FULCRUM AND COMPUSERVE SIGN MAJOR LICENSING AGREEMENT

AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE MILLIONS OF COMPUSERVE USERS WITH POWERFUL SEARCHING
CAPABILITIES

Ottawa, Canada and Columbus, Ohio, July 11, 1995 -- Fulcrum Technologies
Inc. (NASDAQ: FULCF), a leader in the market for content-based retrieval
software, and CompuServe Incorporated, the international leader in
affordable online information, software and communications services for
the public, today announced a licensing agreement that will provide the
benefits of Fulcrum's powerful searching technology to more than three
million CompuServe members in 150 countries worldwide. Under the agreement
with Fulcrum, CompuServe will license SearchServer, Fulcrum's flagship
search and retrieval software, for use on the CompuServe Information
Service.

"CompuServe members expect content and forums which are useful, informative
and entertaining; they also want to find the most interesting parts of the
service easily and effectively," said Tim Oren, CompuServe vice president
of future technologies. "Fulcrum's software provides this capability in a
proven and scalable fashion. It will support the continual explosive
growth of our membership, and is a key element of our strategy to improve
the usability of the CompuServe Information Service."

Fulcrum was picked by CompuServe after an extensive and rigorous evaluation
process. "Fulcrum provides tools that will allow us to rapidly integrate
the capabilities of the searching engine into our service," added Oren.
"That was a key factor in their favor."

"This is a great application for our software," said Peter Eddison,
Fulcrum's vice president of marketing. "In information-intensive
applications like CompuServe's, effective searching can cut down on
network traffic, with dramatic results. Improvements in efficiency
translate directly into improved service for end-users, which means happy
customers. Most of our corporate customers use this same software for
applications that solve information access problems across local and wide
area networks. In these cases the user community may be smaller, but the
principle is the same."

"It's clear that we offer the searching technology of choice for online
services. We count some of the biggest names among our customers,
including The Microsoft Network, Il Sole 24 Ore (in Italy), and UMI,"
added Eddison.

The CompuServe Information Service continues to be the world's most
successful and most popular online service, with 3.2 million members. The
undisputed industry leader in innovation, the service offers global email,
the industry's first CD-ROM supplement, libraries of free software,
28.8-Kbps access and worldwide Internet services. In addition to the
CompuServe Information Service, CompuServe offers networking, Internet
services, electronic mail and business information services to major
corporations worldwide. CompuServe Incorporated, with world headquarters
in Columbus, Ohio, is an H&R Block (NYSE: "HRB") company.

Since 1983, Fulcrum Technologies has been a leading vendor of
text-retrieval software because of the strength of its core indexing and
searching engine, its open systems strategy, and its tools approach. Used
by large and medium-sized organizations, Fulcrum's software provides
access to corporate intellectual capital stored electronically, on
client/server computer networks in particular. Headquartered in Ottawa,
Canada, Fulcrum is traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol
"FULCF".

For More Information:
Gillian Brouse
Fulcrum
(613) 238-1761
e-mail: gillianb@fultech.com

Debra Young
CompuServe
(614) 538-4553
e-mail: 70004.336@compuserve.com

Sally Winship
Rourke & Co
(617) 267-0042
e-mail: swinship@rourke.com

Visit Fulcrum's World Wide Web site:
http://www.fultech.com
 
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