HUMMINGBIRD BECOMES SPICER GLOBAL RESELLER AND INTEGRATION PARTNER

Hummingbird users worldwide can enhance their Hummingbird Enterprise(tm) DM solutions with powerful and easy-to-use universal viewing and markup applications from Spicer

KITCHENER, Ontario - November 28, 2005 - Spicer Corporation, the leading developer of online document viewing, markup, editing and scanning software, today announced Hummingbird Ltd. as a new authorized international Spicer reseller. With several years of partnering through Hummingbird�s Alliance Network, Spicer and Hummingbird take the next step in providing content management solutions designed to help Government, Manufacturing, Insurance, Utilities, Law Enforcement, and Records Management markets. With the new reseller relationship, Hummingbird becomes an international channel and integration partner and will distribute and provide customer support for Hummingbird-Spicer integrations worldwide.

Hummingbird Enterprise(tm) DM is a secure and highly intuitive system that provides the power to control information throughout global organizations. Specifically, it serves as the core information management platform for the Hummingbird Enterprise content management system, delivering a centralized repository, with feature-rich functionality, that works in tandem with other modules for collaboration, instant messaging, workflow, records management, reporting and analysis, and much more.

Spicer imaging products - Imagenation� (for the desktop) and Image a.X(tm) (OEM toolkit) - extend Hummingbird DM with universal viewing and markup capabilities for MS Office, PDF, DWF, 2D/3D CAD, TIF, web formats and hundreds of other online file types. Users can easily access and review virtually any electronic file from the Hummingbird repository throughout all stages of the document lifecycle.

With Spicer, Hummingbird users benefit from a seamless connection between enterprise content and enterprise business processes, helping organizations to access information more quickly, make decisions faster, improve productivity, and streamline business processes. Moreover, Spicer universal viewing capabilities eliminate the added time and expense of loading and learning the native software applications that were used to create the original files.

Spicer universal viewers enable Hummingbird users to:

Securely view, redact, and mark up hundreds of electronic file formats from across the enterprise without changing the original file

- Display externally referenced files (X-refs)

- Check in markups and reference files

- Extend Hummingbird DM security to printed documents with custom stamps and other advanced print capabilities that include banners, tiling, scaling orientation, and print-as-displayed.

- Establish or correct reference links that may be missing

- Securely manage markups within Hummingbird DM

"Spicer provides important view, markup and redaction capabilities to information management systems delivered with Hummingbird Enterprise," said Andrew Pery, chief marketing officer and senior vice president, Hummingbird Ltd. Today, our customers face complex compliance and information management process changes. Our combined technology provides a complete solution to help organizations manage unstructured information, wherever it exits."

"We anticipate moving forward with Hummingbird in helping global customers achieve their rapidly evolving initiatives. We will continue to provide the key tools and strategies they need with our joint technology," said Steve Spicer, President and CEO, Spicer Corporation.

Spicer will demonstrate its integrations at Summit 2006, the Hummingbird worldwide conference and technology showcase, February 6-8, 2006 at Hotel InterContinental in Miami, Florida. For more information about Summit 2006, please visit the Hummingbird Web site: http://events.hummingbird.com/summit/2006/index.html.

About Hummingbird Enterprise(tm) 

Hummingbird Enterprise provides an integrated platform for enterprise content management that provides global organizations with solutions to manage business interaction information such as documents, records, virtual deal room exchanges, discussions, e-mail or financial data - linking business processes, information and people. Hummingbird solutions are designed as modular applications that are fully interoperable with each other, enabling customers to incrementally build an enterprise content management solution to meet their evolving information needs in a cost effective manner.

About Hummingbird 

Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ: HUMC, TSX: HUM) is a leading global provider of enterprise software solutions. The Company's enterprise software solutions fall into two principal categories: enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, and network connectivity solutions. Hummingbird's ECM solutions enable organizations to manage the lifecycle of enterprise content from creation to disposition, thereby enabling organizations to address critical business needs, such as information management, business continuity, compliance and risk mitigation. The network connectivity solutions provide a comprehensive set of core network technologies that enables the enterprise to connect to any type of legacy system.

Founded in 1984, Hummingbird employs over 1,500 people and serves more than 33,000 customers, including 90% of Fortune 100. Hummingbird solutions are sold directly from 40 offices worldwide and through an Alliance Network of partners and resellers. 

www.hummingbird.com

About Spicer Corporation. 

Spicer Corporation is a worldwide supplier of universal viewing solutions that enable the visual access, collaborative review, and distribution of data throughout an organization and with business partners. With Spicer's interoperable desktop and Web solutions, Imagenation�, ViewCaf�, Image a.X(tm) and DocuJet(tm), users can view, mark up, print and edit hundreds of industry-standard file formats including 2D/3D CAD, raster, vector, hybrid, and office formats. 

www.SPICER.com

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