Lufthansa Opens 10,000th Intershop Online Store.

Analysts Confirm Intershop Leads E-Commerce Market Share Growth

SAN FRANCISCO, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Intershop, the world's leading provider of electronic commerce software, announced that Lufthansa, the largest German airline, has opened the Lufthansa SkyShop ( http://SkyShop.lufthansa.com ). This Internet store marks a major milestone as the 10,000th shop that has gone live with Intershop technology.

SkyShop, based on the popular Intershop 3 Hosting Edition, sells exclusive travel accessories and is operated by Lufthansa LOEWE Druck und Distribution GmbH in Cologne, Germany.

With more than 20,000 store licenses sold to date, Intershop is the number one e-commerce vendor in market share growth (source: Dataquest, April 1999) and the leader in new storefronts deployed for service providers (source: IDC, March 1999).

"We are proud to announce the Lufthansa's SkyShop as live store number 10,000 that was deployed on Intershop technology," said Stephan Schambach, president and CEO of Intershop. "The SkyShop is a symbol for the global acceptance of electronic commerce, its importance for convenient and borderless business and Intershop's vision of Creating the Digital Economy."

The SkyShop's catalog contains 300 products such as hard shell suitcases, cabin luggage, chronometers and airplane models as well as jewelry and gift items made from old airplane parts such as a titanium chess game and necklaces from turbine parts. The store offers log-in dependent discounts to visitors and more than 60,000 Lufthansa employees and accepts convenient credit card payments. The payment transactions are encrypted with SSL technology.

The Lufthansa SkyShop is built on the Intershop 3 Hosting Edition, a technology that allows companies to quickly and easily deploy a large number of fully functional Internet stores with product catalogs, back-office management and electronic payment transactions. The store links to a content management system, developed by Intershop partner Pironet who also helped deploy SkyShop.

About Intershop Communications, Inc.

Intershop Communications, Inc. is one of the world's leading providers of electronic commerce software for complete business-to-business and business-to-consumer solutions. Intershop customers include many of the world's largest, corporations, telecommunications companies and commerce service providers. To date, Intershop is the global leader in Internet commerce licenses with more than 20,000 live licenses.

Founded in 1992, Intershop is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in the U.S., Germany, France, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Sweden and the United Kingdom. For more information, call Intershop at 800-736-5197 or visit http://www.intershop.com.