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University of Georgia Turns To Mirapoint For Unstoppable Email
Mirapoint Products to Power University Email, Web Access, Virus & Spam Defense

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 2, 2003 - Mirapoint, a leader in solutions for message networks, with its partner The Newman Group, a leading provider of information technology products and services, today announced that the University of Georgia (UGA) has selected Mirapoint products for campus-wide desktop email and Webmail services, as well as virus and spam protection for UGA's 45,000 students, faculty and staff. Mirapoint was the chosen vendor because of the company's demonstrated ability to deliver the proven reliability, ease-of-use and service flexibility required by UGA, which increasingly depends on its message network for communication, distance learning and collaboration.

Prior to selecting Mirapoint, UGA employed a freeware, Sendmail-based solution for its campus-wide email. Although up-front costs of the homegrown solution were low, UGA quickly discovered that freeware required significant ongoing maintenance and expensive hardware investments, and lacked flexibility for the addition of new messaging-based services.

"For UGA, email is essential to the learning process and ongoing flow of communications between our students, faculty and staff," said Greg Ashley, Executive Director and Assistant CIO, Enterprise Informational Technology Services, UGA. "By selecting the Mirapoint solution, we have the right platform in place to enhance the overall reliability and performance of our message network, as well as advanced services for security and online collaboration."

UGA will deploy Mirapoint Message Servers to deliver POP and IMAP services for its desktop email users, as well as Webmail for its mobile user population. To facilitate online collaboration, UGA will use Mirapoint's web-based group calendar and address book. As part of the deployment, UGA will also implement Mirapoint Message Directors to secure incoming email traffic and guard against spam, virus and hacker attacks. To help UGA meet a late-spring deployment deadline, Mirapoint Professional Services will assist in migrating existing UGA users from the old, freeware platform to the new, Mirapoint messaging systems.

"The Newman Group is excited to work with Mirapoint to provide industry-leading messaging and security solutions to our mutual customers in the education market," said Anthony J. Comazzi, Vice President, Messaging Solutions, The Newman Group. "Together, we have developed a successful approach to help educational institutions overcome spam and virus threats, while providing a comprehensive messaging solution that can support the volume of users and messages typically found in education settings."

Mirapoint's success with more than 50 educational institutions around the globe validates the company's value for education customers looking to upgrade or secure their message networks. Mirapoint's approach to messaging effectively addresses educational institutions' need for features traditionally found only in groupware solutions, while at the same time providing the security, scalability and low cost of Unix-based systems.

"It was important for UGA to deploy a dependable, secure solution for its message network, that could scale to meet the increasing demands of its users, while being cost-effective and easy-to-manage over the long term," said Bill Messer, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Customer Services at Mirapoint. "Our proven low total cost of ownership, 5-9's reliability and enterprise-class features are ideal for large education customers, like UGA, that want to standardize on a strategic messaging platform they can grow with and easily evolve over time."

About Mirapoint
Mirapoint® is a leader in solutions for message networks used by service provider, enterprise, education and government institutions. Customers use Mirapoint solutions to build message networks that intelligently route, store, access and manage Internet messages, including email. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. The company has more than 600 customers worldwide. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at http://www.mirapoint.com/.

About The Newman Group
The Newman Group has been providing IT solutions to Higher Education since 1971. The company markets a range of email messaging and networking products. For more information, visit the company Web site at www.nofailemail.net.

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