Press Release 2003-10-13

CLEAR METHODS CO-FOUNDER SPEAKS AT WEB SERVICES/XML INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND EXPO

Michael Plusch to deliver talks on XML, the Water Language, and Web services

Cambridge, Mass., October 13, 2003 – Clear Methods (www.clearmethods.com), a startup providing advanced XML and Web services technology, today announced its co-founder and CEO Michael Plusch will speak at the Web Services/XML International Conference and Expo. Plusch will deliver six sessions at the conference which runs from October 14 to 16 in Toronto, Canada. With 7 events housed under one roof, the conference bills itself as “the biggest and the most significant global IT event”.

Plusch’s six sessions include: “Cleaning up XML's Tower of Babel with Water”, about an alternative to the dozen or more special-purpose languages required for Web service applications; “Semantic Web Services in Water”, describing how new technologies make it possible to simply and flexibly automate business processes; “Teaching Programming With XML and Web Services”, discussing what makes a language ideal for educators; “XML Sucks”, a colorfully-named session about the strengths and weakness of XML and how it can be most effectively harnessed; “Water: All-Purpose Language for XML and Web Services”, a session about a dynamic language that elegantly unites the worlds of objects and Web services”.; and “Water Contract: A Flexible Schema Language for XML”, introducing a new schema language for XML that is simple, expressive, and unambiguous”. (See accompanying page for a more detailed summary of each session.)

To register for the Web Services/XML International Conference and Expo, please visit http://www.wowgao.com/it_combo/register/reg_attendees_register.php or call 416-292-0038 ext. 811.

About Clear Methods
Clear Methods provides enterprises and independent software vendors with advanced Web services technology and solutions that dramatically speed the creation of flexible business software. The Clear Methods Steam XML platform is a pure Web services environment that enables the use of XML throughout the software lifecycle. Steam XML provides a compact, uniform, standards-based commercial product set for the open Water language.

Founded in 2001, Clear Methods is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.