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BALTIMORE TECHNOLOGIES AND ENCOMMERCE JOIN THE OPEN GROUP

Industry Leading Companies to Participate in Security Program Group Projects Involving Public Key Infrastructure and Have Influence on Industry Changes

MENLO PARK, Calif. (November 15, 1999) – The Open Group^™, a vendor and technology-neutral consortium dedicated to enterprise integration, today announced that enCommerce, the leading provider of secure enterprise portal management solutions, and Baltimore Technologies (NASDAQ:BALT;London:BLM), a global leader in e-commerce and enterprise security solutions, have joined the Security Program Group of the consortium as new members.

“Being a member of The Open Group will expand our influence on current and future technology trends,” said Monica Pal, director of product marketing for enCommerce. “The consortium is a resource for staying abreast of industry news and provides networking opportunities with executives sharing our interests.”

Both companies have joined The Open Group as silver members, giving them the ability to participate in the Security Program Group at each of the four quarterly conferences as well as the ongoing electronic discussion groups. As members, they have influence over the detailed infrastructure requirements and programs.

“Baltimore Technologies are proactively working to standardize the use of PKI across a wide spectrum of technologies and to encourage interoperability between complementary products,” said Lisa Wilkinson, strategic technology manager of Baltimore Technologies. “The Open Group provides us the opportunity to work with other companies who share our commitment to driving standards that effect the PKI technology.”

The Security Program of The Open Group covers key areas of the industry, including confidentiality, integrity, accountability, non-repudiation, copy-protection, availability and privacy. In addition to technical standards, the program includes security policy and a framework for legal and regulatory issues.

Membership in The Open Group means joining a global network of buyers and suppliers who are developing frameworks, best business practices, and standards in key areas such as security, architecture, management, application integration, and mobile network computing.  Through the power of its membership, The Open Group is an organization in open, technology-independent standards that enables IT integration across the enterprise.

"The Open Group welcomes enCommerce and Baltimore Technologies as new members of the Security Program," said Allen Brown, President and CEO of The Open Group.  "This is a clear demonstration of their commitment to working with customers and other leading suppliers to resolve security integration issues for customers."

About enCommerce, Inc.
enCommerce, Inc. is the leading provider of secure enterprise portal management solutions, which enable e-business by dramatically reducing the time and cost of deploying secure content on the Web. enCommerce's Professional Services Group provides customers with the integration and support resources required to quickly build comprehensive Web access management infrastructures for electronic commerce ventures. Customers include The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Nomura International, Bank of America, Visa International, ATT, Sprint, NTT, 3Com, Quantum, Mitsubishi Corporation, BYU, UPS. Partners include Sun Microsystems, Netscape, Novell, Oracle, Vignette, VeriSign and Security Dynamics.

Founded in 1997, enCommerce, Inc. is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and has offices in New York, Tokyo and London.

About Baltimore Technologies
Baltimore Technologies develops and markets security products and services to enable companies to develop trusted, secure systems for e-business, e-commerce and the Internet. Its products include a wide range of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) systems, cryptographic toolkits, security applications and hardware cryptographic devices. Baltimore's global professional services organization offers a wide variety of consulting, training and deployment support to its customers worldwide. Baltimore Technologies markets and sells its solutions worldwide directly and through the TrustedWorld™ channel program. TrustedWorld includes many of the world's leading technology companies and a wide variety of global, regional and local business alliance partners.

Baltimore Technologies employs over 450 people worldwide and operates from over 20 cities with headquarters in Dublin, Ireland; London, UK; Boston, USA and Sydney, Australia. Baltimore Technologies plc is a public company with dual listings on NASDAQ (BALT) and the London Stock Exchange (BLM). Intel Corporation is a minority shareholder in the Company. Baltimore Technologies made e-commerce history in 1998 when President Clinton and Ireland's Prime Minister Ahern digitally signed an inter-governmental communiqué using security technology provided by Baltimore.

For further information and press releases on Baltimore Technologies please visit http://www.baltimore.com

About The Open Group
The Open Group is committed to delivering greater business efficiency by bringing together buyers and suppliers of information systems to lower the cost and risks associated with integrating new technology across the enterprise. The Open Group, a vender and technology-neutral consortium, ensures that multi-vendor information technology matches the demands and needs of customers. This is achieved through the development and deployment of frameworks, polices, best practices and standards in pursuit of the group’s IT DialTone vision --- the concept of making all technology as open and accessible as using a telephone.

By leveraging the expertise of its sponsors – Compaq Computer Corporation, Fujitsu Limited, Hewlett-Packard Company, Hitachi Limited, International Business Machines Corporation, NCR Corporation, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Sun Microsystems Inc. - and other members comprising leading software companies, Fortune 500 users and government departments, The Open Group is well on its way to achieving the IT DialTone vision. Embracing the maxim: "we can do so much more together than alone", The Open Group is helping its members to stay ahead in the race to use technology to gain competitive advantage. Additional information about The Open Group is available at the consortium’s web site at http://www.opengroup.org.

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