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[Ahap]

so ist es leichter: die info`s der FT anbei:

Unter den mir bekannten Software / IT-Firmen zu Knowledge Management, Informationslogistik hat Autonomy
1. den interessantesten Ansatz
2. die entwicklungsfähigste Software
3. das größte Potential international.

SER macht Dokumentenmanagement - schwerfällig. Autonomy geht den langfristig interessanteren Wert. Das werden einige schon erkannt haben, so wie die Aktie gestiegen ist.

noch großes Potential: die firma ist noch klein und jung, die Software entwickelt sich immer weiter, super postitioniert

sensationell eben.

und das sagt die Financial Times dazu:

http://www.globalarchive.ft.com/

COMPANIES & FINANCE: UK: An 18th century churchman helps create the future: CORPORATE ANALYSIS AUTONOMY: An ambitious Cambridge software group combines his work on probability with neural networks, writes Caroline Daniel:
86% match; Financial Times ; 12-Nov-1999 01:52:15 am ; 647 words

There is no doubting the global ambitions of Mike Lynch, the 34-year-old chief executive of Autonomy, a Cambridge-based software developer. He is convinced that the group`s proprietary technology has the potential to become an important component for all software products: like Intel chips or Dolby.

Autonomy grew out of NeuroDynamics, which was set up in 1991 to commercialise research into making computers recognise data in such as areas as fingerprint matching systems and reading handwriting to clear bank cheques.

It was spun out in 1996 to focus on software targeted on the high-growth markets of knowledge management, e-commerce and new media publishing.

The problem it tackles is "unstructured" data such as prose, word documents, e-mails and web pages. To make this data usable, people have had to be employed to manually read and sort it into a structured, rigid database form such as a spreadsheet.

Autonomy not only automates this process but also allows a user to extract information from the database in a much more sophisticated and flexible manner than formerly.

The company says it allows a computer to look beyond simple words in retrieving and storing data to look at information in context. Since sorting information is a generic problem, the company`s customer base is diverse and includes the US state department, News Corporation, Reuters, Proctor & Gamble, Lucent and Merrill Lynch. The BBC uses Autonomy products to manage its online news and current affairs.

HOW IT WORKS

Autonomy`s software is based on a pattern-matching algorithm. It draws on the work of Thomas Bayes, a 18th century Presbyterian minister, which - according to Bill Gates - is helping create the foundations for the next generation of computing. Bayes` ideas on probability have been joined to developments in information theory and neural networks, to produce Autonomy`s software.

With it, rather than just search for keywords, a computer can identify patterns and ideas in text and look for similar ideas in other sources automatically. It can help to organise online product information, categorise e-mails and route them to those who might be interested, and create links between related articles on web sites. It can also monitor what someone has actually read, rather than just provide details of which web sites they have visited.

ASSETS

Autonomy has patented sections of algorithm in California to block key steps in finding the formula. Autonomy cannot do this in Europe, because patent law does not allow it. About 17 per cent of revenues are spent on research and development. Its principal rival is HNC Software of the US.

COMMERCIALISATION

The company sells its own software products directly and through partners, such as KMPG. Autonomy has also started to earn a technology licensing fee (about £100,000) from third parties, as well as earn royalties of 10-30 per cent when these companies incorporate it into their products.

FINANCIALS

The company is starting to gather momentum. In the three months to June 30, it reported a swing into the black and more than trebled turnover. Profit before tax in the three months to June 30 were £268,000 (£296,000 losses). Turnover rose to £3.7m (£1.1m), giving a six month total of £6.2m (£1.8m).

THE SHARES

The shares were listed on Easdaq at Dollars 4.06 in July 1998 valuing the group at Dollars 160m. The shares had a volatile first year of trading, eventually hitting Dollars 5.27 this July. Since then, they have galloped away, lifting the market capitalisation from Dollars 208m to Dollars 812m (£501m).

ORGANISATION/ STAFF

The founders recognised that technologists can get precious about their ideas and do not always understand how to translate them into commercial products, quickly. Autonomy therefore makes its software developers share a room with sales and marketing executives.

From the start it has also offered share options to attract staff. There are 100 employees.

Copyright © The Financial Times Limited







SURVEY - FT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: Software patterns excite investors: VIEW FROM THE TOP: MIKE LYNCH OF AUTONOMY: A passion for science was the starting point for success in the marketplace, writes Paul Taylor
89% match; Financial Times ; 01-Dec-1999 03:14:57 am ; 1112 words

Drive south of San Francisco down Route 101 through Silicon Valley and you can hardly fail to miss a huge roadside poster advertising a small UK-based software company called Autonomy.

The Cambridge-based company, whose shares were listed on Easdaq - the pan-European exchange for high growth stocks - in July 1998, is led by Mike Lynch, a 34-year old computer scientist and expert in pattern recognition.

Since then, its market capitalisation has jumped from Dollars 160m to exceed Dollars 1bn a few weeks ago, reflecting growing recognition of the company`s lead in the dynamic field of pattern recognition in unstructured data such as text, images and sound.

Autonomy grew out of NeuroDynamics, set up in 1991 by Mr Lynch and two other researchers to commercialise their work into digital signal processing and pattern recognition in areas such as fingerprint matching systems and handwriting recognition.

But Mr Lynch`s passion for science dates back to his years as a scholarship student at Bancroft school in Redbridge, Surrey, southern England. He was inspired by a chemistry teacher at Bancroft. As a result, he always wanted to do something useful rather than something aimed at making money.

At Cambridge university, he initially studied natural sciences and worked in the summer holidays at Marconi, the largest employer in his home town, to support himself. "It was a very traditional structure and I remember thinking `I don`t want to do this for the rest of my life`."

He switched to electrical, engineering and eventually ended up doing a PhD titled An adaptive approach to connectionless models.

His big hobby was playing as a jazz musician at a time when the first digital sampling synthesisers were appearing. "There was one machine called the Fairlight which cost about œ200,000."

These machines rely on a branch of electrical engineering called digital signal processing.

"DSP turns out to be applicable to pattern recognition," he says. "Pattern recognition is a fascinating subject because you can basically cast any problem in that way."

In its simplest form, digital signal processing involves taking a set of inputs which can be any form of data, doing something to the data and obtaining a set of outputs. Today, DSP technology has found its way into a wide range of applications and is the basis of modern communications.

"It has to be very robust," explains Mr Lynch. "If you put something in a satellite or into a submarine or monitor someone`s heartbeat, you can`t afford to get it wrong."

Many early attempts at computer recognition of patterns relied on that branch of artificial intelligence which was based upon rules and so called case-based reasoning. However, these AI systems mostly failed to live up to their early promise, opening the door for the alternative approach embodied in DSP theory.

"I came to pattern recognition from the signal processing world and that has turned out to be a big advantage," he says. Instead of trying to reach absolute conclusions and having to define relationships, pattern recognition based on signal processing deals with probabilities which then allows for exceptions.

"It is a well-founded, well-proven method, based on mathematical rather than specific computer methodologies," says Mr Lynch. If you can use a mathematical approach towards problem-solving, it becomes easier to handle complex data.

"If you have not worked in digital signal processing, it is hard to believe that information processing can be as fundamental as physics, but it is. There are fundamental laws and ideas of what information is."

Nevertheless, Mr Lynch and NeuroDynamics` two other founders discovered it was much harder to convince people that their plans were sound. "We ended up as three snotty-nosed hardly bathed postgraduates trying to explain non-linear adapter signal processing to a bank manager," he says. Not surprisingly, the bank politely declined the loan request. Venture capitalists were equally unimpressed. "The quality then of the venture capitalist in Britain was appalling," says Mr Lynch "Today, nine years later, it is much better."

In the end, NeuroDynamics was set up in the back room of a college house with a œ2,000 loan provided by an "English eccentric" friend of a friend in a Soho wine bar who had once discovered a famous rock-band.

"We had an immediate need to generate money," remembers Mr Lynch. "So we did work (including finger print-matching systems for the police forces and number plate recognition which was licensed to Singapore) that paid money, while getting on with the research the rest of the time." The œ2,000 loan was paid back within six months and NeuroDynamics is now a profitable, privately held company in which Mr Lynch is still a shareholder.

After rejecting a takeover bid from Racal, Autonomy was spun off from NeuroDynamics in 1994 to exploit the emerging market for sifting through unstructured data, particularly text.

Traditionally, in order to make unstructured data usable, people have had to be employed to read and sort it manually into a structured, rigid database form such as a spreadsheet.

Autonomy`s software automates this process and allows a user to extract information from the database in a much more sophisticated and flexible manner than formerly. In particular, it enables information to be retrieved in context.

Autonomy`s software is based on a pattern-matching algorithm and draws on the work of Thomas Bayes, an 18th century Presbyterian minister and mathematician who was fascinated by probability theory. In Autonomy`s software, Bayes` ideas on probability have been married with developments in information theory and neural networks to identify patterns and look for similar ideas in other sources automatically.

Among the internet-based applications of Autonomy`s software, it can help to organise online product information, categorise e-mails and route them to those who might be interested, and create links between related articles on web sites. It can also monitor what someone has actually read, rather than just provide details of which web sites they have visited.

Today, Autonomy`s customer base includes the US State Department, News Corporation, Reuters, Procter & Gamble, Lucent and Merrill Lynch. In Britain, the BBC uses Autonomy products to manage its online news and current affairs.

Mr Lynch emphasises that Autonomy`s technology is essentially a knowledge management tool and its technology is found in many other software products.

"My goal has almost come true," says Mr Lynch. "There was recently an article about knowledge management in an American magazine and at the bottom of the article was a list of five companies, Autonomy and four others, of which three were using Autonomy`s technology without the journalist knowing. That is exactly where we see ourselves."

Copyright © The Financial Times Limited

[Ahap]

aktuelle Info von der Autonomy Web-seite:

AUTONOMY APPOINTS SENIOR AOL EXECUTIVE TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS




AUTONOMY APPOINTS SENIOR AOL EXECUTIVE TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS
San Francisco, CA (January 27, 1999) - Autonomy, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Barry M. Ariko as a non-executive Director of the Company. This appointment takes effect immediately.

Barry Ariko is a senior vice president at AOL ("AOL"; NASDAQ: AOL) and was responsible for the Netscape Enterprise Group`s worldwide sales, strategic partnerships, professional services and support organizations. Since the acquisition of Netscape by AOL, he has worked with Sun Microsystems to build the Sun/Netscape Alliance as a major force in the enterprise e-commerce software market. Prior to the acquisition by AOL, Mr. Ariko was executive vice president and chief operating officer of Netscape Communications Corp, where he ran the enterprise software business.

Previously, Mr. Ariko was executive vice president and head of the Americas operations for Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL), where he lead the Americas` organization to grow by 500% from 1994 to 1998. He holds a Bachelor`s of Science Management degree from Golden Gate University in San Francisco.

Mike Lynch, chief executive officer and managing director of Autonomy, commented that

Barry Ariko brings with him a wealth of experience in building major global technology companies. "We are delighted that he has accepted our invitation to join the board and look forward to the contribution he will undoubtedly make to the continued success of Autonomy," said Lynch.

[kh11]

Hallo!

was fürn Zufall. Ich habe die gestern abend entdeckt. Hatte ein
bischen Zeit und mit meinen Filter in TAIPAN 5 gepielt.

Als ich den Chart sah wurde ich neugierig und habe viele Daten
auf deren wirklich guten Webseite angeschaut.

Schon ärgerlich das die an einem vorbeigegangen sind.

Ich werde mal weiter analysieren, ob es sich lohnt auf eine Konsolidierung
zu warten, oder ob es jetzt lohnt einzusteigen.

kh11

[Ahap]

freut mich!

Und Du machst den richtigen Punkt:

warten auf Konsolidierung oder gleich einsteigen? Das weiß ich auch nicht. Meine Kursziele sind zugegebener Maßen eher aus der Erfahrung mit "heiß gehandelten" Werten abgeleitet als aus einer Fundamental-analyse.

Der Chart macht deutlich, daß es größere Konsolidierungen bisher nicht gab. Es sieht eher so aus, als werden von Zeit zu Zeit neue Gruppen aufmerksam, es wird gekauft, der Kurs steigt, dann plätschert er wieder dahin, max 10% nach unten, und wartet auf die nächste News oder den nächsten Aufmerksamkeitsschub.

In den letzten Tagen ging es kontinuierlicher aufwärts.

Ich habe soeben meine Medion verkauft, die seit Wochen eher stagnieren und lege Montag bei Autonomy nach - egal wie der Kurs ist.

viel Erfolg
Ahap

[kh11]

Hei Ahap,

ja da ist wirklich nicht viel Konsolidierung drin. Die Aktie steigt
unaufhaltsam nach oben.

Ich fand die Informationen auf der Webseite sehr interessant, weil
die wirklich viel Informationen für Investoren bereithalten.

Meine Erfahrungen erstrecken sich auch meist auf hochspekulatives
und ich bin kaum im neuen Markt investiert, weil mir das schon
zu langweilig war.

So langsam geht mir aber die Zeit aus, das alles im Auge zu behalten.

Ich habe daher vor 2 Wochen angefangen einiges umzuschichten.
Mit Chartanalyse beschäftige ich mich schon eine ganze Weile. Ich bin
mir zwar immer noch nicht sicher, ob so ein Chart wirklich etwas aussagt,
aber im Prinzip muessen ja nur alle dran glauben :-)

Naja, ich werde hier wohl auch einsteigen und mich mal weiter in
England umschauen. Vielleicht gibt es noch weitere interessante
Unternehmen, die keiner wegen der Adelong/und Konsorten Hype`s beachtet.

Gruß

kh11

[Ahap]

zu Deiner Bemerkung, der Wert wäre sehr eng und könnte heftig schwanken:

Deine Überlegungen sind sehr bemerkenswert.
Ich nehme das Risiko hin, da der WErt in der Vergangenheit eben diese großen Schwankungen nicht zeigte.
Ob er wirklich eng ist, kann man doch nicht allein an den gehandelten STückzahlen in Deutschland messen. Dazu müßte man tatsächlich die freien Aktien wissen, die sind doch überwiegend an der Nasdaq und wohl in London (PLC ist der britische Firmenmantel).

Bislang wird wenig gehandelt. richtig. ich denke, das liegt an der geringen Nachfrage und Aufmerksamkeit, die das Papier genießt. Dazu muß man entweder marktkenner sein oder die FT an diesen beiden Tagen gelesen haben.

Der Kurs folgt vielmehr dem Kurs an der NASDAQ. Können deutsche Kursschwankungen dann so heftig ausfallen - ich glaube nicht.

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Zu deiner Bemerkung bezgl. CHARTS:

Ich selber glaube daran, daß Kurse aufgrund von Charts steigen oder sinken.
Ich glaube nicht an die Charts an sich. Kein Wert verhält sich technisch...
Einige Menschen dahinter verhalten sich technisch. Weil sie daran glauben. Daher kaufen und verkaufen sie aufgrund von Chartsignalen. Damit kommt es zu Kauf- oder Verkaufsdruck. DAmit steigt oder sinkt der Kurs.

Ich glaube also nicht an Charts, sondern an die psychologie dahinter und daran, daß ausreichend viele die Kaufsignale beachten.

Bin ich ein Chart-Lemming?

Nein, denn es ist nicht mein Hauptkriterium.


gruß,
alexander

PS: Kurs heute bei 98. wieder stetige 2%
also nichts heftiges

[kh11]

Charts:

ich beschäftige mich schon eine ganze Weile mit der Charttechnik.
Ist ein selten spannendes Zeug und ich sehe es ähnlich wie Du.

Solange genug Leute an Charts glauben, bzw. danach handeln, solange
funkionieren die Prognosen auch.

Wird eine Linie durchbrochen kaufen alle oder verkaufen eben.

Naja, zumindest habe ich mittels Charttechnik eine Trefferquote
über 50%. Das ist in jedem Fall besser als Raten, da die Change
dann _immer_ bei 50% liegt.

Eine fundamentale Analyse eines Unternehmens macht vielleicht bei
Siemens und Co Sinn, aber nicht bei Aktien die im Internet Bereich
anzusiedeln sind.

Der Hype lässt es gar nicht zu. 75% aller notierten und optisch
gut laufenden Firmen sind in naher Zukunft das Papier der Aktien
nicht wert. Da werden wir in den nächsten Jahren noch einiges
erleben.
Vorerst wird das aber noch locker 2 Jahre weiterlaufen.

Und gänzlich nicht bewertbar mit irgendwelchen Mitteln sind die
Goldminen mit Modemanschluß :-)

kh11

[Ahap]

ich stelle hier neuere Informationen ein und gehe davon aus, daß Ihr Englisch könnt:

Source: Business Wire
Date: 01/25/2000 07:17
Title: Autonomy Unveils New Platform for Applications Using Unstructured Data; Leading Software Companies Adopt Autonomy`s Cross Enterprise Infrastructure

Summary: SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 25, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Autonomy, Inc. today announced the Autonomy Content Infrastructure (ACI), a new technology that automates operations on unstructured information for cross enterprise applications. The Autonomy Content Infrastructure (ACI) allows leading enterprise applications to understand and route the business critical content that exists in unstructured formats, such as email, Web pages, office documents, and Lotus Notes.


Source: M2 Communications Ltd.
Date: 01/12/2000 09:15
Title: AUTONOMY: KnowledgeTrack licenses Autonomy`s technology for its enterprise portal solution

Summary: San Francisco, Calif. -- Autonomy, Inc. today announced that KnowledgeTrack, the next generation enterprise portal, is embedding Autonomy`s core technology within its Knowledge Center to help companies add advanced categorization and personalization capabilities to their portal solutions. Autonomy`s technology can analyze and rank the ideas within any piece of text, regardless of its language. Because of this unique capability, Autonomy`s technology automates some of the most time consuming tasks associated with building and maintaining a portal. These functions include categorizing, tagging, linking and personalizing vast volumes of internal and external information from newsfeeds, emails and websites to Lotus Notes and word processing documents.

[Ahap]

heute bei 140 Euro, das sind dann schon 636%...

[Der Kommissar]

Wie hoch ist die derzeitige Marktkap. von autonomy ?

[Ahap]

die MArktkapitalisierung von Autonomy betrug am 29. Februar:

Market capitalisation EUR 5,033,095,189

First trading date on EASDAQ 10 July 1998
Issue price at admission USD 3.70
Total funds raised EUR 50,469,935
Market cap. at admission EUR 125,414,201

der Kurs stieg seit November um 900% (Kurs 08.03. 200 EUR)


Issue Type EASDAQ IPO
Type of security Ordinary Shares
First trading date on EASDAQ 10 July 1998
Issue price at admission 3.70
Total funds raised 50,469,935
Market cap. at admission 125,414,201
Artesia Bank, Banque Paribas UK, BBL, Beeson
Gregory, Fortis Banque, Herzog Heine Geduld Int.,
Morgan Grenfell & Co. Limited, Puilaetco, Quartz
Capital Partners, Robertson Stephens Intl., Winterflood
Securities
Market Makers
29 February 2000
No of shares outstanding 40,735,855
Free float 37.85%
Mid closing price 119.13
Performance since launch (**) +3119.59%
Data as of
USD
Market capitalisation 5,033,095,189

[Michael_III]

Gratulation zu Euren Gewinnen!

Wenn man sich mit dem Unternehmen beschäftigt.....
Gibt es Euch noch oder habt Ihr ne Insel gekauft? Nicht nur mich würde Eure kompetente Meinung zu Artificial Life interessieren.

Gruß
michael_III

[Fettes Geld]

Autonomy !
Aktie ist in den "Finanzen" empfohlen worden ! Kursziel soll 200 Euro sein.
Ich möchte den Thread mal wiederbeleben ...
Was denkt Ihr darüber ?

Fettes Geld wünscht fette Gewinne

[colonia]

Habe seit 1.6. mit Autonomy-ADRs (Nasdaq) fast 70% gemacht. Jetzt sollte man Vorsicht walten lassen und ein paar Gewinne mitnehmen. AUTN ist schnell teuer geworden. Kann aber durchaus sein, dass nochmal +25% drin sind.

Konkurrent SER will in Kürze mit Brainware auftrumpfen, bisher nur wenige offizielle Geschäftsabschlüsse, aber lt. diversen Andeutungen des Managements ist so manches in der Pipeline. Hier ist das Chance/Risiko-Verhältnis auf Sicht 3-6 Monate IMO besser. Basis Freitag 42,5€ plus 25% ergeben ein Kursziel von 53 €, das halte ich für leichter erreichbar als 200€ für Autonomy.

[colonia]

Die Deutschen sind gross bei Autonomy eingestiegen:

Notification of Disclosure of Significant Shareholdings
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2000--Autonomy Corporation plc (Nasdaq:AUTN - news; EASDAQ:AUTN) received notice on 20 July 2000 that Deutsche Asset Management Group Ltd (including Deutsche Asset Management Ltd, Deutsche Asset Management (International) Ltd, Deutsche Asset Management Investment Services Ltd, Deutsche Investment Trust Managers Ltd, Deutsche Asset Management Life & Pensions Ltd) had purchased Ordinary GBP0.01 shares on behalf of discretionary asset management clients on 14 July 2000 resulting in a holding of 2,047,861 (5.02%) of Autonomy Corporation plc`s Ordinary GBP0.01 shares.

[colonia]

Kennt jemand diese "MSS Nominees Ltd", der jetzt fast 66% von Autonomy gehört?

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2000--(Nasdaq:AUTN - news; EASDAQ:AUTN.)

This announcement is a requirement of Rule 5562 of the EASDAQ rule book and a notification form for Disclosure of Significant Shareholders by the Issuer (form 06c) has been filed with EASDAQ.

Identity of the person, entity or group of persons or entities:
MSS (Common Depository) Nominees Ltd
Number of Ordinary shares of (pound)0.01 held: 27,569,189
Percentage of Ordinary shares of (pound)0.01 held: 65.97%

[colonia]

Autonomy reports 2Q profit boost
Analyst says growth seen steady

By Liza Roberts & Joy Tadaki
Last Update: 9:04 AM ET Aug 3, 2000 NewsWatch Latest headlines

LONDON (CBS.MW) - Content management software maker Autonomy Corp. said Thursday it earned $3.4 million in the second quarter - its second quarter of profitability -- compared to the $346,000 it made in quarter one.

Gross margins at the Cambridge, England-based Autonomy (AUTN: news, msgs) showed growth of 90 percent compared with 93 percent the previous quarter, in line with analysts` expectations.

Revenues came in at $14.6 million, a 174 percent improvement on the second quarter of 1999 and a 25 percent boost from the previous quarter.

"We enhanced profitability for the second consecutive quarter due to excellent revenue growth and continued high gross margins," said Autonomy`s founder and chief executive, Mike Lynch, a former computer engineer who is considered Britain`s first Internet billionaire.

"I thought it was a pretty good set of results, about 10 percent above expectations for revenue and gross profit," said an Internet analyst at a U.S. investment bank, who declined to be named ahead of an analysts` call later in the day with Autonomy executives. "Gross margin was exactly what we were looking for, and all of that increased revenue and just washed through to the bottom line."

The analyst also said he expects an "equally impressive" third quarter, once currency gains and interest payments are stripped out.

The company, which is traded on the Nasdaq and the Easdaq stock markets, said it also attracted a series of new clients in the period, including Hewlett-Packard, PepsiCo, Deutsche Bank (DTBKY: news, msgs), Sun Microsystems, Compaq Computer and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Autonomy`s shares fell $2.88 to $44.63 on the Brussels-based Easdaq by mid-afternoon. On the Nasdaq Wednesday, the shares fell $1.98, or 4.1 percent, to $47.

Taking on new markets

Lynch in a statement said the company`s focus will be on tackling new markets, business sectors and industries, as well as "leveraging our technology into new applications via indirect distribution channels." Autonomy shares, after a three-for-one stock split on August 1, have given the company a market capitalization of almost $6 billion. That`s more than 60 times one year`s expected revenue.

Autonomy produces Kenjin, a search engine that sits on a computer desktop and searches automatically for related documents and Web pages.

[colonia]

Sehr lesenswert ist der komplette (recht lange) Quartalsbericht

http://www.autonomy.com/press/2000q2report.html

z.B. mit Ausführungen zur folgenden Überschrift:

Second Quarter Corporate Highlights Include:

Autonomy signs agreements with blue-chip clients including Hewlett Packard, PepsiCo, Deutsche Bank, Compaq Computer, Sun Microsystems

Indirect channel strategy drives forward with new, high profile OEM & VAR relationships

Major strategic contract in Asia Pacific

[SERich]

Lieber Colonia,

du scheinst hier unser kleiner Autonomy Experte zu sein!

Könntest du mir bitte

a) mitteilen, woher du die Infos über die 66% der "MSS Nominees Ltd" bekommen hast?

b) erzählen, ob du zu dieser Gesellschaft eventuell schon selbst etwas herausgefunden hast?

c) darstellen, was du von der Gewinnentwicklung (auch zukünftig) und der Gewinnzusammensetzung
bei Autonomy, besonders bezüglich Währungsgewinnanteilen hälst?

Danke

SERich

[colonia]

Hallo SERich,

a) http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000724/autonomy_3.html
b) viel gesucht, leider nichts gefunden
c) extrem hoch, wirft schon ein komisches Licht auf die earnings, es gibt noch ein paar weitere kritische Punkte, z.B. US/Asia-Wachstum nur ca. 15%

Bin vorsichtigerweise zu knapp 160 (vor Split) zum größten Teil ausgestiegen, s.o.
AUTN kommt aber bestimmt wieder, sind noch voll im Hype, sieh nur mal die eindrucksvoll Kunden- und Partnerliste an. Steige vielleicht an schwachen Tagen wie heute wieder ein.

[SERich]

Danke, colonia,

warst ja echt schnell!

Mir sind auch noch ein paar Ungereimtheiten aufgefallen, deshalb meine Frage!

Für mich ist der Zug bei Autonomy abgefahren, ich warte lieber darauf, daß er bei SER ENDLICH losfährt.

Gehe mal davon aus, daß sie den Markt von Deutschland aus aufrollen, renommierte Namen dürften dann in den USA weiterhelfen.

Wenn nicht, steigen sie halt nicht um ?x100%, sondern nur um 100% .

Bin aber auch schon ungeduldig, zugegeben!

Ciao

SERich

[Fettes Geld]

Jetzt ist Autonomy auch in einem internen Papier der Deutschen Bank empfohlen worden.
Ist da jetzt wirklich was dahinter oder pushen die Analysten nur, um so wieder besser verkaufen zu können ?

Fettes Geld

[colonia]

Heute in TheStreet.com:

Huh? What Did You Say? Ask Soon-to-Be Available Autonomy Software
By Nick Watson
Senior European Correspondent
8/7/00 6:53 PM ET

LONDON -- To Ask Jeeves (ASKJ:Nasdaq - news) a question, you have to go through the trouble of writing it down. No wonder, then, that Autonomy Corporation`s (AUTN:Nasdaq ADR - news) speech-recognition software is causing such a buzz.

Autonomy -- a provider of software that automates the normally labor-intensive task of organizing vast amounts of unstructured information on the Internet, in emails and documents -- announced at the end of last week that it expects to begin shipping its speech-recognition technology "within the next couple of quarters."

The technology was initially developed by a company called SoftSound, which Autonomy acquired in April. The software will enable recorded or real-time speech to be searched and analyzed for concepts in the same way that written data is. For example, the technology would allow companies to analyze phone calls to their call centers to find out whether a question being asked has been answered before.

Mike Lynch, the chief executive of Autonomy, believes there will be a lot of demand for this addition to the company`s technology. "We`ve had a lot of approaches from Fortune 100 companies; there was a lot of pent-up demand here, and there`ll be a strong takeup of it," Lynch told analysts and investors during a conference call at the time of the announcement.

Lynch is probably correct. Yet those investors looking to see a boost in revenue to match the print space that the announcement has generated are likely to be disappointed, at least in the medium term.

"It`s not clear the impact on revenue this technology is going to have, not a significant amount in the next six to 12 months" says Darren Lauber, an analyst with WestLB Panmure who has a buy rating on the stock. In any case, "the speech-recognition part is embedded in the rest of the software, so it would be difficult to separate the revenue streams of the two." (WestLB has no investment banking relationship with the company.)

More important, Lauber believes, is the impact that the technology release will have on the market`s perception of Autonomy. "This really shows that Autonomy is far ahead in terms of the technology out there," he says.

Indeed, a look at the list of Autonomy`s original equipment manufacturer, or OEM, vendors shows the caliber of companies that have taken a shine to its technology, which, unlike that of Ask Jeeves and Inktomi (INKT:Nasdaq - news), is built around an algorithm, thus making it nonlanguage specific. Autonomy OEM vendors include Oracle, Hewlett Packard and Sun Microsystems.

However, it`s debatable whether the company needs any further boost in the eyes of investors. Autonomy shares on Monday closed around 49, and with forecast earnings this year of 5 cents a share, the company is trading at a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 980 and an enterprise value (debt plus equity) -to-sales multiple of 64 times.

Although Autonomy`s second-quarter revenue grew 174% to $14.6 million, the company is under enormous pressure to realize far more spectacular growth in the second half of this year as the OEM vendors begin to launch products that incorporate Autonomy`s speech-recognition technology.

Yet Autonomy`s deal with Oracle, the world`s largest data vendor, shows just how unpredictable this revenue flow can be. Autonomy`s business model is a licensing one, whereby third parties incorporate Autonomy`s technology into its products and Autonomy receives a cut of the sales of those products. No sales, no revenue.

"The Oracle deal is frustrating," admits Lynch. "The launch of their enterprise portal is delayed, and because we are part of that portal, then we are delayed too."

However, having popular technology such as Autonomy`s offers a solution to this. Autonomy also counts Sybase as an OEM partner, and Sybase is already rolling out its enterprise portal product OpenDoor. "In a sense we backed both horses," Lynch says.

Lumpy revenue growth aside, other risks to Autonomy`s domination in the knowledge-management software area look improbable, at least for the moment.

"Their software may not work, it may prove difficult to integrate or something comes along that is better," says Nainish Bapna, an analyst at Nomura, which has no investment banking relationship with the company. Bapna has a buy rating on the stock.

"But I`m very keen on the company," Bapna says. "Everyone is talking about Autonomy`s knowledge-management software."

Just Ask Jeeves.

[colonia]

AstraZeneca choses Autonomy technology

LONDON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - British software company Autonomy Corporation Plc (NasdaqNM:AUTN - news) said on Friday Anglo-Swedish drugs giant AstraZeneca Plc had adopted its technology to help it sort and manage medical information.

The technology, called Portal-in-a-Box, analyses text, identifies the main ideas and then automatically determines how it should be categorised, who should see it and how it should be tagged.

``By using Autonomy, we can ensure that the right material reaches the right person at the right time,`` Duncan Fyfe, Director of Informatics, Product Strategy and Licensing at AstraZeneca said in a statement.

Autonomy which is based in Cambridge, is listed on both the Nasdaq exchange in New York and Brussels-based Easdaq exchange.

[colonia]

Der Guardian Unlimited hält den Autonomy-AstraZeneca-Deal für "ziemlich klein" - "nur" 1 Mio £ = 3 Mio DM:

Blue-chip order boosts Autonomy

John Cassy
Friday August 11, 2000

Autonomy is this morning expected to announce that pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca is the latest multinational to license its "intelligent software", which automatically sifts and archives corporate data.
The value of the deal is relatively small - no more than £1m - but AstraZeneca`s blue-chip status will be a useful selling point for Autonomy as it tries to achieve universal adoption of its software. The "intelligent" software looks at the contents of information sources such as the web, intranet, internal memos and emails, then decides to which people and departments they are most relevant and automatically sends the information to them.

All AstraZeneca, departments, from research and development to business management, will use the product. Autonomy claims the volume of unstructured data on the web is doubling every three months. One in five firms has had to increase its network resources by 75% to manage the growth in corporate data. Duncan Fyfe, AstraZeneca`s director of product strategy and licensing, said: "By using Autonomy we can ensure that the right material reaches the right person at the right time. "It means our staff are better informed, our research decisions better supported and the costs typically associated with managing information significantly reduced."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0%2C3604%2C353000%2…

[colonia]

Autonomy Chosen by GRC International to Help Power Electronic Government for U.S.

Automated software infrastructure will allow the Web site, FirstGov.gov, to streamline 100 million Web pages for American taxpayers

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 25, 2000--

Autonomy Corporation plc (Nasdaq:AUTN - news), a leading provider of Internet infrastructure technology, has partnered with AT&T`s GRC International to help build FirstGov.gov, the U.S. federal government`s Internet Web portal. In a first-of-its-kind Web cast address to the nation, President Clinton said the objective of FirstGov.gov is to ``give our citizens a single, customer-focused Web site where they can find every on-line resource offered by the federal government.``

FirstGov.gov will gather information for U.S. citizens from 25,000 federal Web sites 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week. The FirstGov.gov site is expected to launch in the fall and initially support more than 200,000 simultaneous users. By December, FirstGov.gov is expected to receive more than two million visitors per day.

The technology partners behind FirstGov.gov represent an impressive cooperative effort among some of the nation`s most technically advanced commercial companies specializing in Web development, communications and knowledge management. The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) selected AT&T`s GRC International along with Autonomy, AppNet Inc., and Imigitas to provide the technical resources that will streamline the aggregation and navigation of 100 million Web pages.

Based on the Federal Search Foundation database of all publicly available federal Web pages, the GRCI-led effort will consist of an AT&T Web hosting center running on a Sun Microsystems platform; an efficiently designed, user-friendly interface developed by AppNet; numerous advanced features such as natural language search queries and communities of interest using Autonomy`s software, with additional content and strategic direction provided by Imagitas.

``Incorporating the Autonomy technology was critical to GRC`s successful selection by the GSA for building the FirstGov.gov project,`` said GRC Executive President and Chief Operating Officer Mike Stolarik. Autonomy`s U.S. General Manager, David Applebaum said, ``These partnership agreements reflect Autonomy`s commitment to predominance in the U.S. government marketplace. Autonomy`s technology, combined with the skills and experience of our partners, will immediately enable U.S. citizens to benefit from best-of-breed knowledge management solutions.``

This announcement comes on the back of six major U.S. federal, state and local government partnerships. Autonomy is also providing its intelligent software to the Department of Defense and NASA, among others.

About Autonomy Corporation plc

Autonomy`s technology powers large-scale, personalized systems for the Enterprise, Internet and other Digital domains. Because of its ability to analyze any piece of text (independent of the document`s language) and identify and rank the main ideas, Autonomy can automate a broad range of otherwise labor intensive tasks. These range from categorizing information by subject matter, to inserting hypertext links to related material, to profiling users based on the ideas in the text they read or write, to delivering information to those most likely to be interested.

Autonomy (EASDAQ/NASDAQ: AUTN) was founded in 1996 and has offices in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, New York, and Washington, D.C. in the United States, as well as offices in Amsterdam, Brussels, Cambridge, England, Frankfurt, Milan, Paris, Oslo and Sydney.

Among its 200-plus customers are Alcatel, Associated Press, Barclays Bank, British Aerospace, Clorox, News Corp., Lucent Technologies, Merrill Lynch, SF Gate, Reuters Semi-tech, The Royal Mail, Unilever, and the United States Department of Defense. In addition, several software companies are licensing Autonomy`s technology to add intelligence to their online publishing, knowledge management, email routing and document management applications, including Aeneid, Brio, CoreChange, Delano, Filenet, FutureTense, Hyperwave, Insight, Intranet Solutions, Intraspect, KnowledgeTrack, Global Recall, Nexor, Novient, OpenMarket, Sagemaker, Sybase, Verge and Vignette.

Note:

With the exception of historical information, the matters set forth in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These factors include, among others, dependence on core technology; limited operating history; fluctuations in quarterly results; dependence on new product development; rapid technological and market change; reliance on sales by others; management of growth; dependence on key personnel; rapid expansion; technology risks; volatility of stock price; growth of the Internet; financial risk management; and future growth subject to risks. These factors and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially are also discussed in the company`s filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, including Autonomy`s Registration Statement on Form F-1, File no. 333-11804.

[c-laus]

@Ahap,
wie ich sehe, bist Du (glücklicherweise) schon lange in Autonomy investiert. Ich beobachte Autonomy und die Erfolgsstory auch schon einige Zeit, obwohl ich bis heute nicht investiert bin (schade!).
Eine kleine Position werde ich mir - trotz der extremen Marktkapitalisierung von über 6 Mrd. Mark - aufbauen, da ich von dem Zukunftsthema Knowledge Management absolut überzeugt bin. Firmen wie die im Board erwähnte SER halte ich für keine ernstzunehmende Konkurrenz und werde dort auch nicht investieren. Durch meine umfangreiche Recherche (die ich für ein Investment für unabdinglich halte) bin ich allerdings auf einen ernstzunehmenden Konkurrenten gestoßen, der noch im Hintergrund agiert. Es handelt sich um Transcom Software Inc. (www.transcomsoft.com). Bitte mach Dir mal die Mühe, Dir die Webseite mal anzuschauen. Momentan läuft die letzte Runde vom private placement, bevor die Aktien an die Nasdaq oder Easdaq gelistet werden. Leider kann man erst ab 100.000 $ investieren; für meine Verhältnisse etwas zuviel auf eine Karte; es sei denn, man könnte ein Pool bilden.
Auf weiter steigende Kurse von Autonomy (sobald ich drin bin).
C-laus

[martin the hun]

Heah c-laus, woher kennst du Transcom?????? Ich bin dort seit 1,5 jahren investiert und bin sehr sicher damit mehrfachen (20-fach) Gewinn einzustreichen. www.transerve.com ist die andere webside.
Natürlich hast du recht. USD 100.000 ist zuviel für den Durchschnittsinvestor aber Transcom ist mehr ein venture capital investment und das ist nicht mit "peanuts" zu kaufen. Ich habe übrigens keine autonomy. Transcom hat ein überlegeneres Produkt und hat gerade mit einem major player einen Vertrag abgeschlossen. Diser player hat das Transcom produkt viel besser bewertet als autonomy.
Der press release kommt bald und dann werde ich das board darauf aufmerksam.

[SERich]

Ihr zwei KM Spezialisten, Hunnen-Martin und c-claus,

mit so peinlichen Aussagen ist uns kaum geholfen!


Ein nachvollziehbar dargestellter Bewertungsvergleich (Autonomy - SER Systems - Transcom) bezüglich
Technologie, Unternehmen und Management wäre wohl angebracht!

Zu SER immerhin in mühevoller Arbeit von vielen Boardteilnehmern eine Menge Information zusammengetragen.

Wenn man schon angeblich "umfangreiche Recherche" betrieben hat, sollte man auch etwas mehr auf Lager haben
als "SER halte ich für keine ernstzunehmende Konkurrenz"!

Junge - wieso, weshalb, warum!?!?!

Martin the hun, ich treffe die gleiche Aussage (wenn du kannst und willst, widerlege sie!):

"SER Systems hat ein überlegeneres Produkt und hat gerade mit einem major player einen Vertrag abgeschlossen. Di(e)ser player
hat das SER produkt viel besser bewertet als autonomy.
Der press release kommt bald und dann werde ich das board darauf aufmerksam (machen)."


Dennoch danke für den mageren Hinweis, werde mir Transcom ebenfalls näher ansehen.
Start-ups und IPO`s wie diese zeigen mir, daß KM einer der Top-Zukunftsmärkte ist.

Dies bestärkt mich zusätzlich in meinem SER Investment!

Ciao

SERich

[colonia]

Strebt Autonomy Listing an der Londoner Börse an? Wäre ein FTSE100-Kandidat.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Business/Inside_Business/2…

[c-laus]

@Martin the Hun,

hätte nie gedacht, daß sich hier im Board jemand tummelt, der in Transcom investiert ist. Ich habe mich mit dem Chairman Vincent Hillsdon in Verbindung gesetzt; er wird mir in Kürze einige Unterlagen zum Unternehmen schicken (Balance sheets,Partner, etc.).
Du hast von einem "big player" gesprochen. Kannst Du uns nicht nennen, um welche Firma es sich handelt?!? Meiner Meinung nach sind neben der herausragenden Software gerade für Start-ups die Kooperationpartner extrem wichtig. Wenn Du also weitere Infos hast, die nicht auf der Webseite zu finden sind, poste diese bitte - sofern es Dir gestattet ist. Ich überlege mir nämlich ernsthaft, in der letzten Finanzierungsrunde einzusteigen (wenn der Dollar nicht so hoch wäre; aktuell 2,28 DM!!!).


@SERich,
ich gebe zu, daß ich mich mit SER Systeme nicht genau befasst habe. Daher war meine Äußerung etwas voreilig! Soweit ich weiß, war der Ursprung von SER das Dokumenten-Management. Erst später ist SER auf den fahrenden Zug KM gestiegen, was sicherlich sinnvoll war.
Autonomy hat von Anfang an den Schwerpunkt auf KM gelegt, und ist deshalb der Konkurrenz etwas voraus. Wenn dem nicht so ist, bitte ich um Belehrung!

Martin, wie bist Du auf Transcom gestoßen?
Bist Du von dem Investment wirklich so überzeugt (20-facher Gewinn)?
Steht der Termin für das Nasdaq-Listing schon fest?
Kann man auch mit 50.000 $ einsteigen?

[revocon]

Hallo,
auch ich befasse mich mit KM und CRM. Bin soeben durch SER und Autonomy auf Transcom gestossen. Ich würde gerne in Transcom investieren, aber so max. 10T EUR. Vielleicht können wir uns ja zusammentun ?
Übrigens, wie funktioniert das eigentlich mit "... Freunde sind eingeloggt ?".

[colonia]

LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Credit Suisse First Boston said on Friday it had started coverage of Autonomy Corp Plc (NasdaqNM:AUTN - news) with a ``buy`` recommendation and a price target of $67.

[c-laus]

Da dies schließlich ein Autonomy-Board und kein Transcom-Board ist, werde ich mich in Sachen Transcom ab sofort raushalten!
Nur eine kurze Mitteilung an Martin t.h.: Die von Dir angekündigte Meldung ist da; es handelt sich um Excalibur!!!

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Press

MEDIA RELEASE…MEDIA RELEASE…MEDIA RELEASE

WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU CROSS AN ANT WITH A FROG?

London, 17 September, 2000: Ants and frogs interbreeding? That’s at the core of a new software system based on two companies’ observations of how ants create order from chaos, and how frogs identify and catch a juicy fly.

Colony Merlin, announced today, is a hybrid created by two companies: Transcom Software Inc. (Transcom), whose intelligent software is inspired by ants’ sophisticated problem-solving ability, and Excalibur Technologies (Nasdaq: EXCA) whose market-leading RetrievalWare is based on the biological behavior of frogs.

Colony Merlin goes beyond any existing system’s ability to intelligently source, gather, retrieve, analyze and disseminate business-critical data. By replicating nature’s ability to achieve critical tasks without supervision, the system is able to reduce human workload and create a knowledge-rich environment in which relevant, up-to-date information is delivered to workers as they need it.

Tom Triggs, Chief Technical Officer of Transcom, said that "Traditional computer and IT systems are not equipped to handle the volume and complexity of data available today. So Transcom looked to nature to create a new platform that thrives in the infosphere, that understands our objectives and goals and can determine the actions needed to achieve success."

"We looked to social insects, such as bees and ants - and in particular, to how they solve complex problems and reject mediocre solutions when a superior option emerges," he commented.

"The result is Transcom’s patented Automated Intelligent Decision-Making (AIDM) technology that powers AI-like agents who make rule-based decisions and intelligently search for information."

Conversely, Excalibur Technologies’ RetrievalWare is inspired by observations of how a frog’s biological system is tuned to ‘trigger’ feeding behaviors as a split-second response to the appearance of food, such as a fly passing overhead, commented Peter Doyle, Excalibur’s European Marketing Director.

"Frogs have evolved a highly specialized response mechanism, which includes analytical functions (such as those that analyze sensory information to determine the presence of flies) and reflexive functions, such as those that trigger the feeding response," he commented.

"This mechanism is reflected in the core algorithm that gives RetrievalWare its ability to retrieve text, video and images from the Internet, intranet or corporate server," he said.

The hybrid Colony Merlin product will initially be offered to Excalibur’s extensive installed base, especially large government and corporate clients, and will offer users an unparalleled opportunity to gather information, regardless of type and regardless of where it is stored in the Web-enabled world.

Colony Merlin offers each user access to a natural universe for information and knowledge acquisition and sharing. Its functionality allows each user to acquire information - relevant to that person’s user profile - from anywhere in the connected world, and to refine and disseminate it to other business users as appropriate.

Nicholas Remzi, Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing for Transcom commented that what this means for business users is access to the right, and often mission critical business information, at the right time, which effectively boosts each employee’s ability to work faster and more precisely. Colony Merlin also strengthens market knowledge and helps companies to identify new opportunities while building closer customer relationships.

"In short," he said, "the Colony Merlin software platform turns information into knowledge that helps to build business revenue."

Excalibur’s Peter Doyle said that "Until today, no single company has offered the compatible technologies and business models to manage content in the whole-of-business environment."

"By combining Excalibur’s market-leading content management technologies and Transcom’s groundbreaking AIDM technology, we are able to provide an integrated platform that enables companies to gain unprecedented control of vital, often business-critical knowledge from across the company or around the world."

About Transcom Software, Inc

Operating in Europe, the USA and Australia, Transcom Software specializes in Intelligent Agent based solutions for a Web-enabled world. With technology based on natural collaborative systems, Transcom will continue to provide advanced software solutions for all content management, e-commerce, education and entertainment needs in the New Internet Economy. Through these software environments, Transcom is making it possible for users to gain better returns on their information assets, and to turn ‘raw information’ into useful knowledge.

Contact Transcom in the UK on 44-1727-861686 or visit the website at www.transcomsoft.com.

About Excalibur Technologies Corporation

Founded in 1980, Excalibur Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: EXCA) is a recognized leader in high-performance, search-powered, multimedia content management solutions for intelligently capturing, indexing, managing, accessing and utilizing valuable digital content - including text, images and video. Excalibur works with Global 2000 corporations, software developers, application service providers and government agencies to power Intranet and Internet solutions, corporate portals and eCommerce sites. Contact Excalibur in North America at 800-788-7758 or 703-761-3700, in the United Kingdom at 44-1344-893-444 or via email at [e-mail].

On May 1 2000, Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) and Excalibur announced that, subject to regulatory review, the two companies would form a new publicly traded company specifically to enable media rich content from organizations such as sports leagues, media and entertainment industry companies, and Global 2000 corporations to be delivered online.



FOR MORE INFORMATION

Nicholas Remzi
Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing
Transcom Software Inc
Phone: [phone]
E-Mail: [e-mail] Peter Doyle
European Marketing Director
Excalibur Technologies
Phone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Tracy Pendergast
Project Media
Phone: [phone]
Mobile: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

So, ab jetzt poste ich nur noch zu Autonomy, wenn ich Infos habe.

[colonia]

Intershop Expands Personalization Features with Autonomy Cartridge

Added Personalization Functionality Results in More Relevant and Intuitive Product Offerings

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21 Intershop, one of the world`s leading providers of electronic commerce applications and software solutions, and Autonomy Corporation plc (Nasdaq: AUTN - news), a leading developer of infrastructure software for the Web, today announced the availability of the Autonomy cartridge for Intershop enfinity.

The Autonomy cartridge for Intershop enfinity adds functionality to help businesses create a more compelling and convenient online shopping experience with personalized information that is tailored to the individual needs of the user. By analyzing and deriving the meaning from any piece of text, Autonomy`s pattern recognition technology can automatically categorize and link similar information (for example product descriptions) to deliver highly customized shopping information to the customer.

Key features of the Autonomy cartridge for Intershop enfinity include the ability to recommend a range of products and services based on the automatic profiling of users` preferences, the automatic suggestion of recommended alternatives and a natural language search facility.

``To create a compelling shopping experience and rapid return on investment, sophisticated e-commerce solution must include powerful personalization,`` said Laura Mylls, vice president of product marketing at Intershop. ``Autonomy`s pattern recognition technology complements Intershop enfinity`s Sell Anywhere capabilities and will help businesses serve customers better by delivering personalized content and adjusting their offering to customer preferences.``

``We are excited about the integration of our personalization technology with Intershop enfinity,`` said Dominic Johnson, Marketing Director of Autonomy. ``In today`s competitive online shopping markets, customers need relevant, informative, personalized product information delivered automatically. By supporting industry standards such as Java and XML, the Autonomy cartridge for Intershop enfinity is transforming the online shopping experience.``

The Autonomy cartridge for Intershop enfinity for Windows NT is available worldwide through Autonomy.

About Autonomy:

Autonomy`s technology powers large-scale, personalized systems to support the infrastructure of the Internet economy, across areas including knowledge management, enterprise portals, new media publishing and electronic commerce applications. Because of its ability to analyze any piece of text (independent of the document`s language) and identify and rank the main ideas therein, Autonomy can automate a broad range of labor-intensive tasks. These range from categorizing information by subject matter, to inserting hypertext links to related material, to profiling users based on the ideas in the text they read or write, to delivering information to those most likely to be interested.

Autonomy was founded in 1996 and has offices in San Francisco, New York, Atlanta and Boston, in the United States as well as in Cambridge (England), Paris, Oslo, Stockholm, Sydney, Frankfurt, Munich, Milan, Brussels and Amsterdam. Among its 200 customers are Alcatel, British Aerospace, News Corp., Tesco, Burda, Elsevier, Lucent Technologies, Merrill Lynch, TF1, BBC, Reuters, The Royal Mail, the US Army, the US Navy and NASA. In addition, many software companies are licensing Autonomy`s technology to add intelligence to their own products, in areas as diverse as online publishing, knowledge management, email routing, and document management. These include including Vignette, Hewlett-Packard, Brio, Sybase, OpenMarket, Intranet Solutions, Intraspect, Insight and Nexor. Autonomy also has collaborative partnership agreements with worldwide corporations including Compaq, Sun Microsystems and Intel.

In July 1998, the company went public on the Easdaq exchange (Easdaq: AUTN). It floated on Nasdaq (Nasdaq: AUTN - news) in May 2000.

About Intershop:

Intershop is the world`s fastest growing provider of e-commerce applications and software solutions for the enterprise. Intershop`s software offers the quickest time-to-market today with the greatest flexibility for tomorrow. In addition, Intershop e-commerce solutions enable customers to ``Sell Anywhere`` by supporting the widest range of current and rapidly emerging e-commerce business models.

With more than 300,000 licenses sold worldwide, Intershop customers include some of the world`s largest commerce service providers and enterprises such as AltaVista, Concentric, Deutsche Telekom, Go2Net, Mindspring, Nortel, PSINet, U S West Dex, Bosch, Canon USA, Columbia-Tri Star, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Hewlett-Packard Company, Kraft, Lufthansa, Mercedes Benz U.S. International, Motorola, Sony and Waterstone`s. Founded in 1992, Intershop is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in the U.S., Germany, France, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Sweden, Finland, Hong Kong, Singapore and the United Kingdom and can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.intershop.com.

All rights reserved. INTERSHOP is a registered trademark of INTERSHOP Communications, Inc. All other company and product names are property of their respective owners.

Note:

With the exception of historical information, the matters set forth in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These factors include, among others, dependence on core technology; limited operating history; fluctuations in quarterly results; dependence on new product development; rapid technological and market change; reliance on sales by others; management of growth; dependence on key personnel; rapid expansion; technology risks; volatility of stock price; growth of the Internet; financial risk management; and future growth subject to risks. These factors and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially are also discussed in the company`s filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, including Autonomy`s Registration Statement on Form F-1, File no. 333-11804.

SOURCE: Autonomy Corporation plc

[Mr.Peso]

Für Intranet KM Lösung solltet ihr euch mal www.hummingbird.com speziell den Bereich um EIP und Knowledge Server 4.0 anschauen.

Sehr gute KM Lösung im NT/Exchange/Intranet Umfeld. Leider bisher noch unbekannt. Da kann www.verity.com bzw. Microsoft noch was rumentwickeln ...

Aber gut, amis kaufen nun mal keine canadischen titel. selbst schuld.

Euer, Peso