Author-it and Lionbridge Announce Partnership

Author-it and Lionbridge Announce Partnership to Reduce The Cost and Complexity of Global Content Delivery

Integration of Enterprise Authoring Environment and Lionbridge Language Platform Enables Organizations to Create, Structure, Control and Reuse Multilingual XML Content in One Seamless Workflow.

WALTHAM, MASS, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND – October 14, 2009 -- Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIOX) and Author-it Software Corporation (ASC) today announced a strategic alliance to create a unified global content lifecycle solution. With the agreement, the two companies will integrate the Author-it enterprise authoring platform with Lionbridge's market-leading language technology platform. This integrated solution will allow organizations to create, structure, reuse, localize and publish content into multiple languages and multiple formats from virtually any enterprise source within a single application.

Author-it Software Corporation is a world leader in enterprise authoring, component content management and multi-channel publishing software with over 3,500 clients in 50 countries. Lionbridge, as the market leader in translation, offers a comprehensive language productivity platform including Logoport™, the industry's only Web-architected translation memory technology and Freeway™, an advanced translation portal. This advanced, live-asset language platform streamlines and automates tasks within the translation process by enabling the simultaneous use of multiple translation memories on a single project and facilitating real-time collaboration among all project participants.

By integrating the Author-it environment with Lionbridge's language platform, organizations can reduce costs, eliminate unnecessary file transactions and maximize reuse across the entire content creation ecosystem.

"This partnership brings together the most advanced technology from enterprise authoring, component content management, multi-channel publishing, and translation software to provide a single, end-to-end global authoring solution," said Paul Trotter, CEO of Author-it Software Corporation. "Our clients are looking for a single global content solution that enables them to develop and leverage source language content in a cost effective manner. By integrating Lionbridge's live-asset language solutions into our application, the translation processes can be directly linked with content creation to form a seamless workflow. This powerful combination drastically extends reuse and consistency throughout the entire global content lifecycle."

"Author-it is a leader in the rapidly-growing, competitive enterprise content management market and is breaking new ground in the integration of authoring, management and publishing," added Rory Cowan, CEO of Lionbridge. "We believe that eliminating unnecessary steps in the global authoring lifecycle through intelligent integration represents the future for global content management. Together, Author-it and Lionbridge have created a solution that significantly reduces the time and expense of global content development and accelerates organizations' time to market for multilingual content."

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About Author-it Software Corporation

Author-it Software Corporation (ASC) is a world leader in enterprise software for authoring, content management, publishing, and localization. Its flagship product, Author-it, is an end-to-end content management solution capable of publishing content to multiple deliverables. Since its release in 1997, ASC has produced five major versions of Author-it, resulting in a robust product built on proven technologies. Author-it is used in over 50 countries, by over 3500 clients and chosen by Fortune 100 organizations for worldwide deployments, making it one of the world's most popular content management tools. ASC has offices in Newport Beach, California and Auckland, New Zealand. More information is available at www.author-it.com.

About Lionbridge

Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LIOX) is a provider of translation, development and testing services. Lionbridge combines global resources with proven program management methodologies to serve as an outsource partner throughout a client's product and content lifecycle - from development to translation, testing and maintenance. Global organizations rely on Lionbridge services to increase international market share, speed adoption of global products and content, and enhance their return on enterprise applications and IT system investments. Based in Waltham, Mass., Lionbridge maintains solution centers in 26 countries and provides services under the Lionbridge and VeriTest brands. To learn more, visit http://www.lionbridge.com

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