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Plumtree Launches Industry's First Developer Program and Conference for Building Service-Oriented Applications Support for Java and .NET Developers Key Element of Radical Openness Product Strategy SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web leader Plumtree Software today launched a major new developer program to support customers and partners building service-oriented applications based on the Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite, and announced plans to host its first annual developer conference in San Francisco, May 3rd - 5th. The new program includes Plumtree's online Developer Center, quarterly developer user group meetings and newsletters, new application development courses offered by Plumtree Education Services and a plannedapplications incubator within Plumtree's San Francisco and Boston offices designed for intense collaboration with customers and partners. As part of Plumtree's Radical Openness product strategy, the developer program provides equal support for both Java and .NET coding, on a wide range of application servers. Developers can sign up for the conference at http://www.plumtree.com/developers/conference or visit http://www.plumtree.com/04/edk to download a new white paper on Plumtree's developer support. "The Enterprise Web Developer Program is the culmination of a profound transformation in Plumtree's business," said Plumtree VP of Engineering Eric Zocher. "Beyond offering a simple portal presentation of data, last year's release of the Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite delivered a true development platform, for building a wide range of applications based on services from different systems and businesses, all connected via Internet protocols." "As part of 2004's Radical Openness initiative, Plumtree isproviding equal support for Java and .NET across an extensive set of developer tools and programming interfaces. For the hundreds of customers and partners building service-oriented applications, we offer unprecedented freedom and power, and now this program is bringing together all the resources needed to ensure their success." Advanced Developer Conference to Focus on Development of Service-Oriented Applications The Advanced Developer Conference's three-day agenda spans the entire range of programming interfaces and developer tools available with the Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite, for building applications based on the Plumtree Portal Web Services API, the Plumtree User Interface Customization Framework and Plumtree Integration Web Services. Plumtree is preparing computer labs for the conference, with new code samples in Java, Visual Basic.NET and C#, and hands-on exercises designed to help developers build the different components of an entire application. The conference will award prizes for the best applications built in the labs, and will offer customers a portable storage device for bringing code created in the lab back to the office. Over a dozen Plumtree partners building commercial applications using Plumtree's Enterprise WebSuite will be invited to participate, and Plumtree product engineers and customers will lead technical presentations on topics such as: -- Crawler, Authentication, Profile and Search Web Services; -- Active Portlets, Pluggable Navigation and Plumtree Event Interfaces; -- Collaboration Server and Search Server programming interfaces; -- Advanced portlet development techniques in Java and VisualBasic.NET; -- Microsoft .NET Web Controls and portlets that refresh in-place; and -- Java Specification Request (JSR) 168 and Web Services for Remote Portlet (WSRP) standards. The conference will also offer open labs from 7 a.m. to 12 midnight, where developers can build sample portlets and applications with assistance from Plumtree experts. User Groups, Newsletters and Educational Services Available for Developers Additional resources available in Plumtree's Enterprise Web Developer Program include: -- Developer user group meetings and quarterly newsletters that allow developers to learn from each other and keep up-to-date on new tools and best practices; -- New downloadable quick-start guides and sample code used by customers and partners on Plumtree's Developer Center; -- Summer online technical seminar series, open to all developers to engage Plumtree engineers and customers on key development challenges; -- Threaded discussions on a host of topics, including Pluggable Navigation samples in C# and VisualBasic.Net, frequented by hundreds of developers each week on Plumtree's Developer Center; and -- Three-day workshops focusing on development of the EDK, offered by Plumtree Educational Services. Interested parties can enroll in Plumtree's Developer Program by visiting the Developer Center at http://devcenter.plumtree.com/ . About Plumtree Software Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web leader. Plumtree's mission is to create a comprehensive Web environment for employees, customers and partners across the enterprise to interact with different systems and work together. Plumtree's Enterprise Web solution consists of integration products for bringing resources from traditional systems together on the Web, shared services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform for delivering these Web applications to broad audiences. Plumtree's independence and its Web Services Architecture allow this solution to span rival platforms and systems, helping maximize customers' return on their existing technology investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries, Plumtree has licensed over 575 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy. For more information, visit Plumtree onthe Web at http://www.plumtree.com/. NOTE: Plumtree is a registered trademark of Plumtree Software, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries. All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole propertyof their respective owners. Safe Harbor Caution Regarding Forward Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Federal Securities laws. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to statements regarding customer demand for, satisfaction with, and return on investment and other benefits associated with our Enterprise Web Suite and other Company and third party products; the success of our Enterprise Web and other product marketing strategies including our "No Empty Portals" campaign; our ability to sign and retain technology and marketing partners. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ, perhaps materially, from those anticipated or suggested by such forward looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include those other risks and uncertainties contained in the Company's Annual Report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on Form 10-K, its most recent 10-Q and all subsequent SEC filings. Copies of filings made with the SEC are available through the SEC's electronic data gathering analysis retrieval system (EDGAR) at http://www.sec.gov/. We undertake noobligation following the date of this release to update or revise our forward-looking statements or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements. We caution you not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date such statements are made. We cannot guarantee any future operating results, activity, performance or achievement. DATASOURCE: Plumtree Software, Inc. CONTACT: Carilu Dietrich of Plumtree Software, +1-415-399-7047, or Web site: http://www.plumtree.com/

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