Oxford University Press to Create Content Delivery Platform Based on MarkLogic Server; World's Largest University Press Selects Mark Logic to Provide New Content Products to Educators, Students, and Researchers

Business Wire, Sept 12, 2005

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Mark Logic(R) Corporation, provider of the industry's leading XML content server, today announced that Oxford University Press, Inc., the US division of the world's largest university publisher, will use MarkLogic Server to build a content delivery platform providing new online content products to libraries and academic institutions.

Mark Logic will enable Oxford University Press to leverage content across multiple product lines and create highly customized products to reach untapped audiences -- maximizing previous content investments and lowering the overall cost to produce and deliver new products.

"MarkLogic Server will be the foundation of a new content delivery platform at Oxford University Press," said Alex Humphreys, director of online engineering for Oxford University Press, Inc. "Mark Logic gives us greater flexibility not only in how we process, distribute, and render our content, but also in how we develop new content products. MarkLogic Server enables us to leverage our existing content in order to more efficiently meet our customers' needs."

The first implementation on the new Mark Logic-based content delivery platform will be the African American Studies Center. This unique technology project will bring together content from Oxford University Press' African American reference resources, specially-commissioned supplemental information, images, maps, timelines, and primary source documents. Visitors to this subscription-based Web site will be able to browse and conduct powerful searches across multiple scholarly reference materials on a variety of different historical subjects -- from the Great Migration of the early 1900s to the Civil Rights Movement -- with results classified by subject area and time period.

"It's very exciting to have Mark Logic selected by one of the true leaders in the publishing world today," said David Spenhoff, vice president of marketing of Mark Logic. "We look forward to working closely with Oxford University Press to break down the barriers to content integration, reuse, and custom publishing, and to help them deliver richer, more targeted information to the academic community."

About Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press is the world's largest university press and has its origins in the information technology revolution of the late fifteenth century, which began with the invention of printing from movable type. The first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, only two years after Caxton set up the first printing press in England. With major publishing centers in the UK and the United States, Oxford University Press publishes at a variety of levels for a wide range of audiences in almost every academic discipline. Oxford University Press, Inc. (USA) produces approximately 500 titles each year, of which 250 are scholarly research monographs, and imports close to 800 such works from the UK and branch offices. Oxford University Press, Inc. (USA) has 3,300 scholarly books in print and stocks another 8,700 imports from offices around the world. All publications are first vetted by Delegates, who are leading scholars at Oxford University and from top US institutions. For more information, please visit www.oup.com.

About Mark Logic Corporation

Mark Logic Corporation is the provider of the industry's leading XML content server. Mark Logic works with providers of information products to accelerate new product creation, deliver products through multiple channels, integrate content from different sources, repurpose content into multiple products, build custom publishing systems, and mine content to find previously undiscovered information. MarkLogic Server does this by enabling companies to convert, query, manipulate, and render XML content using the W3C-standard XQuery language. Designed for high performance and scalability, MarkLogic Server can deliver millisecond response times against multi-terabyte contentbases. Mark Logic is privately held and backed by Sequoia Capital and Lehman Brothers. For more information, please visit www.marklogic.com.

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