Catapult Named to List of Austin's 'Top 50

Fastest Growing Private Companies'

E-Business Consulting Company Makes List Four Years Running

AUSTIN, Texas - September, 2000 - Catapult Systems Corp., an Austin-based e-business consulting company, today announced that it has been ranked number nine on the Austin Business Journal’s list of the Top 25 Fastest Growing Private Companies with Revenue over $10 Million for 2000. The list is part of that publication’s annual ranking of the Top 50 Fastest Growing Private Companies. Jointly produced by the Austin Business Journal and PricewaterhouseCoopers, the list ranks the top 50 fastest growing private companies in Austin, based on percent of growth. Over the past four years, Catapult’s average growth rate was more than 140%.

Since being founded in 1993, Catapult has maintained continuous growth while remaining debt-free. As a result of this, the company was ranked on the Top 50 list as number 23 in 1999, number 13 in 1998, and number six in 1997.

Said Sam T. Goodner, Catapult’s chairman and founder, “It is a great honor for Catapult to be one of the few companies to have won this award for four consecutive years, and to have ranked ninth in this new, larger category. We are delighted to be a strong part of Austin’s celebrated business and technology community.”