FOSTER CITY, Calif. and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 12, 2001 -- Inktomi Corp. (NASDAQ: INKT), developer of scalable network infrastructure software, and Interwoven, Inc. (NASDAQ: IWOV), the leading provider of Content Infrastructure, today announced an agreement to deliver a combined solution that will offer enterprise customers, employees and partners an enhanced search experience by providing timely access to the most current and accurate corporate content. The Inktomi-Interwoven alliance will enable Inktomi Enterprise Search to immediately index documents managed by Interwoven TeamSite and MetaTagger, allowing enterprises to streamline the process of publishing, managing and retrieving enterprise content on corporate intranets, extranets, portals and Web sites for effective information retrieval and increased business efficiency.

"To best serve our 13 million customers worldwide, it is critical that we make new information regarding our financial services immediately available to employees and customers in an organized, easy to locate format," said Lori Oatts, senior project manager, the Principal Financial Group. "The Inktomi-Interwoven alliance will allow us to provide fast access to the latest information on our public and internal sites for increased employee productivity and customer satisfaction."

The Inktomi-Interwoven alliance will more closely link the content creation and discovery process by enabling Inktomi Enterprise Search to automatically index documents managed by Interwoven's content management software. Through this integration, the search engine will instantly crawl new documents as soon as they are published, allowing enterprises to maintain a more current index and ensure that users have immediate access to new corporate information. Through this alliance, Inktomi Enterprise Search will also utilize the metadata created and captured by Interwoven TeamSite and MetaTagger solutions to more accurately identify the contents of the documents for improved search relevancy.

"The Interwoven-Inktomi integration allows newly published editions of TeamSite content to be automatically included in an Inktomi search," said Kevin Cochrane, vice president, Product Management at Interwoven. "This integration will also allow TeamSite and MetaTagger customers to leverage the intelligence of the metadata attached to content of all file types for more accurate, relevant and meaningful search results."

"Our alliance with Interwoven augments the enterprise information lifecycle by more closely integrating the creation and retrieval of content, improving the ability to find and ultimately apply mission-critical corporate information," said Troy Toman, vice president of Enterprise Solutions at Inktomi. "We are pleased to partner with a proven leader in content infrastructure and look forward to working closely with Interwoven to continue to deliver effective corporate-wide search to global enterprises."

In other news today, Interwoven announced the launch of MetaTagger 3.0. MetaTagger 3.0 strengthens Interwoven's extensive metadata framework by extending leading-edge technology to automatically apply complete and consistent metadata to content. For more information go to www.interwoven.cn.

Inktomi Enterprise Search has been deployed by more than 2,500 enterprises, public Web sites, universities and government entities to provide timely information access to their users. The highly scalable search software has a low total cost of ownership due to its rapid installation, efficient management and administration and highly relevant information retrieval capabilities. Inktomi's natural language search is compatible with hundreds of file formats, multiple languages and both structured and unstructured repositories such as databases, portals, content management systems, collaboration applications, security systems, file systems and Web servers.

Based in Foster City, Calif., Inktomi develops and markets network infrastructure software essential for global enterprises and service providers. Inktomi's business is divided into Network Products, comprised of industry leading solutions for network caching, content distribution, media broadcasting, and wireless technologies; and Search Solutions, which include general Web search and related services, and enterprise search. Inktomi's customer and strategic partner base includes leading companies such as America Online, AT&T, Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard Company, Intel, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Nokia, Sun Microsystems and Yahoo! The company has offices in North America, Asia and Europe. For more information, visit http://www.inktomi.com/ .

Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV) is the world's leading provider of Content Infrastructure software. Its content infrastructure product suite includes content aggregation, content collaboration, content management, content intelligence and content distribution. Its products are the de facto standard for more than 700 Global 2000 companies including British Airways, Cisco Systems, General Electric, General Motors and Philips. Interwoven teams with the leading best-of-breed eBusiness application providers to provide customers an end-to-end platform for eBusiness. For more information on Interwoven and its proven XML-based Content Infrastructure solutions, visit the Interwoven Website at www.interwoven.cn .