Voting Has Started for the Products of the Year

JUPITERMEDIA'S DEVELOPER.COM ANNOUNCES PRODUCT OF THE YEAR FINALISTS

(New York, NY - November 12, 2002) -- The users of Developer.com (www.Developer.com), a leading destination on the Web for software developers, have nominated more than 270 products for Developer.com Product of the Year honors.

CompuWare, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase, Adobe, Borland, Fujitsu, Sun and Oracle are among the scores of companies receiving nominations from Developer.com users. The editors of Developer.com selected finalists in nine categories from among the nominees. Developer.com users are voting to help choose the winners.

"We're thrilled that Developer.com users have embraced the inaugural Product of the Year awards with such enthusiasm," said Brad Jones, executive editor of Developer.com. "We expect the level of interest and participation will increase now that voting to select the winners is underway. Being recognized by the Developer.com community will be a prestigious honor for winners and nominees alike," Jones added.

Categories in which products have been nominated are:

• Technology of the Year
• Development Tool of the Year
• Enterprise Development Tool of the Year
• Development Utility of the Year
• Best DBMS or Related Technology of the Year
• Wireless Development Product of the Year
• Web Service Product of the Year
• .NET Tool/Add-in of the Year
• Java Tool/Add-in of the Year

Winners of the Developer.com Product of the Year Award will be announced in December.

About Developer.com

Developer.com is part of the EarthWeb.com Network of IT professional sites; both are properties of Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM). Developer.com provides articles, tutorials, news, discussions and other information resources focused on software development. Topics include architecture and design, project management, XML, tools, programming languages, Java, wireless development and much more.

About Jupitermedia Corporation

Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM) (http://www.jupitermedia.com), headquartered in Darien, CT, is a leading provider of global real-time news, information, research and media resources for information technology and Internet industry professionals. Jupitermedia includes the internet.com and EarthWeb.com Network of over 150 Web sites and 200 e-mail newsletters that generate over 200 million page views monthly. Jupitermedia also includes Jupiter Research, a leading international research advisory organization specializing in business and technology market research in 18 business areas and 9 vertical markets. In addition, Jupiter Events include nearly 40 offline conferences and trade shows focused on IT and business-specific topics.

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