WALTHAM, Mass. - July 23, 2002 - Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIOX) announced it has extended its long-standing relationship with Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) by establishing an alliance with the Microsoft .NET Enterprise Server Division. With this alliance, Lionbridge has developed technology and services for Microsoft Content Management Server that enable customers to easily select, extract and route all Web content to and from the localization process.
"Integrating Lionbridge services and technology with Microsoft Content Management Server is a powerful milestone on the road to global enterprise content management," said Eric Swift, lead product manager for .NET Enterprise Servers at Microsoft. "Using the LionAccess platform together with Content Management Server, customers have a powerful solution for building highly dynamic Internet, intranet and extranet Web sites with great localization capabilities. Customers receive incredible value since together with Lionbridge we are effectively reducing the time required to build, deploy and maintain these global sites."
Microsoft Content Management Server is an integrated member of the .NET Enterprise Server family. It features out-of-the-box integration with Microsoft Commerce Server, enabling customers to deploy personalized and targeted e-commerce sites quickly. Using the latest Microsoft .NET technology, Lionbridge has extended its LionAccess platform for Microsoft Content Management Server allowing customers to create, edit, localize and publish multilingual content for international markets.
The combined Lionbridge and Microsoft solution enhances customers' return on their content management investment, eliminates costs associated with maintaining separate systems for localization and content management, and reduces the implementation time required to extend their content management solution globally.
"With Microsoft Content Management Server, Microsoft is reducing the time required to bring Web site applications to market, while offering the scalability needed for the most demanding environments," said Rory Cowan, CEO, Lionbridge. "Lionbridge and Microsoft continue to work closely as we extend and enhance the capabilities of Microsoft Content Management Server. This combined solution enables customers to effectively leverage their global content to drive business efficiencies and added value across their enterprise."
About Lionbridge
Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. provides solutions for worldwide deployment of technology and content to global 2000 companies in the technology, life sciences and financial services industries. Lionbridge testing and compatibility services, globalization solutions and multilingual content management technologies help clients reduce cost, speed time to market and ensure the integrity of global brands. Based in Waltham, Mass., Lionbridge maintains facilities in England, Ireland, The Netherlands, France, Germany, China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Brazil and the United States. To learn more, visit www.lionbridge.com.
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