Merant Collage Delivers Support for IBM WebSphere Application Server; Solution Offers Customers Control Over Web Content Lifecycle Management

Business Wire, July 17, 2002

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

Merant (NASDAQ:MRNT; LSE:MRN), a leading provider of software and services supporting the management of enterprise code, content and digital assets, today announced support for the IBM WebSphere(1) software platform. Merant Collage, the company's easy-to-use, affordable enterprise content management solution for application-driven Web sites, takes advantage of the scalable, reliable WebSphere Application Server to offer customers advanced control over ever-changing, dynamic content.

Leveraging the strengths of the WebSphere software platform's standards-based, rich application deployment environment, Merant Collage works with the WebSphere Application Server to help enterprises address the complex requirements of Web content management. As a result, enterprises can focus more on productivity and providing quality customer service, while spending less time and fewer resources on costly content corrections.

"WebSphere's robust platform complements Merant's approach, helping IT meet the challenges of managing both page-driven web sites and code-based applications by streamlining the management of Web content and application development," said Stephen King, senior vice president and general manager of Merant. "Merant Collage is a full-scale, highly cost-effective WCM solution that improves operational efficiency and increases collaboration across teams. Enabling Merant Collage for WebSphere ensures that our customers will have the right content management infrastructure in place today and in the future."

Merant Collage manages the Web development lifecycle from creation to deployment, meeting the requirements of Internet, intranet and extranet initiatives with control, quality and speed. In a single integrated system, Merant Collage provides automated workflow control, a powerful deployment engine and many built-in productivity features that get Web infrastructure up and running quickly while providing a secure, easy-to-use environment for ongoing content contributions.

In addition, Merant Collage's seamless integration with software configuration management (SCM) tools, including the Merant PVCS product family, provides a collaborative environment for the application developers and the Web design team to build Web applications and dynamic Web sites.

"We are pleased Merant has selected IBM WebSphere software as the foundation for Collage," said Scott Hebner, Director of WebSphere marketing, IBM. "IBM WebSphere provides the highly scalable and reliable foundation for Collage to provide a powerful enterprise content management solution."

For more information about Merant Collage, visit Merant's Web site at http://www.merant.com.

About IBM's WebSphere Software

WebSphere is the market-leading Internet infrastructure software, or middleware, for creating, running and integrating e-business applications across a variety of computing platforms. Built on open standards such as J2EE, XML and the new Web services standards, and endowed with IBM's core strengths of reliability, scalability and security, WebSphere server software and development tools are used by tens of thousands of customers. For more information: http://www.ibm.com/websphere.> About Merant

Merant is a leading provider of software and services supporting the management of enterprise code, content and digital assets. Merant software enables companies to track, manage, protect, and reuse assets among project teams, and is highly scalable. The result is a reproducible development process creating faster time-to-market, tighter quality control, and effective collaboration in managing corporate code and content.

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