LivePage Unveils New Release of Content Management and Personalization System -- LivePage Enterprise 3.0 Enables Efficient Delivery of Customer-Centric e-Business Web Sites.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 1, 1999--

LivePage Corporation today introduced Version 3.0 of LivePage Enterprise, designed to enable the delivery of Enterprise Information Portals which improve customer service and increase productivity by providing effective access to corporate information. LivePage Enterprise 3.0 enables organizations to create web sites that efficiently manage, deliver, and personalize corporate information.

"The personalization capabilities of LivePage Enterprise 3.0 are particularly important for the delivery of web-based customer relationship management (CRM) solutions," said Dave Boswell, president and CEO of LivePage Corporation. "With new and enhanced personalization capabilities, combined with XML support and Author Anywhere, LivePage Enterprise 3.0 was designed for the rapid and efficient construction of the next generation of e-business web sites."

New Features and Benefits of LivePage Enterprise 3.0

Author Anywhere - Now distributed organizations can provide an approachable and secure environment for content authors to contribute information to the corporate web site using industry-standard web browsers. Author Anywhere allows a broad new class of content authors to do web publishing and content management directly, quickly, and at low cost. Sun Solaris and Linux Versions of LivePage ContentServer LivePage Enterprise 3.0 will enable deployment of the LivePage ContentServer on Linux and Sun Solaris, leveraging the functionality and performance of those platforms for LivePage applications.

Enhanced XML Support - LivePage Enterprise 3.0 significantly advances support for XML with a new implementation of XSL and improved integration with leading XML editors including ArborText Adept*Editor, Adobe

FrameMaker+SGML, Microsoft Office 2000 and Corel WordPerfect Office 2000. LivePage Enterprise 3.0 allows corporations to take advantage of the rapid emergence of XML as a common representation for meta-data, content and documents.

Simplified Deployment of Personalized e-Business Solutions With new Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) support and the LivePage Extensibility SDK, LivePage Enterprise 3.0 can leverage user profile information enabling dynamic content and site personalization based on the end-user. Furthermore LDAP support streamlines integration with other components of enterprise architecture.

Text Searching in Word and PDF Documents - In addition to advanced XML, SGML and HTML content searching, LivePage Enterprise will allow for the indexing and searching of content stored in native Word and PDF documents. Matching search results are highlighted in the body of the document for enhanced end-user productivity.

Pricing and Availability

The beta version of LivePage Enterprise 3.0 is expected to be available within four weeks. See the LivePage Website ( HYPERLINK "http://www.sybase.com/products/powerdesigner" \t "new" http://www.livepage.com ) for download information at that time.

General Availability of LivePage Enterprise 3.0 is expected in the fourth quarter of 1999. Pricing and packaging will be announced at that time.

LivePage products can be purchased through authorized LivePage Solution Providers as well as directly from LivePage.

About LivePage Corporation

LivePage Corporation provides software to deliver Enterprise Information Portals which improve customer service and increase productivity by providing effective access to corporate information. Our flagship product, LivePage Enterprise 2.0, lets customers get, organize and manage content (including XML), and deliver that content effectively for communities of end-users.

LivePage amplifies the value of the content with accessibility features such as text searching, automatic Table of Contents, "What's New" and "personalization".

With personalization, LivePage presents a view of the web site to the needs and preferences of the individual, which is central to advancing productivity and improving customer satisfaction. LivePage's Content-Relational (tm) technology leverages industry standard relational database technology to provide the security, scalability and high reliability required by enterprise web sites. LivePage Enterprise also enables the deployment of corporate information portals to the mobile ("occasionally connected") workforce which enables the use of Enterprise Information Portals to support mobile CRM (Customer Relationship Management) applications.

LivePage Corporation is located at 158 University Avenue West in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Additional information is available through the World Wide Web at HYPERLINK "home.htm" http://www.livepage.com , or via e-mail at HYPERLINK "mailto:[e-mail]" [e-mail] , or at 1-888-809-3338.

LivePage, Content Relational, LivePage ContentServer, Author Anywhere are trademarks or registered trademarks of LivePage Corporation. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.