Thunderstone Offers Migration Path for Customers of Verity Products

CLEVELAND, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Thunderstone Software, a prominent supplier of information management and retrieval software, announced today a migration and support program for current Verity (Nasdaq: VRTY) customers. This program provides customers with price discounts and migration assistance to Thunderstone's stable and well established Texis Information Server RDBMS.

"We want to ensure that current Verity customers have a stable, robust, high performance solution set into the future," said Bart Richards, Thunderstone's CEO. "Being privately held and operating at a profit for many years has provided us with the luxury to develop products that are well thought out and functional. Customers who take advantage of the program will benefit greatly from Thunderstone's longevity and proven track record."

Discounts of up to 50% on Thunderstone's Texis, Texis Webscript, and Webinator Web indexing products will be made available to any customer replacing a Verity product purchased within the last two years. Migration consultants will provide telephone support at no charge, and on-site engineering at a 25% discount.

About Thunderstone:

Thunderstone-EPI Inc., a privately held California corporation with headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio was founded in 1981. It develops and markets a suite of software applications and tools that search, manage, filter and retrieve information. Thunderstone's products are licensed to corporations, government agencies, Internet publishers and developers worldwide.

Thunderstone partners include Advance Publishing, Associated Press, Dow Jones, Hewlett-Packard, IDD, ILX, Novell, SCO, Telos-C3, Silicon Graphics, and Ziff Davis.

For more information contact Thunderstone at 216-631-8544, or send email to info@thunderstone.com. Thunderstone's World Wide Web site can be viewed at WWW.THUNDERSTONE.COM.

SOURCE Thunderstone-EPI Inc.

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