ActiveState Achieves Record Growth:
Massive demand for anti-spam software fuels company expansion

VANCOUVER, BC - May 13, 2003 - ActiveState Corp., the leader in
anti-spam software for enterprises and programming tools for open source
developers, had a record year in 2002 and another record quarter in Q1
2003.  The company has doubled in size in the past year and attained its
best ever financial results in gross billings, profitability, and cash
flow.  Revenues increased by more than 100% over the preceding year,
driven largely by the significant adoption of PureMessage, the company's
enterprise email management software for spam protection, virus
protection, and corporate policy enforcement.  

Major customers include:  Choice Hotels, Cornell University, EMC,
Forbes, Handspring, Northrop Grumman, Pacific Gas & Electric, QLogic,
SAP America, Stanford University, United Space Alliance, Verizon,
Vignette, and Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals.  Over 70% of the Fortune 500
are ActiveState customers.

This growth has fueled numerous senior hires both from the U.S. and
locally from Vancouver.  New members to ActiveState's executive team
include Paul Maurer, vice president of sales, services, and customer
care; and Kymber Hodges, vice president of marketing.  These senior
executives will be instrumental in driving the strategy behind the
company's sales growth in the anti-spam market and successful
penetration of large organizations.  

Maurer has been an advisor to ActiveState for the past ten months, and
will now join the company's executive team to lead its sales, services,
and customer care organizations.  He brings more than 20 years of sales
expertise to ActiveState, and has led successful teams in sales,
marketing, alliances, professional services, and product development.
He comes to ActiveState from Oracle, where he was area vice president
for Western Canada and held responsibility for large sales, support, and
services.  

Hodges has more than 15 years of management experience in brand
management, promotions, advertising, interactive online marketing, and
web development.  Prior to joining ActiveState, Hodges was director of
enterprise marketing at VeriSign.  Previously, Hodges served as vice
president of product marketing for RHC Media Inc, publishers of Red
Herring.  She also held a number of management positions at VISA USA,
including director of operations and director of eVisa.

"Maurer and Hodges add depth to an already-strong management team, and
will help provide the vision and experience we need to continue our
profitable growth," said Steve Munford, president, ActiveState.
"Leadership of this caliber ensures we are properly positioned to fully
capitalize on the rapidly growing anti-spam and content filtering
market, which is anticipated to reach $1.6 billion US by 2006.  We're
taking significant steps to effectively support our growth and customer
base, including recent additions to our sales and marketing force, a new
call center, and direct and online marketing initiatives."

"ActiveState has done a phenomenal job in capturing market share in the
enterprise anti-spam space in the past year," said Paul Maurer, vice
president of sales, services, and customer care, ActiveState.  "I look
forward to expanding an extremely talented team armed with an email
filtering solution that is exceptionally well suited to the demanding
needs of the large enterprise."

"I'm excited to take ActiveState's successful brand in the open source
programming arena and help bring it to the same dominant position in
email management," said Kymber Hodges, vice president of marketing.  "We
see a great synergy in our different lines of software and plan to
capitalize on their common mindshare within the IT departments of large
organizations." 

To help maintain its 30% quarter-over-quarter growth, the company is
continuing to add to its team and is hiring at all levels.  More details
can be found at http://www.ActiveState.com/Careers or email
Careers@[...].com.

About ActiveState Corp.
ActiveState is the leading provider of software solutions that increase
developer productivity and organizational efficiency through the
innovative use of open source technology.  The company's PureMessage
product empowers organizations to take control of their email
communications to protect against spam and viruses, and to enforce email
policy.  Additional information on ActiveState's industrial strength
anti-spam software for enterprises and programming tools for open source
language developers is available at: http://www.ActiveState.com.

Media & Analyst Inquiries:
Lori Pike, Director Corporate Communications LoriP@[...].com
604.808.6655

ActiveState and PureMessage are trademarks of ActiveState Corp.  All
other company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Copyright ActiveState Corporation 2003.
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