Piscataway, NJ, July 18, 2000 - Quadrix Solutions, a systems integrator and web hosting company, announces its pioneering use of Design For eXcellence (DFX) in powering the Internet economy. An evolution of the automotive industry's Design For Manufacturability, DFX synchronizes design, development and operations so that the resulting application will meet a business' needs for performance, reliability, scalability, and security, and be easy to operate, service and maintain.

"As eBusiness becomes synonymous with 'business,' the fast and loose methods that have been employed to date are no longer acceptable," explains Donna Scott, vice president, Software Infrastructure, Gartner.

According to Ben Reytblat, president, Quadrix Solutions: "Corporate web initiatives need the advantages of traditional business processes and measurements for improving project success, while eliminating the downside of long product development and deployment lifecycles. DFX retains the short time to market requirements of the Internet industry. It is a pragmatic, predictable, approach for quickly designing, developing and deploying high quality web-based solutions, rather than a 'we'll fix it later' approach, which is all too common in the compressed schedules of Internet time."

"We hold our vendors to very high standards, and Quadrix Solutions has never let us down," states JD Sturgis, president, MediCom of Princeton, Inc., a leader in providing continuing education online for the medical community via its award-winning site www.MedicalEd.com. "The staff at Quadrix Solutions is extremely responsive and has a thorough understanding of how technology can be used to improve and expand our online capabilities. With Quadrix on our team, we don't have to worry about the technical details; we can focus exclusively on improving what we deliver to our clients."

"In today's highly competitive, ROI-focused business environment, anything less than excellence is simply unacceptable," continues Reytblat. "By building excellence in at the beginning, the system architecture will reduce project risk, ensure high availability, speed time to market and improve maintainability."

DFX incorporates people and process into the equation, going beyond the mere application of technology. At Quadrix Solutions, the successful implementation of DFX begins with Rapid Team™, a staff structure that provides integrated Technology Strategy, Software Development, and Infrastructure & Support capabilities. It ends with Rapid Rollout™, an integrated development and production methodology that ensures predictability of results. Early on, Quadrix Solutions recognized that a successful web presence is not built on technology alone. People Synch™ is a recruitment and retention process that ensures the Quadrix Solutions' staff easily integrates into a customer's team. Business Synch™ is Quadrix Solutions' training system, which ensures that the staff focuses on and understands the customer's business.

About Quadrix Solutions

Quadrix Solutions, a systems integrator and web hosting company, designs and implements eBusiness solutions at its eSolutions Centers and then supports them over the long-term at its eData Centers. Quadrix Solutions pioneered the use of Design For eXcellence (DFX) in powering the Internet economy, and defines "eXcellence" in terms of performance, time-to-market, reliability, scalability, security, operability, serviceability and maintainability. Quadrix Solutions' clients include AT&T, American Cyanamid, BMG Direct Marketing, BMG Entertainment, Bell Atlantic, GetMusic, LEGO Mindstorms, MediCom, Medscape and SmartMoney.com.