Basis Technology Helps Cybozu Take Its Office Collaboration Software to the International Market.

Cybozu uses Rosette Core Library for Unicode to Create International Version of Market-Leading Web-based Groupware

SAN FRANCISCO, California, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 25, 2002-Basis Technology, the leading provider of software globalization solutions, today announced that Cybozu Group, a leader in the Japanese collaborative software market, will be utilizing Basis Technologys Rosette Core Library for Unicode to bring its popular groupware products to the international market.

We are very pleased to be partnering with Basis Technology in our international expansion efforts," said Toru Sakamoto, CEO & President, Cybozu Corp. As the leading provider of collaborative software in Japan, we look forward to further expanding our business by selling our products in other countries. By developing around Basis Technologys Rosette Core Library for Unicode, we know we will always be very current with the Unicode standard and we will have the support of a company that is committed to the quality of our product."

Carl Hoffman, CEO, Basis Technology Corp., said, Basis Technology has a history of helping U.S-based companies expand into global markets, and we are very pleased to now bring that same expertise to a Japanese company looking to bring its software to the world. Cybozu is the first native Japanese company that we have helped go global. As more and more Japanese technology companies expand internationally, they can rely on Basis Technologys products and services to help them adapt their products for new markets."

Basis Technologys Rosette Core Library for Unicode provides a Unicode development framework for building global platforms that can operate in any language. The product is part of Basis Technologys Rosette Globalization Platform, a suite of text and language processing tools for building multi-lingual source code and solving language-specific functionality issues.    

Cybozu will use Basis Technology for several collaboration products both in Japan and in the US, as products will be developed for global distribution in multiple languages. Products include Cybozu AG and Cybozu Garoon in Japan and Share360 in the US.

About Cybozu
Cybozu, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Cybozu has rapidly established its brand name as the leader of the web-based Japanese collaborative software market. Cybozu recently formed an alliance with Lotus Notes / Domino 6 to provide affiliate collaboration products. To expand globally, Cybozu established its US subsidiary Cybozu Corp. in San Francisco, CA in July 2001. In January 2002, Cybozu Corp. launched its groupware product Share360" which was designed and developed specifically for the US market and global English-speaking customers. For more information, visit www.cybozu.com or call 415-421-1969.

About Basis Technology

Basis Technology is the leading provider of products and services for software globalization and multilingual information processing. The company provides high-performance, highly reliable software components through its Rosette Globalization Platform, a suite of interoperable products designed for applications that analyze and process all the worlds languages. The company also provides rapid deployment engineering services covering all aspects of globalization, including source code audits, project management, software re-engineering, and global quality assurance.

Top-tier software vendors, content providers, multinational enterprises, and government agencies rely on Basis Technology's solutions for Unicode compliance, language identification, multilingual search, normalization, transliteration, and e-mail categorization. Clients include industry leaders Amazon.com, America Online, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Inktomi, PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, and Terra Lycos.

Company headquarters are located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with branch offices in San Francisco, California; Washington, D.C.; and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit www.basistech.com or call 617-386-2000.