BroadVision Extends Long-Standing License Agreement with Bitstream; Global provider of personalized self-service web solutions licenses complete Bitstream font solution.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) and BroadVision, Inc. (NASDAQ: BVSN) announced today that BroadVision has extended its agreement with Bitstream to license Bitstream font rendering technology and over 100 fonts for BroadVision(R)'s self-service web applications.

BroadVision is a recognized leader in agile business portals, which create immediate customer value by moving relationships to a personalized, self-service model that enhances business growth, reduces costs, and improves productivity. BroadVision solutions help customers rapidly increase revenues and reduce costs by moving interactions and transactions to personalized self-service environments via the web. The Company's integrated self-service application suite, including Process, Commerce, and Portal, offer rich functionality out-of-the-box, and is easily configured for each customer's e-business environment.

BroadVision pioneered web-based e-commerce and was among the first to offer pre-integrated, packaged self-service web applications for process, commerce, portal and content management. The company currently offers the most flexible solutions for e-Business.

"Every component of our web self-service solution strategy has to be superior to anything else on the market. The Bitstream font technology platform allows us to meet and beat that strategy. Making it easier and more profitable to do business on the web is our objective, and we felt Bitstream helped us achieve that," stated Shin-Yuan Tzou, Chief Technology Officer at BroadVision.

"Businesses today recognize the need to create a very personalized experience for their customers," stated Anna Chagnon, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bitstream. "Bitstream's font technology solutions render crisp, clear, legible text, allowing BroadVision applications to deliver the right content to the right customer at the right time. We are pleased to extend our long-standing partnership with BroadVision, a leader in the development of e-business portals and personalized web applications."

About Bitstream

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is a software development company that makes communications compelling. Bitstream enables customers worldwide to render high-quality text, browse the Web on wireless devices, select from the largest collection of fonts online, and customize documents over the Internet. Its core competencies include font technology, browsing technology, e-commerce technology, and publishing technology. For more information, please visit Bitstream at www.bitstream.com.

About BroadVision

BroadVision (NASDAQ: BVSN) is a global provider of web self-service solutions. Our agile commerce and portal applications enable customers to quickly create and adapt online processes to keep pace with the changing business requirements. Over 1,000 organizations - including Circuit City, Yankee Candle, Vodafone, Cardinal Health, Hewlett-Packard, Toyota, Japan Airlines and the U.S. Air Force - serving nearly 60 million registered users, rely on BroadVision's open solutions to power and personalize their mission-critical web initiatives.

For more information about BroadVision, Inc., call 650.542.5100 or visit www.broadvision.com.

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