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Mirapoint Announces Aggressive Competitive Upgrade Program
New Upgrade Program Targets Companies Looking to Replace Existing Messaging Systems

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 12, 2002 - Mirapoint, a leading provider of Internet messaging solutions, has announced a competitive upgrade program to advance the messaging capabilities of companies faced with under-performing or unsupported messaging systems. This new program allows companies to take advantage of Mirapoint's integrated hardware and software solutions bundled with comprehensive migration services in order to move from legacy systems to the highly reliable and easy-to-manage Mirapoint platform.

Most messaging systems today are based on freeware applications, such as Sendmail, or commercial-grade products, such as those from Openwave, that are software-only solutions deployed on general-purpose servers. These complex systems are difficult to manage, prone to outages and have high operating costs. Mirapoint's competitive upgrade program offers customers an easy to maintain, reliable and secure messaging system that relieves the burdens associated with these piecemeal solutions.

As part of the program, Mirapoint has designed tools to accelerate migrations, so customers and partners can quickly and confidently move to Mirapoint. These tools can handle migrating message information, as well as user preferences such as filtering and forwarding rules, address book content and other user-specified data.

SIGECOM, an Indiana-based service provider offering telephone, data and cable services, recently experienced a successful migration from Openwave's Post.Office to Mirapoint's messaging system. "Our legacy email service was unreliable and prone to outages," said Curtis Rose, data services manager for SIGECOM. "We chose Mirapoint for its highly reliable Internet email services, simplified management, and inherent ability to grow as we grow our subscriber base and add new services like Webmail. The beauty of the Mirapoint solution is that scaling upward is incremental and seamless-there's nothing you have to throw away, nothing that needs to be replaced."

Proven Migration Track Record
Mirapoint has developed an expertise in helping customers migrate from legacy products to Mirapoint's fully integrated solutions. Under this program, Mirapoint has migrated more than 25 customers and more than two million mailboxes from alternative messaging platforms from companies such as Critical Path, Openwave, Sendmail and Sun/iPlanet - without causing any data loss or service downtime. For more detailed information on Mirapoint's competitive upgrade program visit our migration page.

Customers are looking to do more than just replace one system with another system of equivalent functionality. Service providers, for example, need to upgrade their messaging capabilities and add services that can bring in new sources of revenue in areas like Web and wireless access capabilities and calendaring.

"Mirapoint's solution is ideally suited for service providers," said Satish Ramachandran, chairman and chief executive officer of Mirapoint. "One platform gives our customers the ability to offer a continuum of services that can be offered to various classes of subscribers at various prices. The result is a customization capability designed to appeal to the differing needs of subscribers at prices they can afford."

The Mirapoint Advantage
This high degree of flexibility derives from Mirapoint's unique technology approach to messaging, called "architected messaging"-an integrated hardware and software solution highly optimized for performance, reliability, scalability and customization. Architected messaging is Mirapoint's answer to traditional, fragmented solutions that have proven to be unreliable, difficult to manage, expensive to scale and upgrade, and impossible to easily adapt to the specific requirements of the customer. The Mirapoint solution is easy to deploy and manage, while providing a strategic platform for advanced messaging services, including built-in anti-virus and anti-spam features.

About Mirapoint
Founded in 1997, Mirapoint designs and manufactures specialized, dedicated Internet messaging solutions optimized for fast deployment in service provider and enterprise environments worldwide. Mirapoint's cost-effective and modular solutions provide customers with high performance, high reliability, built-in security and easy integration with legacy messaging infrastructure. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information on Mirapoint, call 800-937-8118 or visit its Web site at http://www.mirapoint.com.

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