Partner Press Release
Peregrine Systems® to Get High-Tech Companies Connected With RosettaNet Ready™ Program

For Release September 18, 2001

San Diego, CA --

Peregrine Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRGN), one of the world's leading software companies, today announced support for the newly launched RosettaNet Ready™ Program, providing self-test tools and services for high-tech companies to accelerate adoption and implementation of RosettaNet trading and collaboration standards across the supply chain.

The RosettaNet Ready Program provides products and services that companies within the high technology supply chain need to measure their own readiness and compliance with RosettaNet standards. The program speeds development and adoption of RosettaNet-enabled products by delivering readiness and development tools, compliance testing and product benchmarking -- driving integration costs down and adoption rates up. The program fuels continued growth of an immense RosettaNet trading network that encompasses both small and large enterprises.

"The level of support demonstrated by partners such as Peregrine is critical to the testing and rollout of any new RosettaNet program or service," said Jennifer Hamilton, CEO of RosettaNet. "We are confident that, with the ongoing commitment of the Solution Provider community, the RosettaNet Ready Program will serve to further promote and speed widespread adoption of RosettaNet standards. By providing a mechanism for delivery readiness and development tools, compliance testing and product benchmarking, the industry will see a significant payoff as we move toward driving integration costs down."

Peregrine is a founding member of the RosettaNet Solution Provider Board and has been an active participant in the creation and validation of the RosettaNet Implementation Framework (RNIF) 2.0, used by major high-tech companies and their suppliers for integrating supply chain trading and collaboration processes. Upon release of the RosettaNet Ready Program, Peregrine will enhance its existing product functionality by integrating the available Developer Tools Library into their B2B Relationship Management solutions. The developer tools will help provide a common benchmark platform to measure adherence with the RNIF and Partner Interface Processes™ (PIPs®) and also ensure compliance for future Peregrine e-business products and services.

"Peregrine actively supports RosettaNet and its goals to forge open standards," said Steve Gaylor, AVP of Peregrine Worldwide Product Marketing. "To continually improve service levels for the benefit of Peregrine's new and existing RosettaNet customers, the RosettaNet Ready Program Developer Tools Library and Software Compliance Badges will signify our commitment to delivering RosettaNet-compliant products, providing key validation services for RosettaNet initiatives on an industry-wide basis."

Peregrine B2B Relationship Management solutions also support RosettaNet Milestone Programs such as Product Information Exchange, RosettaNet Basics, Collaborative Forecasting, Design Win, iHub, Order Management in Japan, Product Data Standard and Semiconductor Manufacturing, including Work in Process (WIP).

About RosettaNet
RosettaNet is an independent, non-profit consortium dedicated to the collaborative development and rapid deployment of open Internet-based business standards that align processes within the global high-technology trading network.

More than 400 companies representing over $1 trillion in annual information technology, electronic components and semiconductor manufacturing revenues currently participate in RosettaNet's standards development, strategy and implementation activities. A complete list of member companies and more information on RosettaNet is available at www.rosettanet.org.

About Peregrine
Founded in 1981, Peregrine has matured into one of the largest software companies worldwide. Peregrine supports companies with solutions that remove friction points in managing infrastructure assets, empowering employees and enabling collaborative electronic commerce. Peregrine's Infrastructure Management Group (IMG) provides solutions to manage the entire life cycle of an organization's assets, from IT equipment and fleets of vehicles to a company's intangible knowledge assets. Peregrine's Employee Relationship Management solutions give employees real-time tools to secure knowledge, services and resources from a portal accessed at a desktop computer or an array of mobile devices. Peregrine's E-Markets Group (EMG) takes to market a digital business offering that provides a full range of software products and managed Internet services using Peregrine's Get2Connect(SM) global trading network. Peregrine EMG processes nearly 1.2 million e-Commerce transactions every business day and annually transacts $280 billion. Peregrine is headquartered in San Diego, California and has offices throughout the world. For more information on Peregrine, visit http://www.peregrine.com.

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