Companies Agree To Co-Market Their Knowledge Management Offerings
                           To Asia Pacific Customers

    SINGAPORE AND OTTAWA, Canada, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ - Reuters (NASDAQ:
RTRSY) and Fulcrum Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: FULCF; TSE: FUL) today announced
that they have entered into a co-marketing agreement to tap the explosive
growth of corporate intranets throughout Asia.  The agreement encourages both
companies to promote one another's knowledge management offerings to Asia
Pacific customers.
    Reuters Business Information Products (BIP) are software applications that
enable executives to quickly retrieve historical or current news, company
information or other financial information through the Internet or corporate
intranet.  Fulcrum's powerful knowledge management software, Fulcrum Knowledge
Network(TM), will complement Reuters' existing capabilities by delivering
added functionality and value to users.
    ``We are very impressed with Fulcrum's technology and marketing
capabilities,'' said Mark Trasenster, managing director, Reuters BIP, Asia.
``Offering integrated access to the right data is critical to the success of a
corporate intranet.  The initiative we will be pursuing together enables us to
provide superior solutions for the corporate desktop.  Both Reuters and
Fulcrum realize the importance of the intranet to the future of corporate
knowledge management.  The need for structured data solutions in information
retrieval is colossal, and we are committed to making this regional
collaboration a success.''
    ``This agreement presents both Reuters and Fulcrum with an exciting new
market opportunity in Asia,'' said Mike Laginski, president and chief
operating officer of Fulcrum.  ``Enterprises are looking to corporate
intranets as an integral component of their knowledge management initiatives.
Fulcrum is pleased to be working with Reuters to ensure that enterprises are
provided with solutions that facilitate their ability to leverage corporate
information assets in order to gain competitive advantage.''
    The scope for success in the region can be seen in statistics from an IT
research report by the International Data Corporation.  It forecasts that the
number of companies in Asia Pacific who will use an intranet system will
increase to 50 per cent by the year 2000.  The 1997 survey showed that
currently only 8.7 per cent of companies in Asia Pacific had implemented an
intranet.

    ABOUT REUTERS BUSINESS INFORMATION PRODUCTS
    Reuters Business Briefing, a business information product, takes news,
financial and business information from thousands of sources and delivers it
through four levels of service - Headline, Target, Select and Search - to
provide different levels of content, customization and interactivity, designed
to suit users across a whole organization.

    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.

    ABOUT THE COMPANIES
    Reuters Holdings PLC (NASDAQ: RTRSY) supplies the global business
community and the news media with real-time financial data, transaction
systems, information management systems, access to numerical and textual
historical databases, news, graphics, photos and news video.  Information is
obtained from about 270 exchanges and over-the-counter markets, from 4,800
subscribers who contribute data directly to Reuters and from a network of
1,975 journalists, photographers and cameramen.  Some 396,000 clients access
Reuters information
    For 15 years, Fulcrum Technologies Inc. has been a world leader in
providing software for managing corporate knowledge bases.  With its advanced
tools, Fulcrum is uniquely positioned to provide the intelligent access and
analysis that enterprises require for successful knowledge management.
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'').

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

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