Press Release

Carbon Five Launches CRS-P Metadata Management System for Charles Schwab

December 12, 2002

San Francisco, CA

Carbon Five, Inc. and Charles Schwab and Co., Inc. launched CRS-P, a robust metadata management system aimed at helping Schwab employees keep track of information regarding and relationships between their myriad print and electronic marketing assets.

CRS-P delivers real-time reporting functionality not previously available within Schwab. CRS-P also serves both upstream and downstream systems within the Charles Schwab intranet and internet.

CRS-P is a custom web application built with J2EE (Enterprise Java) technology, using Caucho Resin Enterprise Edition, MySQL and Macintosh OS X.

ABOUT CARBON FIVE: Carbon Five is a premium services consultancy based in San Francisco specializing in rich user experiences for Enterprise Java technologies. Carbon Five builds, extends and integrates business applications through a flexible and collaborative process that maximizes return on investment of both time and money. More information available from http://www.carbonfive.com.

CARBON FIVE CONTACT: Mike Wynholds, 1.415.546.0500 x13