Vignette to Support Solaris 9 Operating Environment; Support for New Operating Environment Demonstrates Continued Success of Global Alliance

Business Wire, May 22, 2002

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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2002

Vignette Corp. (Nasdaq:VIGN), the leading provider of content management, today announced its intentions to support the Solaris(tm) 9 Operating Environment (OE), Sun Microsystems' latest update to its leading UNIX-based Operating Environment, with its flagship product, Vignette(R) V6, later this year.

Customers running the award-winning Vignette V6 solution on Sun infrastructure will be able take advantage of Sun's highly scalable, manageable and secure service delivery platform, helping them to lower total cost of ownership.

When combined, Vignette content management solutions and the Solaris 9 OE will provide joint customers with increased performance for their Web applications, allowing them to deliver the right information to the right audience at the right time. Vignette customers will be able to increase the speed by which content and information applications are accessed, making the user experience more enjoyable for an organization's customers, suppliers, employees and partners.

In addition, current joint customers will be able to take advantage of the backwards compatibility in the Solaris 9 OE to protect existing investments while developing new content applications.

"Vignette's support for the new Solaris 9 OE further enables us to offer our customers the broadest array of choices when selecting technology infrastructure components for their Web initiatives," said Dave Shirk, senior vice president of products at Vignette. "The Sun and Vignette alliance has been extremely successful to date, and our continued early support of each others' products demonstrates the deep commitment level at both companies."

Companies running Vignette V6 will be able to leverage the Solaris 9 OE to integrate their current content applications with the Sun(tm) Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) architecture, saving them time and resources. Vignette customers will also be available to leverage the increased security enhancements shipping in Solaris 9 OE, such as a fully integrated suite of security services.

"The Solaris Operating Environment leads the industry as a mission-critical platform for deploying Java technology-based applications, providing the performance, stability and scalability that enterprises require," said Doug Kaewert, vice president of the Sun Developer Network group at Sun Microsystems Inc.

"The Vignette V6 content management solution running on the Solaris 9 OE empowers our joint customers to protect and leverage their content-related investments, helping them lower total cost of ownership and increase revenue and marketshare."

As strategic partners, Vignette and Sun work closely together to ensure tight integration between Vignette's content management solutions and the Sun ONE architecture. Most recently, the two companies announced plans to jointly market the Sun Vignette e-Business Bundle, helping provide joint customers with greater value and lower cost in implementing or expanding a comprehensive e-business solution.

Further, Vignette was recently selected by Sun Microsystems UK as its Independent Software Vendor (ISV) of the year for 2001 in the United Kingdom.

About the Solaris 9 Operating Environment

The Solaris Operating Environment (OE) is the premiere operating environment for the enterprise. With over 300 new features, Solaris 9 is the most scalable, available, manageable and secure service delivery platform for the networked world.

By focusing on industry standards, the Internet, innovation and integration, Solaris 9 delivers a documented lower cost of operation. Solaris is the leading UNIX operating environment with 64 percent market share in shipments and 54 percent revenue share, according to Gartner Dataquest's "1Q02 Servers Quarterly Statistics."

The Solaris 9 OE is available on the SPARC Architecture platforms and supports more than 12,000 applications. Customers have access to many freeware programs, including utilities, productivity tools and development tools. In addition, the Solaris 9 OE offers an integrated Sun ONE Application Server and Sun ONE Directory Server, along with access to the Oracle 8i database.

About Sun Microsystems Inc.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer(tm)" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Network. Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com/.> About Vignette Corp.

Vignette is the leading provider of content management solutions used by the most successful organizations in the world to interact online with their customers, employees and partners. By combining content management with integration and analysis applications, Vignette enables organizations to deliver personalized information wherever it is needed, integrate online and enterprise systems and provide real-time analysis of the customer experience. Vignette powers more than 1,400 leading organizations and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. Vignette has offices located throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and in Australia, and can be found on the Web at http://www.vignette.com/.>