US Office of Personnel Management Awards GoLearn Contracts to SumTotal Systems to Support Federal Online Learning Initiative

Business Wire, July 18, 2005

About SumTotal Systems

SumTotal Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:SUMTE) is the largest provider of learning and business performance technologies and services. Formed by the merger of industry pioneers Docent and Click2learn, SumTotal deploys mission-critical solutions that align learning with organizational goals to generate significant bottom-line results. With more than 12 million users in 37 countries, SumTotal has helped accelerate performance and profit for more than 675 of the world's best-known companies and government agencies, including the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard, Microsoft, United Airlines, the State of California, DSHS, Vodafone, Aetna, Accenture, USDA, Cendant, Harley-Davidson, Wyeth, Wachovia and D & B. Headquartered in Mountain View, CA, SumTotal has offices throughout the US, as well as in London, Paris, Heidelberg, Sydney, Tokyo and Hyderabad, India. For more information on SumTotal's solutions and services, visit www.sumtotalsystems.com.

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"Information in this press release contains forward-looking statements. These statements represent SumTotal Systems' expectations or beliefs concerning future events and include statements, among others, regarding SumTotal Systems' new product, SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.1. These statements are not historical facts or guarantees of future performance or events and are based on current expectations, estimates, beliefs, assumptions, goals and objectives, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from the results expressed or implied by these statements. Readers of this press release are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. Additional factors that could cause actual results to differ include, but are not limited to (i) unknown errors or bugs in SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.1; (ii) inability to fix in a timely fashion unanticipated bugs, errors or defects that material impact the functionality or usability of SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.1, or unanticipated problems in customer upgrades to SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.1 from prior SumTotal products (iii) unexpected shipment problems or delays of SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.1; (iv) customers or partners delaying purchasing or upgrade decisions until there is widespread market acceptance of SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.1; (v) the acceptance of SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.1 and future product offerings; (vi) the ability to successfully implement SumTotal Systems' solutions; (vii) the ability to successfully address technological developments and standards; (viii) ability to successfully manage growth, significant current and expected additional competition, and the need to continue to expand product distribution and services offerings; and (ix) other events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in SumTotal Systems' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the quarterly report filed on Form 10Q on November 15, 2004 and its Form 8-Ks filed on February 2, March 8, 10 and 17, and April 6, 20 and 28, 2005. SumTotal Systems assumes no obligation to update the information in this press release."