Boston, MA and Palo Alto, CA - May 2, 2000 - Quality Solutions, Inc., a provider of front office software solutions for the book publishing industry and Noosh Inc., a provider of business-to-business e-commerce solutions for the printing industry, today announced an agreement designed to leverage the synergies between the two companies.

Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will integrate the Quality Solutions' Publisher Solution Series 5^TM (PSS5) software with noosh.com, enabling users of the PSS5 Production Module to take advantage of the noosh.com service. With the planned integration, publishers using the PSS5 Production Module will have the ability to transfer book specifications, purchase orders and scheduling information directly in the noosh.com service. This will allow for collaborative online procurement and production management from start to finish. Additionally, a direct link to noosh.com will allow publishers to actively monitor job status.

"Quality Solutions' alliance with Noosh will support the demand among our clients for improved supply chain management, enhanced communication methods, and competitive pricing by utilizing advanced e-commerce technologies." said Fran Toolan, CEO of Quality Solutions, Inc. "We are excited about the opportunity to team with Noosh. We share the vision that this relationship will improve our customers ability to take advantage of e-commerce, and we invite all of our customers to participate.

"This alliance represents a tremendous opportunity for Noosh to further integrate the supply chain process and provide value for the book publishing industry," said Ofer Ben-Shachar, Chairman and CEO, Noosh, Inc. "The online collaboration aspect that noosh.com brings to the print procurement process can provide publishers more control and efficiencies for their projects while establishing a collaborative link with their suppliers."

Both Quality Solutions and Noosh will have a presence at the BookExpo America event in Chicago, IL, June 2-4, 2000. Demonstrations of this technology will be available at the show.

About Noosh, Inc.
Noosh, Inc. (http://www.noosh.com) was founded in 1998 with the goal of creating the industry's leading business-to-business, Internet-based communication and collaboration service for enterprise critical printing. Noosh.com, powered by Live Jobs^SM collaborative technology, is designed to dramatically help improve the process of buying, selling and managing print. Leveraging the power of the Internet, noosh.com helps strengthen buyer-printer relationships by providing a collaborative environment where corporate buyers, printers and creative agencies work together efficiently to manage complex corporate printing from conception to delivery, in real time.

About Quality Solutions, Inc.
Quality Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1988 to meet the evolving needs of the book publishing industry. Since the time of its inception the Company has created integrated software systems to manage editorial, promotional, planning, purchasing, manufacturing, and other functions. Recently the Company has developed technologies to empower clients with the ability to automatically and electronically send fully formatted bibliographic metadata to trading partners in a variety of unique formats. Quality Solutions is headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A. For more information, please visit: http://www.qsolution.com.

Noosh and Live Jobs are the trademark and service mark, respectively, of Noosh, Inc. Other trademarks appearing in this release are the property of their holders.