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AUTONOMY ENTERS INTO LICENSE AGREEMENT WITH SAFEWAY

Cambridge (E2:J91U.SI - news) , UK - 19 January 2011- Autonomy Corporation (Dusseldorf: AUY.DU - news) plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that it has entered into a significant agreement with Safeway (Xetra: 878922 - news) to license Autonomy's Intelligent Data Operating Layer software.

Safeway Inc. is one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America.

About Autonomy

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.

Autonomy's customer base is comprised of more than 20,000 global companies, law firms and federal agencies including BAE Systems (LSE: BA.L - news) , BBC, Bloomberg, Boeing (NYSE: BA - news) , Citigroup (NYSE: C - news) , Coca Cola (NYSE: KO - news) , Daimler AG, Deutsche Bank (Xetra: 514000 - news) , DLA Piper, Ericsson (Stockholm: ERIC-B.ST - news) , FedEx (NYSE: FDX - news) , Ford (NYSE: F - news) , GlaxoSmithKline (GLAXF.PK - news) , The Lloyds Banking Group, NASA, Nestlé, the New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Shell (LSE: RDSB.L - news) , T-Mobile, the U.S. Department of Energy (JJE - news) , the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (HSCC.PK - news) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. More than 400 companies OEM Autonomy technology, including Symantec (SYMF.EX - news) , Citrix, HP, Novell (Xetra: 873019 - news) , Oracle (ORCF.EX - news) , Sybase and TIBCO. The company has offices worldwide.

Please visit www.autonomy.com to find out more.

Autonomy and the Autonomy logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autonomy Corporation plc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

For more information, please contact:

Assia Iossifova Autonomy (UK) +44 207 907 2300 assia.iossifova@autonomy.com	David Vindel The Red Consultancy +44 207 025 6529 david.vindel@redconsultancy.com
Edward Bridges Financial Dynamics +44 207 831 3113 edward.bridges@fd.com	Louise Kehoe Ogilvy PR (US) +1 415 677 2739 louise.kehoe@ogilvypr.com

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