SDL PLC
21 October 2005


                SDL Shares Road to Global Information Management


                New products accelerate global content delivery

Maidenhead, UK - 21st October 2005 - SDL International, a leader in the emerging
market for global information management (GIM) solutions, today announced its
roadmap for combining the best of Trados and SDL technologies following the $60m
acquisition of Trados, Inc in July.

Organizations struggle to optimize the complex, fragmented processes involved in
managing global information. With today's announcements, SDL is enabling
organizations to standardize these business processes and easily share
information assets across the GIM ecosystem of corporations, language service
providers and freelancers. Before year end, SDL will release new, compatible
versions of SDLXTM, SDL TradosTM, SDL MultiTermTM, SDL TeamWorksTM and SDL
Translation Management SystemTM. All releases will support backwards
compatibility and will be provided as free of charge upgrades*.  In 2006, SDL
will continue to roll out product enhancements that integrate the best of Trados
and SDL technologies, including updating SDL AuthorAssistantTM and SDL KbT
SystemTM for accessing Trados translation assets.

These announcements reinforce SDL's commitment to its customers and to its
business partners in the GIM ecosystem. The new product releases leverage key
functional components from across the existing Trados and SDL products while
building a new platform for product innovation. Migration from existing products
will be supported with SDL continuing to lead the industry in support of
industry standards.

"SDL is investing $10m per year in the technologies and business applications
needed to meet the GIM needs of global enterprises," commented Keith Mills,
President Technology Division at SDL. "With the increased standardization and
enhanced capabilities announced today, customers can optimize their processes
across the whole GIM supply chain to accelerate global content delivery."

For translation memory, the new versions of SDLX 2005 and Trados 7 will share
key functionality such as automated QA checks, segment commenting, import/export
filters and SDL MultiTerm terminology integration. These releases will also
allow for more efficient information exchange using SDL ITD, Trados TTX and
industry-standard TMX formats. SDL will be integrating SDL and Trados
technologies to create a new single platform, SDL Trados, designed to move
beyond the boundaries of today's translation memory technologies.

SDL MultiTerm will be the platform for all terminology management and the new
release will benefit from full Unicode support, integration with translation
memory products and translation management products and a new web-based user
interface. Experience from SDL TermBase Online will be built into the new SDL
MultiTerm platform.

Knowledge gained from Trados GXT, Trados TeamWorks and SDL Translation
Management System will be built into a new best-of-breed translation management
platform. This will benefit from an enhanced API that provides access to GIM
services for easy integration into other enterprise applications. The new
releases of SDL TeamWorks and SDL Translation Management System before year end
begin this process, with SDL MultiTerm integration, LDAP support and many other
new capabilities.

"We are seeing the market start to transition from the 100,000 SDL/Trados
desktop installations of translation memory and terminology towards GIM
solutions," added Terry Lawlor, Vice President Worldwide Marketing at SDL. "We
are now deploying more than ten enterprise installations every month, with
forward thinking companies in the GIM ecosystem, such as euroscript and
InterSol, leveraging SDL technologies to also offer enterprise GIM solutions."

About SDL International
SDL International (London Stock Exchange: 'SDL') is a leader in the emerging
market for global information management (GIM) solutions that empower
organizations to accelerate the delivery of high quality multilingual content to
global markets. Its enterprise software and services integrate with existing
business systems to manage global information from authoring to publication and
throughout the distributed localization supply chain.

Global industry leaders such as Audi, Bayer, Best Western, Bosch, Canon,
Deutsche Bank, Kodak, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Reuters and SAP rely on SDL to
provide enterprise software or full outsourcing for their GIM processes. SDL has
implemented more than 100 enterprise GIM solutions, has over 100,000 software
licenses deployed across the GIM ecosystem and its global services
infrastructure spans more than 50 offices in 30 countries. For more information,
visit www.sdl.com.


For information on SDL, please contact:

Fiona Camden
Tel:  +44 (0)1628 410120
Email:  fcamden@sdl.com


* Free of charge upgrades are only available for customers who have already
purchased the latest version of the product and who have a current support
contract, where applicable.


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