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Blueprint Partners with AmeriTrain and IQDestination to Expand Software Training Program

Falls Church , VA, December 4, 2001-- Blueprint Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of software solutions for the Global 2000, today announced new partnerships with two training leaders in the IT industry, AmeriTrain, Inc. and IQDestination. Blueprint Technologies will be the sole provider of training for a number of different courses including the Rational Software’s tool suite. Blueprint’s consultants will instruct and provide real world experience on complex, distributed software systems to both AmeriTrain and IQDestination training courses.

Leveraging Blueprint’s experience working with the Rational Software product line, Blueprint has created the content for training courses in various areas including software development, architecture, design and process. Blueprint will instruct courses that focus on: software architecture, the Rational Unified ProcessÔ (RUP), Rational RequisitePro, Rational Rose, Object-Oriented Analysis & Design (OOA&D) with the Unified Modeling Language (UML), Requirements Management with Use Cases, Functional Testing and Iterative Development. Rational Software, a leader in software development tools, provides 90 of the Fortune 100 and 49 of the Fortune e-50 with the industry’s best tools and processes for software development.

“We’re pleased to be working with established educational leaders in the technology industry,” said Roger Hebden, Vice President of Information and Education of Blueprint Technologies. “These partnerships complement Blueprint’s service offerings and positively impact our clients’ software development initiatives. Blueprint will provide a variety of courses that not only highlight Rational Software’s tools but also teach how to improve software development processes and methodologies, software architecture and design.”

Both AmeriTrain, Inc. and IQDestination offer IT training courses for the working professional. IQDestination is the leading learning integrator in North America, providing 125,000 people with training that reduces direct and indirect expenses for their organizations. AmeriTrain, Inc. supports computer professionals with its computer network training, software training and high-quality courses through out the East Coast.

“AmeriTrain looks forward to working with Blueprint’s experts in software development,” said Nick Grivas, National Director of Admissions of Ameritrain. “One of our key initiatives is to provide our clients with opportunities to expand their software development teams’ skill sets, enabling them to fully leverage their teams.”

“In today’s economy, organizations need to make the most of what resources they have,” said Mike Nolan, Vice President of IQDestination. “By providing training and instruction with Blueprint, our clients can make significant strides in their software development team’s capabilities in the most cost-effective manner.”

About Blueprint Technologies

Blueprint Technologies is an enterprise modernization firm that specializes in translating business requirements into architecture-based solutions. Blueprint’s teams of experienced enterprise and solution architects modernize business services and IT capabilities more quickly and with less risk than its competitors by generating an executable architecture that provides integration and interoperability among business processes and IT services.

Blueprint’s architects employ an iterative, model-driven process and reusable assets to rapidly define, design, and align business processes and software services, and to automate executable architecture development. Blueprint’s expertise includes the design and deployment of Service Oriented Architectures, based on industry-standard Web Service technologies.

About IQDestination

Learning Integrator, IQDestination enables its customers to significantly reduce their direct and indirect expense on classroom, eLearning and reference materials through the use of the IQDestination Learning Platform. IQDestination offers professionals and corporations a comprehensive suite of online and instructor-led information technology courses, as well as consulting services for its 125,000 users on topics such as training acquisition and strategies for achieving certification in technology-related disciplines. The company offers more than 1,600 Internet-based courses, as well as instructor-led classes at more than 1,100 training centers worldwide. Based in Denver, IQDestination is funded in part by meVC Draper Fisher Jurvet-son Fund I (NYSE: MVC).

For more information on IQDestination's products and services, please call (877) 369-2237.

About AmeriTrain, Inc.

AmeriTrain, Inc. is the East Coast's leader in computer network training, software training and support. AmeriTrain offers the highest quality, affordable computer training for the computer professional as well as corporate clientele. Currently, Ameri-Train offers preparatory classes for Cisco's Certified Network Associate and Certified Network Professional Certifications, Microsoft's Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Novell's Certified NetWare Engineer (CNE), CompTIA's A+ and Comp TIA's Network+ certifications. AmeriTrain also offers customized corporate training in any of our regularly offered networking and programming courses as well as Microsoft Office and Back Office products.