Lionbridge and Corel Enable First Multilingual Linux O.S - Company Business and Marketing

Edge: Work-Group Computing Report, April 24, 2000

Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:LIOX), a leading provider of multilingual Internet services to global technology businesses, Wednesday announced that it has successfully delivered the first version of Corel Linux for German, French and Dutch. In order to introduce Corel Linux to the market in a timely manner, Lionbridge conducted simultaneous localization during the development of the English product. German, French and Dutch versions are available immediately.

"Europe is at the forefront of the Linux movement, and Lionbridge is working closely with Corel to take advantage of this fast-growing market," said Rory Cowan, CEO of Lionbridge. "Throughout our relationship with Corel, we have provided a scalable solution, which allows the addition of new languages or new products on demand while reaching time-to-market goals."

Lionbridge has worked with Corel for five years, primarily in the localization of Business Applications for several tier one languages, including WordPerfect 7, WordPerfect Office, WordPerfect 8 and WordPerfect 2000.

"We are very excited to deliver Corel Linux to the international user base," said Anne McCluskey, localization services manager at Corel Corporation. "Lionbridge's excellent service, expertise and quality more than meet our exacting standards, and have enabled us to meet our delivery goals for the French, German and Dutch markets. We look forward to continuing our successful relationship with Lionbridge for future localization projects."

Corel has also decided to migrate the popular WordPerfect application suite to open source UNIX (OSU) in order to take advantage of the fast-growing market for OSU and in particular for Linux users. A recent survey from Survey.com reported that Linux and other brands of OSU are expected to double their share of the corporate market in just two years; from nine percent in desktop applications to more than twenty-two percent; and from eighteen percent in server applications to more than thirty-two percent.

Corel Corporation is a world leader in the graphics software field. Its product family includes CorelDRAW, Corel PHOTO-PAINT, Corel PRINTHOUSE and Corel VENTURA. Corel also develops for the business market, the most widely known products in this area being Corel WordPerfect and Paradox. The company is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada where the above products are developed and authored. Corel ships its products in over 17 languages.

Lionbridge Technologies provides testing, localization, internationalization and other globalization and multilingual Internet services to the world's leading technology companies, including Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, Motorola, Novell, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. Lionbridge's multilingual eRelease, eSupport, eLearning and eCommerce services are based on its Rapid Globalization Methodology. The Rapid Globalization Methodology integrates engineering, linguistics, testing and project management with automated workflow management to enable simultaneous worldwide release, via the Internet, of products as well as related customer support, training and marketing materials. Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, Lionbridge maintains facilities in Santa Monica, as well as Brazil, Canada, Ireland, The Netherlands, France, China, Korea and Japan. To learn more, visit www.lionbridge.com.