MULTILINGUAL.COM AWARDS RUBRIC WEB SITE PERFECT SCORE

Friday, June 29, 2001

MultiLingual.com, the industry-leading Web resource for localization and international communication, has awarded Rubric's Web site, www.rubric.com, a triple 5-star ranking, the highest possible ranking. Five stars out of five were awarded in the categories of Quality, Coolness and Related.

MultiLingual.com ranks all of the major localization and multilingual comminications players. Out of a total of more than 100 companies profiled, Rubric is one of only five companies whose Web site received the highest triple 5-star ranking.

Rubric's Web site offers a wide variety of information and educational materials regarding the localization of technology products and services, particularly those in the market areas of telecommunications, Internet, e-business, enterprise applications, packaged software and hardware.

For example, A Guide to Localization Management offers a roadmap to managers of localization for the creation and implementation of a solid, reliable and scalable localization strategy. Rubric's series of localization handbooks, including Rubric's Web Technologies Localization Handbook and Documentation Localization Handbook, assists technology companies in developing world-ready products and services. In addition, www.rubric.com also offers an on-line localization bookstore, containing in excess of 100 localization and international software-related books and publications. The site also contains a number of articles by Rubric as well as localization checklists and case studies.

About MultiLingual.com
Multilingual.com is owned and operated by MultiLingual Computing, Inc. MultiLingual Computing publishes information on language technology and software localization and provides consulting services.

Its industry-leading magazine, MultiLingual Computing & Technology, has a strong editorial focus. Issues include articles on language technology and standards, word processing and publishing, information on trends and industry changes, language learning, software internationalization and localization, a calendar of related events, and product announcements and reviews. MultiLingual Computing & Technology is now the leading magazine in the world for the industry, providing ongoing information for people that use and develop computer software in multiple languages. With a rapidly growing readership of over 20,000, the magazine is distributed in 52 countries and through newsstands around the world.

About Rubric
Rubric assures a better localization experience. Specializing in globalization services for the high technology industry, Rubric brings flexibility, on-demand scalability, and integrity to guarantee localization success. Rubric's refined processes adapt to the high tech sector's need for proactive localization planning, anticipation of dynamically changing requirements, and agile response capabilities. For more information, visit www.rubric.com.