DALLAS (October 18, 1999)... Responding to increased interest in its Internet banking and electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) systems, Brinkman Technologies, Inc. (BTI) has doubled the size of its headquarters in Carrollton, Texas. The company has also added two new Web servers and built an entirely new data center. BTI will now be able to offer Web hosting of Internet banking and EBPP applications for its customers.

In late 1998, BTI unveiled an Internet banking product, PowerLine Internet, that enables a bank's customers to pay bills and process other financial transactions. In February of this year, BTI released the NextBill system, a turnkey EBPP system that uses e-mail as the mode of delivering bills and the Federal Reserve's ACH system for processing payments. With the increasing interest and demand in BTI's systems, and the expected boom in market demand for Internet-based banking and billing solutions, BTI has readied itself by acquiring neighboring office space and building the expanded data center. The new office space makes room for a new call center, allowing BTI to handle customer service calls for its banking industry clients. BTI's new data center gives banks and billing institutions the option of installing a BTI system in their own data center, or outsourcing those functions to BTI's service bureau. A third Web server has been purchased and installed offsite for disaster recovery purposes.

About Brinkman Technologies, Inc.

Brinkman Technologies, Inc. (BTI) was founded in 1984 in Carrollton, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. In 1986, BTI introduced PowerLine, the first PC-based, multi-tasking cash management system operating in a private network environment. BTI now offers a full suite of banking services for small banks to multi-bank service bureaus, including electronic bill presentment and payment, corporate cash management, home banking, Internet banking, fax reporting, and ACH. Please visit www.banksystems.com or www.nextbill.com for more information. All BTI products are Y2K compliant.

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