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Verity to Provide Sybase with Powerful Knowledge Retrieval Technology for my.sybase.com

Verity K2 Toolkit Delivers Speed, Precision and Scalability to Enterprise Portal Users

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - 2000-05-08 - Verity, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRTY), a leading provider of enterprise and Internet knowledge retrieval solutions, today announced that Sybase, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYBS), one of the largest global independent software companies, has selected Verity's K2 Toolkit to provide high-performance knowledge retrieval for its my.sybase.com Web portal. The Verity K2 smart information retrieval system delivers an impressive combination of high-speed performance and concept-based search, enabling customers to quickly locate what they want, no matter how simple or complex the query.

The my.sybase.com site, which is expected to launch in June and utilize Sybase's new Enterprise Portal (EP) product, is designed to enable customers to create their own Web accounts for receiving personalized information on a real-time basis. It is a robust Enterprise Portal, designed to make it easy for anyone in the general public to access the exact Sybase product and services information they need, all in one place. Designed as a representative implementation, Sybase is offering my.sybase.com as a premier example of how portals should be designed and implemented. The Verity K2 Toolkit was selected to power both my.sybase.com and the general sybase.com Internet sites because of its scalability, high-performance, and superior ability to provide accurate and relevant results. my.sybase.com is currently in beta, and users can explore it and provide feedback to Sybase by accessing the site at www.sybase.com.

"Based on our projections, search usage on our new Web site is expected to be 57,000 visitors per day, growing eventually to twice that number, with an average load of close to 20 requests per second," said Jim Zirkel, IT project director at Sybase. "To support this volume, we required a knowledge retrieval technology that was highly scalable, powerful and accurate - and having had previous experience with Verity products and technology, we knew the Verity K2 Toolkit could deliver. In addition, it integrates easily with Vignette StoryServer, the platform on which we've built our online portal application."

According to Anthony Bettencourt, president of Verity, "Verity has been providing underlying infrastructure technology for creating portals for the past three years. We're pleased that Sybase has selected our K2 Toolkit technology to power its general-interest Enterprise Portal based on the Sybase application development platform. Verity provides a key advantage, allowing Sybase to turn growing stores of data into useful information which can be quickly and easily accessed no matter how great the number of concurrent users."

About Verity K2 Toolkit

Verity K2 Toolkit allows brokered search across multiple servers and multiple CPUs to provide the most relevant search results from many information sources without sacrificing the speed or accuracy of the results displayed. As the number of users, queries, or amount of data increases, K2 applications can keep pace with increased demands by adding new CPUs or servers to the network without bringing down the application. Providing 24x7 fault tolerant operations, the Verity K2 Toolkit isolates failures of individual nodes or servers from the rest of the system, ensuring that applications are available when they are needed.

The Verity K2 Toolkit supports tight integration with both COM and Java‘object models, allowing easy integration across a wide range of application servers and Java‘ environments. With industry-standard C language APIs, Verity's K2 Toolkit helps speed application deployment and gives corporate accounts added flexibility in application development, especially for e-commerce and business-to-business application solutions.

About Sybase, Inc.

Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Sybase, Inc. helps businesses integrate, manage, and deliver applications, content, and data anywhere they are needed. The company's products, combined with its world-class professional services and partner technologies, provide a comprehensive platform for integrated, end-to-end solutions in mobile and embedded computing, data warehousing, and Web environments. Sybase focuses especially on Enterprise Portal (EP) solutions, which give businesses the ability to extend their enterprise to customers, partners, and suppliers by converting stored data into useful information, which can be organized, integrated, and personalized for use anywhere at anytime. Sybase customers represent the industries leading the global economy, with strong concentrations in financial services, public sector, telecommunications, and healthcare. The company's Web address is www.sybase.com.

About Verity

Verity is a leading provider of knowledge retrieval solutions. Verity's product suite powers corporate portals, e-commerce sites, online publishing and media sites, customer care applications, and products from market-leading OEMs and ISVs. Verity solutions simplify the management and use of information by indexing, classifying, organizing, searching and retrieving data, as well as providing personalized information delivery and hybrid online and CD publishing.

Verity's products are used by more than 1,000 corporations, e-commerce sites, government agencies, online service providers, Internet publishers and software developers worldwide. Verity alliances include Adobe Systems, AT&T, CDNOW, CNET, Cisco, Compaq, Dow Jones, Easy Software, EarthWeb, Ernst & Young, Financial Times, Globe and Mail, IBM, MD Consult, NewsEdge Corporation, Informix, Lotus, NEC, SAP, Siemens, Snap.com, Sybase and Time New Media.

This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to Verity and the expected performance of its Verity K2 Toolkit products. Actual results are subject to risks and uncertainties. Risks relating to Verity and its products are set forth in its Form 10-K and other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

For more information, contact Verity at info@verity.com or at World Wide Web site http://www.verity.com or call 408-541-1500.

Verity and the Verity logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Verity, Inc.

Kathy Kale

Verity, Inc.

408-542-2379

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