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Java Report Names Two Visual Mining Products to Top Spots in Annual Writers' Choice Awards

Rockville, Maryland, December 13, 2000- Two of Visual Mining's Java-based data visualization and charting products won industry awards this month. Java Report chose both NetCharts 3.6 and ChartWorks Server 3.6 for top spots in the Charting and Graphs category of the 2000 Writers Choice Awards . NetCharts 3.6 brought home an additional, much coveted, JARS Top 1% award from the Java Applet Rating Service (JARS) of Gamelan.com and Earthweb.com.

Michael MacDonald, company founder and CEO noted, "What makes the awards special is that not only that the people who made the selection are java professionals, but they carefully considered a wide range of entries. We're definitely in some good company. To have one product chosen would be flattering enough, but to have both ChartWorks and NetCharts selected as among the best in the industry makes it that much more special."

Java Report Charting & Graphs: 3rd Place to ChartWorks System, Honorable Mention to NetCharts

Java Report invited their cadre of Java Report contributors-82 reporters, feature writers, reviewers, and columnists-to vote for the top products in each category. This year they heard from writers based in England, Europe, South America, Slovenia, Australia, and throughout the U.S. All of them are Java pros, from in-the-trenches coders to big-picture architects. Religious fervor in this group ranges between hard-core Java fundamentalists and enthusiastic agnostics. All of the voters contributed articles recently published in Java Report.

The ChartWorks System comprises two tools for designing and adding "live" charts and graphs to Web, client-server, and decision-support applications. ChartWorks Designer is a 100% Java, point-and-click chart design tool designed to allow the building of online charts without the need for HTML, CGI, or Java programming skills. It saves charts in one of three formats: HTML, images, or the default CDL format. Charts can also be printed directly from the ChartWorks Designer. The ChartWorks Server is a Web-enabled repository for generating charts on demand and broadcasting them via the Internet. The latest version, 3.6, includes enhanced image generation, and it integrates with applications written in Visual Basic and with InterDev, Cold Fusion, SilverStream, and NetDynamics.

About Visual Mining, Inc.:
Visual Mining offers a range of interactive data visualization tools that premier businesses, government agencies, and educational institutions use to take the wealth of information in a wide variety of data stores and make it meaningful and accessible to users throughout an enterprise or across the Internet.

Visual Mining's technology empowers enterprise users to make better and faster decisions, to share critical information in real-time, and to rapidly respond to business drivers and market conditions.

The Company's unique CDL Technology allows users to display flexible, complex charts from a myriad of data sources quicker and easier than any other solution available - saving valuable time in deploying projects and taking products to market.

Data visualization products from Visual Mining are the products of choice for blue-chip companies worldwide.

Contact:
Lezlie Ramsey
Public Relations Manager
301.795.2217
lramsey@visualmining.com

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