VERITY INTRODUCES FREE topicSEARCHR FOR MICROSOFT INTERNET INFORMATION
SERVER

AVAILABLE NOW ON MICROSOFT'S INTERNET BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT KIT 90 DAY
PROMOTION UPGRADE TO ADVANCED TOPICINTERNET SERVER

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA., FEBRUARY 12, 1996 -- Verity, Inc. (Nasdaq:VRTY), a
leading provider of search and retrieval applications for the enterprise
and the Internet, today announced general availability of topicSEARCHR,
Verity's new search and retrieval application for the Microsoft Internet
Information Server. topicSEARCHR complements the web publishing capability
of the Microsoft Internet Information Server with the many powerful
features of the Verity search engine to enable users to quickly and easily
find information on the Microsoft web server.

topicSEARCHR is the first search and retrieval application of its kind to
be tightly integrated with the Microsoft Internet Information Server and
is targeted towards small business and intranet web publishers interested
in offering a basic set of full text search capabilities to their user
community. topicSEARCHR supports search over text and HTML documents
located on Microsoft's web server. topicSEARCHR will be distributed free
of charge as part of the Microsoft Internet Business Development Kit and
through electronic downloading from software.net or the Verity web page.

"Verity's ability to integrate its advanced information search and
retrieval technology into the Microsoft Internet Information Server
platform establishes new levels of performance and functionality far
beyond traditional Web environments," said Dwight Krossa, group product
manager of Microsoft's Internet Information Server group.

"topicSEARCHR proves our commitment to deliver best-of-breed information
search and retrieval applications for today's most compelling information
platforms," said Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO of Verity.

FAST, SCALABLE AND EASY TO ADMINISTER

topicSEARCHR is a search application which is seamlessly integrated with
Microsoft's Internet Server Application Programming Interface (ISAPI) to
provide functionality and performance which significantly surpasses the
traditional CGI (common gateway interfaces) functionality on traditional
web servers. By integrating with ISAPI as well as Microsoft NT services,
topicSEARCHR is designed to enable faster search and retrieval
performance, as well as built-in security and administration. Searches
using topicSEARCHR and ISAPI are up to four times faster than with
conventional CGI-based interfaces. In addition, topicSEARCHR offers a
simple install and set-up that can help a Webmaster to search-enable their
server in under 15 minutes.

TOPICSEARCHR AVAILABILITY AND DISTRIBUTION

FREE topicSEARCHR is available NOW. Customers can download the product
electronically through software.net at http://www.software.net or through
the Verity web site at http://www.verity.com. The company behind
software.net is Cybersource Corporation, located in Menlo Park, CA.
Cybersource is a leading Internet-based software distribution company and
a pioneer in electronically distributing software over the Internet.
Cybersource distributes over 10,000 products from 600 publishers including
many Microsoft products electronically. topicSEARCHR will also be
distributed free of charge as part of the Microsoft Internet Business
Development kit

90 DAY PROMOTION UPGRADE TO ADVANCED TOPICINTERNET SERVER

Like other Verity search products, topicSEARCHR is designed to create
compatible collections of "upgrade-ready" indexed information. As
customers information requirements grow and evolve, Verity's product set
offers them a smooth, scalable upgrade path for handling their more
advanced search and retrieval requirements.

topicINTERNET SERVER for Windows NT, the upgrade for topicSEARCHR, delivers
functionality designed for corporate-wide publishing such as advanced
server tuning controls, Adobe PDF support and tools to search across
multiple Web Servers. Starting today, Verity will offer users a special
upgrade price of $4995 for the next 90 days for the topicINTERNET SERVER
for Windows NT. For more information, please contact Verity or our web
site.

Verity, Inc. was founded in April 1988 and is headquartered in Mountain
View, CA. Verity develops and markets the Topic family of software tools
and applications for searching, retrieving and filtering information
across the Internet, enterprise and CD-ROM. Verity's products have been
licensed to corporations, government agencies, on-line service providers,
Internet publishers and developers worldwide. The Topic search engine is
the engine of choice for Adobe Systems, AT&T, Hitachi, Individual, Inc.,
Lotus Development Corporation, McKinley, Netscape Communications,
Quarterdeck, Reuters and many other software developers.

For more information contact Verity at info@verity.com, at Verity's World
Wide Web site or by calling 415/960-7600.
 
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