Partner Press Release
Hitachi Semiconductor Implements TIBCO Software's TIB/BusinessConnect For RosettaNet

TIBCO Technology Enabling Hitachi Semiconductor and Its Partners to Respond Faster to New Business Opportunities

For Release October 11, 2000

PALO ALTO

TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ:TIBX) announced today that Hitachi Semiconductor (America) Inc., a subsidiary of Hitachi America, Ltd., in turn a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT), has successfully implemented TIBCO's TIB/BusinessConnect™ for RosettaNet, enabling Hitachi to integrate its business-to-business (B2B) processes with those of its trading partners using the RosettaNet e-business standards. TIBCO's comprehensive solution is helping Hitachi Semiconductor reduce costs and streamline its supply chain processes by rapidly integrating and automating its internal business systems with those of its customers, partners and suppliers.

"The industry-wide adoption of RosettaNet e-business interoperability standards are eliminating the barriers for supply chain participation," said Viren Patel, vice president and CIO of Hitachi Semiconductor. "By using TIBCO's TIB/BusinessConnect for RosettaNet, we can now seamlessly integrate our partners -- large and small -- into our supply chain, and manage and respond to new business opportunities much faster."

Hitachi is using TIB/BusinessConnect for RosettaNet to implement a RosettaNet Partner Interface Process™ (PIP™) that will provide Hitachi and its partners, such as Avnet, with a secure web-based environment for registering, managing, tracking and collaborating on new product development opportunities. With this PIP, Hitachi and its partners can quickly respond to new business prospects and reduce the time and cost required for them to deliver new products and services to their customers.

"Integrating new partners into the supply chain has traditionally been extremely time consuming and expensive," said Fred Meyer, chief marketing officer for TIBCO Software. "TIB/BusinessConnect for RosettaNet provides an out-of-the-box solution for implementing business-to-business e-commerce using RosettaNet's e-business standards, and is helping the world's leading semiconductor companies, such as Hitachi Semiconductor, dramatically reduce the complexity of their supply chains."

About TIB/BusinessConnect for RosettaNet
TIBCO's TIB/BusinessConnect for RosettaNet is an industrial-strength B2B integration server that enables enterprises to conduct secure, real-time commerce transactions with other enterprises and B2B intermediaries, using the RosettaNet e-business standards. TIB/BusinessConnect for RosettaNet fully supports all published RosettaNet Partner Interface Processes™ (PIPs™) and allows enterprises to define their own processes for maximum flexibility. TIB/BusinessConnect is a member of the TIBCO ActiveExchange™ product family, a set of products that offer a B2B platform to rapidly enable enterprise hubs and e-marketplaces to connect customers, partners and suppliers. By standardizing on TIB/BusinessConnect for RosettaNet and the TIBCO ActiveEnterprise® integration suite, Hitachi Semiconductor is achieving seamless, real-time, end-to-end integration of its front and back-end systems to those of its trading partners over the Internet.

About RosettaNet
RosettaNet is an independent, self-funded, non-profit consortium dedicated to the development and deployment of standard electronic business interfaces to align the processes between supply chain partners on a global basis. Launched in June 1998, RosettaNet is currently in the pilot phase of its implementation cycle. More than 250 companies representing over $1 trillion in annual information technology and electronic components revenues currently participate in RosettaNet's standards development, strategy, and implementation activities.

About Hitachi Semiconductor (America) Inc.
Hitachi Semiconductor (America) Inc. -- a subsidiary of Hitachi America, Ltd., in turn a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. -- supports the requirements of the North American marketplace with a broad range of standard and low-power semiconductor solutions. Offering some of the industry's most popular RISC microprocessors and memory components among other semiconductor solutions, Hitachi provides chips to the world's leading device manufacturers within industrial, consumer and emerging market applications. Hitachi's substantial design engineering, research and development facilities in the United States help bring the world's best technology to U.S. customers. Readers can find additional product and contact information on Hitachi Semiconductor's Website at http://www.hitachi.com/semiconductor or by calling 800-285-1601.

About TIBCO Software
TIBCO Software Inc. is a leading provider of real-time e-business infrastructure software. TIBCO's four product lines -- TIBCO ActiveEnterprise®, TIBCO ActiveExchange™, TIBCO ActivePortal™ and TIBCO Extensibility™ -- enable businesses to integrate enterprise applications, interact with other businesses in B2B commerce, and efficiently deliver personalized information through enterprise portals. TIBCO's products enable the real-time distribution of information through patented technology called The Information Bus®, or TIB®. TIB technology was first used to digitize Wall Street and has since been adopted in diverse industries including telecommunications, electronic commerce, manufacturing and energy. TIBCO's global direct customer base includes more than 600 customers from around the world such as Cisco Systems, Yahoo!, Ariba, NEC, Enron, Sun Microsystems, GE Capital, Philips, AT&T, Pirelli and AOL/Netscape. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, TIBCO can be reached at 650-846-1000 or on the web at www.tibco.com.