News release

NuGenesis® Technologies Corporation and HP Develop Alliance To Supply Integrated Scientific Data Management System Software and Data Storage Platform

WESTBOROUGH, MA and PALO ALTO, CA, Nov. 30, 2000

NuGenesis Technologies and Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HWP) today announce an alliance to both expand and enhance scientific data management system (SDMS) options to scientists in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. NuGenesis SDMS software now works with HP-UX to fully leverage the Oracle® platform. This solution comprising NuGenesis SDMS software and HP's line of UNIX® servers and storage platforms gives scientists a complete and secure package for their data management needs.

NuGenesis Technologies provides scientists in the laboratory with new ways to manage and control their data. NuGenesis SDMS software is an application-independent technology that aggregates data from disparate sources into one common format where it can be searched and reused to further scientific knowledge.

"The integration of these two products provides a platform of choice for an enterprise-wide data management solution," reports Bernie Prusaczyk, Vice President of Business Development and Channel Partners at NuGenesis Technologies. "It increases the reliability, availability and scalability of scientific systems in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries."

"The alliance with NuGenesis Technologies adds one more component to HP's total customer experience in Life Sciences. NuGenesis SDMS software together with HP's line of HP-UX servers and storage allows the customers to integrate their instrument data into the industry's performance-leading HP-UX platforms, thus completing the total R&D solution portfolio from research to FDA submission," said David Valenta, market development manager, HP Technical Computing Division.

HP offers scientists a full line of highly scalable UNIX servers. The HP technical server family spans a wide range of price and performance points to meet any research need. The Itanium-ready N-class server is a rack-mounted 8-processor system capable of 4 systems in a rack. The recently introduced top-of-the-line HP Superdome is the fastest server in the UNIX market. Featuring multiprocessors, high-performance memory systems, large memory capacity, and high bandwidth I/O, HP technical servers provide unparalleled performance and capabilities.

About HP

Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services -- is focused on making technology and its benefits accessible to individuals and businesses through simple appliances, useful e-services and an Internet infrastructure that's always on.

HP has 88,500 employees worldwide and had total revenue from continuing operations of $48.8 billion in its 2000 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com.

About NuGenesis

NuGenesis® Technologies Corporation, headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts, is the market leader in Scientific Data Management Systems (SDMS). The Company's products and services provide businesses that rely on electronic data with new opportunities to generate competitive advantage, leverage innovation, and create value. NuGenesis' SDMS technology provides new efficiencies in data management, retrieval, and report development to fast-growing science-based companies - so that skilled employees can focus on analysis, interpretation and decision-making.

More information can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.nugenesis.com.

HP-UX Release 10.20 and later and HP-UX Release 11.00 and later (in both 32- and 64-bit configurations) on all HP 9000 computers are Open Group UNIX 95 branded products.

Oracle is a registered U.S. trademark of Oracle Corporation, Redwood City, California.

UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.