NETg and Trivantis Deliver Powerful, Easy-to-Use Custom Content Creation Tool for Corporate Learning Clients

Partnership Expands NETg's Leadership Position as Enterprise Learning Solutions Provider

July 16, 2003

Naperville, Ill. - NETg, a worldwide leader in corporate education and training, and part of the Thomson Corporation (TSX: TOC; NYSE: TOC), today announced a partnership with the Trivantis Corporation, the industry leader in elearning authoring and publishing technologies and services. With the addition of Trivantis' innovative content creation authoring tool called Lectora, NETg expands its position as the leading provider of open, enterprise learning solutions designed to meet the critical business needs of leading global corporations.

Lectora is a user-friendly content creation tool that is portable to many standards and formats, including NETg's open learning solution. Clients will now have access to world-class content creation tools and a range of combined services that will help customers achieve business goals.

"This partnership with Trivantis reflects our ongoing commitment to provide customers with an easy-to-use, highly interactive solution that unifies the learning in their organizations, and puts the power to create unique content into the hands of our clients," said Joe Dougherty, president of NETg. "By combining the Trivantis authoring and publishing tools with NETg's broad library of blended learning offerings, companies can leverage existing resources, extend the reach of their learning program, and create an experience that is uniquely relevant to the needs of their businesses."

From basic to advanced users, Trivantis' Lectora Publisher solutions empower subject matter experts—and not just programmers—to create compelling courseware. The easy-to-deploy tools have been widely used by many Fortune 500 companies to improve productivity, minimize costly programming resources and create content on the desktop. Advanced tools allow for publishing to pocket PCs and personal digital assistants. The integration between the Trivantis Lectora solutions and NETg's open learning solutions give businesses an unparalleled opportunity to support company-wide curriculum development, certification and accreditation, large product deployments and more.

"In today's fast-paced business environment, it is critical for companies to have a level of autonomy and flexibility in the development of company-specific learning and to do it fast and cost-effectively," said Tim Loudermilk, president of Trivantis. "Trivantis shares many common customers with NETg. We believe our partnership will now allow companies to access the full range of learning solutions, to address all of their individual and integrated learning requirements—creating a consistent learning environment that is standards-compliant."

The Trivantis solutions, which include both the Lectora Enterprise Edition and the Lectora Professional Publishing Suite, offer multimedia content creation capabilities, as well as advanced testing features, customizable questions and tests, grading and results tracking, electronic forms creation, the ability to create scripts, and more. In addition, the dynamics of "one-click" publishing are dramatically increased with easy-to-follow templates and advanced features such as the ability to import Flash movie files and HTML objects, as well as fly-in and fly-out animation, and simulations. Users can instantly publish to the Internet, CD-ROM, DVD, Single-File Executable, AICC, SCORM, LRN, and Cisco CDN. Through the new offering available from NETg, users can also publish to NETg's hosted learning site, as well as to any SCORM or AICC conformant learning management system (LMS).

About The Thomson Corporation & NETg

The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2002 revenues of $7.8 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges (TSX: TOC; NYSE: TOC). Its learning businesses and brands serve the needs of individuals, learning institutions, corporations and government agencies with products and services for both traditional and distributed learning.

As part of Thomson, NETg (www.netg.com) is a global leader in blended learning with a complete solution of content, technology and services. NETg's offering is comprised of its award-winning elearning courseware, books, online books and instructor-led training manuals and Wave accelerated IT Boot Camps and self-study kits, as well as an online executive education and e-MBA program. For more than 30 years NETg has been an innovation leader incorporating Internet deployment and interactivity with over 82,500 learning objects in popular IT, desktop computing and professional development topics.

About Trivantis

Cincinnati, OH-based Trivantis Corporation provides world-class authoring and publishing software and content development services that enable the rapid creation and deployment of multimedia content. Trivantis develops authoring and publishing tools with near-zero learning curves that provide educators in academia, the business sector, and government the capabilities to create and publish high-quality multimedia educational content.Trivantis solutions are designed to help overcome the technical barriers traditionally associated with publishing to a variety of digital mediums including the Internet, intranet, CD-ROM, DVD, and mobile devices.

The Trivantis flagship product, Lectora Publisher, helps subject- matter experts within an organization to start creating courses immediately, collaborate with colleagues and convert content to provide rapid transfer of knowledge across the enterprise.