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Castanet Selected to Optimize Speed and Reliability of Content and Application Updates Over the Internet and to Enable Digital Delivery of Software and Offline Ads

InterVideo demands fast, efficient, secure downloads with checkpoint restart ability. Initially, InterVideo considered developing a software-updating infrastructure internally, but determined that Castanet was a much simpler, more cost-effective, and more reliable choice. ``For million-plus endpoint distribution over the Internet, we really had no other choice than Castanet unless we built an in-house solution. Castanet married RSA encryption, SSL technology, a market-proven protocol, and byte-level differencing capabilities into one product that does all the things we needed it to do,'' said Raul Diaz, vice president of business development at InterVideo. ``In addition, the Marimba solution has the proven unlimited scalability we absolutely require to support a customer base that is growing by about one million installations each month.''

According to Jon Peddie Associates (JPA), a leading market research firm covering digital media technology, sales of DVD players are expected to quadruple over the next four years with sales reaching nearly 20 million units by 2004. ``The digital entertainment industry is extremely competitive, so any service that we can immediately offer that adds value to our products is critical,'' Diaz said. ``Castanet has the unique ability to upgrade our growing family of applications to a soaring customer base securely, reliably, and seamlessly, and to dynamically update targeted marketing messages that are displayed when products are used offline. Moreover, because Castanet is so efficient, we will be able to transfer this information to our customers -- several million endpoints -- in as little as one-one-hundredth of the time it currently takes,'' concluded Diaz.

Delivered via Castanet, InterVideo's customers will ultimately benefit from InterVideo's aggressive efforts to continually enhance its products. In addition, with all customers using similar versions of their software, InterVideo will be able to streamline technical support services. InterVideo WinDVD 2000 is available for downloading on InterVideo's Web site, as well as through InterVideo's OEM customers, which include the largest PC manufacturers. InterVideo WinDVD 2000 has won numerous awards, including PC Magazine's Editor's Choice and Winmag.com's Win100 award for the top 100 software products of 1999.

InterVideo's software technology leverages existing consumer standards, including DVD (digital video disk) and DTV (digital television), and brings that technology to the central Internet platform: the personal computer. InterVideo is fully compliant with all the major consumer technology standards related to digital audio, video and graphics, including: MPEG1, MPEG2, AC-3, MPEG3, MPEG Audio layers 1 and 2, DVD, and DTV (including HDTV). The easy-to-use software user interface looks and feels like that of television, DVD players or the VCR.

``As the InterVideo implementation illustrates, Marimba's Castanet works well in an Internet environment with existing applications that need to be distributed to millions of users,'' said Jacqueline Ross, Marimba's vice president of marketing. ``Castanet was built and optimized for efficiency, security, scalability, personalization and flexibility. That's why it is the solution of choice when dealing with the complexity of the Internet.''

About InterVideo, Inc. (IVI)

InterVideo is a leading provider of multimedia PC software. InterVideo's popular DVD playback software, WinDVD®, has won a number of awards worldwide. InterVideo will release a series of products in 2000 covering the full spectrum of advanced video and audio software in areas including DTV, streaming video and video encoding. InterVideo is privately held, with headquarters in Fremont, CA and with regional offices in Europe, Taipei, Redmond, WA and Japan. For more information about InterVideo, contact InterVideo at 510/651-0888 or visit its Web site at www.intervideo.com.

About Marimba

Marimba is a leading provider of Internet infrastructure management solutions, enabling companies to leverage the Internet to deliver more powerful and cost-effective applications and services to their customers, employees and business partners. Marimba's Castanet® product family provides an efficient and reliable infrastructure by which enterprises can distribute, update and manage applications and content over corporate intranets, extranets and the Internet. Marimba's Timbale(TM) product family addresses the unique management challenges inherent in server-based computing, including content replication and precise deployment control across heterogeneous server platforms. Marimba is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and can be reached at 650-930-5282, via email at orders@marimba.com, or at its Web site at http://www.marimba.com

This press release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and is subject to the safe harbors created by this section. These forward-looking statements include: the announced customer's planned use of Marimba's Castanet product to manage its WinDVD 2000 software; the specific technical and performance benefits the customer expects to achieve with Castanet, including fast, reliable, scalable and secure content and application updates with checkpoint restart ability; and the expectation that the customer will make Castanet part of its standard infrastructure. Those results are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including: the remaining time and effort required to complete the customer's deployment, which could be greater than expected; technical challenges specific to the customer's implementation, which could impact whether the customer is able to achieve expected benefits with Marimba's technology; and other business factors particular to the customer which could impact whether the customer continues to use Marimba's technology in the future. Actual results may differ materially due to these and other factors. The matters discussed in this press release also involve risks and uncertainties described from time to time in Marimba's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see the Risk Factors described in Marimba's most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Marimba assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.

Marimba and Castanet are registered trademarks, and Timbale is a trademark, of Marimba, Inc. in the U.S. and/or certain other countries. All other product, trademark, company, or service names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.