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PTC® Doubles Language Support of Arbortext Products With 5.2 Release

Arbortext® Solutions Address Customers’ Global Publishing Challenges

NEEDHAM, MA – February 14, 2006 –PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), the Product Development Company™, today announced the general availability of Arbortext® 5.2 -- the latest release of PTC’s dynamic publishing software. Since its acquisition of Arbortext in July 2005, PTC has focused on making the deep capabilities of the Arbortext technology even more widely available to customers operating across geographic boundaries and within heterogeneous IT environments. The result is a release of Arbortext solutions geared towards helping customers solve their most pressing publishing needs, specifically those related to the global production and delivery of technical documentation, product catalogs, and product information.

Specific Arbortext 5.2 enhancements include:

· Language Support. For content creation and publishing, this release includes support for EU languages, in particular for the new countries that joined the EU in 2004. For content editing, this release also supports Hebrew and Arabic. During this release, the user interface and help system of Arbortext 5.2 will also support the same 9 languages common to other PTC solutions. These include English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

· Import/Export. The Import/Export feature, which provides conversion between word processing/desktop publishing files and XML, will provide over 50% new functionality and replace the Arbortext Interchange module. The Import feature will offer much finer control over the conversion of styles into XML tags, so that word processing and desktop publishing files can more easily be translated into XML. This enhancement will increase the variety and complexity of documents that can be automatically converted, which will reduce manual effort and increase quality.
The Export feature will convert XML to RTF, a word processing file format, using the same stylesheets that are used to publish to print and electronic media. Without altering existing stylesheets, users will be able to produce Microsoft® Word documents with just the click of the “Print” button, or, if need be, they can modify their stylesheets to fine-tune the resulting file. The Import/Export feature will also support Unicode and Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages.

• Arbortext Publishing Engine on Linux. In addition to running on Windows® and Sun® Solaris® servers, the Arbortext Publishing Engine also runs on ix86-based Linux® servers and will validate on the Red Hat® version of Linux. Availability of the Linux version is planned for March 2006.

• Repository Adapter Object Model (RAOM). RAOM is a documented API that enables third parties to build integrations between Arbortext and repositories such as content management systems. Using RAOM will provide developers with the fastest and least-cost path to developing a high-performance, easy-to-use integration between a content repository and Arbortext editing and publishing software.

• Updated Oracle and Documentum Integrations. Consistent with PTC’s goal of openness and interoperability, the latest Arbortext release supports the latest versions of content management systems from Oracle and Documentum.

“Organizations around the world have come to realize the importance of a publishing strategy that supports increasing requirements globalization,” said PG Bartlett, vice president product management for Arbortext products, PTC. “Accordingly, this release addresses our customers’ ability to execute their global publishing initiatives regardless of language requirements, desired hardware platform, or installed content management system.”

About PTC Solutions For Dynamic Publishing

PTC solutions for dynamic publishing enable companies to automate the assembly and publishing of product or service information in multiple languages and formats. These solutions are made up of the Arbortext product family and are used by 30% of Fortune 500 companies in the manufacturing, life sciences, publishing, government, insurance and financial services industries.

About PTC

PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) provides leading product lifecycle management (PLM), content management and dynamic publishing solutions to more than 40,000 companies worldwide. PTC customers include the world's most innovative companies in manufacturing, publishing, services, government and life sciences industries. PTC is included in the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 indices. For more information on PTC, please visit http://www.ptc.com.

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Except for the historical information contained herein, matters discussed in this news release may constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These risks and uncertainties include: the successful development and integration of the technology necessary to offer integrated solutions that adequately responds to the evolving dynamic enterprise publishing requirements of customers; continued growth in the adoption of PLM solutions; PTC’s ability to extend our solutions, including the Arbortext suite of solutions, to vertical industries beyond the discreet manufacturing verticals traditionally served by PTC; PTC’s ability to retain and maintain relationships with key Arbortext employees, customers and other strategic partners, including those within markets and vertical industries with which PTC has little experience; and the market for, and customer adoption of, dynamic enterprise publishing may not grow as quickly as PTC expects, as well as other risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in reports filed by PTC with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's most recent reports on Form 10-K and 10-Q.