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  OPENWAVE AND BRIGHTMAIL PARTNER TO DELIVER SOLUTIONS TO FIGHT SPAM
  

  Companies Collaborate to Detect Spam at the Network Before It Reaches End-Users' In-Boxes
 
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - December 1, 2003 -- Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV), the leading provider of open software products and services for the communications industry, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Brightmail, the anti-spam technology and market leader, to work together to fight spam before it reaches the end-user's mailbox. As part of the collaboration, Openwave will resell Brightmail Anti-Spam™ software as part of its Openwave® Email Mx platform and Brightmail will join Openwave's Messaging Anti-Abuse Partner Program in the fight against messaging abuse. The companies have already integrated this solution for nine service providers with more than 11 million mailboxes worldwide. This announcement is an extension of the deep technical relationship that the companies have enjoyed over the past four years.

"Openwave is dedicated to helping operators fight spam and deliver an integrated product offering that allows customer to deliver differentiated messaging services," said Rich Wong, general manager of messaging products at Openwave. "Spam has become an insidious problem, according to IDC, each day 7.7 billion junk emails are sent in North America and 13.5 billion are sent worldwide. Our joint offering with Brightmail offers complete anti-spam prevention so that our customers can focus on delivering new value-added messaging services without worrying about spam attacks to their system."

"Because spam now comprises more than 50% of all Internet email messages, it is straining the resources and viability of email as the primary communications tool for business," remarked Enrique Salem, president and CEO of Brightmail. "The integrated solution from Openwave and Brightmail offers service providers the leading edge network controls and the world's most accurate and complete spam defense to prevent spam attacks from reaching their end users' inbox."

The fully integrated solution from Openwave and Brightmail allows service providers to keep spam off the system before it reaches an end user's inbox, prevent spammers from stealing email addresses from a provider, and prevent malicious attacks that can shut down service providers' networks.

With more than 147 million mailboxes utilized for email, mobile email, business messaging, voicemail, photo messaging, and multimedia messaging services, Openwave Email Mx is a messaging platform for multiple service creation, allowing operators to leverage their investment to extend beyond email and protect against spam and viruses.

About Openwave
 
Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV) is the leading independent provider of open software products and services for the communications industry. Openwave's breadth of products, including mobile phone software, multimedia messaging software (MMS), email, location and mobile gateways, along with its worldwide expertise enable its customers to deliver innovative and differentiated data services. Openwave is a global company headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information please visit www.openwave.com.

About Brightmail
 
Brightmail, the anti-spam market leader, delivers anti-spam technology that makes messaging environments secure and manageable. For over five years, Brightmail software has protected the email networks of businesses, government agencies, and service providers with superior accuracy and effectiveness blocking unsolicited bulk email, or "spam". The award winning Brightmail Anti-Spam™ software protects over 1,500 of the world's leading enterprises, including Avaya, eBay, Bechtel, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cypress Semiconductors, Deutsche Bank, Lucent Technologies, Microsoft and Terra Lycos. Brightmail also provides spam protection for the leading Internet service providers, including AT&T WorldNet, EarthLink, MSN, TelstraClear and Verizon Online. Brightmail now protects more than 300 million service provider customers, and 5 million enterprise email users worldwide. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Brightmail is a private, profitable company backed by world-class investors and partners. For more information, visit www.brightmail.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) the ability to make changes in business strategy, development plans and product offerings to respond to the needs of our current, new and potential customers, suppliers and strategic partners; (b) 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 our software; (c) the ability to successfully partner with other companies; d) increased global competition; (e) technological changes and developments; and (f) 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 the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2003, and any subsequently filed reports. 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.

 
Openwave and the Openwave logo are trademarks and or registered trademarks of Openwave Systems Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners. Brightmail is a U.S. registered trademark; Brightmail Anti-Spam is a trademark of Brightmail Incorporated.

For further information:
 
Contact Openwave Worldwide Public Relations

Brightmail
Bob Dorr
415-365-5004
bdorr@brightmail.com

  



 
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