Interwoven TeamSite will Support B2B Site Involving 200,000 importers, 90,000 suppliers and 80,000 products

SUNNYVALE, Calif., August 14, 2000 - Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV), the leading provider of enterprise-class content management solutions, today announced that Global Sources (Nasdaq: GSOL) has selected Interwoven TeamSite as the content management system for its worldwide network of geographical and industry-specific Web sites.

Global Sources is a leading neutral B2B market maker and eCommerce solutions provider for the worldwide import-export trade community. Global Sources serves thousands of active buyers, who access 80,000+ products every day and generate more than 150,000 Requests for Information (RFIs) each month. Interwoven was chosen for its ability to meet the needs of a wide range of Global Sources technical and non-technical content creators, working in different languages all over the world.

Global Sources Online ( www.globalsources.com ) was recently selected by Forbes as one of the most promising B2B sites in the Internet marketplace. The flagship site maintains separate in-depth content areas dedicated to exhaustive coverage of specific manufacturing and service industries.

Global Sources selected TeamSite software because it needed an open, scalable and feature-rich content management solution that would meet the needs of over 400 content creators working in different languages all over the world. Global Sources will also use TeamSite Templating which means that content can be easily re-formatted and deployed multiple times across the Global Sources network of Web sites, print magazines and CD-ROMS.

"Interwoven has provided us with a solution that allows our contributors and writers from around the world to keep Global Sources Online up-to-the-minute by updating content instantly," said Theresa Yiu, chief technology officer for Global Sources. "The scalable and functional eCommerce platform of Interwoven TeamSite and InterWorld Commerce Exchange allows us to continue our rapid online growth while involving our key knowledge workers in several different countries."

Yiu added, "A tremendous feature of TeamSite is its support for multiple languages, which is crucial for a company like ours. Moreover, TeamSite's open architecture approach has allowed us to integrate the platform with our other systems, particularly our databases."

Scalability is also a critical feature of TeamSite in supporting Global Sources' B2B markets. Active users of Global Sources Online made 197,160 RFIs in July which is a rate of 265 sales leads an hour for suppliers. Traffic as measured by user sessions totaled over 989,000 in the same month.

"Value-added services have made Global Sources a one-stop shop for its trading community, which today consists of more than 213,000 importers and over 89,800 suppliers," said Jose Briceno, vice president, Asia Pacific for Interwoven. "Interwoven TeamSite will provide the content management infrastructure that allows Global Sources to maintain a competitive edge through relevant and timely online content updates."

Global Sources (NASDAQ: GSOL) is a leading infomediary and neutral B2B market maker for volume buyers and suppliers worldwide. Global Sources has been operating for over 29 years and has developed one of the world's most comprehensive databases of export products and suppliers. Global Sources is a B2B E-commerce provider offering a Web-based "end-to-end" E-commerce solution which enables its buyer community to interface electronically with suppliers in all phases of the supply chain management process in all corners of the world.

Interwoven, Inc. (NASDAQ: IWOV) is the leading provider of enterprise-class Web content management software. Its flagship product, TeamSite, controls the development, management and deployment of business-critical Web sites. As the platform for eBusiness, Interwoven enables electronic commerce, customer relationship management, supply chain management and knowledge management for Web leaders and Fortune 1000 companies moving to the Web. TeamSite is available for both the Sun Solaris operating system and Microsoft Windows platform. For more information on the company and its software solutions, visit the Interwoven Web site at www.interwoven.com.tw or e-mail info@interwoven.com