Autonomy Announces New Strategic Partner for Chinese Venture

Autonomy Announces New Strategic Partner for Chinese Venture

New Partnership With CCTV Brings Significant Industry Expertise and Contacts and Preferred Content Arrangements

CAMBRIDGE, England, October 24/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader
in infrastructure software for the enterprise and proponent of meaning-based
computing, today announced significant advancement of its Chinese consumer
internet venture. Autonomy's Chinese venture has rapidly expanded and
established itself as the world's leading Chinese language video search
service.

Autonomy's Chinese venture has entered its next phase of
development and growth with the involvement of CCTV, China's state
broadcaster and the world's largest Chinese-language broadcaster. The JV is
providing video search to a broad range of companies and has launched its own
digital video service now operating under the brand OpenV, featuring
extensive content from CCTV. OpenV holds its leading position with in excess
of 5 million pages views per day, and one million users a day.

OpenV has reinforced its position as the world's leading
Chinese-language video site by completing agreements with the leading content
providers, such as CCTV, Beijing TV, Shanghai Media Group, Hunan TV, ZheJiang
TV, JiangXi TV and NeiMengGu TV, in many cases on an exclusive basis. OpenV
also has available web content from all major Chinese video sharing sites and
web broadband sites.

OpenV's service is now or will shortly be available on a
syndicated basis through leading Chinese internet sites including CCTV.com
(the largest Chinese TV broadband site), QQ (the largest Chinese community
site), Yahoo! China, Nusports (the largest Chinese sports site), XinHua net
(largest Chinese news agency site), China Radio International (the largest
Chinese radio site) and SMGBB (the second largest Chinese TV broadband site),
as well as numerous other smaller sites.

OpenV has launched advertising and is now working in
partnership with a wide range of advertising agencies, such as WPP, AC
Nielsen and Chang Rong (Charm Communication Group).

Dr Michael Lynch, Autonomy's CEO and founder, commented: "The
recent growth of our JV in China, the strategic involvement of CCTV and the
key content arrangements put OpenV in a marketing winning position. We are
also pleased to see advertisers supporting the next phase of this new medium
in China."

About Autonomy

Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or 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, compliance and litigation solutions and security
applications, and is recognized by industry analysts as the clear leader in
enterprise search.

Autonomy's customer base comprises more than 16,000 global companies and
organizations including BAE Systems, Boeing, Ford, Daimler Chrysler, Shell,
AOL, BBC, Reuters, Hutchison 3G, Ericsson, T-Mobile, Philips, Coca Cola,
Kraft Foods, Nestle, Lloyds TSB, GlaxoSmithKline, KPMG, Citigroup, ABN AMRO,
Deutsche Bank, Hewlett Packard, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
the New York Stock Exchange, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, NASA
and the U.S. Department of Energy. Autonomy has over 300 OEM partners and
more than 350 VARs and Integrators, numbering among them leading companies
such as BEA, Citrix, EDS, EMC, IBM Global Services, Novell, Symantec,
Vignette, Tibco, Stellent and Sybase. The company has offices worldwide.

The Autonomy Group includes: Aungate, specialist in Real-Time Enterprise
Governance; Virage, a visionary in Rich Media Management and Security and
Surveillance technology; etalk, award-winning provider of enterprise-class
contact center products, and Cardiff, a leader in content capture and
business process management solutions.

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

Contacts:

Rowan Gardner
Autonomy
+44-1223-448-000
rowang@autonomy.com

Ali Merifield
Bite Communications ltd (UK)
+44-20-8834-3441
+44-20-8741-1123
ali.merifield@bitepr.com

Edward Bridges
Financial Dynamics
+44-207-831-3113
edward.bridges@fd.com

Marijke Shugrue
Bite Communications ltd (US)
+1-212-857-9376
marijke.shugrue@bitepr.com

Source: Autonomy Corporation plc

Rowan Gardner, Autonomy, +44-1223-448-000, rowang@autonomy.com; Ali Merifield, Bite Communications ltd (UK), +44-208-834-3441, +44-208-741-1123, ali.merifield@bitepr.com; Edward Bridges, Financial Dynamics, +44-207-831-3113, edward.bridges@fd.com; Marijke Shugrue, Bite Communications ltd (US), +1-212-857-9376, marijke.shugrue@bitepr.com

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