October 16, 2000 

For Immediate Release

Contact: Jim Garland, Director of Sales, Logical Information Machines (713) 652-4066
Contact: Jim Gagne, Chief Communications Officer, WeatherMarkets.com (610) 407-2956  

Media Release

Logical Information Machines Puts WeatherMarkets.com Forecasts and Data to Work

Chicago, Ill., – Logical Information Machines (LIM), a leading provider of historic data and analytical products, has entered into a strategic arrangement with WeatherMarkets.com to receive and redistribute weather information products for its user community.

WeatherMarkets.com will provide LIM with its CityCast™ service, which forecasts every hour for the next week for more than 660 locations in the United States, updated four times a day. Corresponding hourly weather observations also will be available. In addition, WeatherMarkets.com is supplying daily observations for more than 800 locations worldwide. These daily updates are being added to LIM’s standard database offering at no extra charge to LIM clients.

“LIM clients will be able to fine tune their energy and commodity market analysis with our CityCast™ service, and LIM will be unique in providing these forecasts historically as well, so that clients can perform enhanced risk analysis,” said Ian Clarke, Managing Director, WeatherMarkets.com.

“The new WeatherMarkets.com data will not only enhance our clients’ ability to analyze movements in the energy markets with hourly observations, it will greatly improve our standard weather offering,” said Jim Garland, Director of Sales, Logical Information Machines.

WeatherMarkets.com is a leading supplier of weather content to market data services, including Bloomberg, FutureSource-Bridge, and MoneyLine, as well as vertical B2B web sites, including CoralConnect.com, FuelSpot.com, Rooster.com, e-Markets.com, and CyberCrop.com. WeatherMarkets.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of Planalytics, Inc., a Wayne, Pa., based supply-chain planning portal serving three vertical markets: retail, life sciences, and energy.

For twelve years, Logical Information Machines (LIM), has provided historical data and analytical applications to businesses who want the best comprehensive coverage of the financial and energy markets.  LIM offers the most advanced investment data-mining technology in the world known as the Market Information Machine (MIM).  The MIM is easier to use and more powerful than traditional relational database solutions for time series data.  In one system, the MIM has all of the information necessary to manage trading, market risk, research and analysis.  LIM's subsidiary, MarketHistory.com, publishes MIM-generated investment ideas available to the general public on the Internet.

To learn more about LIM and MarketHistory.com, visit their web sites at www.LIM.com and www.MarketHistory.com or call 312-364-0046, ext.15.

To learn more about WeatherMarkets.com, visit its web site at www.WeatherMarkets.com, or call (610) 407-2954.