Convera Delivers Advanced Digital Content Management Solutions with Release of RetrievalWare 6.8 and RetrievalWare WebExpress 2.1.

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2001

Improved Java Support and Expanded Platform Support

Enhance Industry Leading Knowledge Retrieval Solution

Convera today announced the release of Convera RetrievalWare(R) 6.8 and RetrievalWare WebExpress 2.1, featuring a full complement of new multimedia content management capabilities and enhancements.

These include enhanced support for Java developers, a new search interface for intranet users, added capabilities for indexing secure content, expanded language plug-ins and support for the latest versions of the industry's leading operating systems and databases.

In related news issued today, Convera announced the Social Security Administration (SSA) as one of the first customers of RetrievalWare 6.8. Convera is providing intelligent search solutions for the SSA's intranet and public Internet Web sites. With 80,000 SSA end users, this represents one of the largest intranet installations of RetrievalWare to date.

"Digital content has become a vital asset for the enterprise and online businesses, and digital content management has emerged as a strategic necessity," said Ron Whittier, chairman and ceo, Convera. "The latest releases of our flagship products demonstrate Convera's continued commitment to providing fast, accurate access to all digital content, from text to video, in a multitude of formats and languages, and across multiple systems."

RetrievalWare 6.8 continues to address the need for highly efficient and scalable server-side applications that expose high-value content in corporate intranets and the worldwide web.

With the new Java Server Page Toolkit (JSPTK), Convera addresses the market for Web-based search tools for Java developers by creating a product that enables Java developers to rapidly deploy RetrievalWare and WebExpress search capability into Java server page applications.

International Data Corporation projects that the number of Java developers worldwide will increase from 1.9 million in 2000 to 3.4 million in 2002. RetrievalWare and WebExpress also support developers working with C, C++, and Active Server Pages.

RetrievalWare 6.8 also offers a new user interface for intranet search users called SmartSearch. The new HTML-based search client is designed to increase user productivity and reduce the time that knowledge workers spend looking for information.

Also new to RetrievalWare 6.8 is Spider support for HTTPS/SSL protocol, enabling organizations to use the RetrievalWare Spider to index secure content - a critical requirement for the many intranets, extranets and Internet sites with highly valuable or sensitive data.

Other significant knowledge enhancements in RetrievalWare 6.8 include:

-- Languages -- Updated dictionaries in RetrievalWare 6.8 enhance search
results by accommodating language changes such as new words and idioms and
updated spellings. Expanded support for Chinese (simple and traditional),
Portuguese, Russian and Arabic has been added to provide additional
functionality in these markets. Japanese, Korean, Italian and Dutch, which had
limited availability in earlier releases of RetrievalWare, are now generally
available.

-- Spider Support for Automatic URL Redirection - The RetrievalWare Internet
Spider has the ability to follow "automatic redirects" or links that
autokmaticaly direct the user to another URL. Automatic redirects are a common
technique used to manage web traffic. The ability to follow these links will
enhance the general suitability of the Spider for gathering data on the Web and
on intranets.

-- Expanded Platform and Third Party Support -- RetrievalWare and Web Express
have extended its platform support to Windows 2000 Server. In the Unix market
the HP-11 64-bit OS is now supported and upgrades to AIX 4.3 and DEC Unix 4.0f
are now available. The synchronizer for Lotus Notes now supports version 5 of
that product.

Availability and Pricing

Convera RetrievalWare 6.8 and RetrievalWare WebExpress 2.1 are now available on Windows NT Intel, NT Alpha and all major UNIX platforms.

About Convera RetrievalWare

Convera RetrievalWare is a high-performance intelligent search system which allows broad flexibility and scalability for implementation across corporate intranets and extranets.

Convera RetrievalWare enables users to index and search a wide range of distributed information resources, including text files, HTML, documents, relational database tables, over 200 proprietary document formats (such as word processors and publishing systems) and groupware repositories.

Advanced search capabilities include concept and keyword searching, pattern searching and query-by-example. Convera RetrievalWare excels in distributed client/server environments with hundreds or thousands of users, documents, images and/or multiple media assets.

About Convera

Convera, the new company formed when Excalibur Technologies combined with Intel's Interactive Media Services division, is a leading provider of content management innovations that unlock the value of digital content.

Convera's advanced technologies, products, services and solutions empower content owners to extract value from their high-worth digital content--text, images and video--over the Internet, intranets, set top boxes and wireless devices.

Convera serves more than 650 customers in 29 countries from its offices throughout the U.S. and Europe.

Convera customers and partners include ABC News, BG Technology, British Telecom, chicagotribune.com, CSC, Digital Island, Discovery Communications, Encyclopedia Britannica, Exodus, FOXSPORTS.com, latimes.com, Loudeye, Microsoft, the National Basketball Association, NCR, Nortel Networks, Parametric Technologies, QXL.com, Raytheon, RealNetworks, Reuters, Sony, StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, UCLA, United Airlines, Warner Bros. Online and The World Bank.

For more information, contact Convera at 800/788-7758, via e-mail at [e-mail] or on the Web at http://www.convera.com.

The Convera logo and the following are worldwide trademarks of Convera Corporation: Convera Corporation(TM), RetrievalWare(R), ScreeningRoom(R), WebExpress(TM) and their respective logos. Add our trademarks here, e.g., Context Media, Interchange Platform, etc.

This release contains comments about Convera's future expectations, performance, plans and prospects as well as assumptions about future events.

The reader is cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, as these statements are subject to numerous factors and uncertainties, including without limitation, business and economic conditions, continued success in technological advances, and the risk that the businesses that were merged to create Convera, the Interactive Media Services Division of Intel Corporation and Excalibur Technologies, Inc., will not be integrated successfully.

Actual results may differ materially from our expectations as the result of these and other important factors relating to Convera's business and product development efforts, which are further described in Excalibur's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

These filings can be obtained from the SEC's website located at www.sec.gov. Any forward-looking statements are based on information available to Convera on the date of this release, and Convera assumes no obligation to update such statements.