StarBase Selected by Artificial Life to Manage Global Internet Development Effort; Global Standardization of StarTeam Enterprise Enables Worldwide Web Development.

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SANTA ANA, Calif.,--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 2000

StarBase Corp. (Nasdaq:SBAS), a leading provider of eCollaboration solutions for the development and management of eBusiness applications, Wednesday announced that Artificial Life, Inc. (Nasdaq:ALIF), a leading provider of intelligent software robot (bot) technology for Internet applications, will implement a global standardization of StarTeam Enterprise.

Artificial Life's adoption of StarTeam Enterprise will enable the growing numbers of developers from dispersed geographical locations throughout Europe and the United States to collaborate efficiently on the development of the company's core SmartBot technology and their new Internet technology solutions in mobile computing.

Artificial Life's global, distributed environment presented a potential competitive advantage, the opportunity to develop around the clock, seven days per week -- 24x7 development capabilities. However, implementing this environment in an effective manner presented special challenges.

Artificial Life required a best-of-breed solution that would both facilitate Internet collaboration, via multiple operating platforms, and provide robust performance to support the growing level and complexity of their applications, many of them involving tens of thousands of lines of code.

StarTeam's architecture provided Artificial Life with Internet access to the product's central repository creating a cost-effective solution to continuous distributed access. The StarTeam architecture also fulfilled their rigorous performance requirements with its ability to transmit only the changes to their ever-growing projects using a StarBase proprietary forward delta design.

Using StarTeam, Artificial Life's teams are able to effectively share code through the central repository enabling each team to contribute independently to a different part of their overall product.

"Our growth in the past year has been facilitated with StarTeam's open architecture. It is vital to the effectiveness of our Web development efforts," stated Ron Brooks, Technical Manager at Artificial Life. "StarTeam is the only development solution we use, and as we continue to grow and expand into new markets, our utilization of StarTeam will increase."

"StarTeam is designed specifically to meet the needs of customers like Artificial Life who are maximizing their development productivity by employing a distributed development model," stated Lydia Patterson, vice president, StarBase products group.

"Distributed teams can collaborate on the same project, either working in parallel on similar areas of the project or working independently on their own specific areas. StarTeam's single, central repository ensures that teams can access the most current information and its branching and merging capabilities enable the same project information to be worked on in parallel."

About Artificial Life Inc.

Founded in 1994, Artificial Life Inc. (Nasdaq:ALIF) develops, markets, and supports intelligent software robots for the Internet. The company offers uniquely conversational bot-based products for customer service, consultative selling, Web site navigation, automated e-mail response, and Internet-based financial portfolio management.

Artificial Life has headquarters in Boston and maintains subsidiaries in Switzerland, Germany, and Russia. Detailed information about Artificial Life, Inc. and its products is available at http://www.artificial-life.com.

About StarBase

StarBase Corp. is a leading provider of eCollaboration solutions for the development and management of eBusiness application management. eCollaboration is the simultaneous coordination, management and communication of geographically dispersed contributors of both code and content for eBusiness applications.

StarBase 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, received "Two Thumbs Up" from New Media in May 1999 and Four Stars from Software Development in August 1999. 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.

More than one thousand companies and organizations, including leading corporations such as, Lucent Technologies, BMC Software, Motorola, PepsiCo, Seagate Technology, Hollywood Entertainment, Reynolds & Reynolds Co., eTour.com, Oxygen Media, and Ann Taylor have selected StarTeam to manage their eBusiness development projects.

StarBase is located at 4 Hutton Centre Drive, Suite 800, Santa Ana, Calif. 92707. Tel: [phone]. Fax: [phone]. Visit StarBase's Web site at www.starbase.com.

StarBase and its product names are trademarks of StarBase Corp. All other product and company names herein are trademarks of their respective owners.

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