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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 2001--

        Customers gain broader range of services to help reduce
                           development costs

The Boston Internet Group, Inc. (BIG) today announced it has broadened the range of eBusiness and traditional services and products it can offer clients by entering into a strategic partnership with I.T. Rapid Development Group, LLC, a B2B consulting firm and a subsidiary of the $2 Billion Terex Corporation (NYSE:TEX).

The partnership expands the Internet professional services of both companies and gives clients a more complete range of e-business services. Clients can now work with the Boston Internet Group from concept to implementation and on to deployment and support using the best solutions available. These services include defining business strategies, branding, design and application development, plus the new addition of end-to-end collaborative services and products for the management of code and content for e-business, as well as networking and fault-tolerant hosting.

Today's agreement puts the Boston Internet Group in the I.T. Rapid Development Group family of industry leading partners, including EMC, Cisco, Starbase, JCM Internet Marketing and ekkonline.Com.

"We believe the Boston Internet Group's entry into this partnership will allow us to offer our clients and prospects more value for their web site investment," said Wayne H. Howe, Boston Internet Group president. "By being abl e to draw upon the expertise of our alliance partners, we can now offer a broader choice of solutions that will significantly reduce the overall cost of custom web-application development while extending the overall life of the solution. The bottom line is that we can now draw upon a wider range of expertise to determine the best solution for our clients."

In addition to creative and engineering services, the Boston Internet Group can now offer expert solutions based on Oracle, Cisco, EMC, Starbase and BEA WebLogic, among others.

Bruce Tomlin, I.T. Rapid Development Group's chief executive officer, welcomed the Boston Internet Group into the Alliance.

"The Boston Internet Group has demonstrated a commitment to excellence both in design and application development, and their achievement has been recognized by industry awards." Tomlin said. "We believe they really take the time to understand their clients' needs and objectives. They really "get it." This makes them a very strategic addition to our group."

About I.T. Rapid Development Group

Based in Westport, Connecticut, I.T. Rapid Development Group has expertise in eBusiness and traditional applications development. The company provides services in the areas of computer systems development, look and feel, graphic design, mainframe data migration, and integration. I.T. Rapid Development Group also provides business analysis, storyboarding, business rule set development, hosting, integration, project management, project recovery, programming, and database development services. These combined services bring an unparalleled set of skill sets to any client at reasonable cost and a high level of assurance for successful project completion.

About Boston Internet Group

The Boston Internet Group is an award winning Internet professional services firm. The agency's clients are industry-leading companies in the business-to-business market and the business-to-consumer market. Services are interrelated and fall into three major categories. The first category is Web strategy that assists clients in defining how the Web and emerging technologies can be used to create competitive advantages. The second area of expertise is in technology and infrastructure, which allows the company to help clients plan and build their Web sites, online databases and content management systems to implement their Web strategy. The third area is design and presentation, which allows us to build a Web site with a branded look and feel that is easy to use and supports the marketing objectives of clients. The Boston Internet Group has professional teams of strategists, designers and engineers who help their clients capitalize on the potential of the Internet and make it a more important part of their overall business strategy.

About Terex

Terex Corporation is a diversified global manufacturer based in Westport, Connecticut, with 2000 revenues in excess of $2 billion. Terex is involved in a broad range of construction, infrastructure and mining-related capital equipment operating primarily in two segments

• Terex Earthmoving and Terex Lifting. Terex Earthmoving manufactures and sells heavy-duty off-road trucks and high-capacity surface mining trucks under the brand names of Terex, Unit Rig and Payhauler, large hydraulic mining shovels under the brand name O&K, loader backhoes under the brand name Fermec, as well as power buggies and compactors under the brand name Benford. Terex entered the infrastructure building business in 1999 with the acquisitions of Powerscreen and Cedarapids and its recent acquisitions of Jaques and Canica-Jaques. Terex Lifting manufactures and sells telescopic mobile cranes, lattice boom cranes, tower cranes, aerial work platforms, utility aerial devices, telescopic material handlers, truck mounted cranes, and related products, under the brand names Terex, Lorain, PPM, P&H, Franna, Marklift, Koehring, Bendini, RO, Telelect, Square Shooter, Holland Lift, American, Italmacchine, Peiner, Comedil and Matbro. More information on Terex can be found at www.terex.com.

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