OperationIT.com Adds Deja Discussion Groups to Web Site

Partnership Provides Members With Direct Access To IT Forums

New York, NY (September 15, 2000) – OperationIT.com, a leading IT sourcing Web site dedicated to serving IT professionals and client companies, announced today that it has deepened its alliance with Deja.com to provide its members with direct access to Deja.com’s renowned Usenet discussion groups. The co-branding partnership places Deja.com’s most popular technology discussion group pages into OperationIT.com’s Career Center for IT professionals and corporate clients. The discussion group categories include high interest areas such as AS/400, C/C++, Cold Fusion, Java, Oracle, SQL, Unix, Visual Basic and more.

“Deja's discussion groups provide our IT professional members with a tremendous technical resource for their current - and future - IT positions,” said Jim Ivon, CEO for OperationIT.com. “Together with last month’s announcement, OperationIT.com and Deja.com have established a highly beneficial partnership for our respective members.”

In August, OperationIT.com announced an alliance with Deja.com to provide Deja’s global community of technology professionals with a customized IT job search channel. Deja.com users have direct access to OperationIT.com’s Career Center tools to post their resume, create a job search agent, or search client job postings to enhance their IT career. The custom channel is accessible from Deja.com’s Usenet discussion group homepage (www.deja.com/usenet) or by visiting http://www.operationit.com/dejacobrand.asp.

About OperationIT.com

OperationIT.com is the premier Web site for IT sourcing on the Internet. The OperationIT.com Career Center is the most sophisticated, yet easy to use IT employment center on the Internet. It allows employers to manage their global IT job openings with an automated, proactive approach to recruiting. For job applicants, it is a powerful tool to help find the perfect IT career. The OperationIT.com Business Center brings together clients’ IT project needs with other IT specialty firms, independent contractors or corp. to corp. professionals who are searching for their next IT project. The Business Center is designed to "Bridge the Gap Between Project and Professional".

About Deja.com

Deja.com, Inc., provides two powerful Web-based services — the first Precision Buying ServiceSM and the leading Usenet Discussion ServiceSM. Deja.com is widely known for its franchise in consumer-generated content and its role as a trusted intermediary, brokering reliable, unbiased information on products available for purchase on the Web. Deja.com's Precision Buying Service (www.deja.com) is the company's primary offering. It is a full-featured buyer's portal that provides consumers with a complete set of tools and resources for determining what products to buy and where to buy them. The company's Usenet Discussion Service (www.deja.com/usenet/) provides easy and fast access to approximately 35,000 Usenet discussion forums. The company also operates Deja Business SolutionsSM, a licensing unit for its content and proprietary technologies. Founded in 1995, the company is headquartered in New York City and Austin, Texas.

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Contact:
Tom Morrissey  
OperationIT.com 
212.338.9595 
TMorrissey@OperationIT.com