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MIRAPOINT TARGETS SENDMAIL & SUN/iPLANET CUSTOMERS; ANNOUNCES ‘ZERO-DOWNTIME MIGRATION’
Migration offer simplifies move to reliable, secure & easy-to-manage Mirapoint messaging systems

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA– (August 5, 2003) – Mirapoint, a leader in solutions for message networks, today announced the industry’s first ‘zero-downtime’ approach to email migration as part of a new competitive upgrade program. The new program is geared toward Sendmail and Sun/iPlanet customers looking to migrate from old-world messaging products to more reliable, secure, and easy-to-manage Mirapoint messaging systems. Available to qualified prospects that contact Mirapoint before September 30, 2003, the program provides guaranteed ‘zero-downtime migration’ for organizations that trade-up to Mirapoint systems.

With many of the old-world messaging solutions, like Sendmail and Sun/iPlanet, customers have no easy way to upgrade, migrate to new releases or incorporate new features without running the risk of email service outages or potentially lost messages.

As an example, many service providers and educational institutions need to upgrade their message networks from old-world products, so they can deploy advanced web, wireless and related applications, such as group calendar or address book services. In addition, many of these customers are under increasing pressure to address security threats, including spam, virus and hacker attacks.

Mirapoint’s Professional Services (PS) team has developed a unique approach to migration that allows customers to safely switch to Mirapoint’s systems, while ensuring zero-downtime for the duration of the migration. Already numerous global service provider and education customers have employed Mirapoint’s PS team for migration services, including Baker College, James Madison University, Oakland University, China Telecom, Bezeq, University of Georgia and Temple University. An industry first, Mirapoint’s fail-safe approach to zero-downtime migrations also includes rigorous quality assurance measures and detailed reconciliation reports during all stages of the migration.

"Mirapoint's Professional Services team was instrumental in providing UGA's 45,000 students, faculty and staff with a zero-downtime migration from Sendmail to the Mirapoint solution, so users could continue to login and access their mailboxes while the migration was going on," said Greg Ashley, Executive Director of UGA's Enterprise Information Technology Services. "The PS team had the messaging expertise to make our migration very painless for our users, as well as provided valuable assistance integrating with our existing directory services solution and doing custom branding of the Mirapoint webmail interfaces."

By switching to Mirapoint, customers benefit from Mirapoint’s optimized messaging solutions that address the complete Internet messaging lifecycle – to route, store, access and manage messaging information – plus features for web and wireless access, group calendaring and address book services, plus spam, virus and hacker protection. In comparison to the Sendmail and Sun/iPlanet products, the Mirapoint solution provides all of this functionality in an integrated system and with a simplified management model proven to have a lower long-term Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) than competitive solutions.

Proven Migration Track Record
Mirapoint has developed an expertise in helping customers migrate from old-world products to Mirapoint's integrated systems. Over the last two years, Mirapoint PS has migrated more than 50 customers worldwide and nearly five million mailboxes from alternative messaging products without causing any data loss or service downtime.

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/.

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