Dataware Technologies Acquires Ledge Multimedia

Anticipates exciting products for CD/Internet combinations

CAMBRIDGE, MA, JANUARY 3, 1996 -- Dataware Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:
DWTI) today announced the acquisition of Ledge Multimedia, Inc., a
Cambridge, MA-based multimedia services and software company. The
transaction was a tax-free merger in which Dataware issued 110,000 shares
in exchange for one hundred percent of the outstanding shares of Ledge. It
will be accounted for as a pooling-of-interests.

Ledge Multimedia specializes in the development of high-end, custom
multimedia applications for clients such as Houghton Mifflin, IVI
Publishing, Microsoft, Philips Media, public television station WGBH-
Boston, Ziff-Davis Publishing, and others. Ledge owns a wide range of
proprietary software tools and processes for high performance multimedia
product development. Products developed by Ledge include the Mayo Clinic
Sports Health & Fitness CD-ROM, Ziff's PC Magazine CD, Surround Video Demo
for Microsoft, This Old House CD from WGBH and numerous corporate and
publishing projects.

Ledge recently unveiled the GutenbergII multimedia magazine publishing
system at the Folio/Magazine Publishers of America Show in New York. Based
a suite of proprietary tools and production pathways, GutenbergII allows
publishers to develop and release high production value, low cost,
serialized multimedia products, such as multimedia magazines. Using its
unique CD-to-Web features, GutenbergII users can access broadband video,
animation and high-end graphics from the CD-ROM while "drilling down" to
specific Internet websites for up-to-date information.

"The Ledge acquisition is consistent with our strategy of providing
complete software and services solutions to our electronic publishing
customers," said Kurt Mueller, Dataware's chairman and chief executive
officer. "Like Dataware, Ledge has an excellent reputation for delivering
the highest quality results for customers. We are particularly excited by
our combined ability to deliver high-end CD/Internet services and products
such as GutenbergII. This capability will be increasingly important to
many information providers, such as magazine and newspaper publishers,
catalogue publishers, advertising agencies and corporate communications
departments."

David Potts, vice president of business development for Ledge, said, "By
combining Ledge's creative and multimedia delivery talents with Dataware's
marketing, sales and financial strengths, we intend to create exciting new
growth opportunities for the combined company. The hottest areas initially
will be in combined Internet / CD applications."

Founded in 1992 by Keith Lehman, David Potts and Michael Edge, Ledge
Multimedia has grown into one of the best-known, independent multimedia
software developers in the U.S.

Founded in 1988, Dataware Technologies (NASDAQ:DWTI) is a leading
international developer and marketer of software and services for
electronic information providers. Dataware's high-performance, multi-
platform and multi-lingual software and services enable customers --
including publishers, corporations, government agencies, law firms and
universities -- to manage and distribute information on CD-ROM and online.
Today, Dataware's software is used by more than 1,700 organizations
worldwide. In May 1995, Dataware Technologies was selected one of Inc.
Magazine's 100 Fastest-Growing Small Public Companies for the second
consecutive year.
 
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