Openwave Teams With Network Appliance to Deliver a Scalable Messaging Storage Solution
Combined Solution Delivers Quality Services to Carriers at Reduced Cost of Ownership
SUNNYVALE, Calif. --April 25, 2001-- Network Appliance (Nasdaq:NTAP - news), the leading provider of network-attached data access and content delivery solutions, and Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:OPWV - news), the worldwide leader of open IP-based communications infrastructure software and applications, today announced they have teamed to deliver a collaborative messaging solution that combines Openwave's messaging products with NetApp® storage solutions. This collaboration creates an opportunity for both Openwave and Network Appliance to offer communication service providers (CSPs) a highly scalable technology platform at a lower cost.
Openwave and Network Appliance are collaborating to ensure the highest degree of data storage reliability and performance of their combined solution. Network operators that must contend with large volumes of messaging data will benefit from a scalable platform, readily available to support millions of users and their messaging requirements. The open architecture of the Openwave(TM) Email Mx has the ability to incorporate large volumes of Internet e-mail, voicemail, fax mail, and other emerging messaging technologies as service providers evolve and expand their offerings to include unified messaging services.
``The ability to store large amounts of data is key to any unified messaging solution,'' said Mike Mulica, senior vice president, worldwide operations for Openwave. ``Together with Network Appliance, we are fulfilling network operators' needs by providing a solution that makes unified messaging a reality for their subscribers. Our combined efforts offer highly scalable messaging solutions at a reduced cost of ownership for our service provider partners.''
Network Appliance and Openwave will support each other's efforts to offer data storage solutions to CSPs servicing millions of customers and their messaging requirements.
``Data volumes are exploding, particularly within the unified messaging industry,'' said Ray Villeneuve, vice president of strategic marketing at Network Appliance. ``By teaming with Openwave, a recognized leader in the mobile Internet market, we can offer customers a robust data storage and content delivery solution for the center and edges of the network. The combined solution enables customers to realize maximum revenue opportunities with the lowest industry TCO for wired and wireless services that are here and working today.''
Openwave Email Mx will be the first product of the Openwave(TM) Services OS(TM) certified for use with the NetApp data storage solution. The combination of Openwave and NetApp technology will effectively scale with carriers as further advanced unified messaging services are offered to subscribers. The Openwave and NetApp combined solution is available immediately.
About Openwave
Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:OPWV - news), is the worldwide leader of open IP-based communication infrastructure software and applications. Openwave is a global company headquartered in Redwood City, Calif. For more information, please visit www.openwave.com.
About Network Appliance
Network Appliance, Inc., a leader in network file storage and content delivery, has been providing data access solutions since 1992, and is a member of both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 index. Major corporations and service providers, including Lycos, Yahoo!, Citicorp Securities, Siemens, Lockheed, Cisco, Motorola, and Texas Instruments have deployed NetApp solutions.
The company pioneered the concept of the ``network appliance,'' an extension of the industry trend toward dedicated, specialized products that perform a single function. NetApp storage and content delivery platforms (filers and NetCache(TM) appliances) are coupled with powerful content distribution and reporting software. This center-to-edge(TM) solution offers seamless data management from the back-end data center to the edge of the network quickly, simply, and reliably. The Network Appliance(TM) product portfolio utilizes the company's innovative data access software, known as the Data ONTAP(TM) operating system, as well as standards-compliant hardware. It also offers multiprotocol support and transparent integration for UNIX® and Windows® environments.
This release contains forward-looking statements relating to expectations, plans or prospects for Openwave Systems Inc. that are based upon the current expectations and beliefs of Openwave's management and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. In particular, the following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements: (a) risks associated with the development and licensing of software generally, including potential delays in software development and technical difficulties that may be encountered in the development or use of the Company's software; (b) the ability to successfully partner with other companies; (c) competition and technological changes and developments; and (d) general risks of the Internet and wireless and wireline telecommunications sectors.
For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to the risk factors discussed in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (``SEC''), including but not limited to Openwave's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended December 31, 2000, Phone.com's and Software.com's most recently filed Annual Reports on Form 10-K, and Phone.com's registration statement on Form S-4 as filed on October 10, 2000. All documents also are available through the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov or from Openwave's Web site at www.openwave.com. The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this document.
Note to Editors: NetApp is a registered trademark and Network Appliance, NetCache, center to edge, and Data ONTAP are trademarks of Network Appliance, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark in the U.S. and other countries licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Limited. Openwave, the Openwave logo, Services OS and the family of terms carrying the ``UP.'' prefix are trademarks of Openwave Systems Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners. |
