MicroLink Offers "FAST Exit" for Convera and FAST Customers Concerned About FAST Search and Transfer's Corporate and Financial Stability

VIENNA, VA--(Marketwire - August 9, 2007) - MicroLink, a leading provider of information technology services and products to both the government and commercial sectors, today announced that it is offering a safe-passage program to customers of Norwegian FAST Search & Transfer who are facing uncertainty in the wake of FAST 's recent announcement of its change in revenue recognition policy (http://www.fastsearch.com/news.aspx?m=329&amid=10146) and yesterday's earning announcement which exposed a plummet in revenues and earnings (http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2007/08/08/afx3997901.html). Dubbed FAST Exit, the program is immediately available to all Convera¹ and FAST customers. MicroLink has worked successfully for years with many companies and government agencies implementing Autonomy's (LSE: AU), Meaning-Based Computing platform, IDOL which provides a flexible framework incorporating the essential attributes of an enterprise infrastructure platform, including scalability, mapped security, global language support and support for future technologies.

"Analysts had already expressed concerns about FAST's accounting procedures -- particularly its aggressive recognition of revenues (by banking money due but not yet received) -- and today the firm revealed the details of its underperformance." -- Alistair Reed, Thompson Financial.

The questions regarding FAST's corporate stability and the likely resulting changes in its structure due to its earnings loss and fall in revenues are of grave concern to all customers. FAST Exit is designed to help companies examine options and ensure they have a solid future information management strategy and enterprise search platform. The program offers many benefits, including collaborative forums, educational initiatives, reference materials, a no-fee customized migration support assessment, credits for current investments in existing systems, transition support services as well as enterprise search best practices workshops to learn about how to get the most out of their information assets to successfully support their short and long term needs.

"Organizations rely heavily on accurate real-time information and analysis everyday," said David Truitt, president of MicroLink. "Having an effective and scalable enterprise search platform and information management strategy is critical to the success of every company, especially government organizations who combat terrorism. More importantly, customers must choose a financially secure vendor they can trust in order to ensure that they continue to receive the most innovative products on the market, continuous services and support."

MicroLink has a proven track record in delivering leading enterprise search solutions to many government agencies, including the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency's Global Disease Sentinel Network, the Federal Reserve Board, the Joint Special Operations Command, the U.S. Library of Congress, NASA, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Strategic Command and the U.S. Secret Service. To learn more about MicroLink's solutions and how we can help FAST customers, please contact info@microlinkllc.com or call Dave Truitt 703-462-2020.

About MicroLink

MicroLink provides a full range of information technology services and products to both the public and commercial sectors. Our primary focus is helping organizations meet their needs involving teamwork and productivity by providing collaboration and knowledge management solutions, related products, training, and the change management services required to ensure their success together with the core services required by the underlying technology infrastructure.

Central to helping our clients achieve striking gains in teamwork and productivity is our underlying hope and belief that achieving such environments for ourselves, our clients, and our communities makes a measurable contribution to improving how we all treat and work with each other: that by improving how well we are all able to work together, we will improve and enrich the lives of all whom our solutions and services touch including our own.

¹April 1 2007 FAST announced the acquisition of the Convera Retrievalware Business.