Tumbleweed Grows in US and Europe

REDWOOD CITY, CA - March 8, 2000 - Tumbleweed® Communications Corp. (Nasdaq:TMWD), a leading provider of Internet communications services, today announced that the company has opened new offices in Chicago, Dallas, Washington D.C. and in Amsterdam to serve growing geographic and vertical markets.

"Demand for Tumbleweed's IME and WorldSecure solutions continues to grow at a remarkable rate," said Jeffrey C. Smith, president and CEO of Tumbleweed Communications Corp. "Scaling to meet demand - putting the right people on the ground in the right places - is critical to Tumbleweed's success. We are very pleased with the progress we're making - we've exceeded our growth plan."

The new Tumbleweed BV office in Amsterdam, headed by Arien Klomp, augments Tumbleweed's presence in Europe, which already includes field offices in the UK, France and Germany as well as a European sales organization that currently includes more than 45 sales and support people.

In addition to its headquarters in Redwood City, California, at 14 Wall Street in New York City, in New Jersey and in Hartford, Connecticut, Tumbleweed is now represented in Chicago by John McLeod, regional manager, central region, in Dallas by Claude Sehnert, and in the Washington D.C. area by Matt Adams, regional manager, federal region. Tumbleweed's US-based sales organization currently numbers 44.

Tumbleweed Communications can be reached at
8770 West Bryn Mawr Avenue, Suite 1300
Chicago, Illinois 60631
(773) 867-8523

11951 Freedom Avenue, Suite 1300
Reston, Virginia 21090
(703)251-4444

12377 Merrit Drive, 11th Floor
Dallas, Texas 75251
972-455-4510

Tumbleweed Communications BV
Hardwareweg 4
3821 BM Amersfoort
The Netherlands
31-33-4546-651

About Tumbleweed Communications Corp.
Tumbleweed is a leading provider of solutions for managing secure communication and collaboration to enable the business Internet. Tumbleweed's robust policy-based framework empowers organizations to safely share and protect critical information, increase customer loyalty and privacy and dramatically reduce costs. Tumbleweed is trusted by 1,000 blue-chip customers including American Express, Chevron, Datek Online, the European Union's Joint Research Council, First Union Wachovia, John Deere, Merrill Lynch, Nike, Northern Trust, NTT, Salomon Smith Barney, Travelers and US Food and Drug Administration. One hundred of the Fortune 500 are Tumbleweed customers. Tumbleweed Communications was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., with offices around the world.

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, particularly with respect to the security features of Tumbleweed's products and the activities of any third party. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "potential," "continue," "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," and similar expressions. For further cautions about the risks of investing in Tumbleweed, we refer you to the documents Tumbleweed files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly Tumbleweed's Form 10-K filed March 30, 2001 and Form 10-Q filed November 13, 2001. Tumbleweed assumes no obligation to update information contained in this press release.