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Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Selects Corio Applications on Demand(TM) 'Software as a Service' Model Chosen to Deliver Enterprise Applications SAN CARLOS, Calif., May 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Corio, Inc. ( http://www.corio.com/press ), a leading enterprise application service provider, today announced that Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company (SFNTC), has chosen Corio Applications on Demand(TM) for its enterprise financial applications. SFNTC will deploy the Corio Full Service(TM) delivery model and Corio Disaster Recovery(TM) for infrastructure, application management and support services. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20031231/CORIOLOGO ) Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company was founded in 1982 and is the maker of Natural American Spirit tobacco products. SFNTC is a wholly owned, independent operating subsidiary of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings (NYSE:RJR), the second-largest cigarette manufacturer in the United States. Corio Applications on Demand(TM) is a service that delivers enterprise applications from leading independent software vendors. Customers 'pay-as- you-go' and avoid expensive upfront project and infrastructure costs. With Corio Applications on Demand(TM), IT workloads are more efficiently managed and overall IT costs are reduced. Through Corio Disaster Recovery(TM), SFNTC will receive a premium service designed to minimize data loss and guarantee business continuity in the case of catastrophic failure. Corio Applications on Demand(TM), the Corio Full Service(TM) delivery model, and Corio Disaster Recovery(TM) are available for a monthly fee. "Corio Applications on Demand(TM) enables our IT organization to become more efficient," said John Franzino, CFO at Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company. "We chose Corio because of their expertise and capability to provide the security and reliability that we require." "On demand services improve the delivery of enterprise applications," said John Ottman, executive vice president of Worldwide Markets at Corio. "We are very pleased to add Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company to our growing list of customers." About Corio, Inc. Corio, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRIO) is a leading enterprise application service provider (ASP). Corio Applications on Demand(TM) is a service that delivers enterprise applications from leading software vendors for a monthly fee. Corio provides infrastructure, applications management, professional services and Corio iSRVCE technology resource management (TRM) software. Corio guarantees system reliability through service level agreements (SLAs) and allows customers to 'pay-as-you-go,' minimizing expensive upfront project costs, improving return on investment (ROI) and reducing IT cost overall. Additional information about Corio is available at http://www.corio.com/ . About Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, maker of Natural American Spirit additive-free tobacco products, is a small company founded in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1982 with the purpose of producing high-quality, additive-free natural tobacco products. In January 2002, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings acquired Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Inc. Santa Fe Natural continues to operate as an independent and autonomous subsidiary of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings. Additional information about Santa Fe Tobacco is available at http://www.nascigs.com/ . Corio, iSRVCE and SRVCE are registered trademarks of Corio, Inc. Applications on Demand(TM) is a trademark of Corio, Inc. All other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENT: Matters discussed in this release involving expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, intentions, future events or strategies are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and are made under their safe-harbor provisions. Such forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Forward-looking statements herein include statements regarding the services to be provided by Corio to SFNTC, the benefits of Corio's relationship with SFNTC to Corio and SFNTC, and the benefits of Corio's services to customers generally. Some of the specific factors that may cause actual results to differ include: the fact that Corio operates in a new industry with a rapidly-evolving business model, the fact that the structure of relationships may change and relationships may terminate, the fact that services related to information technology can be challenging, and Corio's ability to adapt its services for rapidly changing and complex technology and to different requirements. Additional risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected are discussed in our public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission which are available at the Securities and Exchange Commission's website (http://www.sec.gov/). Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which reflect management's analysis only as of the date hereof. Corio undertakes no obligation to publicly release the results of any revision to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, and Corio shall have no duty to update statements made herein. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20031231/CORIOLOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Corio, Inc. CONTACT: Heather Kelly of S&S Public Relations, Inc., +1-888-275-5878, , for Corio, Inc. Web site: http://www.nascigs.com/ http://www.corio.com/press

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