Funambol's Open Source Push Email

Funambol Releases First Open Source Push Email Product for Deployment with
Carriers and Enterprises

Funambol v3 extends mobile email to the widest range of handsets

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., February 6, 2005   Funambol, the mobile open source
software company, today announced the release of Funambol v3, the first open
source push email product for carriers and enterprises.  Funambol v3 allows
customers to deploy this year's "killer app"   push email   to the widest
range of mobile phones.  

Funambol's push email capabilities include 'send,' 'receive' and 'forward'
functions and allow users to open attachments, check email on and offline,
and accept or decline meeting requests. Funambol v3 also provides standard
over-the-air synchronization of calendars, to-do lists, contacts, and other
Personal Information Management (PIM) data.  The server supports RIM
BlackBerry, Microsoft Windows Mobile, SyncML-compliant phones, and any WAP
enabled phone. 

Funambol v3 is commercial open source software that implements the Open
Mobile Alliance Device Management/Device Synchronization (OMA DM/DS)
standards, formerly known as SyncML. According to industry analyst data, more
than 75 percent of new mobile handsets sold worldwide are SyncML compatible.
Open source software allows developers to build mobile data applications with
higher quality, better standards compliance and unprecedented device
compatibility.

"Funambol v3 will allow us to better meet the needs of all our customers with
branded PIM and push email services around Sync123, the leading mobile
personal information management service in Asia," said Ray Espinosa,
President, ePLDT   a wholly owned subsidiary of the Philippines' largest
carrier, PLDT. "Sync123 is essential to our plans of further expanding our
mobile data services and provide for the ever-growing needs of our
consumers."

Leading telecommunications consultancy firm Detecon recently reported that
mobile email is the most popular mobile data service among consumers even
though most carriers don't yet offer the service. In the enterprise,
seventy-five percent of the global workforce will be mobile in 2006,
according to Gartner Research, and mobile email is the "killer app" driving
this forecast.  Both the enterprise and consumer markets are demanding better
access to mobile email, while developers are struggling to find effective
ways to deliver compatible, high quality services.  Funambol v3 removes
today's barriers, such as hardware and software "lock-in," device testing
limitations, and high cost structure, to make mobile email available on the
majority of mobile phones.

"Open source software and standards will accelerate mobile email deployments,
increase revenue opportunities for carriers and give enterprises more
flexibility," said Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO of Funambol.  "We believe that
mobile email will quickly become a commodity, so open source is the natural
approach to this market place. With Funambol v3, we deliver the benefits of
open source software to our customers   code where every line is scrutinized
and tested and access to largest mobile QA group in the world. "

Funambol v3 is the latest product release from Funambol and supports
Exchange, Domino, IMAP and POP email servers, utilizes the email client
pre-loaded on the mobile device or a WAP browser, and supports end-to-end
128-bit SSL encryption.  Previous introductions included Funambol's Personal
Information Management (PIM) Portal with functionality based on the OMA
standards.  The Portal supports Blackberry, Outlook, Palm, Windows Mobile,
any OMA/SyncML or J2ME enabled device, and even iPods

Funambol v3 Pricing and Availability
Funambol products are based on open source technology and the beta version
can be downloaded for evaluation now at www.funambol.com

Funambol uses the dual-licensing model common among commercial open source
products, where the commercial version has additional features, broader
platform support, intellectual property protections, commercial license
terms, and available support.  

Funambol v3 is available in Carrier and Enterprise editions, and its
components can be licensed separately for ISV and OEM contracts.  Funambol
products are typically sold on an annual per-user basis, but other pricing
models are used to meet customers' specific business needs.

About Funambol
Funambol is the mobile open source company. Funambol's Mobile Application
Server offers "push" email, multimaster PIM synchronization, and management
facilities for mobile devices.  Funambol (formerly known as Sync4j) is an
open source development platform for mobile applications that has been
downloaded more than any other wireless middleware product   250,000 times.
The commercial version has been deployed at wireless carriers, Fortune 100
enterprises, hardware OEMs/ODMs and ISVs including customers such as Computer
Associates.  Funambol is headquartered in Redwood City, California with a
development center in Italy.  See www.funambol.com. 

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