Critical Path Hits the Road to Educate Businesses On Messaging and Directories.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 2001

Messaging and Directory Provider Hosts Free Informational Seminar

Series to Address Key Issues Facing Corporate IT Professionals

Critical Path Inc. (Nasdaq:CPTH), a global provider of messaging and directory infrastructure, today announced a series of seminars to educate IT executives on how to tackle many of the challenges they face in deploying and maintaining messaging and collaboration systems and directory infrastructure.

The series of half-day educational seminars will be held in cities across North America beginning on June 26, 2001, in Boston. Registration and information is available at http://www.cp.net/seminar/index.html.

Through this series of free seminars, IT executives will be able to learn first hand how they can leverage Critical Path's messaging and directory infrastructure to meet the challenges of providing communication services to an expanding audience -- both inside and outside of an organization. The series will highlight how utility messaging provides the scalability, reliability and cost performance necessary to extend services such as Web mail, groupware and secure delivery across an organization to employees, partners, suppliers and customers. Additionally, the seminars will elaborate on the value of directory services, both directory and meta-directory, as identity management infrastructure for extranet and eBusiness initiatives. Attendees will learn how consistent and accurate user profiles are foundational components for providing secure access to corporate information and delivering personalized services.

"Our goal is to educate the IT community on the strategic importance of messaging and directory infrastructure for increasing communication between employees, partners and customers, reducing IT costs and mitigating security risks in an organization," said Sue Barsamian, senior vice president of marketing for Critical Path. "This seminar series will help businesses realize that messaging, collaboration and directory services are an integral part not only of the IT strategy necessary to tackle the most complex communications challenges, but the overall business strategy a company needs to achieve a competitive advantage and drive its eBusiness initiatives forward."

Critical Path's nationwide seminar series will consists of two sequential sessions:

Session One: Solving Today's Messaging And Collaboration

Challenges

Meeting the messaging and collaboration needs of today's organizations is becoming increasingly difficult. Dispersed locations, the changing and varied needs of diverse employee groups, rapidly advancing technology and the onslaught of Spam and virus attacks are leading to new demands and rising costs. This session addresses the challenges of providing secure messaging and collaboration across an organization without a sole reliance on traditional groupware applications. Critical Path will discuss the growing role of public versus private infrastructure, and how businesses can leverage hosted messaging to combat rising costs and management complexities.

Session Two: Leveraging Directories For User Profile Management

Companies need a method to effectively manage user identities, provision network resources, applications and services to the appropriate users and tie back end line-of-business systems to front-end eBusiness or value-added applications. In the "User Profile Management" session, Critical Path addresses how to leverage directory and meta-directory infrastructure to enable an organization's growth while ensuring the needs and policies of existing infrastructure components, such as network operating system directories, HR databases and messaging systems, are adequately enforced. Critical Path will explain how to securely manage data that spans across the organization, stored in dozens -- or even hundreds -- of directories and databases, and reduce, not just hide, the costs of administering the vast amounts of data that are stored in directories and databases. Additional topics include discussions on directories and PKI, access control and management of digital certificates.

For complete seminar schedule and registration information, please visit the Critical Path Web site at http://www.cp.net/seminar/index.html.

About Critical Path, Inc.

Critical Path Inc. (Nasdaq: CPTH) ignites the power of information for eBusiness by providing an Internet Messaging and Directory Infrastructure for the new economy. The company is a single resource that powers the flow of mission-critical information through an integrated portfolio of secure messaging, directory, data integration and collaboration solutions. Critical Path's technology strengthens the eBusiness value chain by providing an infrastructure to fuel customers' new and existing eBusiness initiatives. Critical Path is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices worldwide. More information on Critical Path can be found at http://www.cp.net

This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding the Company and its expectations, which involve certain risks and uncertainties, such as statements regarding the anticipated results of seminar series and the anticipated knowledge such seminars will impart, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements may be identified by use of terms such as "able," "can," "allowing," "allows," "enable," "may," "will" and similar terms or expressions. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially. Factors that could cause the Company's results to differ materially from its expectations include: failure to expand our sales and marketing activities; unplanned system interruptions and capacity constraints that could reduce our ability to provide messaging services and harm our business and our reputation; potential difficulties associated with strategic relationships; ability to respond to rapid technological change of the Internet messaging industry; competition; foreign currency fluctuations; failure to maintain or reduce operating expense levels; delays in customer orders; recognition of revenue from customers; problems related to managing the Company's expected growth, including the ability to maintain or improve upon cost efficiencies; and the failure to realize savings due to perceived synergies of acquired businesses, including PeerLogic. These and other risks and uncertainties are described in more detail in the company's Critical Path's Annual Report on Form 10-K/A filed March 29, 2000 and with subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission www.sec.gov.

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