com
or
Edric Keighan, President and CEO, CubeWerx Inc.
Tel: +1-819-771-8303 ext. 207
ekeighan@cubewerx.com