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Plumtree Software Looks to Deliver Enterprise Web Solutions on the Sun Platform

Posted on: Monday, 13 October 2003, 06:00 CDT

HOLLYWOOD, Fla., Plumtree Odyssey User Conference, Oct. 13

/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web leader Plumtree Software today announced that it is developing with Sun's support a version of the Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite for the Solaris(TM) Operating System and Sun Java(TM) System solutions from Sun Microsystems, Inc. . Sun is a gold sponsor of Plumtree's annual user conference, Plumtree Odyssey 2003, and will be presenting at the conference on October 14th, 2003 from 1:30 - 2:15 p.m. ET.

Support for the Solaris OS and Sun Java System software is part of Plumtree's Radical Openness strategy for delivering an Enterprise Web environment that can span every major application server, security system, content repository, development environment, search engine and operating system. In a separate release, Plumtree also announced today that the company is planning to deliver the Plumtree Corporate Portal 5.0J, a Java technology-based version of its flagship product in the middle of 2004.

The planned Plumtree Corporate Portal 5.0J is designed to complement Plumtree's Java software-based Collaboration Server, Content Server and Studio Server products, offering customers a comprehensive Java solution for building applications in the Enterprise Web.

Previous versions of Plumtree's portal software offered customers Java user and programming interfaces on UNIX(R) operating systems. In the planned release of the J2EE portal, Plumtree seeks to re-develop its core server and Parallel Portal Engine to allow the portal to run completely within the Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE(TM)) application server. The Plumtree Corporate Portal 5.0J is also being designed to feature interoperability with the Java System Directory Server, Messaging Server and Calendar Servers.

The Plumtree Corporate Portal features a Web Services Architecture, which allows low-cost development of standards-based Web services, such as JSR 168 portlets. This can allow customers to extend their investment in Sun.

"By supporting the Solaris and Java platforms, we are offering our customers more choice and flexibility in their Enterprise Web developments," said Plumtree CEO John Kunze. "Better still, our customers will benefit from the J2EE platform's proven scalability, reliability and performance."

"Today's CTO is choosing to reduce costs and complexity through open, integratable systems. By undertaking to deliver the Enterprise Web Suite for the J2EE platform, Plumtree is reaffirming its commitment to open standards and the value that standards deliver," said Rick Saletta, Group Marketing Manager for Java Web Services at Sun. "Together, Sun's Java Enterprise System and Plumtree's Enterprise Web Suite enable customers to choose a best-of-breed stack for their enterprise."

About Radical Openness

Radical Openness is Plumtree's strategy to offer the industry's first Web software that supports every major application server, security system, content repository, development environment, search engine and operating system in use by its customers. Plumtree seeks to execute on this strategy by offering Java and .NET software versions of its solution, with a comprehensive set of Web services-based integration technologies that extend far beyond traditional portlets, and a new set of cross-platform technologies that allow developers to embed services from Plumtree's Enterprise Web solution into their own applications. Plumtree believes that embracing Radical Openness helps customers integrate heterogeneous systems, span business units and merge acquired companies at lower cost, and partner with suppliers, distributors and customers without concern for differences in networks or development preferences.

About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web leader. Plumtree's mission is to create a comprehensive Web environment for employees, customers and partners across the enterprise to interact with a wide range of Web applications. Plumtree's Enterprise Web solution consists of integration products for bringing resources from traditional systems together on the Web, shared services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and an application management framework for delivering these Web applications to broad audiences. Plumtree's independence and its Web Services Architecture allow this solution to span rival application servers, helping maximize customers' return on their existing technology investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has licensed over 550 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy.

Safe Harbor Statement and Caution

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Federal Securities laws. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to statements regarding our planned development and anticipated commercial release of version 5.0J of the Plumtree Corporate Portal, including the timing of commercial release and the features, functions and technical specifications of the product; return on investment and other benefits, if any, associated with version 5.0J when and if released; our ability to maintain our reputation and position in the market; the success of our Enterprise Web and other product marketing strategies including our "Radical Openness" campaign; our ability to retain development support from Sun Microsystems. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ, perhaps materially, from those anticipated or suggested by such forward looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, risks associated with our limited operating history, a persisting general economic downturn, adverse conditions in worldwide IT spending trends, the impact of increasing competition, the length and complexity of Plumtree's sales cycle, market acceptance of our new products, the success of major version releases, the success of our "Radical Openness" marketing strategies, the ability of our customers to deploy our products successfully and their willingness to act as references, changes in the needs and priorities of existing and potential customers, reduced market acceptance of our products and services, failure to manage technological change, our ability to attract and retain channel and technology partners, our ability to manage development and marketing costs, our ability to provide a return on investment to our customers, the impact of geopolitical conflicts and events, and those other risks and uncertainties contained in the Company's Annual Report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on Form 10-K, its most recent 10-Q and all subsequent SEC filings. Copies of filings made with the SEC are available through the SEC's electronic data gathering analysis retrieval system (EDGAR) at http://www.sec.gov/. We undertake no obligation following the date of this release to update or revise our forward-looking statements or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements. We caution you not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date such statements are made. We cannot guarantee any future operating results, activity, performance or achievement.

FUTURE RELEASE DISCLAIMER

Interested parties should not rely upon any preliminary descriptions of version 5.0J or other Plumtree products or services furnished herein or prior to their commercial release. The anticipated timing, features, and technical specifications of Plumtree Corporate Portal version 5.0J are subject to change without notice. There can be no assurance that the version will commercially release. When and if available for commercial release, version 5.0J of the Plumtree corporate Portal will only be distributed per Plumtree license terms. No rights or license is granted hereby to any person or entity. This is not an offer to sell any product or service.

NOTE: Plumtree is a registered trademark of Plumtree Software, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries. All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their respective owners.

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