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CENTRINITY PARTNERS WITH MORNINGSTAR SYSTEMS AND GEMSTONE SYSTEMS TO BUILD B2B DIGITAL MARKETPLACE COMMUNITIES
Markham, ON, and Owings Mill, MD ? April 4, 2000 ? Three leading players in the collaborative software and unified messaging sector are joining forces to build a new business-to-business Internet service.
Centrinity Inc. (formerly MC2 Learning Systems Inc.), (CDNX: MCZ.A), is a leading provider of collaborative software and unified messaging for telecommunications applications. MorningStar Systems, Inc. is a leading collaborative knowledge management consulting firm and an Open Text? Corporation Affinity Partner. GemStone Systems, Inc. provides advanced, integrated platforms for business-to-business Internet applications.
MorningStar Systems, through its software development subsidiary, MorningSun Software, LLC, will integrate FirstClass software and clients with the Open Text Livelink© system on a GemStone/J Application Server.
The high performance, reliability and scalability that will result will add value for both Centrinity and MorningStar customers, and attract new users.
"This is a tremendous opportunity for MorningStar to deliver high-quality collaboration and knowledge management to a vast and expanding market," said Mike Kumpf, President of MorningStar Systems. "We are extremely pleased to be forming this important strategic alliance with Centrinity and GemStone Systems as they work to reach a rapidly growing worldwide Internet community."
"Together with our new partners, we will be building a dynamic new Internet service that integrates our communication, collaboration and calendaring tools with an enterprise scale knowledge management system," said Scott Welch, Centrinity's Chief Evangelist. "Open Text's collaborative e-business application Livelink perfectly complements our FirstClass solution's feature-rich capabilities."
"We are honored that the GemStone/J application server was selected as the architectural platform for this important alliance," said Ken Irinaga, President and Chief Executive Officer at GemStone Systems. "GemStone/J's proven ability in scaling dynamic and complex business processes as well as enabling millions of users to more quickly and efficiently access, share and retrieve huge amounts of data and information simultaneously is essential for collaborative knowledge and document management, workflow, and messaging for B2B e-marketplace applications such as Livelink and FirstClass."
"As indicated by our recent announcements, more and more corporations are looking for greater access to collaborative business-to-business applications," said Andrew Pery, Vice President of Global Marketing, Open Text Corporation.
"Our relationships with Affinity Partners, like MorningStar Systems, enable Open Text to offer additional value-added solutions to our Livelink customers as well as extend our market reach to the large install base of customers served by this partnership. We believe that the relationship MorningStar has forged with Centrinity and GemStone will support initiatives Open Text has taken to support global communities with necessary collaboration capabilities."
About Centrinity Inc.
Serving over 5 million users in more than 8,000 organizations in 55 countries, Centrinity is a leading designer, marketer and distributor of collaborative and unified messaging software to markets worldwide. The company's products include FirstClass Intranet Server Gold, FirstClass Collaborative Classroom Gold and Zebu, which are widely used in commercial and education markets. Centrinity Inc. is listed on the Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX: symbol MCZ.A). The company, (formerly MC2 Learning Systems) was renamed on March 24, 2000 to better reflect its broader scope and capabilities in telecommunications, corporate, educational and institutional markets. Its corporate Website is located at www.centrinity.com .
For more information, please contact: Myles M. McGovern, President & CEO Centrinity Inc. Toll Free: 1.800.763.8272 Phone: 905.415.7000 Email: myles_mcgovern@centrinity.com
For investor information, please contact: Natasha A. Sorobey, Corporate Secretary Centrinity Inc. Toll Free: 1.888.448.4424 Phone: 403.203.4748 Email: natasha_sorobey@centrinity.com
About MorningStar Systems, Inc.
Founded in 1995 and based in Owings Mills, MD, MorningStar develops and deploys highly scalable business Intranet and Extranet solutions, encompassing collaboration, web content management, search, and e-Commerce transactions. Although many of the future software tools will act independently of each other, the backbone of current integrated web strategy is Open Text's Livelink. Livelink is a richly featured enterprise document management, virtual team collaboration, business process automation, enterprise group scheduling and information retrieval service which is tightly integrated, easily customized and extended. Many MorningStar customers already know what others are just beginning to discover; that is, private Intranets bring immediate gains in helping people and organizations find information, work together, automate processes and effectively distribute results, translating into higher productivity, lower costs, and increased marketplace competitiveness.
For more information, please contact:
Gary Gamber, VP Business Relationships, MorningStar Systems, Inc., 10999 Red Run Boulevard, Suite 215, Owings Mills, Maryland 21117 Toll Free: 877.414.8152 Phone: 410.902.7633 x17 Fax: 800.878.6033
About GemStone Systems, Inc.
GemStone Systems, Inc. has today's platform for tomorrow's business-to-business Internet commerce applications and sites. Our GemStone/J Java application server combines a mix of unique technologies and industry standards in the most advanced, integrated architecture of any product in its class. Our customers are using GemStone/J's technology in production today in all walks of the dot-com world. From B2B auction sites to vertical portals, from Internet communities to supply chain management, from highly complex dot-com sites to application service providers. GemStone/J has been customer-tested and proven scalable, secure and reliable in providing time-to-market advantages over competing solutions.
Headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, GemStone distributes and services its products worldwide through offices in the United States, UK, France, Germany and Switzerland, as well as through a network of distributors. For detailed product and company information, please visit our Web site at www.gemstone.com .
Press Contact:
Lillian Tsai, GemStone Systems, Inc. Phone: 503.533.3888 Email: lilliant@gemstone.com
About Open Text Corporation
Open Text has pioneered the development of innovative intranet, extranet and e-business applications. Since creating the first search engine to index the World Wide Web, the Company has remained at the forefront of Internet-based technologies. Today, Open Text solutions allow individuals, teams, organizations, and global trading communities to collaborate on projects, share ideas and accelerate innovation to the fastest possible speed. We call it HyperInnovation? and it is already a major factor in the success of leading Global 2000 organizations. Open Text has become the largest supplier of collaborative, Web-based e-business applications for the enterprise, with over 3.5 million users in 31 countries, speaking 12 languages throughout the world. For more information, visit www.opentext.com .
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