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AUTONOMY ENTERS INTO MULTI-MILLION AGREEMENT WITH MAJOR PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY

Cambridge, UK - 1 December 2009 - Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that it has entered into a multi-million license agreement with a major pharmaceutical company to license Introspect 6.0 IDOL for collections, early case assessment, archiving and ediscovery. The value of the deal is around $5 million. 

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Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, spearheads the Meaning Based Computing movement. IDC recently recognized Autonomy as having the largest market share and fastest growth in the worldwide search and discovery market. Autonomy's technology allows computers to harness the full richness of human information, forming a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data, including unstructured information, such as text, email, web pages, voice, or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including pan-enterprise search, customer interaction solutions, information governance, end-to-end eDiscovery, records management, archiving, business process management, web content management, web optimization, rich media management and video and audio analysis. 

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