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  PHONE.COM JAPAN K.K. AND SOFTWARE.COM JAPAN LTD. ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH OF OPENWAVE SYSTEMS JAPAN K.K.
  

  New Company Aims To Deliver Global Open Standards for Internet-Based Applications And Infrastructure Software In The Japanese Market
 
TOKYO, Japan - December 6, 2000 -- Phone.com Japan K.K, a leading provider of wireless Internet infrastructure and application software, and Software.com Japan Ltd., a leading developer of carrier-scale Internet infrastructure software for communications service providers, announced today that they have established Openwave Systems Japan K.K. (Based in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Trung Mai). The new company brings together industry leadership and product innovation to deliver open Internet-based communication infrastructure software and applications in the Japanese market. The new company has been established as a consequence of the merger of California-based companies Phone.com, Inc. and Software.com, Inc. resulting in the launch of Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:OPWV), which was announced on November 21.

Trung Mai, former CEO of Software.com Japan Ltd, and Kazuhiko Ishii, former president of Phone.com Japan K.K, have become CEO and COO, respectively, of the newly merged company. Openwave Systems Japan K.K. plans to double the number of employees by end of next year for further business expansions.

Openwave Systems Japan K.K. will gradually integrate product offerings of Phone.com and Software.com and develop next-generation technologies that meet the needs of the world's fastest growing mobile Internet market in Japan. In addition, the company will establish an R&D facility in Japan to develop global open standard products and technologies through close collaborations with the company's core customers, namely, communications service providers, such as wireless network operators, wireline carriers, Internet Service Providers (ISP's), portals and broadband network providers, as well as software developer partners.


About Openwave
 
Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV) is the worldwide leader of open IP-based communication infrastructure software and applications. Openwave is a global company headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information, please visit www.openwave.com.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements
 
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 specifically associated with the integration of the businesses of Phone.com and Software.com and the ability to achieve the expected benefits of the merger, including, those risks associated with the ability to integrate effectively the two companies' product lines, technology, operations and personnel, (b) the ability to continue to obtain qualified, experienced employees;; and (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 Phone.com's and Software.com's respective Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 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 declared effective on September 28, 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.


 
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