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Vignette Licenses Autonomy's Technology To Power New E-Business Offering

Autonomy Offered as Key Component in Vignette Application Power Pack™

San Francisco, Calif. (April 11, 2000) - Autonomy, Inc. today announced that Vignette Corporation (NASDAQ: VIGN), a leading supplier of eBusiness applications for building online businesses, has selected Autonomy's proven concept-based technology for the Vignette Application Power Pack - a new product featuring a collection of re-useable, packaged application modules designed to help companies rapidly assemble, deploy, and reconfigure eBusiness applications. By embedding Autonomy's technology, Vignette will provide customers with powerful, integrated facilities for processing and delivering vast amounts of unstructured content. This new partnership will also enable Vignette customers to purchase and easily integrate other Autonomy modules to include Channels, Update, Hypertext Linking, Community and Profiling.

Autonomy's technology analyzes and ranks the ideas within any piece of text, regardless of its language or format. Having this unique ability allows Autonomy to automate the most time-consuming and costly functions involved with deploying an eBusiness solution, including categorizing, tagging, hypertext linking and personalizing the delivery of content.

According to Bill Daniel, Vignette's senior vice president of products, delivering accurate information is essential to the success of eBusiness solutions. "We chose Autonomy because their proven technology is able to automatically identify the concepts within Web pages, documents and emails.This unique ability allows Autonomy to understand precisely what content a user needs which is a key capability for building powerful, personalized eBusiness applications."

"We are pleased to partner with Vignette to deliver a critical component of the Vignette Application Power Pack," said Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy. "The combination of Vignette and Autonomy will enable organizations to deploy innovative, cost-effective eBusiness solutions for managing information and delivering personalized interactions."

About Vignette Corporation

Vignette Corporation (Nasdaq: VIGN) is the leading supplier of eBusiness applications for building online businesses. Vignette helps enable Internet businesses to reach more prospects, attract and retain new customers, increase overall customer satisfaction and raise the total purchase per visit. Vignette powers more than 500 of the leading dot.com and Fortune 500 eBusinesses, including AT&T, BMW, CBS Broadcasting, CNET, Daimler/Chrysler, Simon & Schuster, Sprint, Tandy Corporation, and United Airlines. Vignette e-business applications transparently automate the customer's side of the interaction, taking away much of the anxiety and work involved in being a customer. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Vignette Corporation has offices located throughout Europe, Asia, and in Australia and can be found on the Web http://www.vignette.com.

About Autonomy

Autonomy's technology powers large-scale, personalized systems for knowledge management, enterprise portals, online publishing and electronic commerce. Because of its ability to analyze any piece of text (independent of the document's language) and identify and rank the main ideas, Autonomy can automate a broad range of otherwise labor intensive tasks. These range from categorizing information by subject matter, to inserting hypertext links to related material, to profiling users based on the ideas in the text they read or write, to delivering information to those most likely to be interested.

Autonomy (EASDAQ: AUTN) was founded in 1996 and has offices in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, New York, and Washington, D.C. in the United States as well as offices in Amsterdam, Brussels, Cambridge, England, Frankfurt, Milan, Paris, Oslo and Sydney.

Among its 200-plus customers are Alcatel, Associated Press, Barclays Bank, British Aerospace, Clorox, News Corp., Lucent Technologies, Merrill Lynch, SF Gate, Semi-tech, The Royal Mail, Unilever, and the United States Department of Defense. In addition, several software companies are licensing Autonomy's technology to add intelligence to their online publishing, knowledge management, email routing and document management applications, including Aeneid, Brio, CoreChange, Delano, Filenet, FutureTense, Hyperwave, Insight, Intraspect, KnowledgeTrack, Global Recall, Nexor, OpenMarket, Sagemaker, Sybase, Verge and Vignette.

On July 10, 1998, the company went public on the EASDAQ stock exchange.

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