MarkMail Enables Developers to Tap into Java Brain Trust by Incorporating java.net Mail Archives

Community-Focused Email Archive Website Exceeds 16 Million Messages

SAN CARLOS, CA — July 22, 2008 — Mark Logic Corporation, a leading provider of infrastructure software for information applications, today announced that MarkMail, a free service for searching mailing list archives available at http://markmail.org/, has added group messages from the highly influential java.net community. In cooperation with CollabNet, the leading provider of solutions for distributed software development and the system that powers http://java.net, more than 975,000 emails were loaded into the MarkMail system. The java.net community members now have the ability to seamlessly query across the structured and unstructured parts of email, including attachments, and unlock the tremendous value embedded in these messages.

Founded in 2003, java.net is the realization of a vision of a diverse group of engineers, researchers, technologists and evangelists at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) to provide a common area for interesting conversations and innovative development projects related to Java technology. With nearly 450,000 total members, java.net encompasses a wealth of community-based knowledge in its ongoing email discussions, which most recently totaled 40,000 emails per month as shown by the following MarkMail histogram:

Java chart

(Last bar represents messages as of July 22, 2008)

“Wow – the features in MarkMail are cool and you quickly get the feeling it is just the tip of the iceberg,” said Marla Parker, community manager for java.net, in a recent blog post. “To assist users, we plan to create a page on java.net with a bunch of sample queries and instructions on how new active mailing lists on java.net can get added to the MarkMail archive.”

MarkMail was launched in November 2007 with four million messages from the Apache Software Foundation. Since the site’s unveiling, MarkMail has garnered rave reviews from both the community and industry watchers, and continues to add content relevant to a wide breadth of software developers. Today, MarkMail hosts more than 16 million messages across 3,800 mailing lists, including umbrella communities such as Apache, Codehaus, Mozilla, and the World Wide Web Consortium, technology-specific communities such as Eclipse, GNOME, KDE, MySQL, NetcoolUsers, Perl, Python and Xen, and a broad spectrum of other projects.

“I've been working with Java for over a decade now and it's really gratifying both personally and professionally to be able to bring MarkMail’s advanced search and discovery capabilities to the java.net community – to projects such as GlassFish, jMaki, AppFuse, Grizzly, Hudson and WebWork,” said Jason Hunter, principal technologist for MarkMail at Mark Logic Corporation. “Having the java.net list archives available in MarkMail will help speed project development, make it easier for users to find answers, and make it possible to track what's happening across thousands of lists for the first time.”

About MarkMail

The free MarkMail service provides sophisticated search functionality with a powerful faceted navigation interface. Combined with real-time analytics, the system delivers a new, state-of-the-art experience for interacting with large-scale message archives, such as those used by open source projects. MarkMail's powerful functionality and fluid user experience were built utilizing the unique capabilities of MarkLogic Server for handling semi-structured content. With MarkMail, users can seamlessly query across the structured and unstructured parts of email, including attachments, unlocking the value trapped inside millions of emails. By observing structure in the seemingly free-form content of the message body and automatically weighting query terms appropriately, MarkMail delivers results far superior to simple full-text search. In addition, MarkMail presents analytic information based on header information and other message metadata, enabling user drill down and query refinement. The results are a single interactive experience that lets users rapidly focus in on the answers they are seeking. For more information, visit http://markmail.org or visit the MarkMail blog at http://markmail.blogspot.com.

About Mark Logic Corporation

Mark Logic Corporation is a leading provider of information infrastructure software, serving industries including media, government, financial services, healthcare, and others. The company's flagship product, MarkLogic Server, is used by customers to enable a wide variety of information applications including custom publishing, search-based applications, content analytics, unified information access, metadata catalogs, and threat intelligence systems. MarkLogic Server is based on patented innovations and provides state-of-the-art features including location awareness, real-time search, and a shared-nothing cluster architecture that supports high performance against petabyte-scale databases. Mark Logic is headquartered in San Carlos, California with field offices in New York, Washington, London, Boston, Austin, and Frankfurt. The company is privately held with investors Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital. For more information, to download a trial version, or to read the award-winning Kellblog, written by Mark Logic CEO Dave Kellogg, go to www.marklogic.com.