Autonomy Announces Six New Major U.S. Government Partnerships.

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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2000

Autonomys Advantage Partner Programme Rolls Out in the Federal

Markets

Autonomy Corporation plc (Nasdaq:AUTN)(EASDAQ:AUTN) today announced partnership agreements with six major players in the U.S. federal, state and local government markets.

The partners, Federal Data Corp, CACI, Raytheon, General Dynamics, GTSI and Concentra, will resell all Autonomys products, enabling U.S federal, state and local governmental bodies to automatically manage the information and knowledge within their organizations.

The partnerships represent over one thousand new sales and marketing resources dedicated to those government markets. The partner organizations supply virtually all federal agencies, both defense and civilian, and most state governments

Dr. Mike Lynch, Founder and Group CEO of Autonomy, said: "These partnership agreements reflect Autonomys commitment to predominance in the U.S. government marketplace. Autonomys technology, combined with the skills and experience of our partners, will immediately enable large-scale U.S. government clients to benefit from best-of-breed knowledge management solutions."

The Autonomy Advantage Government Partners are described below:

Federal Data Corporation (FDC), www.feddata.com, a Federal systems integration firm headquartered in Bethesda, MD, is pleased to announce its partnership with Autonomy. FDC is recognized as one of the leading value-added IT resellers and IT services and solution providers in the federal market place. FDC's strengths include IT infrastructure functions such as electronic commerce and web/internet services, data warehousing and mining, software engineering, enterprise migration, product fulfillment, systems integration, and network engineering and support. "Our partnership with Autonomy enables FDC to deliver advanced integrated solutions that merge structured and unstructured data in ways that create additional value for our customers," said John Wayne, Senior Vice President of FDCs Solutions Sector. "Autonomys software products are a powerful complement to FDCs current portfolio of web and internet solutions including eBusiness solutions, portals, knowledge management applications, and web infrastructure and security solutions."

General Dynamics Information Systems (www.gd-is.com), headquartered in Bloomington, MN, will use Autonomys technology to provide DOD customers with context-specific information management solutions. General Dynamics Information Systems will integrate Autonomy software with its Managed Information Network and Exchange Router (MINER) product line, to provide advanced, end-to-end information gathering, dissemination, understanding, and visualization services. "Autonomy is a clear leader in the commercial knowledge management market, providing unique technologies that can directly enhance our integrated information infrastructure approach. As an Autonomy partner, we will have the ability to more efficiently and effectively deploy superior solutions to the ever increasing set of information management challenges found in today's military," said Jay Mork, Chief Technologist, General Dynamics Information Systems.

Raytheon, State College, (www.raytheon.com) provides systems and support for both operations and intelligence organizations within the Department of Defense. The primary areas of expertise provided by Raytheon include signal processing, signal intelligence and information services. With a reputation for excellence within a very stable and long-standing customer base, Raytheon provides superior information access and analysis capabilities to a wide range of users, employing state-of-the-art software, hardware and system engineering concepts. Raytheon engineers processing systems for other government and commercial customers with a focus on Document Management Systems and software development and integration in specialized areas such as custom user interfaces, data warehousing, object-oriented technology, web application development, and other new-era technologies. "Raytheon plans to use Autonomy's advanced knowledge management technologies to enhance existing and future information services solutions, thereby delivering substantial additional value to our customers and their knowledge workers," said Richard Lapalme, Raytheon Program Manager. (Raytheon State College is an ISO 9001 accredited facility and is certified SEI Level 3.)

GTSI Corp. (www.gtsi.com) is the leading dedicated business to government (B2G) marketer of information technology solutions to Federal, state and local government customers worldwide. Headquartered in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, GTSI offers government agencies access a wide array of software and hardware products available through numerous contract vehicles. GTSI also offers integration services and partners with globally recognized service providers to bring customers a wide selection of more complex integration options. "Autonomys unique ability to locate information from among various sources of unstructured text, based on concepts rather than simply keywords, results in more relevant information being presented to the knowledge worker, and presented in a more timely manner. Since all government agencies deal with massive amounts of information, having Autonomy on board means that important information reaches the worker faster and that worker can therefore spend his or her time putting the information to productive use," said Mark Zelinger, Vice President, Vendor Relations and Product Marketing. (GTSI is a registered service mark of Government Technology Services, Inc. d/ba as GTSI Corp.)

CACI (www.caci.com) is a worldwide leader in information technology, e-Business, and networld solutions. CACI offers the ability to integrate Autonomys concept-searching products into its government clients enterprises to improve the precision of their information management tasks. "Conceptual technology is, in our view, the next leap in information management," said Gail Phipps, Executive Vice President of CACIs Assured Information Solutions business group. "The ability to retrieve electronic documents in their native formats and automatically categorize them will greatly enhance productivity and reduce document processing costs, particularly for responding to litigation support tasks and Freedom of Information Act requests. We believe there is a great market for our combination of systems integration expertise, federal agency experience especially our 20-year heritage of litigation support for the Department of Justice and Autonomys conceptual capabilities." Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, CACI has approximately 4,800 employees and more than 90 offices in the U.S. and Europe.

Contentra, Inc., (www.contentra.com) headquartered in Reston, VA, is an e-Business consulting and integration firm specializing in rapid development and deployment of e-Business Solutions, development tools and methodologies focused on the management and delivery of strategic content. Contentra will leverage Autonomy technology in providing Contentra's customers with context-specific eBusiness solutions. Contentra will also integrate Autonomy software with Vignette Corporations V/5 ebusiness platform providing an end-to-end ebusiness solution. According to Chris Leonard, Vice President of Operations, "We chose Autonomy because they are a natural fit with our eBusiness practice and most importantly Autonomy's proven technology is able to automatically identify the concepts within emails, documents and Web pages. This unique technology allows Autonomy to understand precisely what content a user needs, which is a key capability for building powerful, personalized eBusiness applications."

About Autonomy

Autonomy's technology powers large-scale, personalised systems to support the infrastructure of the Internet economy, across areas including knowledge management, enterprise portals, new media publishing and electronic commerce applications. Because of its ability to analyse any piece of text (independent of the document's language) and identify and rank the main ideas therein, Autonomy can automate a broad range of labour-intensive tasks. These range from categorising information by subject matter, to inserting hypertext links to related material, to profiling users based on the ideas in the text they read or write, to delivering information to those most likely to be interested.

Autonomy was founded in 1996 and has offices in San Francisco, New York, Atlanta and Boston, in the United States as well as in Cambridge (England), Paris, Oslo, Stockholm, Sydney, Frankfurt, Munich, Milan, Brussels and Amsterdam. Among its 200 customers are Alcatel, Associated Press, British Aerospace, News Corp., Tesco, Burda, Eli Lilly, Elsevier, Lucent Technologies, Merrill Lynch, TF1, BBC, Reuters, The Royal Mail, the US Army, the US Navy and NASA. In addition, many software companies are licensing Autonomy's technology to add intelligence to their own products, in areas as diverse as online publishing, knowledge management, email routing, and document management. These include including Vignette, Hewlett-Packard, Brio, Sybase, OpenMarket, Intranet Solutions, Intraspect, Insight and Nexor. Autonomy also has collaborative partnership agreements with worldwide corporations including Compaq, Sun Microsystems and Intel.

In July 1998, the company went public on the EASDAQ exchange (EASDAQ:AUTN). It floated on NASDAQ (Nasdaq:AUTN) in May 2000.

Note:

With the exception of historical information, the matters set forth in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These factors include, among others, dependence on core technology; limited operating history; fluctuations in quarterly results; dependence on new product development; rapid technological and market change; reliance on sales by others; management of growth; dependence on key personnel; rapid expansion; technology risks; volatility of stock price; growth of the Internet; financial risk management; and future growth subject to risks. These factors and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially are also discussed in the company's filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, including Autonomy's Registration Statement on Form F-1, File no. 333-11804.