Central Station, Inc. Announces An Alliance with HP
San Francisco, California, 27 October 2000

Central Station, Inc. Joins Hewlett-Packard's Web Developer Partner Program to provide comprehensive net-business services. This is the result of several years of combined industry service. The program is designed to allow HP partners to leverage HP's products and services to further provide customized integrated solutions and to increase revenue potential.

Central Station will focus on providing tailored net-business services to industry, Internet and AEC community customers using HP systems.

"Central Station is excited about formalizing our long-standing business relationship, particularly in light of our current expansion to Hong Kong," said Kenneth Lee, President of Central Station. Kenneth Lee who started his engineering career at Hewlett-Packard in 1988 has a clear understanding of the HP way and sees them as a powerful partner with global reach and product availability.

Central Station has implemented Sherlock, for Hewlett-Packard's Test and Measurement Organization (TMO), an Intranet based system solution, to provide sales territory assignment information that fulfills four major business and technical requirements: Extensible Architecture, Workflow Enforcement, Ease of Use, Maintenance and Upgrade.

For HP spin-off company Agilent Technologies, Central Station delivered Atlas, an Intranet system that allows for meaningful interpretation of a massive amount of sales information.

"With Central Station, Inc. as a new partner in the HP Web Developer Partner Program, we can now work more closely than ever before" said Ilona Dodgen, Agilent's EPSG IS Solutions Manager "Central Station, Inc. has long been a valued out-sourced service provider that really understands the HP way as well as the application of our systems. They're a great resource."

For more information about the HP Web Developer Partner Program visit: http://www.hp.com/go/partners

About Central Station, Inc.

Central Station, Inc. provides tailored net-business services for Internet, Intranet, Extranet and e-commerce solutions. Founded in 1995, Central Station places great value on the ability to offer customized front and back-end solutions to Fortune 100 technology, Financial Services, Venture Capital, Internet Start-up, Marketing and Design companies. Central Station is currently expanding business operations to Hong Kong and is optimistic about the Asian Internet market. Central Station can be found at http://www.cstation.com

About Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and Intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 127,200 employees and had revenue of $42.9 billion in its 1997 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com