(EMAILWIRE.COM, May 23, 2001 ) Convera (Nasdaq: CNVR), a leading provider of advanced technologies, products and solutions for managing multimedia digital content, on May 23 announced the release of Convera RetrievalWare 6.9, the latest version of its high-performance intelligent search and retrieval solution for indexing and searching a wide range of distributed text-based content. RetrievalWare 6.9 is the first search system to provide user- and document-level security simultaneously across all of the most important enterprise groupware and document management systems. "In speaking with our customer base about the management of digital assets, the need for advanced security features was a priority on their list," said Patrick Condo, president and CEO, Convera. "The latest release of our flagship product demonstrates Convera's ability to take the lead in fulfilling customer requirements and our continued commitment to delivering fast, accurate access to all digital content, from text to video, in a multitude of formats and languages, and across multiple systems." Cross-Repository Security One of the greatest challenges facing large organizations today is the distributed nature of information. In a typical Global 2000 organization, valuable knowledge resides in multiple repositories that typically include groupware and document management systems, each with its own set of user accounts, groups and access permissions. When knowledge workers need information, all too often they have to separately log in and perform a search in each system. With the release of RetrievalWare 6.9, Convera introduces the industry's only cross-repository search with full document-level security. With RetrievalWare's cross-repository search, a single user login can be authenticated to perform a simultaneous search across multiple document repositories using the access permissions granted by the native application. The search results will contain only those items that each searcher is permitted to view. Any changes to access permissions in any of the indexed repositories are immediately picked up by RetrievalWare so access is always up-to-date. This level of security is offered across Documentum, FileNET Panagon, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange and the Windows NT file system. "One of the fundamental objectives of any information portal is to create a single point of access to all of an organization's knowledge assets," added Condo. "If searchers have to perform the online equivalent of unlocking every file cabinet in the office to uncover relevant documents, the portal is not living up to its promise. By integrating cross repository document-level security into the search capabilities of a portal, RetrievalWare 6.9 delivers a more complete search solution without sacrificing the integrity of sensitive data." Other significant enhancements in RetrievalWare 6.9 include:Enhanced Microsoft Exchange Security - Convera has extended the power of RetrievalWare searches across Microsoft Exchange documents by adding the security necessary to give access to critical organizational information without compromising security. For large organizations with multiple Exchange servers, RetrievalWare's security functionality enables users to search across all Exchange servers, thus providing users with access to all available information. General Availability of Specialized Medical and Pharmaceutical Search Aids - To address the needs of the knowledge-intensive medical and pharmaceutical industries, Convera has made extensions available to the general-purpose RetrievalWare Semantic Network that greatly enhances the precision and comprehensiveness of searches in these knowledge domains. These extensions make it possible to accurately search for information about drugs, diseases, medical conditions, and similar subjects using any combination of scientific, trade, medical or common terminology. Updated Platform and Third Party Support - RetrievalWare 6.9 has been certified on the following platforms: Windows NT 4.0 SP6A; Windows 2000 SP1; Sun Solaris 7 and 8; HP-UX 11 (32-bit and 64-bit); DEC Unix 4.0f; IBM AIX 4.33; SGI Irix 6.5; and RedHat Linux 6.1. This release also provides enhanced Web server support, native support for the industry's leading Relational Database Management Systems, and expanded certification and support for data synchronizers including: Lotus Notes R5; Documentum 4i; Exchange 5.5; Exchange 2000; FileNET Panagon 2000; and NCR Teradata.About Convera RetrievalWare Convera RetrievalWare is a high-performance intelligent search system that allows broad flexibility and scalability for implementation across corporate intranets and extranets. Convera RetrievalWare enables users to index and search a wide range of distributed information resources, including text files, HTML, XML, over 200 proprietary document formats (such as word processors and publishing systems), relational database tables, document management systems and groupware repositories. Advanced search capabilities include concept and keyword searching, pattern searching and query-by-example. Convera RetrievalWare excels in distributed client/server environments with hundreds or thousands of users, documents, images and/or multiple media assets. RetrievalWare is the industry's most advanced search and retrieval solution based on its ability to search the broadest range of information repositories, handle information in multiple languages, deliver the most relevant information on any subject, and present the information in a way that knowledge workers can use most efficiently. About Convera Convera, the new company formed when Excalibur Technologies combined with Intel's Interactive Media Services division, is a leading provider of innovative software products that manage multimedia digital content. Convera's advanced technologies, products, services and solutions empower content owners to extract value from their high-worth digital content-text, images and video-over the Internet, intranets, set top boxes and wireless devices. Convera serves over 700 customers in 29 countries from its offices throughout the U.S. and Europe. Convera customers and partners include ABC News, BG Technology, British Telecom, chicagotribune.com, CSC, Digital Island, Discovery Communications, Encyclopedia Britannica, Exodus, FOXSPORTS.com, latimes.com, Loudeye, Microsoft, the National Basketball Association, NCR, Nortel Networks, Parametric Technologies, QXL.com, Raytheon, RealNetworks, Reuters, Sony, StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, UCLA, United Airlines, Warner Bros. Online and The World Bank. For more information, contact Convera at 800-788-7758, via e-mail at info@convera.com or on the Web at www.convera.com. The following are worldwide trademarks of Convera Corporation or its subsidiary Convera Technologies, Inc.: Convera(TM), RetrievalWare(R), ScreeningRoom(R), WebExpress(TM) and their respective logos. This release contains comments about Convera's future expectations, performance, plans and prospects as well as assumptions about future events. The reader is cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, as these statements are subject to numerous factors and uncertainties, including without limitation, business and economic conditions, continued success in technological advances, and the risk that the businesses that were merged to create Convera, the Interactive Media Services Division of Intel Corporation and Excalibur Technologies, Inc., will not be integrated successfully. Actual results may differ materially from our expectations as the result of these and other important factors relating to Convera's business and product development efforts, which are further described in Convera's and Excalibur's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings can be obtained from the SEC's website located at www.sec.gov. Any forward-looking statements are based on information available to Convera on the date of this release, and Convera assumes no obligation to update such statements.------------------------ Produced for Convera CONTACT: John Murray(703) 761-3700jmurray@convera.com ------------------------

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