BASIS TECHNOLOGY’S ROSETTE IS UNICODE LIBRARY OF CHOICE FOR LEADING E-BUSINESSES AND SOFTWARE PROVIDERS

— C++ Library for Unicode Takes Companies Global Quickly —

Cambridge, MA, March 7, 2000—Basis Technology (www.basistech.com), the premier provider of internationalization services and technology, today announced Rosette is the Unicode library of choice for leading e-businesses and software providers. More than twenty top-tier websites, search engines, and portals have adopted Rosette as the core of their globalization strategy.

“We are pleased to provide our customers with the most comprehensive Unicode library on the market today,” said Carl Hoffman, President of Basis Technology. “The Rosette approach to Web globalization—based on Unicode—has proven to be vastly superior to the morass of legacy single-byte and double-byte character sets.”

Rosette enables software developers to quickly add Unicode compliance to their products. Its rich C++ classes and ISO C-compliant wide-character runtime library provide a powerful framework for implementing multilingual applications. Rosette’s high-performance transcoding engine supports flexible conversions between Unicode and a broad range of legacy encodings. Its extensive collection of transforms enables transliteration between different writing systems. And Rosette is the only tool of its kind that is portable across all major hardware and operating system platforms.

Internet and software industry leaders such as Brio, Critical Path, Excelon, GTE CyberTrust, Harte-Hanks, Inso, InterTrust, Lucent Technologies, Lycos, PeopleSoft, and Peregrine Systems rely on Rosette to fulfill their exacting, high-performance requirements for software internationalization.

“Rosette enabled us to very quickly prototype and subsequently launch an internationalized version of the Lycos search product in Japan,” said Eric Gardner, Manager of Search R&D at Lycos. “Furthermore, because Rosette is built around Unicode, we have been able to easily extend the internationalization of the Lycos search engine to other markets in Asia and beyond.”

“As the dominant global provider of complete business-to-business Internet messaging and collaboration solutions, Critical Path is committed to localizing our products and services in the shortest time to market, and Rosette technology has helped us reduce our time to market for multiple languages,” stated Joe Duncan, CIO of Critical Path.

“In order to create a truly global system, we use Unicode to support all world languages with a single code base,” commented Jim Boyles, Manager, Globalization Group at Kenan Systems. “Because of Rosette’s extensive support of character set encodings, Rosette allows us to convert between Unicode and the native encoding method of the languages and platforms that we support. Rosette is the cornerstone of our globalization strategy.”

“Congratulations on creating some great technology that enabled our product in a Japanese market. Our product author found your technology to be exactly what we needed,” said Fred Luddy, CTO, Peregrine Systems.

The currently shipping version of Rosette is 2.3. Royalty-free, unlimited binary distribution licenses are available. For more information please visit Rosette or email info@basistech.com.

About Basis Technology

Basis Technology (www.basistech.com) provides software solutions for extracting meaningful intelligence from multilingual text. The company’s Rosette® Platform is a suite of high-performance, highly reliable, interoperable software components designed for applications that analyze and process all the world’s languages.

Top-tier software vendors, content providers, multinational enterprises, and government agencies rely on Basis Technology’s solutions for Unicode compliance, language identification, multilingual search, normalization, transliteration, and entity extraction. Clients include America Online, Convera, Endeca, Google, Hewlett-Packard, InQuira, Inktomi, L.L Bean, Northrop Grumman, PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, Verity and Yahoo!.

Company headquarters are located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with branch offices in San Francisco, California; Herndon, Virginia; and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit www.basistech.com or call 800-697-2062.