Akamai and Vignette Form Partnership to Marry Internet Content Delivery and E-Relationship Solutions.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 1999--

Tight integration of Akamai FreeFlow and Vignette StoryServer 

offer customers competitive advantages

Akamai Technologies today announced that Vignette Corporation is the first Web software vendor to join Akamai's Alliance Program announced today at Internet World in New York City (see accompanying release dated today "Akamai Teams with AGENCY.COM and Fort Point Partners in New Alliance Program"). The partnership between the two companies will improve the speed, reliability and performance of joint customer Web sites for a more rewarding online experience.

"Vignette's strong content management and personalization capabilities mesh well with Akamai's ability to speed customer content across the globe reliably," said Earl Galleher, vice president of sales and distribution for Akamai. "We're very pleased to support the needs of Vignette's current and future customers to deliver fresh and unique content to Web site visitors."

Specifically, Akamai has integrated part of its Internet content delivery technology, FreeFlow Launcher, into Vignette's E-Relationship solution, StoryServer. This will be accomplished by embedding a series of Akamai commands within StoryServer that will enable Vignette users to integrate Akamai's performance enhancing capabilities.

"We're thrilled to partner with Akamai to provide customers reliable and scalable solutions to meet their dynamic e-business requirements," said Bill Daniel, senior vice president of products, Vignette. "This alliance offers a comprehensive solution for content providers and Web developers using Akamai and Vignette technology."

Vignette's StoryServer provides tailored personalization solutions to help e-businesses provide their customers a rewarding online experience. With the integration of Akamai's FreeFlow(SM) technology, content providers are able to create personalized dynamic content "on the fly" using native Vignette commands, and deliver this content with high-performance and reliability from Akamai's expansive global network.

About Vignette Corporation

Vignette Corporation (Nasdaq: VIGN), the leader in the category of E-Relationships software products and services, provides enterprise solutions for companies that are building businesses online. More than 290 global companies, including First Union National Bank, U S West, National Semiconductor, DaimlerChrysler, Nokia, Qualcomm, CNET, Bertelsmann and Ziff-Davis' ZDNet, use Vignette solutions as part of their online strategy. Vignette has won numerous industry awards including the Crossroads A-list Award; Red Herring Magazine's 100 - Top 50 Public Companies in 1999, Best Overall Private Company in 1998 and 1998 Best Product Award for StoryServer. In April 1999, the company's StoryServer(TM) 4 was included in the Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

Vignette spearheaded the Information & Content Exchange(ICE) initiative with more than 80 other member companies including Microsoft, National Semiconductor and Sun Microsystems. Based on the Extensible Markup Language (XML), ICE 1.0 is the world's first protocol to enable content syndication. Vignette's product line includes Vignette StoryServer 4, Vignette Development Center (VDC), Multi-Channel Server and Vignette Syndication Server (VSS), the world's first ICE-compatible product. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Vignette Corporation also has offices located throughout Europe and in Australia and can be found on the Web at http://www.vignette.com.

About FreeFlow

Akamai's FreeFlow service speeds up Web site performance and improves reliability by delivering Internet content from Akamai servers around the globe located close to Internet end users. FreeFlow has been in commercial use since the beginning of April, and has already served over 40 billion Web site hits this year for Akamai customers, totaling over 200 terabytes of content delivered. Additional benefits for Web site owners include faster downloads, peak crowd protection, and easy implementation with Web servers or site design.

About Akamai

Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Akamai provides a global Internet content delivery service that improves Web site speed and reliability and enables richer, more engaging Web site content. Currently, Akamai has 1,200 servers deployed in 24 countries across 40 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.