PurchasePro Drops 12.4% on <I>Barron's</I> Article

PurchasePro

(PPRO)

was down 12.4% in preopen

Island

trading.

An article in the current edition of

Barron's

called into question the business-to-business company's financial stability and the quality of its management.

PurchasePro issued a lengthy statement over the weekend denouncing the article as "riddled with inaccuracies."