The Sun ONE Portal Server 6

RALEIGH, N.C. - June 3, 2002 -- TogetherSoft Corporation, the leader in improving the quality, cost and speed of collaborative software development, today announced its support of the Sun ONE Portal Server and the Sun ONE architecture for web services.

TogetherSoft intends to deliver Together® ControlCenter, the comprehensive Model-Build-Deploy choice for application development, with the Sun ONE Portal Server 6.0, also announced today.

"Both TogetherSoft and Sun strive to offer customers flexibility and choice, while helping them leverage current technology investments through open platform support and integrations with leading technologies," said TogetherSoft CEO John R. "Beau" Vrolyk. "Our common goal is to streamline the task of developing and delivering high quality software applications while reducing costs and improving time-to-market."

About Sun ONE Portal Server

The Sun ONE Portal Server -- the industry's first portal platform for building B2E, B2B and B2C portals -- enables the personalized delivery of content, services, business processes and applications for enterprises competing in today's competitive environment. It is a key component of the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) offering - an open, integratable product portfolio to enable the development and delivery of services on demand. With more than 385 customers worldwide, the Sun ONE Portal Server (formerly iPlanet Portal Server) has received significant industry recognition -- ranked #1 in portal marketshare by The Radicati Group ("Enterprise Portals Market Trends 2001-2005") and positioned in the leader quadrant in Gartner's Portal Product Magic Quadrant ("Big Change Evident in 2H02 Horizontal Portal Product MQ," May, 2002) -- for two consecutive years.

About Sun ONE

Sun ONE is Sun's vision, architecture, platform and expertise that enables the development and delivery of services on demand. Sun ONE validates, improves and extends current enterprise systems. Through its open, integratable architecture, Sun ONE extends current enterprise systems to help reduce costs and complexity while improving organizations' return on assets. Sun ONE represents a significant initiative in Sun's evolution to providing an open end-to-end architecture building on the company's offerings across systems and development environments. More information about Sun ONE is available at www.sun.com/sunone

About Together ControlCenter

Together ControlCenter is the comprehensive Model-Build-Deploy choice for application development. In its sixth generation, ControlCenter includes extensive IDE enhancements and enhanced modeling functionality. Developers recognize ControlCenter for its extended refactoring capabilities, robust pattern support, integrated QA support, automatic migration among application servers, and up-to-minute documentation generation. ControlCenter 6.0, introduced in March, includes extensive IDE enhancements including a new UI Builder, improved text editor,J2EE patterns,, and a new testing framework module. It also offers additional modeling functionality and new mobile licensing.

About TogetherSoft Corporation

Dedicated to improving the ways developers work together, TogetherSoft Corporation creates and delivers software that enables enterprises to create high-quality applications quickly and on-budget. TogetherSoft is the momentum leader among software development vendors - with 81% revenue growth in 2001 and significantly faster delivery of new product features to the market using its proprietary, patent-pending technologies. TogetherSoft solutions are used in some of the world's most innovative companies including Sprint PCS, The Home Depot, Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, and Sapient. For more information visit www.togethersoft.com.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, iPlanet and Sun ONE are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

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