Borealis Delivers Newest Version of the Arsenal Mobile Computing Platform.

CARSON CITY, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1998--Borealis Technology Corporation today announced the immediate availability of the newest release of its Arsenal Mobile Computing Platform, Arsenal(tm) version 3.6, designed to provide enhanced support for Microsoft's proven Open Database Connection standard (ODBC).

Support for ODBC enables customers to support any data reporting, data analysis or data importing or exporting tools within an Arsenal application. For example, customers can create reports using any off-the-shelf reporting application like Seagate Software's Crystal Reports(tm), or export or import data from popular ODBC-compliant products like Microsoft(R) Word or Excel.

"The obstacles confronting the mobile user are distinct from their tethered, front-office counterparts," said Tim Harmon, senior program director of META Group's Application Delivery Strategies service. "Traditional customer relationship and SFA solutions have not addressed the challenges inherent in remote mobile synchronization. Borealis is representative of the next generation of technology solutions specifically designed for the mobile user."

"Borealis continues to update its mobile computing platform and establish new ways to support the Mobile Office user," said Michael D'Eath, vice president of product marketing and business development for Borealis. "With Arsenal v3.6 customers can further empower the Mobile Office user by displaying Arsenal information in the user's desktop application of choice."

"The Borealis Mobile Computing Platform is a good instantiation of Intel's Balanced Computing Model," explained Chris Thomas, director of the Intel Distributed Enterprise Architecture Laboratory. "The Arsenal environment enables up-to-date information to be constantly gathered, refined, and delivered to individuals relying on Intel(R)-based servers in concert with powerful Intel-based business PCs and mobile laptops. This allows the user to balance when, where, and how they use server, client, and network resources."

"Because Mobile Office professionals are most often disconnected from the corporate network, they need a powerful platform that can continue to perform their tasks and collect relevant information," explained D'Eath. "When the user reconnects to the network, the most up-to-date information is delivered, maximizing both the power of mobile computing and personal productivity."

About the Mobile Office

Industry analyst firms like Aberdeen, Gartner and the META Group concur that the customer relationship management market will continue to grow at an accelerated rate over the next several years, reaching as much as $4.45 billion in 2001. However, the majority of sales to date in the CRM market have been in "tethered" telesales, call center and help desk markets. A different environment is required for highly mobile professionals.

Companies with large fleets of mobile users need agile, flexible and easy-to-use application solutions that can be easily managed, modified and re-deployed over time. Borealis has termed the Mobile Office as the key integration point between front-office applications, back-office data and mobile users. Current solutions based on client/server technologies have failed to penetrate customer accounts with large numbers of mobile users due to inherent architectural flaws and the inability to adequately manage the Mobile Office constituency.

Borealis provides an integrated Mobile Computing Platform with the essential foundation services -- including data and file distribution, communication and security and application management -- required to support rapidly changing enterprises with large numbers of mobile users.

About Arsenal

Arsenal is the enterprise-wide, customer relationship management solution designed to meet the evolving automation requirements of large mobile sales organizations. Arsenal's highly flexible, object-oriented technology offers the customization benefits of an application development environment combined with

the rapid application deployment capabilities of a packaged solution.

By providing fundamental building block functionality and a robust development platform, Arsenal offers short implementation times, streamlines customer implementations, and simplifies ongoing customization of mobile CRM systems.

About Borealis

Borealis Technology Corporation, headquartered in Carson City, is a leading provider of flexible customer relationship management products and services for the Mobile Office. Borealis provides the only natively mobile solution that integrates Mobile Office users, front-office applications and back-office data through easy-to-use, role-specific views of customer information.

To contact Borealis for more information on its optimized mobile CRM solutions, visit www.borealiscorp.com or call 888/427-7362. For more information on Intel's balanced computing model, please visit http://www.intel.com/businesscomputing/itcollead.htm.

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