Ford Becomes Kintana's 250th Customer

    SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 31 Kintana Inc., creator of
technology chain management (TCM) software that helps IT organizations run
faster, cheaper, and better, today announced Ford Motor Company is
Kintana's 250th customer.  Initially, Ford will use Kintana Create(TM) and
Kintana Deliver(TM) to gain visibility and control across the company's Oracle
applications and to provide management and automation of its Oracle
implementation and maintenance processes.
    "Ford's decision to use Kintana shows the value the company places on
speeding their new technologies into use, reducing risk, increasing IT
productivity, and improving collaboration through better visibility and
control," said Kintana CEO Bryan Plug.  "Because of Kintana's ability to
reduce IT staffing costs and bring IT solutions to market faster, using our
technology chain management solution is especially valuable in today's tighter
economic environment."
    Gaining Ford as a customer demonstrates Kintana's accelerating momentum.
Kintana announced its 200th customer, Hewlett-Packard, in November 2000.
Revenues continue to grow strongly quarter-on-quarter.  This month UPSIDE
magazine named Kintana one of the 100 hottest privately held technology
companies.

    About Kintana
    Kintana has created the first enterprise application for technology chain
management (TCM), helping IT organizations work faster and smarter while
saving money.  Kintana's comprehensive solution manages, automates, and
provides 360-degree visibility and control over all IT processes, improving
productivity while reducing risk, time-to-market, and cost.  Kintana estimates
that a complete implementation of its solution can reduce a company's overall
IT costs 10 to 25 percent.
   The privately held company, founded in 1995 as Chain Link Technologies,
currently serves 250 customers, including Cisco, GE, and Credit Suisse.
Kintana is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, with offices in New York, Chicago,
Atlanta, Denver, Houston, Toronto, Reading (UK), Hamburg, Frankfurt, and
Paris.  For more information on Kintana's products, which have won two
prestigious Crossroads A-List Awards, visit http://www.kintana.com.
    NOTE:  The trademarked names used in this release are the property of
their respective owners.

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