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Sybase and Virage team to deliver image management solution for multitier business computing

Virage's visual information retrieval component extends Sybase's next generation Adaptive Server Architecture to image domain SAN MATEO, CA -- April 7, 1997 -- Virage, Inc. today announced that Virage and Sybase, Inc. have signed an agreement whereby Sybase has licensed Virage's pioneering Visual Information Retrieval (VIR) technology for use in Sybase's next generation Adaptive Server™ database management system. The incorporation of VIR into the Adaptive Server is expected to improve the retrieval of images from large collections of data by using the visual characteristics of images to perform more effective and intuitive searches. The Sybase® Adaptive Server is the cornerstone of Sybase's new architecture, ImpactNow™ Adaptive Component Architecture™, in which optimized component data stores enable high performance, multi-tier business applications.

Sybase plans to offer Virage's VIR Image Engine as a component of the Sybase Adaptive Server database for image management. The combination of the VIR with the high performance, scalable Sybase Adaptive Server is expected to provide customers with the solutions they need to manage a broad variety of content across distributed information systems and the Internet. The Adaptive Server is optimized to store different data types, making it a powerful platform for Virage's image search and retrieval technology.

"Sybase's Adaptive Server is optimized for specialized component data stores like Virage's VIR Image Engine," said Mike Regan, Vice President and General Manager of Sybase Database Servers. "With the VIR component, users can now easily access large volumes of images that were previously impossible or difficult to retrieve. Together, we're providing customers with a powerful solution for multimedia asset management." Virage's VIR technology taps the rich visual content of images, rather than keyword annotations, to perform searches through collections of visual assets to find images that are visually similar. To allow for the different needs of each search, the weighting of search criteria such as color, structure, texture or composition can be adjusted to interactively refine the results. A VIR search can also be combined with a keyword search to yield even more focused results.

"As organizations amass more and more multimedia images, there is a growing demand for a more efficient way to manage and reuse these valuable assets," said Paul Lego, chief executive officer of Virage, Inc. "Virage is able to leverage the high performance of Sybase's Adaptive Server to provide companies with a fast and efficient way to turn image data into useful corporate assets." Virage licenses VIR technology as an easy-to-integrate product called the VIR Image Engine. The VIR Image Engine performs the core duties of the search including analyzing images, extracting visual features and comparing them to quantify similarity.

About Virage Virage, Inc. (http://www.virage.com) is the leading provider of products and technologies for managing multimedia data such as images and video.

Virage's Visual Information Retrieval (VIR) technology has been licensed by companies in the DBMS, information retrieval, Internet, and digital imaging markets as an enabling agent for building applications to manage this multimedia data. Virage products have been used in solutions for corporate, broadcasting, digital video, publishing, entertainment, and medical imaging markets. Founded in 1994 and based in San Mateo, CA, Virage pioneered the breakthrough technology of Visual Information Retrieval.

About Sybase Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Sybase, Inc. is a worldwide leader in distributed, open computing solutions with record revenues in 1996 of over $1 billion. The company provides customers and partners with the software and services to create business solutions for strategic, competitive advantage. These high-performance, end-to-end solutions encompass client/server, Internet and intranet transaction processing and data mart and data warehousing applications. The company's ImpactNow™ Adaptive Component Architecture™ enables rapid design, development and deployment of distributed multi-tier business applications. The company's product lines include Sybase high performance database servers, EnterpriseConnect distributed data access and connectivity products, and Powersoft open development and design tools. The company's Internet addresses are http://www.sybase.com and http://www.powersoft.com.

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