Wisconsin Gas Selects Smallworld Internet Server

Denver (March 29, 2000) - At GITA, DENVER (March 27, 2000) Smallworld (Nasdaq: SWLDY), the leading global provider of network software products, today announced that Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Wisconsin Gas Company has selected the unique Smallworld Internet Server to provide online new service applications to customers.

“The Internet is becoming the new pipeline utilities are using to reach their customers,” said C. Warren Ferguson, chief executive officer of Smallworld. “Smallworld Internet Server is designed to provide more than just maps on the Internet, it is supplying the technology to bring utilities and customers closer together.”

Designed to run on standard Web browsers and servers, Smallworld Internet Server provides users with direct access to spatial data – with no intermediate files or translation, via the Internet. Unlike other Internet-oriented spatial data products, Smallworld Internet Server delivers a full-function application to the user opening the full power of Smallworld’s spatial technology to the Internet.

“Smallworld Internet Server will enable us to improve our customer service by allowing customers and building contractors to request gas service directly over the Internet around the clock,” said Rich Nehm, Supervisor, Geographic Information Systems at Wisconsin Gas. “We expect the system to be up and running by June, providing our customers with a convenient new avenue to reach us.”

Smallworld (www.swldy.com) creates, markets and delivers network software products to the Utility & Public Systems and Communications markets globally. Smallworld’s products model real world assets and services, enabling companies to understand where their facilities and customers are located, and seamlessly integrating this information across the enterprise. The Company has three industry divisions, Utility & Public Systems, Communications and Core & Cross Industry, providing rapid implementation and integration of Smallworld’s unique object-oriented technology and vertical industry applications, which can increase customers’ revenues, improve customer service, and better utilize assets.

The Company has more than 800 customers in 40 countries around the world. Smallworldwide plc is based at Elizabeth House, 1 High Street, Chesterton, Cambridge CB4 1WR, England; Telephone, +44 (0) 1223.301144, and in the United States at 5600 Greenwood Plaza Dr., Englewood, CO 80111, +1.303.779.6980.

Please note that some statements contained within this report may be of a forward-looking nature and may involve risks and uncertainties. Actual future results and outcomes may differ materially from those discussed. Factors that may cause such differences include, but are not limited to, management of growth, market acceptance of the Company's product and services, risks associated with new product versions, dependence on third party relationships and the activities of competitors. For a more detailed discussion of the risks associated with the Company’s business, please see the Company’s Form 20-F on file with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Chad Morris
Smallworldwide plc
+1 (303) 779 6980
Chad.Morris@Smallworld-us.com

www.Smallworld-us.com