Bentley Attracts Key Sponsors to V8 Generation World Tour; Adobe, Microsoft, HP, IBM Join 70 City Tour.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

EXTON, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 13, 2003

Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that Adobe Systems Incorporated, Microsoft Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corporation and others have joined the company's V8 Generation World Tour as sponsors and participants.

The tour has already visited London and Orlando, FL, and will visit more than 70 cities around the world over the next three months culminating at the Bentley International User Conference, May 18-22 in Baltimore, MD. A full list of tour dates and venues can be found at www.v8worldtour.com.

ATI Technologies, Inc.; Matrox Graphics, Inc.; NVIDIA Corporation; Deltek Systems, Inc.; Timberline Software Corporation and the OpenDWG(TM) Alliance(TM) will also join as sponsors.

Bentley CEO Greg Bentley and senior vice president Buddy Cleveland launched the World Tour in London and Orlando, respectively. Both discussed the company's continued strong performance through 2002, recent strategic acquisitions and the significance of the of the V8 Generation synchronization release.

At the heart of each World Tour event is the "A Day in the Life of the Project Design Team" technology demonstration, showcasing MicroStation(R) V8.1, its applications, and collaboration servers featured in the V8 Generation of products. AEC professionals, including those working in hybrid DGN/DWG projects and operations, will learn how their organizations can benefit from the V8 Generation.

"Bentley's vision of a managed environment for AEC content is resonating with both the AEC community and leading software and hardware companies," said Charley Ferrucci, Bentley vice president of corporate marketing. "World Tour venues are already at or overcapacity in each of the tour's first 10 stops, and we are very happy that so many of these leading organizations have agreed to join us as we roll out the V8 Generation to our users along the tour."

Registered attendees in each World Tour city will have an opportunity to win various promotional items provided by V8 World Tour sponsors. Examples include copies of Adobe(R) Acrobat 5, Microsoft(R) Project(R) 2002, as well as Matrox Parhelia(TM) 128MB graphics cards.

In addition to random prize drawings at each tour site, all registered North American World Tour attendees will be eligible to win one of three IBM(R) IntelliStation Z Pro-Performance workstations, as well as a day of professional consulting and one-user license to all modules of Deltek's Vision(R) software.

All registered U.S. attendees will additionally be eligible to win an HP Designjet 1055cm Plus Printer, provided by Hewlett-Packard Company.

Finally, all registered World Tour attendees will be entered into a random drawing, to be held at the conclusion of the tour, for ATI FIRE GL(TM) X1 128MB and NVIDIA Quadro(R) FX 2000 graphics cards, a single-user copy of Timberline's Estimating Extended Product with Modeling and the CCK database; and "V8 World Tour" leather jackets.

Complete terms and conditions can be found on the tour's Web site at www.v8worldtour.com.

About Bentley

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a global software vendor founded in 1984, provides software solutions to create, manage, and publish architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) content. Bentley enables leading AEC firms and owners to design, build, and operate facilities, industrial plants, roadways, and other essential infrastructure assets.

Bentley delivers integrated building design, plant design, civil engineering, and geospatial solutions for transportation, process and discrete manufacturing, government and public works, building, and utilities.

Bentley's 2002 revenues reached $230 million. Bentley software plays a mission-critical role in over two-thirds of the work of the Engineering News-Record Top 500 Design Firms.

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