Documentum and Starbase Announce Integration Partnership.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

SANTA ANA and PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2000

The Leading Internet-Scale Content Management Platform Pairs with

Best-of-Breed Development Management Solution, Expanding Web Content

and Code Solution To End-to-End E-Business For Large Enterprise

Environments

Starbase Corp. (Nasdaq: SBAS), and Documentum Inc. (Nasdaq: DCTM), Tuesday announced a formal integration partnership. The combined solution of Starbase's StarTeam and Documentum's 4i eBusiness Edition will enable cross-functional Web site teams to manage their code and content in an integrated environment.

This partnership marks the first in a series of planned technology integrations as part of Documentum's Open Source Code Integration (OSCI) initiative. Documentum's OSCI initiative facilitates integrations with leading application development vendors, enabling delivery of a best-of-breed e-business solution.

"Essential to any e-business environment is an efficient and collaborative process for creating, publishing, and managing integrated code and other types of leveraged content," said David De Walt, Documentum's executive vice president of Documentum's product operations. "The combination of Starbase's StarTeam and Documentum's 4i eBusiness Edition provides exactly that type of solid infrastructure, enabling any Global 2000 company to move ahead quickly and efficiently with their e-business initiatives. We are delighted to be working with Starbase."

"By 2002, escalating costs of managing Web content and components will drive more than 80 percent of Global 2000 enterprise sites to purchase packages or build applications to automate these functions," said Victor Votsch, GartnerGroup analyst, in GartnerGroup's 'The Checklist of Core Criteria for Web Content Management.' "Web content management (WCM) is the process of controlling the Web site content through the use of specific tools. WCM solutions offer core functionality that goes well beyond simply managing HTML pages. Not all vendors today offer all elements, but many point users to partnerships and custom consulting."

"We believe our integrated solution will address a number of critical issues facing large enterprise sites today," stated James Smith, executive vice president of Starbase Customer Group. "The content management marketplace is rapidly expanding, to include everything from pure software code to Web, transactional and shared content."

"StarTeam's collaborative and integrated code management solution delivers a new developer perspective to Documentum's 4i eBusiness Edition, and at the same time will enable StarTeam users to benefit from the dynamic Web content management capabilities of 4i eBusiness Edition," continued Smith. "As a result, both of our solutions will be extended to create an end-to-end B2B and B2C management solution."

The alliance calls for both companies to adopt each other's solution in their own environment. Starbase is currently implementing Documentum's 4i eBusiness Edition for the ongoing management of the Starbase Web site utilizing 4i's dynamic content personalization and management capabilities to manage and enhance the experience of Web visitors. Documentum uses StarTeam as its development management solution, managing its projects and releases within the StarTeam object-linking repository.

About Documentum

Documentum Inc., develops, markets and supports Internet-scale content management solutions that accelerate organizations' online presence. These solutions enable customers to create, deliver, and personalize content of all formats, from internal and external contributors, for business processes that extend across and beyond the enterprise, to all delivery channels.

Documentum customers apply trusted content within and between their organizations for online commerce and personalized promotions, 24x7 customer and partner self-service, online exchanges, electronic procurement, collaborative planning and innovation and related e-business applications.

The company, with 21 offices worldwide, also offers a full range of global consulting services and programs, including worldwide technical support and education services through its Professional Services organization. With headquarters in Pleasanton, Documentum has licensed its products to more than 900 Global 2000 and Internet customers in a broad range of industries. Visit Documentum's Web site at www.documentum.com

About Starbase

Starbase is the leading provider of collaboration products for the creation and management of integrated code and content eBusiness applications. Collaboration is the simultaneous coordination, management and communication of geographically dispersed contributors of both code and content for eBusiness applications. With more than 1,300 StarTeam customers worldwide, our technology supports the continuous cycle of creating, linking and managing digital assets, which comprise complex eBusiness applications. Starbase products enable users with differing technical and functional backgrounds to collaborate on the production of Web sites and eBusiness initiatives from multiple locations.

StarTeam, the company's flagship product, was labeled as "StarTeam fuels team exchange" in an early release review from InfoWorld in January 2000 and received "Two Thumbs Up" from New Media in May 1999 and Four Stars from Software Development in August 1999. Starbase was named to the "Software 500" for 2000, Software Magazine's 18th annual ranking of the worlds largest software and services providers. Microsoft and CMP Media named Starbase the 25th fastest growing ISV for Windows in April 1999. StarTeam also received the "Best of the Test Center" award by InfoWorld in January 1998.

Companies and organizations, including leading corporations such as Lucent Technologies, Intel, BMC Software, Motorola, PepsiCo, Seagate Technology, Hollywood Entertainment, eTour.com, Oxygen Media, and Ann Taylor have selected StarTeam to manage their eBusiness development projects. Starbase has headquarters at 4 Hutton Centre Drive, Suite 800, Santa Ana, CA 92707. Tel: [phone]. Fax: [phone]. Visit Starbase's Web site at www.starbase.com.

Starbase and its product names are trademarks of Starbase Corp. Documentum is a trademark of Documentum Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other product and company names herein are trademarks of their respective owners.

Forward-Looking Statements 

When used in the preceding discussion, the words "believes, expects, or intend to" and similar conditional expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties and actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any of the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, (i) conditions in the general economy or the software industry, (ii) the timely development and market acceptance of products and technologies, (iii) competitive factors, (iv) demand for team productivity software products, (v) sell-through of products in the sales channel, and (vi) other risks described in Starbase Corp.'s SEC reports and filings.