Education World and Verity Team Up Again to Empower Educators to Bring the Internet World into Education
Scalable and Robust Verity Technology Powers the Leading Internet Resource Center for K-12 Educators
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and PRINCETON, NJ - 2001-01-15 - Verity, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRTY), a leading provider of infrastructure software that powers enterprise and e-commerce portals as well as e-business applications, and Education World, Inc. (www.educationworld.com), the leading Internet resource center for K-12 educators, today announced they have once again teamed to deliver robust, fast and accurate search results to Education World's users. Education World® began using Verity's proven technology in 1997 when it launched its online site designed for teachers, administrators, media industry, parents, and anyone interested in integrating the Internet into education. The success of that undertaking made the purchase of Verity® K2 Toolkit the obvious choice to support Education World's rapidly growing user base and a four-fold increase in links to other relevant educational sites.
"In 1996, it was forecast that 95 percent of the nation's public schools would be online by this year," said Cooper Smith, chief technology officer of Education World. "The need for a complete online education guide was evident. Our mission was to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom by providing an extensive information source relevant to their needs. Early on, we selected Verity technology to power our site. Not only has it been stable and reliable, it has exceeded all our expectations. It has done everything we were told it could do and more. We're extremely happy to report that we've experienced traffic increases of 200 to 300 percent per year, and we project that the number of visitors will grow at a very rapid rate in the months to come. Verity K2 Toolkit was the clear choice to handle this demand. It is highly robust and scalable and can handle high peaks with ease. In addition, our familiarity with Verity technology made it extremely easy to port to our enhanced site which is expected to launch by February, 2001."
Education World is a one-stop gateway to the Internet for educators, allowing them to quickly find classroom-and age-appropriate resources and editorial content, lesson planning activities, curriculum ideas, education site reviews, and worldwide education employment listings. Currently, the site links to 120,000 educational Web sites and has 25,000 original content pages written by staff writers who all have experience in the education field. With new material added daily, the site features original lesson plans, curriculum materials, links to state and federal resources and monthly reviews of the best educational sites on the Web. At Education World's online forums, educators can share ideas and information with others around the world. Founded in 1996, the educational site has grown to more than five million monthly page views and 900,000 monthly users interested in education.
"Education World offers a compelling and comprehensive resource for educators, parents and children alike," said Anthony Bettencourt, president of Verity. "They can use the portal to find information on education-related topics rather than searching through millions of Web sites found through the Internet's general search engines. For educators who don't have time to spend ‘surfing,' Education World makes searching for Internet resources quick and easy. We're honored that Verity technology has again been chosen as a strategic component of Education World's offering, enabling them to deliver quick and accurate results to their visitors."
About the Verity K2 Toolkit
Verity K2 Toolkit allows brokered searches 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 also supports Active Server Pages/COM and Java™, allowing easy integration across a wide range of application servers and Java environments, including Microsoft IIS/Site Server, Weblogic, iPlanet, Websphere, Java Server Pages, and Apache with JServ. With Industry-standard C language and Perl 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 Education World
Education World, headquartered in Princeton, N.J., provides the Internet's largest education-specific search engine, linking to hundreds of thousands of education-related sites. The search engine is appropriate for all ages and is searchable by subject or grade level. The site also offers daily original content-lesson planning activities, curriculum ideas, education site reviews, worldwide education employment listings, forums, and education news to assist the education community online. Visit http://www.educationworld.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 53 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, Lotus, NewsEdge Corporation, SAP, Siemens, Snap.com, Sybase, Time New Media and Timex.
This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to Verity and the expected performance of its Verity K2 products. Actual results are subject to risks and uncertainties including the risk that integration of the Verity products into the Education World portal will be delayed or not occur, or not perform as anticipated 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.
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