Autonomy Strengthens East Coast Operations With Six New Hires in Washington, D.C. and Boston Offices.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 1999--Autonomy, Inc. whose software automates the categorization, tagging, hyperlinking and personalization of large volumes of unstructured content for new media publishers and large corporate enterprises, today announced the establishment of offices in Washington, D.C. and Boston.

Autonomy has named six new hires for marketing and sales: Dan Buan, Darlene G. Hines, Rita Joseph, Mitchell Logan and Julie Hartigan in the Washington, D.C. office and Allyson Miller in the Boston office. The eastern regional division will report directly to Steve Jaffee, director of eastern region, while the federal division reports to Jon Wilks, vice president of sales. -0-

--   Dan Buan, 34, current vice president and programs chairman for
     the National Capital Chapter of the Association for Information
     and Image Management (NCC-AIIM) has been appointed technical
     sales manager, Southeast region. Prior to joining Autonomy, Buan
     was a systems engineer and an account manager for IBM and Eastman
     Software (a Kodak Business).
--   Darlene G. Hines, 50, has been named district sales manager for
     commercial entities. She most recently was director of sales,
     eastern region and federal sector for Unify Corporation, and has
     held various managerial positions with Verity, PLS and Natural
     Language, Inc.
--   Rita Joseph, 47, was hired as federal sales manager; prior to
     that she was regional manager, defense accounts for Excalibur
     Technologies. Joseph has 15 years of experience selling to the
     Federal Government with the last nine in knowledge management.
--   Mitchell Logan, 42, joins Autonomy as manager of partner
     development and will direct the channel and OEM initiatives for
     the company. Previously Logan was district manager for Open Text
     Corporation, and has held numerous senior sales positions in
     knowledge management and web based technology industries.
--   Julie Hartigan, Ph.D., 34, has been named as technical sales
     manager for federal region; prior, Hartigan was the manager of
     the Advanced Text Processing Department at TASC, Inc. Hartigan is
     a graduate of Ohio State University with a Ph.D. in Computer and
     Information Science with an emphasis in natural language
     processing.
--   Allyson Miller, 49, joins Autonomy's Boston office as district
     sales manager responsible for the commercial market in the
     northeast and eastern Canada. Previously, Miller was a senior
     account manager with a number of companies in the document
     imaging market, including BancTec, Recognition and NCR.

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About Autonomy

Autonomy (www.autonomy.com) develops software that automatically organizes large, unstructured volumes of information into personally relevant communications to help corporate intranets and commercial websites serve the changing needs and interests of users.

Autonomy's products for knowledge management and new media publishing save time, labor and money by automatically and precisely categorizing, linking, personalizing and searching large volumes of information.

The intelligent pattern recognition technology that fuels Autonomy's software was originally developed by Autonomy's sister company, Neurodynamics, for use in intelligence and defense applications. That technology is at the heart of the British police force's Holmes2 system, named after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective.

The Holmes2 system helps the police solve crimes by matching fingerprints or by finding similarities and connections in disparate crime witness statements or police reports. The same technology is now being used to find connections in commercial data.

Autonomy was founded in 1996 and has offices in San Francisco, Boston, New York, Washington, D.C. and Cambridge, England. Autonomy customers include News Corp., MacMillan Publishing, Associated Press, Barclays Bank, British Telecom, Shell International, Semi-Tech, The Royal Mail and Unilever. On July 10, 1998, the company went public on the EASDAQ exchange. The company's current valuation is $200 million.

For further information, please contact Autonomy at 415/243-9955 or visit the company's website at http://www.autonomy.com. Press and analysts may contact Marivi Lerdo or Kris Marubio at Edelman Public Relations, phone: [phone].