Fatbrain.com Develops Online Information Resource Center for Liberate Technologies.

Business Editors

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 23, 2000

Advanced Web-based Information Resource Center Encourages Learning

for Liberate Employees Worldwide

Fatbrain.com(TM) (Nasdaq:FATB), the leader in Web-based information management for businesses, today announced it has created an online information resource center for Liberate Technologies (Nasdaq:LBRT), a leading provider of a complete software platform for delivering Internet-enhanced content and applications to information appliances. Fatbrain.com's online information resource center provides Liberate employees convenient, worldwide access and online ordering of books, recommended readings and a wide selection of information resources for the IT industry. Liberate Technologies has made this resource center available to their employees in order to simplify information research efforts.

The co-branded online information resource center is accessible to Liberate employees -via the company's intranet, and was created to build a sense of community among Liberate employees trying to keep up with rapidly-changing industry information. The site features books, training materials and other resources on subjects including business communications, databases, software engineering, Java, and Internet programming, and also provides book recommendations made by Liberate employees. The customized site also links employees directly to Fatbrain.com's Cisco Press and Oracle Press online information resource centers, which offer publications, certification and training information, and product documentation.

"Before we implemented our Fatbrain.com information resource center, Liberate employees operated on their own to gather industry information and often missed out on helpful resources," said Dav Amann, senior director of CIS, Liberate Technologies. "We turned to Fatbrain.com because we wanted to improve employee accessibility to information and make it easier for employees to keep up with all the changes that occur in our industry. Now we have a centralized online community where our employees can easily find and share recommendations about helpful resources."

"Our online information resource centers make information accessibility and exchange easy, convenient and less expensive for companies and their employees," said Dennis Capovilla, president and CEO for Fatbrain.com. "We are pleased our solution consistently fosters the efficient sharing of industry information at Liberate and many other leading companies."

Other industry-leading companies that have implemented one or more co-branded Fatbran.com online information resource centers include Nortel Networks (NYSE:NT), Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL), Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F), IBM (NYSE:IBM); Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM); Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq:MSFT), Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq:NOVL), Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HWP), Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW), Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO), Apple Computer Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL), GTE Corp. (NYSE:GTE), and Lucent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:LU).

About Fatbrain.com

Fatbrain.com is the leader in managing, marketing and distributing information for businesses. Today, the company's Web-based services reach more than 2.5 million employee desktops at more than 350 Fortune 1000 corporations worldwide. Fatbrain.com's easy-to-use, comprehensive solutions deliver valuable corporate information in print and/or digital form. Visit Fatbrain.com on the Web at http://www.fatbrain.com.

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