Macrovision Announces Support for Rational Softwares European User Forums

Macrovisions Globetrotter Enterprise Software Division sponsors Rational User Forums in Paris, Stockholm and London

Macrovisions Globetrotter Enterprise Software Division sponsors Rational User Forums in Paris, Stockholm and London

LONDON - October 18, 2002 - Macrovision UK Ltd., a subsidiary of Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq: MVSN), the world leader in electronic license management, digital rights management (DRM) and copy protection technologies, announced today the company will be supporting the forthcoming pan-European Rational User Forums being held in Paris, Stockholm and London.

Each of the three Rational User Forums will last for two days and will be held during the week commencing 21st October, 2002:

· The French event, to be held in Paris, begins on Monday 21st October,
· The Swedish event, to be held in Stockholm, begins Wednesday 23rd October,
· The UK event, to be held in London, begins Thursday 24th October.

For additional information please visit www.rational.com.

The Rational User Forum provides delegates, from both existing customers and new prospects, with the opportunity to interact with Rational executives, experienced users and key partners to improve their software development capabilities through a series of customer case-studies and expert technical sessions.

Macrovisions Globetrotter Enterprise Software Division will be hosting a stand at each of the Rational User Forums, providing additional information to software developers on the benefits of implementing Electronic Licensing within their own software. Additional information on upgrading SAMreport Lite will also be available.

This is an ideal opportunity to reach out to Rationals users to help them understand how Electronic Licensing can aid their revenues and explain how SAMreport can be best utilised to monitor their own software investments," commented Darren Murray, Licensing Consultant for Macrovision, Globetrotter Enterprise Software Division.

Rational Software is one of the worlds largest software companies, with revenues of $689.8 million in the fiscal year ended March 2002, and over 3,500 employees worldwide. The Electronic Licensing solution chosen by Rational and embedded within over 40 of their software packages, is based upon Macrovisions FLEXlm®, the worlds de facto industry standard for Electronic Licensing for network-server based applications.

Electronic Licensing with FLEXlm allows users to ensure that they comply with agreed network usage license terms. FLEXlm is easy to install, use and update. Additional requirements by Rational software networked users for monitoring their Rational FLEXlm licenses are provided by 'SAMreport Lite from Macrovision, which is made available by Rational to their users.

Notes to Editors

About Macrovision
Macrovision Corporation develops and markets electronic licence management, digital rights management (DRM) and copy protection technologies for the enterprise software, consumer software, home video and music markets. Its Globetrotter Enterprise Software Division's electronic licence management (ELM) solutions for business software applications have been licensed to over 2,500 ISVs (independent software vendors) and Global 2000 enterprises worldwide. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with international headquarters in London and Tokyo, Macrovision can be found on the Internet at www.macrovision.com. For more information on Globetrotter solutions visit www.globetrotter.com.
Globetrotter, FLEXlm and SAMreport are registered trademarks or trademarks of Macrovision Corporation.

About Rational Software
Rational Software provides a software development platform that improves the speed, quality and predictability of software projects. This integrated, full lifecycle solution combines software engineering best practices, market-leading tools and professional services. Ninety-eight of the Fortune 100 rely on Rational tools and services to build better software, faster. This open platform is extended by partners who provide more than 500 complementary products and services. Founded in 1981, Rational is one of the worlds largest software companies, with revenues of $666.4 million in its twelve months ended June 30, 2002 and over 3,500 employees worldwide. Rational is a member of the S&P 500 Index and a component of the Nasdaq-100 Index®. Additional information is available at www.rational.com and www.therationaledge.com, the monthly e-zine for the Rational community.
This press release may contain forward-looking" statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. A number of factors could cause Macrovisions actual results to differ from anticipated results expressed in such forward-looking statements. Such factors are addressed in Macrovisions filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (available at www.sec.gov). Macrovision assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

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For more information, contact:

Simon Mehlman
Macrovision EMEA
+44 (0) 1928 706325
simon.mehlman@macrovision.co.uk

Pauline Nathanielsz
Rational Marketing Manager, UK & Ireland
+44 (0) 1344 295174
pnathanielsz@rational.com

Estelle Brouck
Rational Marketing Project Manager, France
+33 (0) 130 129 165
ebrouck@rational.com

Charlotte Lagerwald
Rational Marketing Manager, Sweden, Norway & Denmark
+46 (0) 8 566 282 00
clagerwald@rational.com

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