Singapore (17 Nov 2003) - Ecquaria Limited and Frontline Technologies Corporation Limited are pleased to announce a strategic alliance between the two companies.

This alliance combines collaborative selling, joint marketing, sharing of technical know-how and partnership in business development initiatives with a determined emphasis on the Asian public sector market and key domains such as Education, Hospitality, Health care, Media and Entertainment.

The two companies will jointly market the Ecquaria Service-Oriented Platform(tm) (Ecquaria SOP) - an enterprise software infrastructure built on Web Services and open standards - and Ecquaria's portfolio of enterprise solutions together with Frontline's comprehensive suite of IT services to support, amongst others, government agencies' efforts to implement EGovernment initiatives.

By aligning Ecquaria's half-decade track record of 100% success rate for customer project delivery, experience in implementing large-scale Web Services deployments with Frontline's experience in IT services, the two companies are well positioned to provide an end-to-end array of solutions and support for customers. Leveraging on the coordinated sales efforts of Account Managers from Ecquaria and Frontline plus a combined staff strength of over 800, customers will now have access to proven solutions, along with the best possible pricing for software, hardware products and ancillary services. Besides these tremendous synergies derived from the collaboration, Frontline has acquired a 30% equity stake in Ecquaria thus solidifying the alliance further.

Frontline is an end-to-end Information Technology services provider specializing in Consulting, Infrastructure, Applications Development, Outsourcing, Support and Training. Listed on the Main board of the Stock Exchange of Singapore, it is headquartered in Singapore with operations in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines.