Powerful Enterprise Knowledge Management Solution To Be Deployed
                               To Over 20,000 Users

    OTTAWA, Canada, Dec. 8 /PRNEWSWIRE/ - Fulcrum Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:
FULCF; TSE: FUL) today announced that Texaco Inc. has licensed software from
Fulcrum(R) as its platform for enterprise knowledge management applications.
Texaco will use Fulcrum Knowledge Network as the foundation of a best
practices application to be deployed to over 20,000 users in more than 150
locations worldwide.
    ``The need to share information across an organization as large and
dispersed as Texaco is very strong,'' said Frank Lankford, senior technology
leader at Texaco.  ``Fulcrum Knowledge Network's unique features gather and
sort through our information, linking employees to the knowledge they need.
Fulcrum's integrated agents, with their ability to conduct automated searches
and `push' information to users and the Knowledge Activators that allow us to
tap into all of our information resources, including Microsoft Exchange and
Lotus Notes, are beneficial to the company.''
    Texaco's data currently resides in a number of repositories, including
Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, Texaco's intranet Web-server, Oracle
databases and file systems.  In order to make effective business decisions,
Texaco employees must be able to access information, including critical legacy
data, located in these different information sources.  The proprietary nature
of the sources, however, and their widely differing search capabilities, limit
users' ability to effectively access corporate knowledge.  Texaco turned to
Fulcrum to address this issue and, after an initial pilot, they are now
rolling out a best practices application across the enterprise using Fulcrum
software as the knowledge management platform.
    In an effort to provide employees with unique and effective tools to
gather and analyze information, Texaco is also deploying Fulcrum's Proactive
Agent(TM) Service.  The Agent Service allows all users to create personal
search agents to monitor Knowledge Folders for new and updated information
that matches user-defined criteria.  Users can define each agent's delivery
schedule and notification type ensuring the delivery of personalized and
timely information right to their desktops.
    ``Global leaders like Texaco recognize the need to equip their knowledge
workers with the right information at the right time, facilitating the
innovation that is key to maintaining a leadership position,'' said Mike
Laginski, president and chief operating officer of Fulcrum.  ``Fulcrum
Knowledge Network offers these organizations a compelling and comprehensive
solution, and it is a strong endorsement of our strategy that a leading
company like Texaco has chosen Fulcrum software to manage knowledge across the
enterprise.''

    ABOUT FULCRUM KNOWLEDGE NETWORK
    Fulcrum Knowledge Network is a unique, integrated product that
intelligently connects and organizes diverse information sources across the
enterprise.  Through a single point of access, users can find information in
Web servers, file systems, Microsoft Exchange folders and mailboxes, Lotus
Notes repositories, and custom information sources.
    With its Knowledge Network product, Fulcrum has delivered the ``most
manageable middleware'' for knowledge management applications, a view echoed
by recent reviews by industry analysts and trade press.  Fulcrum Knowledge
Network recently received accolades from PC Week and Information Week, and it
was ``recommended for resellers'' by the influential Computer Reseller News.
It was also recently awarded the distinguished Crossroads 98 A-List Award for
Knowledge Management, the only industry award based on interviews with
customers who are actually deploying products in mission-critical business
situations.

    ABOUT THE COMPANIES
    With activities in more than 150 countries, Texaco and its affiliates
help supply the world's energy needs.  The company finds and produces crude
oil and natural gas; manufactures and markets high-quality fuel and lubricant
products; operates transportation, trading and distribution facilities; and
produces alternate forms of energy for power and manufacturing.
    For 14 years, Fulcrum Technologies Inc. has been a world leader in
providing software solutions that turn enterprise information into knowledge.
Fulcrum's products allow customers to create multi-platform, standards-based
solutions - for customer care, best practices, publishing, and other
applications that require robust underlying search software.  Headquartered in
Ottawa, Canada, Fulcrum extends its global reach with offices throughout the
United States, Europe, and in Australia and Japan, and through a network of
partners worldwide.  Fulcrum is publicly traded on the Nasdaq National Market
(``FULCF'') and on the Toronto Stock Exchange (``FUL'').  For more information
on Fulcrum and Fulcrum products, visit Fulcrum's Web site:
http://www.fulcrum.com.

    Fulcrum is a registered trademark of Fulcrum Technologies Inc. and
Proactive Agent is a trademark of Fulcrum.  Other trademarks used throughout
this document are trademarks of their respective owners.

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