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Orbis Online Strikes Joint Venture with International ISP

(San Antonio, Texas) January 16, 2001- Orbis Online, a leading multilingual e-marketplace, announced today that it has signed a letter of intent with the Rayes Group of Shenzhen, China, China's third largest business-to-business (B2B) Internet service provider and one of the largest Internet Service Providers (ISP) overall, to establish a joint venture for the deployment of Orbis Online's real-time, reverse auction procurement and forward auction asset disposition solutions for the Chinese market.

In the agreement, eOrbisB2B, the e-procurement operation of Orbis Online, will provide the e-commerce auction technology and its expertise in the procurement and asset disposition process which includes sourcing and qualifying suppliers, and linking buyers and suppliers worldwide. Orbis Online offers platforms for e-commerce that are browser-based and require no software or hardware to download or purchase.

"We are eager to get to work with the Rayes Group," says Dr. James Strader, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Orbis Online. "As one of the key business-to-business Internet Service Providers in the world's leading manufacturing country, the Rayes Group is strategically positioned to exploit the skills and technology available from Orbis Online."
Zu Li, president of Shenzhen Rayes Group responded, "It is a privilege that Orbis Online entrusts us with offering such a promising business proposition- saving money for our over 300,000 business clients in China. We are ready to enter the 21st century with the state-of-the-art technology that Orbis Online offers."

About the Rayes Group
The Rayes Group, also known as China Online, is among a number of strategic business partners with whom Orbis Online is partnering in the Asia Pacific region to assist with their international expansion. China Online is China's largest systems integration and network solutions provider and is an industry leader in providing business-to-business Internet and software applications, infrastructure applications, network, and integration applications solutions for Chinese companies, with emphasis in servicing the manufacturing sector of Southern China.

China Online has operations in 105 large and medium-sized cities throughout China with over 2,000 professionals on staff. Key partners and customers of the Rayes Group include Microsoft and Compaq of the U.S., the Beijing Telecom Bureau, and the China Industrial Economy Association.

About Orbis Online
Orbis Online is a leading multilingual online auction community providing innovative e-commerce opportunities and solutions for businesses and individuals around the world. The Company's proprietary, web-based e-commerce solutions enable Business-to-Business (B2B) transactions on the eOrbisB2B.com site, Business-to-Government (B2G) transactions on the eOrbisB2G.com site and Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) transactions on the eOrbis.com site. A privately held corporation, Orbis Online has a rapidly growing community of registered users, businesses and affiliates who enjoy the benefits of its many patent-pending online procurement and asset disposition initiatives.