From: scott.neal@enron.com
To: fletcher.sturm@enron.com, hunter.shively@enron.com
Date: 2000-07-24 06:41:00+00:00

Network Appliance Selects TIBCO Software to Support Enterprise
System Initiatives

TIBCO Technology Enables Network Appliance to Integrate Its Internal 
Enterprise Systems Without Disrupting Its
Business

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Advancing its leadership in the 
application integration space, TIBCO Software Inc. (Nasdaq: TIBX -
news), a leading provider of real-time infrastructure software for 
e-business, announced today Network Appliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTAP - news), the
leading provider of network-attached data access and content management 
solutions, has selected the TIBCO ActiveEnterprisec e-business product
suite to integrate its internal enterprise systems and applications. As a 
fast growing company, Network Appliance has been continually implementing
best-in-class enterprise systems such as enterprise resource planning, 
customer resource management, human resources and manufacturing applications.
To integrate these disparate systems and ensure that the right people within 
Network Appliance have access to the information they need, Network
Appliance turned to TIBCO.

``We need an integration tool that will not only enable us to share 
information internally, but will also enable us to extend access to this 
information beyond
our corporate firewalls, as we expand our e-commerce capabilities,'' said Ric 
McCormick, director of business applications for Network Appliance.
``TIBCO's proven e-business solutions provide us with the scalability, 
security and reliability we need to ensure that our technology infrastructure 
can
keep up with our business growth, and just as important, that our vital 
business processes not be disrupted as we continue to implement new 
solutions.''

``To be successful e-businesses, companies need a highly efficient 
information infrastructure that connects every system and process in the 
enterprise,''
said Fred Meyer, vice president of product management for TIBCO Software. 
``TIBCO ActiveEnterprise is helping leading companies like Network
Appliance further leverage their front-end and back-end IT systems and bring 
those systems closer to customers and partners over the Web.''

About TIBCO ActiveEnterprise

The core of TIBCO's real-time software infrastructure offering is the TIBCO 
ActiveEnterprise suite, designed for building a complete, end-to-end
Internet and enterprise infrastructure that successfully scales to the most 
demanding business information networks. It provides a real-time e-business
integration platform that encompasses data integration and transformation, 
business process coordination, messaging, enterprise portals and alerting,
adapters for legacy, packaged and third-party applications, plus enterprise 
monitoring and management.

About Network Appliance

Network Appliance, Inc., a veteran in network file serving and caching, has 
been providing data access solutions since 1992, and is a member of both the
S+P 500 and Nasdaq 100 index. Major corporations and ISPs, including Lycos, 
Yahoo!, Citicorp Securities, Siemens, Lockheed, Cisco, Motorola, and
Texas Instruments have deployed NetApp solutions. NetApp Internet caching 
solutions (NetCache(TM) appliances) and file servers (filers) deliver fast,
simple, reliable, and cost-effective access to network-stored data and enable 
simultaneous shared file services for UNIX, Windows NTc, and the World
Wide Web.

The company pioneered the concept of the ``network appliance,'' an extension 
of the industry trend toward dedicated, specialized products that perform
a single function. Network Appliance filers and NetCache appliances are based 
on the company's innovative data access software known as the Data
ONTAP(TM) operating system and standards-compliant hardware.

About TIBCO Software

TIBCO Software Inc. is a leading provider of real-time e-business 
infrastructure software. TIBCO's three product lines -- TIBCO 
ActiveEnterprisec,
TIBCO ActiveExchange(TM) and TIBCO ActivePortal(TM) -- enable businesses to 
integrate enterprise applications, interact with other businesses in
B2B commerce, and efficiently deliver personalized information through 
enterprise portals. TIBCO's products enable the real-time distribution of
information through patented technology called The Information Busc, or TIBc. 
TIB technology was first used to digitize Wall Street and has since been
adopted in diverse industries including telecommunications, electronic 
commerce, manufacturing and energy. TIBCO's global client base includes more
than 1,000 customers from around the world such as Cisco Systems, Yahoo!, 
Ariba, NEC, 3Com, Sun Microsystems, SAP, Philips, AT&T and
AOL/Netscape. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, TIBCO can be reached at 
650-846-1000 or on the web at www.tibco.com.

NOTE: Network Appliance is a trademark of Network Appliance, Inc. in the 
United States and other countries. TIBCO, TIBCO ActiveEnterprise,
TIBCO ActiveExchange, TIBCO ActivePortal, The Information Bus and TIB are 
trademarks or registered trademarks of TIBCO Software Inc.

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