PHOENIXCHICAGOBELLEVUEWASHINGTONREDMONDSUNNCOMMMan Securities; Microsoft Corp.; Tyco International Ltd.; Intel Corp.;ENTOMOBLACKBOARDMicrosoft Corp.IllinoisWash.WashingtonJune 4, 2002June 4June 4, 2002June 4, 2002June 4BWPRNBWBWPRNBusiness EditorsPHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2002-- Jacobs joins Adobe, CenterSpan and Microsoft in Appearance before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property for Oversight hearing on "DRM:The Consumer Benefits of Today's Digital Rights Management Solutions"SunnComm Inc. (OTC: SUNX) President and Chief Executive OfficerPeter H. Jacobs and executives from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Adobe(NASDAQ: ADBE) and CenterSpan (NASDAQ: CSCC) will jointly appearbefore the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Courts, the Internet, andIntellectual Property Wednesday for its Oversight hearing on "DRM: TheConsumer Benefits of Today's Digital Rights Management Solutions."The hearing, which will begin at 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time onWednesday, June 5 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washingtoncan be heard live over the Web by logging on towww.house.gov/judiciary/schedule.htm and clicking on the "Click Herefor Live Audio" link. The hearing may also be available on eitherCSPAN 2 or CSPAN 3.Jacobs is expected to introduce creative solutions to Congress asit debates how to solve the escalating battle between the recordingindustry and the rights of individual consumers. He will be joined inWashington by William H. Whitmore, SunnComm chief operating officer.About SunnComm Inc.SunnComm Inc. is a leader in digital content enhancement andsecurity technology for optical media with its MediaCloQ and CD3 suiteof products. SunnComm's copy-protection technology was commerciallyreleased by Music City records in 2001 and became America's firstcopy-protected audio CD.SunX, Digital Content Cloaking technology, DC2, MediaCloQ,PromoPlay and SunnComm are registered and/or trademarks of SunnCommInc. in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actualcompanies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of theirrespective owners.For more detailed information about the company, its vision orphilosophy, personnel, partners, and customers, please visit thecompany's Web site at http://www.sunncomm.com.Statements contained in this release, which are not historicalfacts, may be considered "forward-looking statements" under thePrivate Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-lookingstatements are based on current expectations and the current economicenvironment.We caution the reader that such forward-looking statements are notguarantees of future performance. Unknown risk, uncertainties as wellas other uncontrollable or unknown factors could cause actual resultsto materially differ from the results, performance, or expectationsexpressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.<PRE CLASS="BODY"> CONTACT: SunnComm Inc., Phoenix Investor Relations Center, 602/267-7500 Fax: 602/267-7400 investor@sunncomm.com press@sunncomm.com (Journalists only, please)</PRE>-- WITH PHOTO -- TO BUSINESS EDITOR:CHICAGO, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Man Securities issues the following MarketNews Update and new PriceWatch Alerts for key stocks at 11:47 AM EDT.(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020214/MANSECLOGO )New PriceWatch Alerts for MSFT, TYC, and INTC ...PRICEWATCH ALERTS - HIGH RETURN COVERED CALL OPTIONS -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) Last Price 49.89 - JUL 50 CALL OPTION@ $3.00 -> 6.63 % Return assigned* -- Tyco International Ltd. (NYSE: TYC) Last Price 16.45 - JUL 10 CALL OPTION@ $7.10 -> 6.95 % Return assigned* -- Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) Last Price 26.82 - JUL 25 CALL OPTION@ $2.95 -> 4.73 % Return assigned**For details on these types of investments seehttp://www.poweropt.com/pwa .MARKET NEWS UPDATESales at the nation's retail chain stores remained weak in the final weekof May. The BTM-UBS Warburg Chain Store Sales Index rose 0.1 percent in thefinal week compared with the previous week. Sales were up 3.2 percent year-over-year. The industry will report on Thursday same-store sales for the monthof May. It is currently expected that the group will show about 2.5 percentyear-over-year increase. Redbook said sales through the fourth week of Maywere down 0.4 percent from April, but up 1.8 percent over May 2001.The Retail Holders Trust (Amex: RTH) is proving to be laggard in a softmarket today. Earlier in the year the retail grouping was one of the strongersectors benefiting from the resiliency of the consumer. Currently sitting atsession low, the Exchange Traded Fund has moved below chart congestion andpotential support in the 92-area. The 10-week moving average has just crossedbelow the 20-week moving average this past week, a technically bearish event.* Be prepared for the investing week ahead with Bernie Schaeffer's FREEMonday Morning Outlook. For more details and to sign up go to:http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/redirect.asp?CODE=GJ01A3&PAGE=1FUTURES WATCHThere's been some small short covering rallies in the futures marketstoday but the markets are still very hard pressed to find the support neededfor any type of extended rally. The S&P futures need to make new highs above104200 in order to see some serious short covering in the market. I'm lookingfor the NASDAQ futures to start to gain on the S&P futures in order to give mea clue of any impending rally. The futures markets remain under pressure.*For futures updates from Harry Michas throughout the day seewww.manmarketmonitor.com/mu.html .Man Financial Inc is one of the world's major futures and options brokersand has been recognized as a leading option order execution firm forindividuals and institutions. Member NYSE/CBOE/NASD/SIPC (CRD#6731). Formore information and a free CD with educational tools to help you investsmarter, see http://www.mansecurities.com/mu.html .This PriceWatch Alert was prepared with data and information provided by:PowerOptionsPlus.com -- The Best Way To Find, Compare, Analyze, and MakeMoney On Option Investments -- Get your 14 day FREE trial atwww.Poweropt.com/pwa .Schaeffer's Investment Research -- Sign up for your FREE e-weekly, MondayMorning Outlook, Bernie Schaeffer's look ahead at the markets. Sign Up Nowhttp://www.schaeffersresearch.com/redirect.asp?CODE=GJ01A3&PAGE=1 .All stocks and options shown are examples only. These are notrecommendations to buy or sell any security. Stocks, options and futuresinvolve risk and are not suitable for all investors and investing in optionscarries substantial risk. Prior to buying or selling options, a person mustreceive a copy of Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options availablefrom Sharon at 800-837-6212 or at http://www.cboe.com/Resources/Intro.asp .Privacy policy available upon request.<PRE CLASS="BODY"> MAKE YOUR OPINION COUNT - Click Here http://tbutton.prnewswire.com/prn/11690X24126377SOURCE Man Securities</PRE>Business EditorsBELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2002--Entomo, Inc., theonly provider of a completely integrated Online Supplier RelationshipManagement (SRM) system for strategic sourcing, announced today thatFMC Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:FTI) has selected Entomo SmartHub/SRM inan effort to cut direct materials procurement costs and improveinventory management worldwide."Streamlining purchasing and inventory management processes arekey objectives for us, and we expect the Entomo system to make asignificant impact toward those goals," said Seth Sonnier, SubseaPurchasing Manager for the Houston Operation. "We are veryenthusiastic about working with them."Entomo SmartHub/SRM provides a tool that will allow FMCTechnologies to aggregate the data from its various plants' enterprisesystems, including those of SAP AG (NYSE:SAP), Microsoft(Nasdaq:MSFT), Frontstep (Nasdaq:FSTP), and SSA Global Technologies.The pilot implementation will be at FMC Energy Systems' facility inHouston, Texas.FMC Technologies provides mission-critical technology solutionsfor the energy, food processing and air transportation industries. TheCompany designs, manufactures and services technologicallysophisticated systems and products for its customers through itsEnergy Systems, FoodTech and Airport Systems businesses. FMCTechnologies has 35 manufacturing facilities in 16 countries."FMC Technologies is an outstanding example of a global companythat understands the value of implementing an Online SRM system," saidAlan M. Davis, President and CEO of Entomo. "We look forward toworking with FMC Technologies worldwide and delivering rapid resultsthat have significant business impact."About Entomo, Inc.Entomo, Inc. offers Online SRM and strategic sourcing applicationsthat link manufacturers with their direct materials supply chain. ItsWeb-based application Entomo SmartHub/SRM delivers transactionautomation, online collaboration, supply chain event management,supplier performance measurement, and advanced analytics. Additionalcapabilities support aggregation of inventory and purchasing data frommultiple sites -- delivering cross-plant visibility, consolidatedsourcing, centralized commodity management, and inventory sharing.Entomo's global customers include AMETEK Aerospace and PowerInstruments, FMC Technologies, NACCO Materials Handling Group, AtlasCopco Wagner, Wacker Siltronic, and Landscape Structures. Thesecustomers benefit through reducing direct materials costs, decreasinginventory levels, eliminating obsolescence, increasing manufacturinguptime and improving order fulfillment.For additional information, please visit http://www.entomo.com/ orcall 1.877.9.ENTOMO.<PRE CLASS="BODY"> CONTACT: Entomo, Inc. Katherine White, 425/372-0580 k.white@entomo.com</PRE>Business Editors/Hi-Tech WritersWASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2002--Blackboard Inc., theleading software infrastructure company for e-Education, todayannounced that Michael Chasen, CEO and Co-Founder, will make apresentation to the investment community on Tuesday, June 4, 2002 at4:30 p.m. Eastern Time, at Deutsche Bank Securities 10th Annual MediaConference held at The Pierre Hotel in New York City, New York.Mr. Chasen will provide an overview of the post-secondarye-Education industry, as well as a view of the company's position as aleader in providing e-Education solutions. Mr. Chasen will alsoprovide detail of Blackboard's FY 2001 financial performance of $46.5million in total revenues.Parties interested in scheduling an individual briefing shouldcontact Michael J. Stanton at Blackboard at mstanton@blackboard.com or202-463-4860 ext. 305.About Blackboard Inc.Blackboard Inc. was founded to transform the Internet into apowerful environment for teaching and learning. The company offers acomplete suite of enterprise software products and services that powera total "e-Education Infrastructure" for schools, colleges,universities and other education providers.Blackboard solutions deliver the promise of the Internet foronline teaching and learning, campus communities, auxiliary servicesand integration of Web-enabled student services and back officesystems.Blackboard's Learning, Community Portal and Transaction Systemsare consistently ranked by industry analysts as the market share andclient satisfaction leaders for thousands of academic institutions anda leading number of the Internet's most popular consumer educationsites.The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices andstaff across North America, Europe and Asia. Please visitwww.blackboard.com for more information. A privately-held company based in Washington, D.C., BlackboardInc. has raised more than $100 million in capital from top-tierstrategic, venture capital, and private equity investors. Blackboardmaintains close partnerships with its investors to fully leveragetheir industry relationships, financial expertise, and strategicguidance.Blackboard strategic investors include AOL-Time Warner (NYSE:AOL), Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq: DELL), Kaplan Ventures,Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT), and Pearson Education.Blackboard's financial investors include The Aurora Funds, TheCarlyle Group, Dain Rauscher, Edelson Technology Partners, InternetCapital Group (Nasdaq: ICGE), Merrill Lynch (NYSE: ML), Morgan Keegan,Novak Biddle and Oak Hill Capital Partners.<PRE CLASS="BODY"> CONTACT: Blackboard Inc., Washington Michael J. Stanton, 202/463-4860 ext.305 mstanton@blackboard.com</PRE>-- WITH PHOTO -- TO BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY EDITORS:<PRE CLASS="BODY"> Tool Provides Automatic Source Code Conversion From Java Language to C#</PRE>REDMOND, Wash., June 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced the delivery of the second betaof the Java Language Conversion Assistant (JLCA), a tool for Java-languagedevelopers that provides a smooth transition to building XML Web services onthe Microsoft(R) .NET Platform. Built on the world-leading ArtinSoft migrationtechnology, the JLCA automates the process of migrating language syntax andlibrary calls from existing Java-language source code into C# to bring aboutthe conversion.(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO )"Microsoft is committed to providing a path for developers to build XMLWeb services in the programming language of their choice," said Tom Button,vice president of the Developer Platform and Evangelism Division at Microsoft."With the beta 2 of the JLCA, Java-language developers will be able toautomatically convert more code to C#, enabling them to create scalable,robust applications in a shorter time frame.""The JLCA has been a powerful tool for our developers," said John Hogan,vice president of engineering at Plumtree Software. "Plumtree is committedto building .NET development tools and offering our customers thescalability and reliability of a .NET portal. The JLCA will allow us to dothis while managing overall development costs."The JLCA enhances productivity by enabling developers to take advantage ofexisting investments in the Java language to target the .NET Framework. TheJLCA, which migrates most existing Java-language source code to C#, isavailable for download today on the MSDN(R) Web site athttp://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/jca/default.asp and will be afeature in forthcoming versions of Visual Studio(R) .NET.About the .NET FrameworkThe Microsoft .NET Framework is a platform for building, deploying andrunning XML Web services and applications. It provides a highly productive,standards-based, multilanguage environment for integrating existinginvestments with next-generation applications and services as well as theagility to solve the challenges of deployment and operation of Internet-scaleapplications. The .NET Framework consists of two main parts: the commonlanguage runtime and a hierarchical set of unified class libraries, whichincludes a next-generation Web application environment, ASP.NET; a looselycoupled data access subsystem, ADO.NET; and an environment for building richWindows(R)-based applications, Windows Forms.About MicrosoftFounded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, servicesand Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The companyoffers a wide range of products and services designed to empower peoplethrough great software -- any time, any place and on any device.NOTE: Microsoft, MSDN, Visual Studio and Windows are either registeredtrademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or othercountries.The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be thetrademarks of their respective owners.<PRE CLASS="BODY"> MAKE YOUR OPINION COUNT - Click Here http://tbutton.prnewswire.com/prn/11690X60240030SOURCE Microsoft Corp.</PRE>9412419410599408229405889402322002-06-04 13:08:002002-06-04 12:29:522002-06-04 11:42:002002-06-04 11:01:002002-06-04 10:00:17SunnComm's President to Address U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary SubcommitteePRICEWATCH ALERTS! Man Securities Issues AlertsFMC Technologies Selects Entomo for Online SRM; Entomo SmartHub/SRM Delivers Cross-Plant Visibility, Consolidated Sourcing, Centralized Commodity Management, and Inventory SharingBlackboard Inc. to Present at Deutsche Bank Securities 10th Annual Media ConferenceMicrosoft - 2nd Beta of Java Language to C# ConversionADBE,CSCC,MSFT,SUNXINTC,MSFT,RTH,TYCFSTP,FTI,MSFT,SAPAOL,DELL,ICGE,ML,MSFTMSFTARIZONA,COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS,ELECTRONIC,GAMES/MULTIMEDIA,GOVERNMENT,MUSIC,SOFTWARETEXAS,WASHINGTON,COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS,INTERNET,NETWORKING,SOFTWARE,MARKETING,AGREEMENTS,PRODUCTDISTRICT,OF,COLUMBIA,NEW,YORK,BANKING,COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS,SOFTWARE,INTERNET,EDUCATIONSunnComm's President to Address U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary SubcommitteePRICEWATCH ALERTS! Man Securities Issues AlertsFMC Technologies Selects Entomo for Online SRM; Entomo SmartHub/SRM Delivers Cross-Plant Visibility, Consolidated Sourcing, Centralized Commodity Management, and Inventory SharingBlackboard Inc. to Present at Deutsche Bank Securities 10th Annual Media ConferenceMicrosoft - 2nd Beta of Java Language to C# Conversion