TERATEXT UNVIELS COMBINATION TEXT DATABASE AND SEARCH ENGINE.

TeraText Solutions, a division of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), has entered into a strategic alliance agreement with HP. Under the terms of the agreement, HP will provide its federal sales organization with information on SAIC's TeraText Database Systems (DBS) and how it works with or complements HP's current solutions and services including HP Integrity servers featuring the Intel(R) Itanium(R) processor, running Linux.

TeraText DBS is a combination high-performance text database and search engine that provides the necessary functionality for storing, indexing, retrieving and delivering documents or XML-based records across an organization. The TeraText DBS is designed to manage very large, text-based collections. The product simultaneously can collect and make information available in real time while scaling to support thousands of concurrent users.

"The TeraText DBS on HP Integrity servers running Linux points to new possibilities in providing cost-effective, high-bandwidth solutions for multi- terabyte document collections," said Steve Rizzi, SAIC corporate vice president. "This agreement provides TeraText with the ability to offer services to an increased number of customers in the areas of intelligence gathering and analysis, collection, as well as dissemination of management information in the federal marketplace."

"Government agencies can realize a greater return on investment and improved performance results when deploying TeraText DBS on HP Integrity servers running Linux -- a solution built on industry standards and open architectures," said Jim Weynand, vice president of Public Sector, Health and Education, Customer Solutions Group, HP. "HP looks forward to working with TeraText to grow the market opportunities in the federal and public sector marketplace, specifically homeland security and military intelligence."

TeraText technology was developed at Melbourne-based RMIT University, one of Australia's largest multi-level universities. In 1993, TeraText was first released as a commercial product and since has been adopted by government and commercial customers. In July 2001, SAIC entered into an exclusive agreement with RMIT University to develop and commercialize TeraText technology in North America and Europe. The TeraText DBS is sold as part of customized, integrated solutions developed and maintained by SAIC systems specialists. Leading applications include intelligence gathering, technical documentation, legislation management, publishing and knowledge management.

SAIC is the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the United States, providing information technology, systems integration and eSolutions to commercial and government customers. SAIC engineers and scientists work to solve complex technical problems in national and homeland security, energy, the environment, space, telecommunications, health care and logistics. With annual revenues of $6.7 billion, SAIC and its subsidiaries, including Telcordia Technologies, have more than 44,000 employees at offices in more than 150 cities worldwide.

For more information, visit http://www.saic.com or call 703/676-7790.