Documentum, Kodak, IDI, Oracle, PC DOCS and Verity Announce Support for DEN
Specification

Companies to help define open document management framework

HERNDON, VA., October 18, 1994 -- In a broad show of support for the DEN
(Document Enabled Networking) document management framework, six major
industry suppliers today announced that they will join Novell, Inc. and
Xerox Corporation in developing DEN as an open industry standard. The
companies will be actively involved in further defining the DEN
specification, with the goal of providing broader interoperability and
connectivity between different document management services, applications
and repositories. Representatives from the companies made the announcement
at the second DEN Developer Meeting, held here today.

The six companies are Documentum Inc., Eastman Kodak Co.'s Imagery
subsidiary, Information Dimensions Inc. (IDI), Oracle Corp., PC DOCS Inc.
and Verity, Inc. These companies, along with Novell subsidiary
SoftSolutions and Xerox division XSoft, all deliver products and services
for the document management market that will interoperate with the DEN
architecture when it becomes available. By supporting the DEN standard,
companies can deliver products and services that provide their customers
with significant gains in productivity by allowing them to find, capture,
use and share documents over networks with increased ease and speed.

Representatives from these organizations and other companies will continue
to develop the DEN technical specification, which Xerox and Novell
initially published for industry review in July 1994, at the first
developer meeting.

DEN is an open software framework on which developers can build scalable
document management services and applications that interoperate across
different document repositories. It is designed to help organizations
manage documents more effectively over workgroup and enterprise-wide
networks. Services and applications operating across DEN will provide
users with transparent, reliable and uniform access to information in
electronic documents, regardless of where they are stored or the form in
which they exist. Within the DEN framework, users will be able to find and
use documents created in most common office applications by simply
searching for document attributes or content.

Ann Palermo, Director of Workgroup and Messaging Research at IDC and a
prominent spokesperson on document management issues, stated, "Document
management is a critical area, and customers need to be reassured that the
significant vendors are supporting interoperability standards. The fact
that these companies will participate in the definition of DEN is a
significant show of support for the open document management standards
efforts."
DEN's first implementation will be on Novell NetWare. Future versions will
support UNIX and other popular network operating systems.

In the NetWare environment, DEN will reside as "middleware" between the
operating system software on NetWare 4 servers, as a set of NetWare
Loadable Modules (NLMs), and the application software on NetWare clients.
DEN, in conjunction with NetWare Directory Services, will enable
consistent access to documents located anywhere in workgroup or enterprise
systems, including documents on NetWare 3 servers. Architecture and
implementation issues for UNIX and other operating systems will be
discussed in upcoming meetings.

Application providers will be able to build applications on top of the DEN
framework that will take full advantage of its powerful document
management capabilities. DEN will include an application programmer
interface (API) and Service Provider Interface (SPI), as well as a
software development kit (SDK) that supports use of the API and SPI.
Library services, such as check-in, check-out and version control will be
supported, and document security will be integrated with the underlying
network operating system.

DEN's object-oriented architecture and integration of automatic conversion
capabilities will allow organizations to protect their investments in
existing documents and to maintain their freedom of choice in using
various application programs to create new documents. These capabilities
will also enable users to easily integrate new documents in most popular
document formats and migrate them to future applications. In addition,
DEN's extensive scalability will enable expansion from small workgroups to
large enterprise environments.

The Companies

Documentum Inc., headquartered in Pleasanton, California, sells the
Documentum Enterprise Document Management System through a direct sales
force, systems integrators and affiliated distributors in Canada and
Europe. The company was founded in 1990 to offer a new class of enterprise
document management applications that provide dramatic improvement in
business-critical document processes.

Imagery Software, Inc., is a leading supplier of image-enabling software
for networked PC applications and platforms. Imagery provides today's
paper-intensive offices with a total solution for creating, displaying,
manipulating, indexing and storing image documents. Imagery is a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Eastman Kodak Company.

Dublin, Ohio-based Information Dimensions, Inc. (IDI) is a leading provider
of document database and text retrieval software, including BASISplus, a
relational database management system for documents, and BASIS WEBserver,
which extends the capabilities of BASISplus to databases on the Internet's
World-Wide Web, as well as BASIS Desktop, BASIS SGMLserver and
TECHLIBplus.

Novell, Inc.'s business is connecting people to other people and the
information they need, enabling them to act on it anytime, anyplace.
SoftSolutions, a product of the Novell GroupWare division, offers enhanced
document management in LAN/WAN environments.

Oracle Corp., a $2 billion company with headquarters in Redwood Shores,
Calif., is the world's leading supplier of information management
software. Oracle develops and markets Oracle Media Server and the Oracle7
family of software products for database management; Cooperative
Development Environment (CDE), a complete set of tools for
enterprise-wide, client/server application development; and Oracle
Cooperative Applications, packaged client/server solutions.

PC DOCS INC., the leader in "open systems" document management, sells its
products through a channel of authorized resellers nationally and has
international distributors worldwide. PC DOCS INC. is a subsidiary of PC
DOCS Group International, Inc., which is traded on the NASDAQ (DOCSF) and
Toronto (DXX) Exchanges.
Verity, Inc. develops and markets TOPIC Information Agents that allow users
to easily locate, filter and retrieve electronic information from a wide
variety of sources. With these agents, publishers can now deliver relevant
and personalized information across corporate networks and the World-Wide
Web. Verity's search engine is embedded in Lotus Notes, Adobe Acrobat,
Frame Viewer, Documentum and will appear soon in PC DOCS OPEN, Saros
Mezzanine and many others.

Xerox Corporation is a global enterprise serving the worldwide document
processing market. The company's Document Processing business develops,
manufactures, markets, services and finances a complete range of products
and services designed to make offices around the world more productive.
The XSoft division of Xerox provides software that improves the way people
create and use documents to capture, manage and communicate ideas and
information.

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