European Commissioner Recognises Autonomy as the Best Performing Software Company in Europe

CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, November 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU.) (LSE: AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that it has been recognised as the Best Performing Software Company in Europe within the Truffle 100, a ranking of the top 100 European software leaders. The Truffle 100 rankings, compiled by Truffle Capital from research conducted by IDC and CXP, acknowledged Autonomy as the best performing member of this group based on the company's outstanding financial growth and profitability from 2005 to 2006. Dr. Mike Lynch, Autonomy's founder and CEO, will attend the Pan-European IP Summit in Brussels today to accept the honour from Viviane Reading, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media.

"Autonomy's phenomenal success since its inception in 1996 is a clear example of a European company taking centre stage in today's global market," said Bernard-Louis Roques, general partner & co-founder, Truffle Capital. "With an impressive 31 consecutive quarters of profitability behind them and a market cap of over four billion, Autonomy only continues to build momentum, as evidenced by their clear position as the fastest growing company in the Truffle 100."

Founded in 2005, the Truffle 100 was developed to shed light on the leaders of the software industry and reveal new trends within the European market. The initiative is supported by a wide array of trade associations across Europe, spanning the UK, Germany, Belgium and France.

"The $20 billion dollar database market was spawned to manage structured information," said Lynch. "Today, 80% of enterprise information is unstructured. Autonomy alone is uniquely positioned to capitalise on this exciting market demand - helping global organizations intelligently manage all of their unstructured information - as demonstrated by the accelerated adoption and standardisation on our Meaning-based Computing technologies."

About Autonomy

Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU.) (LSE: AU.L) is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise and is spearheading the meaning-based computing movement. Autonomy's technology forms a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data including unstructured information, be it text, email, voice or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including information access technology, BI, CRM, KM, call center solutions, rich media management, information risk management solutions and security applications, and is recognized by industry analysts as the clear leader in enterprise search.

Autonomy's customer base comprises of more than 17,000 global companies and organizations including: 3, ABN AMRO, AOL, BAE Systems, BBC, Bloomberg, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler Chrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyd TSB, NASA, Nestle, the New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Shell, T-Mobile, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Autonomy also has over 300 OEM partners and more than 400 VARs and Integrators, numbering among them leading companies such as BEA, Business Objects, Citrix, EDS, IBM Global Services, Novell, Satyam, Sybase, Symantec, TIBCO, Vignette and Wipro. The company has offices worldwide.

The Autonomy Group includes: ZANTAZ, the leader in the archiving, e-Discovery and Proactive Information Risk Management (IRM) markets; Cardiff, a leading provider of Intelligent Document solutions; etalk, award-winning provider of enterprise-class contact center products and Virage, a visionary in rich media management and security and surveillance technology.

Autonomy and the Autonomy logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autonomy Corporation plc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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