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Verity and TIBCO Software Team to Provide A Comprehensive B2B Portal Solution

Verity's Award-Winning Portal Products To Be Integrated With TIBCO ActivePortal Product Suite, Enabling Portal Customers To Find Relevant Corporate Information Quickly and Easily

SUNNYVALE And PALO ALTO, CA. - 2000-10-24 - Verity, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRTY), a leading provider of infrastructure software that powers enterprise and e-commerce portals as well as e-business applications, and TIBCO Software Inc. (Nasdaq: TIBX), a leading provider of real-time infrastructure software for e-business, announced today they have teamed to provide customers with a comprehensive business-to-business (B2B) portal solution. Under the terms of the agreement, Verity's high-performance portal infrastructure technologies, including advanced search, navigate, and view capabilities, will be integrated with the TIBCO ActivePortal™ product suite. This integration will enable TIBCO ActivePortal users to find the corporate information they need, such as inventory, sales and customer service information, reliably, quickly and easily. The two companies will work together to provide best of breed e-business solutions for mutual customer satisfaction, and will participate in joint engineering, sales and marketing activities.

"Verity is clearly a market leader in knowledge retrieval portal solutions," said Vivek Ranadivé, chairman and CEO of TIBCO Software. "Its intelligent classification technology is unique in the industry and is a sound solution for enhancing our customers' ability to quickly find the information they need to successfully perform their jobs. The complementary nature of our products should help customers get the most value from their B2B portals."

The TIBCO ActivePortal product suite enables companies to extend their businesses by delivering user-specific information from a variety of internal and external sources to their employees, customers and business partners. TIBCO ActivePortal enables companies to develop and deploy Internet portals that can transmit corporate information in real-time to both wired and wireless devices. The Verity products to be integrated with TIBCO ActivePortal include Verity Information Server‰, Verity Knowledge Organizer‰ and Verity Intelligent Classifier‰. Verity Information Server indexes, searches and retrieves information on Web and file servers distributed across the enterprise and stored in virtually any format. Verity Knowledge Organizer makes it easy and cost effective to create, administer and organize corporate content. With Verity Knowledge Organizer, users can navigate information directories easily, combining searching and browsing for more intuitive knowledge discovery. Verity Intelligent Classifier allows companies to organize information the way they organize their business. Verity combines the best of automatic systems with the flexibility to manage an organization's classification rules, reducing the cost of content categorization and increasing the likelihood users will find relevant information to make timely and qualified business decisions.

"As a leader in providing infrastructure software for e-business, TIBCO helps companies manage and profit from change by tying together data, applications and business processes in real-time," said Gary Sbona, chairman and CEO of Verity. "We are very pleased to partner with TIBCO to give users a comprehensive information discovery experience, including precise searching, intuitive category navigation, and easy document viewing. This alliance enables both companies to leverage the strengths of our respective products and deliver real value to our mutual customers."

About TIBCO ActivePortal

The TIBCO ActivePortal product suite provides an integrated and scaleable, end-to-end solution for developing highly personalized strategic enterprise intelligence and content. TIBCO ActivePortal enables an organization to extend its business by delivering user-specific information from a variety of internal and external sources to employees, customers and business partners. TIBCO ActivePortal is comprised of three products:

▪ TIB/PortalBuilder™: a portal-construction tool that aggregates content from an e-business infrastructure, personalizes it and delivers it to users.

▪ TIB/PortalPacks™: a suite of products that include content feed handlers and application servers for integrating and delivering financial news and research data from leading content providers, such as Reuters, into the portal, making it easy for customers to quickly deploy high-value content channels for their users.

▪ TIB/AlertServer™ : a high-volume personalized notification system that enables users to receive information on their wireless devices.

About TIBCO Software

TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ:TIBX) is a leading provider of real-time e-business infrastructure software. TIBCO's four product lines - TIBCO ActiveEnterprise®, TIBCO ActiveExchangeTM, TIBCO ActivePortal™ and TIBCO Extensibility‘ - enable businesses to integrate enterprise applications, interact with other businesses in B2B commerce, and efficiently deliver personalized information through enterprise portals. TIBCO's products enable the real-time distribution of information through patented technology called The Information Bus®, or TIB®. TIB technology was first used to digitize Wall Street and has since been adopted in diverse industries including telecommunications, electronic commerce, manufacturing and energy. TIBCO's global direct customer base includes more than 600 customers from around the world such as Cisco Systems, Yahoo!, Ariba, NEC, Enron, Sun Microsystems, GE Capital, Philips, AT&T, Pirelli and AOL/Netscape. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, TIBCO can be reached at (650) 846-1000 or on the web at www.tibco.com.

About Verity

Verity is a leader in infrastructure software that powers corporate portals used for sharing information within an enterprise, e-commerce portals for online selling and market exchange portals for B2B activities. Business portals provide personalized information to employees, partners, customers and suppliers.

Verity products are used by 48 of the Fortune 100 and by more than 1,000 corporations worldwide. The markets Verity serves are comprised of e-commerce merchants, e-businesses, market exchanges, government agencies, online service providers, Internet publishers and software developers. Verity customers include Adobe Systems, American Greetings, AT&T, BroadVision, CDNOW, Chapters, Cisco, CNET, Compaq, Dow Jones, Edgar Online, Ernst & Young, Fairmarket, Financial Times, Globe and Mail, Home Depot, IBM, Lotus, NewsEdge Corporation, SAP, Siemens, Snap.com, Sybase, Time New Media and Timex.

Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements for TIBCO Software Inc.: This release contains forward-looking statements regarding TIBCO's business, customers, markets served or other factors, including the performance of TIBCO's strategic partner, the continuation of the partnership as described, and the ability of products to meet customers' needs or perform as described, that may affect future earnings or financial results. Our actual results could differ in such forward-looking statements. Reasons for why actual results could differ materially include if the partnership is not successful, or products are unable to successfully meet customer expectations, needs or perform as described. Additional information concerning factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements can be found in TIBCO Software's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including but not limited to its most recent reports on Forms 10-Q and 10-K filed with the SEC on October 13, 2000 and February 25, 2000, respectively, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements including limited independent operating history, history of losses, unpredictability of future revenue, dependence on a limited number of customers, relationship with Reuters Group PLC, rapid technological and market changes, risks associated with infrastructure software and volatility of stock price. Copies of filings made with the SEC are available through the SEC's electronic data gather analysis and retrieval system (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov. TIBCO assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this document.

This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to Verity and the partnership with TIBCO Software and the expected performance of its products and technologies. Actual results are subject to risks and uncertainties including the risk that integration will be delayed or not occur as a result of unforeseen technical difficulties. 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.

Verity Editorial Contacts: TIBCO Editorial Contacts:

Winifred Shum

Verity, Inc.

408-542-2363

wshum@verity.com

http://www.verity.com

Tanya Klaserner

TIBCO Software Inc.

650-846-5796

tanyak@tibco.com

http://www.tibco.com

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