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LEXACOM AND MIRAPOINT DEMONSTRATE THE FIRST STANDARDS-BASED, INTEGRATED INTERNET CALENDARING AND MESSAGING SOLUTION FOR WIRELESS SERVICE PROVIDERS

GSM World Congress, Cannes, France – February 1, 2000 - Lexacom and Mirapoint, Inc. today announced the availability of a solution offering highly secure, easily deployable and cost-effective ways for wireless service providers to deliver integrated IP-based calendaring and messaging services to mobile users. This technology and marketing partnership brings Lexacom’s powerful calendaring software and Wireless Data Server together with Mirapoint’s IP messaging capabilities. Lexacom and Mirapoint will demonstrate this wireless Internet calendaring and messaging solution at the GSM World Congress, February 1-4, 2000 in Cannes, France, in the Lexacom Booth, #C18.

“Mirapoint offers a highly reliable, secure and scalable communications solution that enables us to extend the reach of our technology to include IP-based messaging,” said André Courtemanche, president and CEO of Lexacom. “Unified Messaging applications are key for the next generation of networking. Our companies provide critical infrastructure components that make it possible to offer these services today.”

Mirapoint Internet Message Server is designed to support the massive increase in message traffic and volume on today’s networks. As a network appliance, the Mirapoint Internet Message Server is optimized to deliver robust performance and reliability while keeping management costs exceptionally low. With Mirapoint, large fault-tolerant messaging systems can be easily designed and deployed with full Internet standards compliance (POP, IMAP, SMTP).

Lexacom Calendar™ and Wireless Data Server combine real-time calendaring and scheduling software with the global access and freedom of web browsers, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and mobile handsets. Lexacom's suite of products complements other Internet services such as e-mail, chat rooms, search engines, and event trackers, and offers an ideal framework for wireless service providers to deliver time-related web content, attract and retain customers, and drive e-commerce revenues.

“Mobile communications is currently the fastest growing high technology area on a global scale. GSM operators have successfully marketed mobile voice services to both business and consumers, and they are now looking to add value to these basic services by extending Internet e-mail capability, SMS notification and other links to IP-based applications,” said Art Rosenberg of the Unified Messaging Consortium. “The combination of Internet messaging and calendaring products offered by Mirapoint and Lexacom make an attractive, easily deployed solution for wireless service providers looking to further exploit their services and open up new revenue streams to satisfy customers' personal information needs.”

“Mirapoint and Lexacom are delivering integrated standards-based real-time calendaring and Internet messaging capability to wireless service providers around the globe," said Larry Frank, vice president of business development at Mirapoint. “Mirapoint's unique messaging technology will support the introduction of innovative Internet messaging-enabled services. Adding wireless access and calendaring capabilities through our partnership with Lexacom is the next logical step in our commitment to enable service providers to offer value-added solutions to their subscribers.”

Availability
Lexacom Calendar™ and Wireless Data Server, as well as Mirapoint's Internet Message Server, are available today from their respective companies.

About Lexacom
Lexacom/Corporate Software and Technologies (CS&T) is the world leader in calendaring technology for the corporate, Internet and wireless markets. Lexacom/CS&T was the first to develop and market a real-time calendaring and scheduling application. With a mission-critical solution that encompasses client/server, Internet, PDA synchronization, and wireless communications, Lexacom/CS&T now offers the only complete, standards-based suite of calendaring products. Based in Montreal, Canada, Lexacom/CS&T markets its products and services worldwide to corporations, educational institutions, and service providers like Web Portals, ISPs, ASPs, Telcos, and wireless operators. For more information, please visit http://www.lexacom.com.

About Mirapoint
Founded in 1997, Mirapoint is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure message networks in enterprise, service provider, and education organizations, with more than 115 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide. Customers use Mirapoint appliances to build the messaging infrastructure that intelligently serves, secures and manages email. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com.

Mirapoint is a registered trademark of Mirapoint, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Contact:
Marten den Haring
CS&T/Lexacom
(514) 733-8500
martend@lexacom.com

US
Sheila Chillingworth
Interprose, Inc.
(203) 961-1258
sheila_chillingworth@interprose.com

Europe
Simon Barker
MMD - UK
+44 1635 573 600
simon.barker@mmd-marcoms.co.uk

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