[announce] Arbortext Signs Oracle,GE Power Systems and Dynegy Among 64 New Customers for Fourth Quarter

[Beth Ambaruch <bea@arbortext.com>]

Arbortext Signs Oracle, GE Power Systems and Dynegy Among 64 New
Customers for Fourth Quarter

Experiences 14% growth for fiscal year ending December 31, 2001


ANN ARBOR, Mich., January 28, 2002 -- Arbortext, Inc., the only global
provider of XML-based software that enables the creation, editing and
publishing of information to multiple media types from a single source
of content, today announced that the company’s revenues for the fiscal
year ending December 31, 2001, grew 14 percent from the previous year.
Fueling this growth was the addition of 64 new customers during the
fourth quarter, including Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), GE Power Systems and
Dynegy (NYSE: DYN).

"This year has been rewarding for us,” said Raymond Schiavone, President
and CEO for Arbortext.  “We continue to be successful in delivering
multichannel publishing solutions with a compelling business case and
provable ROI - a must for IT investments to be funded in today’s
environment.  As a result, we’ve signed many large, multinational
organizations as new customers, introduced new products and
capabilities, and entered into several strategic partnership alliances.
We are well positioned to continue this growth and look forward to a
successful 2002.”

Arbortext’s Epic product suite enables organizations to create a single
source of information and automatically assemble and publish that
information for multiple audiences to multiple types of media: Web,
print, CD-ROM, wireless and more. Through Epic, Arbortext’s customers
are experiencing the benefits that an XML authoring and multichannel
publishing solution offers, including reusing rather than recreating
information, eliminating costly manual efforts by automating the
publishing process, and reducing both the cost and time to market of new
and improved products.

“Our research indicates the top three factors that organizations seek
when evaluating vendors are their product’s ability to meet the
requirements, their understanding of the business problem, and their
stability,” said Michael Maziarka, Director at CAP Ventures, a leading
research and consulting firm.  “Arbortext’s success is not a surprise
because they can directly address these factors: they develop products
which support current needs and future requirements; they continue to
take a leadership role in the industry; and they can reference their
extensive experience.”

Q4 Highlights
Continuing to strengthen its strategic alliances, Arbortext announced
integrations with two leading content management providers, Interwoven
and FileNET.

Arbortext signed 64 new customers in the quarter ending December 31,
2001, bringing the total customer count to more than 3,600.  Leading
companies signed in Q4 include Blue-Cross Blue-Shield of Michigan,
Dynegy, GE Power Systems, North Dakota Legislative Council, Oracle and
SWIFT.

Arbortext also saw reorders from many of its larger customers, including
Ameritech, AstraZeneca, Bankers Systems, Ericsson, GE Aircraft, Lockheed
Martin, SAP and Schlumberger.

About Arbortext
Arbortext is the only global provider of XML-based software that enables
the creation, editing and publishing of information to multiple media
types – Web, print, CD-ROM, wireless – from a single source of content.
Shipping since 1991, Arbortext’s standards-based software supports
technical publishing, reference publishing and catalog publishing
applications that enable enterprises to provide more accurate,
cost-efficient, complete, timely, consistent and usable information on
all media. Arbortext’s software is installed at over 300 large,
multinational organizations. Current customers include American Express,
Audi, Boeing, British Aerospace, Caterpillar, DaimlerChrysler, Ericsson
Telecom, Ford, General Electric, GM, IBM, International Thomson
Publishing, Lucent, Nokia, Nortel Networks, PeopleSoft, Pfizer, Qantas,
Ricoh, Sun Microsystems, United Airlines, Volkswagen, Volvo and West
Group. Arbortext is a founding member and active participant in the XML
Activity of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Headquartered in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, USA, Arbortext has offices around the world.  For more
information please visit http://www.arbortext.com.
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Contact: 	Beth Ambaruch 				Steve Jensen
	  	Arbortext, Inc.				Phase Two Strategies
	  	+1 734.327.6014				+1 415.772.8403
	 	bea@arbortext.com				sjensen@p2pr.com