EXHIBIT 99.1 - Press Release dated July 9, 2002

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Public Relations:
Laurie Spoon
Vice President, Corporate Communications and Investor Relations
Selectica, Inc.
(408) 545-2492
lspoon@selectica.com

SELECTICA ANNOUNCES EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT CHANGES, PRELIMINARY RESULTS FOR THE
QUARTER ENDED JUNE 30, 2002 AND PLANNED REDUCTION IN HEADCOUNT

DR. SANJAY MITTAL NAMED PRESIDENT AND CEO

SAN JOSE, CA - July 9, 2002 - Selectica Inc. (Nasdaq: SLTC) a leading provider
of Interactive Selling Systems (ISS) for e-Business, today announced the
appointment of Dr. Sanjay Mittal, co-founder and CTO, as president and CEO. Dr.
Mittal is widely regarded as a thought leader in configuration, artificial
intelligence and object-oriented programming and is the architect of Selectica's
industry leading technology. Raj Jaswa has resigned from the position of CEO for
personal reasons but will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board. To further
strengthen Selectica's top management team, David Batt, Executive Vice President
of Worldwide Sales will assume responsibility for all outbound marketing
activities as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing and Stephen
Bennion, Executive Vice President and CFO will assume additional responsibility
for the company's professional services organization.

Raj Jaswa said, "Selectica has established a track record of successfully
deploying enterprise-wide solutions for configuration, pricing, and quoting
orders for complex products and services which are generating significant ROI
for our customers. I am proud of our success to date and look forward to
continuing in my role as Chairman of the Board."

"I am deeply appreciative of the many contributions Raj Jaswa has made to
Selectica since we co-founded the company in 1996," said Dr. Mittal. "Under his
leadership we have grown from a small start-up to a mature organization with
great promise of future growth. I am pleased with the strength and quality of
our management team and believe that going forward we can significantly improve
all aspects of our business for our customers and shareholders. I am also
pleased to report that new bookings strengthened for the second consecutive
quarter. While the enterprise software business continues to be very difficult,
we believe that Selectica's industry-leading technology and applications offer a
compelling value proposition for enterprise-wide sales configuration, quoting,
and pricing."


The Company also announced that it currently expects revenue to be in the $9.1
to $9.5 million range with an EPS loss anticipated to be in the $0.15 to $0.17
per share range excluding non-cash charges for the quarter ending June 30, 2002.
As noted last quarter, the Company will also be taking a significant charge in
the June quarter for impairment of goodwill related to acquisitions. The Company
plans to reduce worldwide headcount by approximately 15% over the next two
quarters as it continues to execute its plan targeted at achieving
profitability. The Company expects to end the quarter with approximately $135
million of cash and no long-term debt.

Complete financial results for the quarter ending June 30, 2002 will be
announced after market close on July 25, 2002.

ABOUT SELECTICA INC.

Selectica, Inc. (Nasdaq: SLTC) is a leading provider of Interactive Selling
Systems (ISS) that transform the way companies sell, service and compete.
Selectica's ISS platform provides robust capabilities to power industry-specific
guided selling applications that streamline and accelerate the process of
configuring, pricing and purchasing complex products and services. Businesses
that deploy ISS are able to empower business managers to quickly and easily
modify product, service and price information enterprise-wide to ensure proper
margins and to stay ahead of changing market conditions. Across a wide range of
industries, Selectica's ISS has demonstrated an ability to increase
productivity, improve order accuracy, boost return on investment and establish
and maintain a competitive advantage.

Selectica's customers include leaders across an array of vertical industries. In
manufacturing: Cooper Cameron, Invacare, Rockwell Automation; Insurance: Aetna,
Blue Shield of California, Humana; Networking: Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks,
Redback Networks; Automotive: BMW of North America, Michelin; High-tech: Dell
Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi; Telecom: British Telecom, NEC, Mitel,
Tellabs.

Selectica is headquartered in San Jose, CA. The company's Web site is
www.selectica.com.

The statements contained in this release that are not purely historical are
forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities
and Exchange Act of 1934, including statements regarding Selectica's
expectations, beliefs, hopes, intentions or strategies regarding the future.

All forward-looking statements included in this document are based upon
information available to Selectica as of the date hereof, and Selectica assumes
no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement. Actual results could
differ materially from current expectations. Factors that could cause or
contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the factors and
risks discussed in Selectica's Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended,
and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as the Company's
other recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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