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To: Jenne who wrote (8307)	5/17/1999 11:28:00 AM
From: Jenne	Respond to of 19700

Universal Learning Technology Acquires WebCT BUSINESS WIRE - May 17, 1999 09:36 PEABODY, MASS. (May 17) BUSINESS WIRE -May 17, 1999-- Combination Creates Clear Leader in the Marketplace, With an Installed Base of More than Two Million Seats at Over 700 Colleges and Universities in 36 Countries Universal Learning Technology(TM) (ULT), a leading provider of Internet-based interactive teaching and learning software and tools, today announced that it has acquired WebCT Educational Technologies Corporation, a leading developer of tools that facilitate the creation of sophisticated Web-based educational environments. The combination of the two companies creates a clear leader in the Web-based learning marketplace, with the industry's largest installed base of more than two million seats at over 700 colleges and universities in 36 countries as well as deep financial, management and marketing resources. "The acquisition of WebCT by ULT is great news for faculty, students, institutions of higher education, and publishers," said Carol Vallone, President and Chief Executive Officer of ULT. "We will continue to provide faculty with the best tools for building online curricula and will continue to give students an integrated Web-based learning environment that is easy to use. We offer colleges and universities a total solution across the learning enterprise, as well as presenting publishers with an ideal platform on which to provide the richest variety of content. ULT is committed to supporting WebCT's current products, enhancing WebCT development, and maintaining WebCT's aggressive pricing policies." "We are thrilled to have found a partner that shares our philosophy and heritage in teaching and learning," said Murray Goldberg, senior instructor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia and President of WebCT Educational Technologies Corporation. "We are also pleased that ULT's multimedia repository for education content is built on open standards, making it the perfect complement to WebCT's Web-based course management system. I am especially excited about ULT in that our combined plans for the future focus on deepening our relationship with our customers, enabling us to be even more responsive, begin new initiatives we previously did not have the resources for, and to rapidly accelerate our current developments." "The acquisition of WebCT puts ULT at the forefront of the Web-based learning marketplace," said David Wetherell, CEO of CMGI, the lead investor in ULT. "It will accelerate ULT's plan to become the e-learning hub, offering students, faculty and institutions a Web-based learning environment that includes high-value content and community." "We are proud of the fact that WebCT software was developed by Murray Goldberg while he was at UBC," said Angus Livingstone, associate director, University-Industry Liason Office, the University of British Columbia. "As a UBC spin-off company, WebCT has grown into the market leader in Web-based learning. We are particularly pleased that WebCT, which will now become ULT Canada, is hiring additional staff for its Vancouver operations and expanding their premises at the Research Station on the UBC campus." About WebCT WebCT is a tool that facilitates the creation of sophisticated World Wide Web-based educational environments by non-technical users. It can be used to create entire online courses, or to simply publish materials that supplement existing courses. WebCT not only produces courses for the Web, but also uses Web browsers as the interface for the course building environment. Aside from facilitating the organization of course material on the Web, WebCT also provides a wide variety of tools and features that can be added to a course. Examples of these tools include a conferencing system, online chat, student progress tracking, group project or organization, student self-evaluation, grade maintenance and distribution, access control, navigation tools, auto marked quizzes, electronic mail, automatic index generation, course calendar, student homepages, course content searches and much more. For more information about WebCT, view the Web site at webct.com. About Universal Learning Technology (ULT) Universal Learning Technology (ULT)(TM) is a leading provider of next generation, interactive teaching and learning Web-based applications. ULT's Bravo! product is an education productivity and delivery system that uses advanced technologies, including the World Wide Web, to enhance learning performance. Bravo! enables content providers to offer text and valuable accompanying material such as instructor notes, related Web sites, audio and video in digital form over the Internet. Bravo! repositions these existing text assets into dynamic and compelling interactive environments by allowing students and instructors to manipulate, customize, communicate about, and add value to the content. For more information about Bravo!, view the Web site at ult.net. ULT's educational research partner is the nationally recognized, not-for-profit Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST), a group of experts led by a number of Harvard University School of Education graduates. For more information about ULT, contact Greg Jarboe, vice president of marketing, at 978-538-0036, ext. 242, or greg.jarboe@ult.net. -0- kf/bos* CONTACT: Universal Learning Technology Greg Jarboe, 617/306-0207 greg.jarboe@ult.net or Schwartz Communications, Inc. Manya Rossignoli, 781/684-0770 manyar@schwartz-pr.com or Abernathy, MacGregor, Frank Ann Hance, 212/371-5999 amh@abmac.com

To: Jenne who wrote (8307)	5/17/1999 11:29:00 AM
From: Jenne	Respond to of 19700

NaviSite and BMC Software Partner to Ensure Availability and Performance of Outsourced Web Applications BUSINESS WIRE - May 17, 1999 11:25 HOUSTON AND ANDOVER, MASS. (May 17) BUSINESS WIRE -May 17, 1999-- NaviSite Selects BMC Software's PATROL Application Management Suite to Enhance Web Application Services BMC Software, Inc. (NASD: BMCS), the world's leading provider of management solutions that improve the availability, performance and recovery of business-critical applications and NaviSite, Inc., a leading Application Service Provider (ASP) and Web hosting supplier, today announced that the companies have entered into a partnership for enhanced monitoring and management of outsourced Web applications. The relationship stems from NaviSite's selection of BMC Software's PATROL Application Management Suite of products to extend the scope of its Web application management services. This agreement marks a major milestone in the companies' common goal of providing end-to-end management of Internet applications, regardless of where they reside. NaviSite's SiteHarbor ProApps managed Web application services are augmented by the selection of the PATROL product's next-generation functionality for administering, monitoring and managing critical Web application components. The combination enables NaviSite to expand and enhance the scope of its proactive management services for Internet-based applications. NaviSite's selection of BMC Software's PATROL products provides customers a complete systems management solution that supports NaviSite's goal of providing a customer-centric approach to application hosting and management. "We are excited to be working with BMC Software on their evolving Internet application management strategy," said Peter Kirwan, CTO of NaviSite, Inc. "The agreement between NaviSite and BMC Software brings the industry one step closer to the end goal of managing the complete Internet applications experience -- regardless of geographic location. We chose PATROL because of the ease of integration and customization as well as its scalability for future expansion. In addition, BMC Software understands NaviSite's needs and has proved to be the perfect partner for developing and customizing best-of-breed tools into a customer care methodology." The Flexible Approach to Application Services Unlike other Authorized Service Providers that require an all or nothing approach to application services, NaviSite's ProApps Application Supervision, provided in conjunction with BMC Software, offers customers the best of both worlds. This is the ideal solution for customers who want proactive monitoring and defined management of custom applications, without being locked into an all or nothing application outsourcing solution. BMC Software and NaviSite together are creating an environment in which any application can be monitored, supported and managed by NaviSite, customers or a third party. "We're especially pleased that NaviSite has chosen PATROL to deal with the key problems encountered by all e-businesses: slow response time, unavailable applications and data and complicated administration," said Bob Kruger, vice president of e-business and Windows NT Solutions for BMC Software, Inc. "NaviSite's commitment to high availability Web sites and applications dovetails perfectly with BMC Software's focus on e-commerce availability and performance. We look forward to working further with NaviSite to enhance our respective solutions to achieve our shared goal of global management of Internet applications." NaviSite's SiteHarbor ProApps Application Services help make software more accessible, as well as more powerful by bundling complementary applications services into highly integrated, comprehensive business solutions. The company's application services, which include hosting, management and rental, capitalize on NaviSite's synergistic portfolio of e-business applications to provide global access to business-critical applications and enhance the revenue-generating capabilities of Web sites. These services are complemented and enhanced with BMC Software's PATROL product, which provides NaviSite with a single point of administrative control over the complete environment that allows the company or its customers to automatically discover and monitor the applications, databases, servers and all related system components. About BMC Software's PATROL Application Management Suite The PATROL Application Management Suite from BMC Software provides a flexible solution to the diverse administrative requirements of a distributed systems environment. PATROL delivers, through plug-in Knowledge Modules (KMs), application-specific management and monitoring tools for a wide range of industry-leading applications, databases, messaging/middleware, Internet servers and other resources. Through BMC Software's PATROL Developer Network (PDN), Internet experts such as Axent, Checkpoint and Proxima are delivering PATROL Knowledge Modules that monitor and manage the industry's leading Internet security products, firewalls and routers. About BMC Software BMC Software is the world's leading provider of management solutions that ensure the availability, performance, and recovery of companies' business-critical applications. They call this application service assurance, and it means that the applications companies and their customers rely on most stay up and running, around the clock. For more than 18 years, the world's leading companies have relied on BMC Software. BMC Software is among the world's largest independent software vendors, a Forbes 500 company and is a member of the S&P 500, with fiscal year 1999 revenues exceeding $1.3 billion. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas, with offices worldwide. For more information, visit BMC Software's Web site at www.bmc.com, or please call 800/841-2031 or 713/918-8800. About NaviSite NaviSite, Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of CMGI (NASD: CMGI), is a leading provider of outsourced Web hosting and application services for companies conducting mission-critical business on the Internet. The company's goal is to help customers focus on their core competencies by outsourcing the management and hosting of mission critical Web sites and applications. NaviSite's SiteHarbor Web hosting solutions provide secure, reliable, high-performance hosting and co-location services including high-performance Internet access, and high-availability solutions through load balancing, clustering, mirroring and storage services. NaviSite's SiteHarbor ProApps Application Services help make software more deliverable, as well as more powerful by bundling complementary applications services into highly integrated, comprehensive business solutions. The company's ProApps services, which include application hosting, management and rental, capitalize on NaviSite's synergistic portfolio of e-business services to provide global access to business critical applications and enhance the revenue-generating capabilities of Web sites. For more information, visit NaviSite's Web site at www.navisite.com or call 978.552.3300. NaviSite is headquartered at 100 Brickstone Square, 5th Floor, Andover, MA 01810. BMC Software, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. BMC Software, the BMC Software logos, PATROL, PATROL Knowledge Module, PATROL Developer Network, PDN, and PATROLMARK are registered trademarks or trademarks of BMC Software, Inc. in the USA and in other select countries. Other third-party logos and product/trade names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies. SiteHarbor is a registered trademark of NaviSite, Inc. -0- skj/cgo* CONTACT: For NaviSite: NaviSite, Inc.