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Socialtext Elects 20 Year Technology Veteran Julie Hanna Farris To Its Board Of Directors

Farris Brings Industry Experience with Notable Internet and Open Source Technologies to Support Socialtext’s Growth

May 15, 2008

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Socialtext, a leading provider of enterprise wiki and social software solutions, today announced that Julie Hanna Farris has been named as the newest member of the Board of Directors (BOD). Joining the Socialtext BOD, Farris brings a successful track record of guiding early to mid-stage companies from obscurity to market leadership. Farris is the founder and former CEO of Scalix, a pioneer in open source mail and collaboration software with over 700 enterprise customers in 55 countries, where she raised $20M in venture capital. Farris will work with CEO, Eugene Lee and Chairman, President & Co founder, Ross Mayfield and the rest of the Socialtext Board of Directors to target the next stage of growth for Socialtext.

“Julie’s background brings us a wealth of knowledge and experience in the enterprise market, open source, and social software arenas. We are honored to have her guidance as a member of the Socialtext Board as we move into our next phase of growth,” said Eugene Lee, Socialtext CEO. “I look forward to working with her and feel confident that she will help us accelerate Socialtext’s continued momentum in the social software market.”

“Socialtext is the global leader in enterprise wikis today,” said Julie Hanna Farris. “I have been particularly impressed with their vision for bringing social software to businesses, as well as their renewed commitment to product innovation. I am really looking forward to working with the team that has guided Socialtext success to date.”

Prior to founding Scalix, Farris was an entrepreneur-in-residence at venture capital firm, Mayfield, and a founding executive of several start-ups, including onebox.com, creator of the first consumer Internet unified messaging service that was acquired by OpenWave for $850M in 2000. Previously, Farris was at Portola Communications, where she was instrumental in the acquisition by Netscape, now Sun JavaMail. Farris has also held strategic technology and marketing roles at IBM/Lotus where she helped steer the product direction and market positioning of Lotus Notes/Domino and cc:Mail. Today, Farris advises entrepreneurs and CEO’s of Web 2.0 consumer Internet and enterprise software companies on a range of topics including venture financing, product and go-to-market strategy, and open source business models. Farris holds a B.S. in Computer Science from University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she was recently named 2008 Alumni of the Year.

Other members of the board include the following:

  • Tim Draper, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
  • Joi Ito
  • Eugene Lee, Socialtext CEO
  • Ross Mayfield, Socialtext Chairman, President & Co-founder

About Socialtext

As the first wiki company, Socialtext leads the industry in applying next generation Web 2.0 technologies to the critical challenges facing businesses. Web 2.0 holds the promise of dramatically increasing business productivity, stimulating greater innovation, and creating tighter connections between employees, and with partners, suppliers and customers. With the most flexible deployment options in the industry including appliances, hosted services, software and open source – Socialtext wiki centric social software solutions are designed for any organization that wants to accelerate team communications, better enable knowledge sharing, foster collaboration, and build online communities. Today, over 4,000 organizations use Socialtext, including BASF, CondeNet, Epitaph Records, Humana, IKEA, Intel, MicroStrategy, MWW Group, Nokia, Ogilvy PR, SAP, Symantec, USA Today, Washington Post, among others. More information on Socialtext can be found at www.socialtext.com.

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Christopher Lynch

(415) 601-0443
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