Based in San Francisco, CA, Palamida is a pioneer in helping
corporations manage third-party and open source software components.

ontology entity

1% of the shares of LifePoint Hospitals
common stock outstanding as of February 18, 2005, the record date for
the LifePoint Hospitals special meeting.5% of the shares voted at the
meeting and approximately 70. LifePoint Hospitals ' non-urban
operating strategy offers continued operational improvement by
focusing on its five core values: delivering high quality patient
care, supporting physicians, creating excellent workplaces for its
employees, providing community value and ensuring fiscal
responsibility. In addition, investors
and security holders may obtain free copies of the documents filed
with the SEC by LifePoint Hospitals or Lakers Holding Corp.

nolan ontology

Such forward-looking
statements, particularly those statements regarding the effects of the
proposed transaction, reflect the current expectations and beliefs of
the managements of LifePoint Hospitals and Province Healthcare, are
not guarantees of performance of LifePoint Hospitals, Province
Healthcare or the combined entity following completion of the proposed
transaction, and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties,
assumptions and other factors that could cause actual results to
differ from those described in the forward-looking statements . It ensures that companies adhere to license requirements
and reduces the risk of costly development delays, failed audits, and
legal action. Both the Detector and Compliance Library modules rely on
CodeRank(TM) technology.

stanford actualism

Province Healthcare Company, a provider of healthcare services in
attractive non-urban markets in the United States, owns or leases 21
general acute care hospitals in 13 states with a total of 2,529
licensed beds.
With the Detector module, users can determine component license
requirements and assess all required obligations.

stanford necessary

This release includes forward -looking statements based on current
management expectations. Numerous factors exist which may cause
results to differ from these expectations. Palamida already has
Fortune 500 corporations using its system.

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----LifePoint
Hospitals, Inc.

The transaction is expected to close on Friday, April 15, 2005. currently operates 30 hospitals in
non-urban communities.; (xiv) the
costs of complying with the Americans With Disabilities Act; and (xvi)
those risks and uncertainties described from time to time in the
companies' filings with the SEC, including those related to the
proposed transaction .0 automatically detects,
manages, and reports on third party open source and commercial
software components and licenses that exist in almost every company's
code base.
Leading corporations are getting the message. It consists of two key modules -- the
Compliance Library and the Detector.

existent thesis

For
example, such risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors
relating to the proposed transaction include, without limitation, the
possibility that (1) problems may arise in successfully integrating
the businesses of the two companies; (2) the acquisition may involve
unexpected costs; (3) the combined company may be unable to achieve
cost-cutting synergies; (4) the businesses may suffer as a result of
uncertainty surrounding the acquisition; and (5) the combined company
may be subject to future regulatory or legislative actions. Neither
LifePoint Hospitals nor Province Healthcare undertakes any obligation
to update any forward-looking statements, or to make any other
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise . Today, companies are running systems that do not
track copyright and intellectual property restrictions . It is only a
matter of time until they come under scrutiny and the risk of
potentially expensive litigation arises.

realism exist

sec., 103 Powell
Court, Suite 200, Brentwood, Tennessee, 37027, Phone: (615) 372 -8500
and by Province Healthcare by contacting Investor Relations, Province
Healthcare Company , 105 Westwood Place, Suite 400, Brentwood,
Tennessee, 37027, Phone: (615) 370-1377."
Arthur R . Miller, Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law
School and a world-renowned expert on intellectual property, concurs.

merely realism

Stockholders of LifePoint Hospitals Inc. and Province Healthcare Company Approve Proposed Acquisition

3% of the shares of Province Healthcare
common stock outstanding as of February 18, 2005, the record date for
the Province Healthcare special meeting.

LifePoint Hospitals , Inc.
Investors and security holders are advised to read the joint proxy
statement/prospectus and other relevant materials when they become
available, as well as any amendments or supplements to those
documents, because they will contain important information about
Lakers Holding Corp .gov. These
forward-looking statements are also subject to other risks and
uncertainties, including , without limitation, (i) reduction in
payments to healthcare providers by government and commercial
third-party payors, as well as changes in the manner in which
employers provide healthcare coverage to their employees; (ii) the
possibility of adverse changes in, and requirements of, applicable
laws , regulations, policies and procedures, including those required
by LifePoint Hospitals' corporate integrity agreement; (iii) the
ability to manage healthcare risks, including malpractice litigation ,
and the lack of state and federal tort reform; (iv) the availability,
cost and terms of insurance coverage; (v) the highly competitive
nature of the healthcare business, including the competition to
recruit and retain physicians and other healthcare professionals; (vi)
the ability to attract and retain qualified management and personnel;
(vii) the geographic concentration of the companies ' operations;
(viii) the ability to acquire hospitals on favorable terms; (ix) the
ability to operate and integrate newly acquired facilities
successfully; (x) the availability and terms of capital to fund the
companies' business strategies; (xi) changes in the companies'
liquidity or indebtedness; (xii) the potential adverse impact of
government investigations and litigation involving the business
practices of healthcare providers, including whistleblowers
investigations; (xiii) volatility in the market value of each
company's common stock; (xiv) changes in general economic conditions
in the markets the companies serve; (xv) LifePoint Hospitals' reliance
on information technology systems maintained by HCA Inc.
The Palamida IP Amplifier Version 3.com

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fictional exist

Understanding the use and application of open source and
commercial code in a company's software products and systems is a
fundamental future challenge for these businesses.
Using an advanced, automated collection system, the Compliance
Library contains billions of source code snippets and millions of
files of the most commonly used open source products found in the
market. As with anti-virus programs,
customers receive periodic updates of the Compliance Library in order
to track new components . For more information, please visit www.

, a necessary truth is a proposition that could not have been false, a necessary existent is an entity that could not have failed to exist, etc.

metaphysics modal

("LifePoint Hospitals ") (Nasdaq: LPNT) and Province
Healthcare Company ("Province Healthcare") (NYSE: PRV) jointly
announced today that each company's stockholders have approved
LifePoint Hospitals' proposed acquisition of Province Healthcare.
At the Province Healthcare special meeting of stockholders held on
Monday , March 28, 2005, in Nashville, Tennessee, Province Healthcare
announced that 35,307,654 shares of Province Healthcare common stock
were voted in favor of adoption of the merger agreement, 91,299 shares
were voted against adoption of the merger agreement and 98,374 shares
abstained from voting . It analyzes binary
code, source code, images, icons, archives, XML, and text documents
for licensing issues and lets users share component, license, and
metadata information.

modal entity

In order to be adopted , the
merger agreement required the approval of at least a majority of the
total number of shares of Province Healthcare common stock outstanding
as of the record date for the Province Healthcare special meeting. All
references to "Province Healthcare" as used throughout this release
refer to Province Healthcare Company and its affiliates.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
LinuxWorld Boston 2005

BOSTON----

Company Helps Corporate Compliance Teams Answer the Question:
"Do You Really Own Your Intellectual Property?"

Palamida announced today at LinuxWorld Boston (Booth #729) the
commercial release of the first comprehensive system to ensure that
companies accurately control their software intellectual property (IP)
assets.

About Palamida, Inc.

Modailty deals with what is necessary and what is possible; e.

false implications

by
contacting Investor Relations, LifePoint Hospitals, Inc.

Palamida Releases First Comprehensive System to Detect and Manage Commercial and Open Source Components and Licenses

CodeRank(TM) combats false-positive
identifications through advanced logic that identifies and prioritizes
code matches from terabytes of the most commonly used components on
the market.palamida.

possibility actualism

fictional proposition

The shares voted for adoption of the merger
agreement represented approximately 99. The use of third-party
commercial and open source software components has become standard in
software development.
"Palamida is working to resolve some of the most critical problems
facing software manufacturers and enterprise-level software users,"
said Michael Poplack, Associate General Counsel of Oracle Corporation. Palamida's customers include
Fortune 500 corporations, independent software vendors, and systems
integrators.

implications existent

and its affiliates.

stanford ontology

Therefore, the companies' future results may
differ materially from those described in this release.
"These companies are devoting increasing resources to the security of
their systems and the protection of their intellectual property
rights ."

Palamida IP Amplifier

The Palamida IP Amplifier offers a groundbreaking approach to
managing corporate IP bases.

failed fictionalism

Whether software applications are core to a company's product
offering or integral to its infrastructure, they comprise a major
percentage of many companies' market value .

Pricing + Availability

Palamida IP Amplifier is licensed on an annual subscription basis
for an unlimited number of users.

realism necessary

In order to be adopted, the
merger agreement required the approval of at least a majority of the
total number of shares of LifePoint Hospitals common stock outstanding
as of the record date for the LifePoint Hospitals special meeting.

Important Legal Information

In connection with the proposed transaction between LifePoint
Hospitals and Province Healthcare , Lakers Holding Corp. has filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a joint proxy
statement/prospectus, as part of a Registration Statement on Form S-4,
and other relevant materials have been filed by LifePoint Hospitals
and Province Healthcare. This rapid shift in component development has
left many CEOs, legal counsel, and IT managers scrambling for
information about whether their companies control the IP behind
applications that are mission-critical to their success.

construed modal

Business Editors/Healthcare Editors

BRENTWOOD, Tenn.7% of the shares voted at the
meeting and approximately 80. Headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee, LifePoint
Hospitals is affiliated with approximately 9 ,900 employees. The definitive joint proxy
statement/prospectus was mailed to the stockholders of LifePoint
Hospitals and Province Healthcare on or about February 22, 2005.
All references to "LifePoint Hospitals" as used throughout this
release refer to LifePoint Hospitals, Inc.
Corporate oversight is playing catch-up to this revolution in
software development -- just as new legal requirements such as
Sarbanes-Oxley require corporate officers to certify that controls are
in place to prevent fraud.
The company's investors include Hummer Winblad Venture Partners,
WaldenVC, and Stanford University.

thesis entities

thesis metaphysics

At the LifePoint Hospitals special meeting of stockholders held on
Monday , March 28, 2005, in Nashville, Tennessee, LifePoint Hospitals
announced that 31,212,346 shares of LifePoint Hospitals common stock
were voted in favor of adoption of the merger agreement, 84,659 shares
were voted against adoption of the merger agreement and 22,435 shares
abstained from voting . In most cases, the LifePoint Hospitals facility
is the only hospital in its community. This situation is dangerous because each
component carries different licensing commitments governing usage,
re -distribution, and royalties that place binding obligations on the
companies that use them and put them at risk for multimillion-dollar
product recalls, IP devaluation, lawsuits and more.

exist modality

The shares voted for adoption of the merger
agreement represented approximately 99. As a result, users receive a company-wide
overview of all IP assets and licensing obligations.

fictionalism implications

construed metaphysics

, LifePoint Hospitals, Province Healthcare and the
proposed transaction. In addition, the joint proxy
statement/prospectus and other relevant materials filed by LifePoint
Hospitals or Province Healthcare with the SEC may be obtained free of
charge at the SEC's web site at www. Many of the factors that
will determine the companies' future results are beyond the companies'
ability to control or predict with accuracy .
"The problem that Palamida is addressing is an issue that no company
can afford to ignore.