[xtm-wg] Ontopia announces major OEM deal with Starbase Corporation

[Steve Pepper <pepper@ontopia.net>]

Ontopia announces major OEM deal with Starbase Corporation
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OSLO, NORWAY, 16 MAY 2001 - Ontopia AS, provider of advanced Topic
Map technology and co-creators of the Topic Map standards, today
announced that Starbase Corporation, of Santa Ana, California, has
signed a definitive strategic agreement to license Ontopia's Topic
Map technology. Financial terms of the agreement were not
disclosed.

Starbase Corporation, the leading provider of end-to-end
collaboration products for both the development and management of
content and code for e-business applications, will adopt Ontopia
technology as part of their strategic corporate solution for a
number of mission-critical initiatives.

Topic Mapping is a new paradigm for organizing, retrieving, and
navigating information. Through the provision of a 'knowledge
layer' that is independent of the information resources themselves,
topic maps help capture and manage corporate memory, improve
indexing, and enable the integration of information that spans
multiple, disparate repositories. Topic Maps are an international
standard, defined by the ISO, and can also be interchanged using
the Extensible Markup Language (XML) defined by the W3C.

"Starbase carefully researched a variety of technologies and a
number of different companies, and found that Ontopia's Topic Map
technology was the fastest and most efficient way for us to reach
our technology objectives," stated Alan Kucheck, Vice President of
Engineering at Starbase. "Their engineering team is second to none,
and their architecture is well-designed and highly scalable. We
will leverage that technology to deliver our next-generation
products to market faster than we otherwise would have been able
to."

"The fact that Starbase, a leading American public Internet and
software vendor, chose Ontopia is yet another validation of our
Topic Map technology," stated Steve Pepper, Chief Executive Officer
at Ontopia and co-editor of the XML Topic Map (XTM) specification.
"Starbase's early adoption of this emerging technology will help
pave the way for others. We have been extremely impressed by their
vision and innovative thinking, and will be working closely with
Starbase to ensure that their initiatives employing our technology
are successful."

About Starbase Corporation
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Starbase is the leading provider of end-to-end collaborative
products for both the development and management of integrated
content and code for eBusiness applications. Collaboration is the
simultaneous coordination, management and communication of
geographically dispersed contributors of both code and content for
eBusiness applications.

With over 2,800 Starbase customers worldwide, our technology
supports the continuous cycle of creating, linking and managing
digital assets, which comprise complex eBusiness applications.
Starbase products enable users with differing technical and
functional backgrounds to collaborate on the production and
management of Web sites and eBusiness initiatives from multiple
locations.

Companies and organizations, including leading corporations such as
Chase Bank, Dell Computer, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, PepsiCo
and Seagate Technology have selected Starbase products to manage
their eBusiness development projects. Starbase is headquartered at
4 Hutton Centre Drive, Suite 900, Santa Ana, CA 92707. Tel:
714.445.4400. Fax: 714.445.4404. Visit Starbase's Web site at
www.starbase.com.

About Ontopia AS
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Ontopia, The Topic Map Company(TM), is the world's leading provider
of generic topic map software. Its principals have been actively
involved in developing and promoting the topic map paradigm for
many years.

Ontopia's flagship product, the Ontopia Knowledge Suite(TM),
currently comprises a full-featured topic map engine that supports
both the ISO 13250 and XML Topic Map (XTM) specifications, and the
Ontopia Topic Map Navigator, a framework for building web-based
topic map delivery applications. Ontopia technology provides added
value to web portals, content management systems, knowledge-based
intranet applications, and enterprise application integration.

Ontopia has headquarters at Waldemar Thranes gt. 98, N-0175 Oslo,
Norway. Tel: +47-23 23 30 80. Fax: +47-23 23 30 81. Visit Ontopia's
Web site at www.ontopia.net.


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Steve Pepper, Chief Executive Officer <pepper@ontopia.net>
Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG3  Editor, XTM (XML Topic Maps)
Ontopia AS, Waldemar Thranes gt. 98, N-0175 Oslo, Norway.
http://www.ontopia.net/ phone: +47-23233080 GSM: +47-90827246


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