Critical Path Hosted Messaging Wins Award for Market Leadership; Industry Consortium Recognizes Breadth of Successful Deployments.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ITU TELECOM WORLD 2003

SAN FRANCISCO & GENEVA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 2003

Critical Path, Inc. (Nasdaq:CPTH), a leader in digital communications software and services, announced that its Hosted Messaging service has been recognized by the Swiss Application Service Provider Consortium for its "breadth, maturity, and successful implementations." The Consortium commended Critical Path for having the largest installed base as represented by number of implementations and number of users.

The "1. Swiss ASP" award was recently presented at the Orbit/Comdex 2003 Fair in Basel, Switzerland to outstanding enterprise solutions that are delivered through online and Web-based services in Switzerland. Critical Path won for its highly scalable messaging platform that enables carriers, service providers, government agencies, and enterprises to rapidly and cost-effectively deliver messaging services to consumers and business users throughout the world.

"Critical Path is honored to have our Hosted Messaging service recognized by this award," said Tracy Currie, executive vice president and general manager of hosted services for Critical Path. "It reflects our commitment to offering the industry's broadest range of functionality combined with the lowest cost of ownership for messaging."

Critical Path pioneered the Hosted Messaging category with its launch in 1997 and provides mail services for millions of users around the world. In April 2003, Critical Path launched its next-generation hosted service with HP based on Critical Path's Communications Platform for service providers and large enterprises. T-Mobile and Virgin.net are among the first new customers of this service with advanced mobility and collaboration features for consumers and businesses. Critical Path enables service providers and large enterprises to dramatically reduce the cost of providing messaging applications to both consumers and businesses. Critical Path's platform also enables service providers to drive revenues through its premium messaging services. Additional information is available at www.criticalpath.net.

About Critical Path, Inc.

Critical Path, Inc. (Nasdaq:CPTH) is a global leader in digital communications software and services. The company provides messaging solutions -- from wireless, secure and unified messaging to basic email and personal information management -- as well as identity management solutions that simplify user profile management and strengthen information security. The standards-based Critical Path Communications Platform, built to perform reliably at the scale of public networks, delivers the industry's lowest total cost of ownership for messaging solutions and lays a solid foundation for next-generation communications services. Solutions are available on a hosted or licensed basis. Critical Path's customers include more than 700 enterprises, 200 carriers and service providers, eight national postal authorities and 35 government agencies. Critical Path is headquartered in San Francisco. More information can be found at www.criticalpath.net.

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