UMC Selects Vitria BusinessWare for Enterprise Integration, Picoway Technology to Implement Strategic Solution

Business Wire, April 18, 2001

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

HSINCHU CITY, Taiwan and SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

April 18, 2001

Leading Semiconductor Foundry to Integrate Business Processes

Across Key Internal and Trading Partner Systems

United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE:UMC), a world leading semiconductor foundry, Vitria (Nasdaq:VITR), a leading integration server provider, and Picoway, the Taiwan SI & reseller partner of Vitria, today announced a strategic relationship where UMC has selected Vitria as its application integration software and Picoway as its consulting service partner. UMC will use Vitria's integration server, BusinessWare, to integrate internal applications and external trading partner systems to provide end-to-end automation and integration of key strategic business processes with Picoway's professional consulting service.

"Integrating the many complex applications involved in UMC's enterprise operations is a necessary step in improving our overall cost and labor efficiency," said Robert Chin, Chief Information Officer at UMC. "After careful evaluation, Vitria and Picoway emerged as our partners due to their excellent track record and experience in enterprise systems. Vitria will automate business processes that drive cross-applications and cross-company information and transaction flows, greatly streamlining the process of point-to-point integration."

Compared with traditional workflow and middleware, the Vitria BusinessWare platform offers industry-leading business process management. Business process management (BPM) allows companies to automate internal and external processes for end-to-end efficiency and visibility for applications such as order management.

"High-tech manufacturing is a major strategic vertical for Vitria," said JoMei Chang, president and CEO of Vitria. "We are delighted to add one of the world's leading high-tech manufacturers to our rapidly growing international customer list." "We are excited to be working with Vitria to help deliver the BusinessWare solution, and for the opportunity to provide experienced & professional service to UMC," said James Chen, CEO of Picoway Technology. "This application will help UMC reduce order cycle time and improve enterprise-wide visibility, thereby enhancing overall customer service."

About UMC

UMC, a world leading semiconductor foundry, operates seven wafer fabs in Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park. UMC's Japanese subsidiary, Nippon Foundry Inc., has one fab in Japan and UMC's joint venture with Hitachi, Trecenti Technologies, is readying to ramp production in its 300mm fab in Japan. UMC has also started construction on a 300mm facility in Taiwan's Tainan Science Park, with pilot production scheduled to start by third quarter 2001. UMC is a leader in foundry technology, with facilities ramping to reach an annual output of 2.4 million eight-inch equivalent wafers per year in 2000. UMC's joint development program with IBM and Infineon Technologies introduced the Worldlogic standard 0.13-micron technology this year. UMC serves customers around the world through sales and marketing offices located in the United States, Japan, and the Netherlands. UMC can be found on the web at http://www.umc.com.

About Vitria

Vitria Technology, Inc. is a leading integration server provider. Vitria BusinessWare integrates applications and automates mission-critical business processes within and across the extended enterprise, reducing time to market, shortening lead times, lowering operating costs, and increasing customer satisfaction. Vitria is a publicly traded company (Nasdaq:VITR) based in Sunnyvale. For more information, call 408/212-2700, visit the company's Web site at www.vitria.com or send email to info@vitria.com.

About Picoway Technology Inc.

Picoway technology Inc. is established in 2000 and founded by several ex-employees from HP Taiwan. Corporate headquarter is located in Taipei Taiwan. Picoway technology Inc. is the leading e-business solution company, providing e-business platform products and professional consulting services to enterprise class customers in the high tech manufacturing, telco, and financial industries. The company is a strategic reseller & SI partner of Vitria. Picoway also delivers advanced e-business enterprise solutions as follows, Enterprise Information Portal, Knowledge Management Portal, e-Procurement, e-Marketplace, e-Project collaboration and E-Community to facilitate the enterprise customers to build-up unfair competitive advantages rapidly. Visit Picoway at http://www.picoway.com.

This press release includes forward-looking statements, including statements relating to cash position, customers, and future business opportunities, that are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those referred to in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to, the difference between audited and non-audited financial results, quarterly fluctuations in operating results, failure to meet financial expectations of analysts and investors, risk as related to market acceptance of Vitria's product, deployment delays or errors associated with these products, hardware platform incompatibilities, reliance on a limited number of customers for a majority of revenue, need to maintain and enhance certain business relationships with system integrators and other parties, ability to manage growth, activities by Vitria and others regarding protection of proprietary information, release of competitive products and other actions by competitors and economic downturns in either domestic or foreign markets. These and other risks related to Vitria are detailed in Vitria's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1999, filed with the SEC on March 9, 2000, as amended, and in Vitria's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q as filed with the SEC. Vitria does not undertake an obligation to update forward-looking statements.