Altris Software Inc. Appoints New VP of Sales.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2001

Altris Software, Inc. (OTCBB:ALTS), a leading Document Service Provider (DSP), today announced the appointment of David Dorries as vice president of Sales. Mr Dorries replaces Jim Melton who recently left Altris to pursue other interests. Mr. Dorries' expertise will allow Altris to further expand the Company's sales of eB into enterprise customers. In addition, Mr. Dorries will be responsible for implementing the sales strategy for Altris' eBConnect, which will consist of a number of applications to be deployed by Altris under its Application Service Provider (ASP) initiative, and carries Altris to the new business model of month to month recurring revenue.

Commenting on the appointment, Roger Erickson, CEO of Altris, said, "We are delighted that David has joined the Altris team. He has gained considerable experience in sales and sales management from working with a number of high profile software organizations. He brings us excellent leadership skills needed to aggressively drive sales of eB this year. Dave is one of a small community of sales executives who have successfully ramped up software sales on a subscription basis and we will benefit from this experience as we ramp up eBConnect, our Application Service Provider deployment strategy."

Mr. Dorries' career spans more than 29 years in sales and sales management and his achievements of late include reorganizing and rebuilding sales operations in multiple software companies; increasing worldwide revenues; expanding sales operations; and designing and implementing sales management processes to increase sales closures. He has also won numerous sales related awards throughout his career.

Mr. Dorries' previous positions include vice president of Worldwide Sales at InAlysys Inc in Irvine, California, senior vice president of Sales at Computer Associates (NYSE:CA) in Huntington Beach, California, and vice president of Sales at Platinum Technology Inc in Los Angeles, California.

"I am excited at the opportunity of working with the team here at Altris," commented Dorries. "The momentum is building in sales of eB to both new and existing customers and I am joining the company at a time to direct the sales operation and ensure that the momentum continues to increase."

Altris Software, Inc.

Altris Software develops robust, scalable and highly innovative solutions that manage, control and disseminate the knowledge contained within an organization's documents, enabling our customers to gain e-business competitive advantage. As a leading Document Service Provider (DSP) for eBusiness, we provide documents as a service to customers' line-of-business and specific applications. This delivers the ability to manage and control the information content throughout the document lifecycle.

Altris eB(R)

eB is a registered trademark of Altris Software Inc. eB is an integrated document management suite -- providing the user with document management, imaging, COLD and workflow. eB is designed to enable organizations to manage the creation and revision life-cycle for office applications as well as e-mail, engineering and computer-aided design drawings. eB extends document management to provide the necessary control of document content and the analysis of the effects of change within the organization.

Key Altris customers include Microsoft Corporation, Continental Airlines, BP, GEC Marine, Britannia Airways, Scottish Power, Entergy, North East Utilities, London Underground, Mack Trucks, Norske Shell and many others.

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Note to editors: Altris eB is a registered trademark of Altris Software Inc. All other named products mentioned in this release may have been identified by trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.