Interwoven Announces Support for the Sun Solaris 10 Operating System; Companies Provide Joint Customers with Tightly-Integrated, End-to-End Content Solutions

Hollywood, FL. - Interwoven GearUp '06 Conference – April 3, 2006 –Interwoven, Inc. (Nasdaq: IWOV), provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for business, today announced that it has expanded its technology collaboration with Sun Microsystems through support for the Sun Solaris^TM 10 operating system (OS) and StorEdge Compliance Archiving System,as well as through the joint delivery of tightly integrated and end-to-end content solutions including Secure Case Management, Deal Management, and Content Provisioning and Archiving. The expanded relationship reflects the shared commitment of Interwoven and Sun to deliver complete, high-value content solutions that solve specific business process and content management challenges across enterprises and within key vertical industries such as financial services, telecommunications, government, and others.

Sun is currently a Platinum Sponsor at the Interwoven GearUp ‘06 conference, which is taking place this week in Hollywood, Florida. By working closely together over the last several years, Interwoven and Sun today have over 100 joint content solution customers, and approximately 50 percent of Interwoven’s customer base also leverages Sun infrastructure.

As a result of the extended collaboration, Interwoven is certifying its Web Content Management, Document Management, and Content Provisioning solutions on the Solaris 10 OS. Additionally Interwoven’s Content Distribution solution will be available on Solaris 10 OS Sparc and x64, and the company’s Document Management solution is being integrated to the Sun StorEdge NAS Operating System and Compliance Archiving System.Deeper technology integration will better enable the two companies to deliver complete ECM solutions that organizations can easily deploy for the end-to-end management of content throughout its lifecycle, with seamless customer support. Already, the companies are providing the following joint solutions:

• Secure Case Management Solution—The Interwoven-Sun Secure Case Management Solution enables government organizations to streamline the recruiting, security clearance, assignment, and continuous evaluation of intelligence agents within a unified collaborative document management and archiving environment.
• Deal Management Solution—The Interwoven-Sun Deal Management Solution provides a comprehensive offering for Investment Banking, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Private Equity professionals to easily improve their due diligence, collaboration and compliance, and streamline the new account opening process. The combination of all of these elements within an intuitive and feature-rich application enables financial services firms to achieve greater business growth through an increased volume of deals and faster deal closing times.
• Content Provisioning and Archiving Solution—The combination of the Sun Content Infrastructure System with Interwoven’s industry-leading Content Provisioning Solution enables organizations to streamline the previously resource-intensive and error-prone process of aggregating, synchronizing, and deploying code and content changes to composite applications or Web environments. As a result, organizations can not only achieve increased IT compliance through Web record retention, but ensure that their customers have the best possible online experience at all times through rapid and seamless delivery of the most timely, accurate, and relevant content.

Interwoven is also a principle member of the Sun^SM Partner Advantage Program. Introduced in September 2005, the Sun Partner Advantage Program for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), is designed to make it easier for ISVs to get the resources they need to go to market faster on the Solaris 10 OS, link with Sun's Marketing, extend their sales reach, harness the expertise and connections of Sun's partner ecosystem, and help grow their business. The Program helps create an increased level of collaboration among Sun and its ecosystem of technology partners. By participating in the Sun Partner Advantage Program, ISVs receive simplified, programmatic, Web-based access to the resources they need to help them succeed in each stage of the application life cycle: design, development, deployment, and operation. For complete details about the individual offerings that are available, go to www.sun.com/partners/isv.

Customers Realize Strong Performance Gains

The Solaris 10 OS includes innovative features not available on other platforms, such as Dynamic Tracing (DTrace), Predictive Self-Healing and Solaris Containers, enabling customers to more effectively utilize system resources, and more quickly diagnose and resolve system issues in order to maximize their hardware investment and maintain availability. The Solaris OS is the only operating system that guarantees binary compatibility between operating system releases and source code compatibility between SPARC® and x64 (x86, 64 bit) systems. The Solaris 10 OS also currently supports more than 500 platforms providing customers with the ability to take advantage of the broadest choices of hardware in the industry.

“Both Interwoven and Sun are key technology partners for us. We are moving to the Solaris 10 platform and having Interwoven support for Solaris 10 will be very beneficial for our organization,” said Mamoudou Wane, global service manager and architect at Novartis Pharma AG.“ We look forward to working with both companies on this initiative, which could than speed up our internal processes.”

“There is an increasing demand for flexible, out-of-the-box, and open-standard hardware and software solutions,” said Stephen Borcich, vice president of Partner Marketing at Sun Microsystems.  “Interwoven’s expanded support for the Solaris 10 OS on x64 and our joint ECM offerings reinforce our strong continued relationship and shared technology vision. Together, Interwoven and Sun can provide customers with greater return on investment from their content solutions and lower total cost of ownership

“Customers continue to seek end-to-end products and solutions to manage the entire content lifecycle, and together with Sun, we are addressing this critical need,” said Bill Seawick, chief marketing officer at Interwoven. “Our support for the Solaris 10 OS and continued joint solution innovation underscores our shared commitment to providing customers with complete easy-to-deploy solutions that will enable them to truly maximize the value of their enterprise content throughout every stage.”

Sun, Sun Microsystems, and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.  SPARC is a trademark of SPARC International, Inc. in the US and other countries.  Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems.

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