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ISOCOR Delivers Meta-Directory Solutions for Microsoft Active Directory Business Wire - March 16, 1999 16:40 SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 1999-- ISOCOR's MetaConnect(tm) Technology to Use the Active Directory Service of Windows 2000 Server to Provide Meta-Directory Solutions ISOCOR (Nasdaq:ICOR), a leading Internet messaging and directory software developer, Tuesday announced that users of the next major upgrade of the Microsoft Windows NT server operating system -- Windows 2000 Server -- can enjoy the benefits of a meta-directory solution using ISOCOR's MetaConnect products. "ISOCOR's technology will make it easy for organizations using the Active Directory(tm) directory service of Windows 2000 Server, to put an enterprisewide directory in place," said Paul Gigg, ISOCOR president and chief executive officer. "MetaConnect is designed to allow Active Directory to be the central repository for meta-directory applications. And ISOCOR's MetaConnect solution provides the components that enable an organization to join information from many environments, such as corporate relational databases, network operating systems, telephone PABXs, human resources packages and enterprise resource planning applications." "Customers are asking Microsoft for ways to implement meta-directory solutions that use Active Directory as their strategic directory service platform," said Mike Nash, director of Windows NT Server marketing and infrastructure at Microsoft Corp. "We are pleased to see that ISOCOR is delivering open and versatile meta-directory solutions that will enable customers to make Active Directory their focal point of directory management -- even in very heterogeneous environments." ISOCOR designed the MetaConnect family of products to bring data together for effective intranet and Internet use, enabling an organization to provide accurate, up-to-date information to employees, customers and trading partners from existing data sources. MetaConnect manages the connections to disparate directories and databases and joins the information together in one meta-directory that can be centrally managed as a unified resource across the enterprise. The benefits include reduction in administration and infrastructure-development costs, efficient internal and external business communications and improved security of corporate information. For further information on how MetaConnect can bring measurable savings to large enterprises and service providers, visit the ISOCOR Web site at www.meta-connect.com. About ISOCOR ISOCOR (www.isocor.com) is the leading provider of world-class Internet software, supplying high-quality, high-performance software capable of handling an organization's messaging and directory requirements, from the simplest to the most complex. This mission is supported by ISOCOR's award-winning products and the company's ongoing commitment to research and development, coupled with rigorous quality assurance and support. With headquarters in California, ISOCOR is a global organization with major development centers in California, Ireland and Germany. ISOCOR has sales/support offices in key international business centers, including New Jersey, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. Except for the historical information, the matters discussed in this document are forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Such factors include the impact of competitive announcements and products, the rate of growth of the markets in which the company competes, the effect and rate of change in standards and platforms for messaging products, the risks associated with the year 2000, as well as the risk factors listed from time to time in the company's U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reports, including but not limited to the report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 1997, and/or Form 10-Q for the quarters ended in 1998, copies of which are available from ISOCOR's Investor Relations Department or through the Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov. The company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this document. NOTE TO EDITORS: ISOCOR is a registered trademark of ISOCOR. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders. CONTACT: ISOCOR, Santa Monica ISOCOR Marketing and Press Inquiries -- United States Lynnette McMahon, 310/581-8100 Fax: 310/581-8111 sales.info@isocor.com or Murphy/O'Brien Communications, Santa Monica J.P. Lincoln, 310/453-2539 Fax: 310/264-0083 jp@murphyobrien.com or Press Inquiries -- Europe BourneRiver Public Relations Nicola Farnell/Sarah Meikle, 0181 977 1544 Fax: 0181 977 3358 nicolaf@bourneriver.com