Jabber, Inc. Enables NASD Compliance on Instant Messages.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 25, 2003

Jabber, Inc., the leading developer of open architecture for enterprise- and carrier-class presence-enabled communications, including instant messaging (IM), today confirmed that its Extensible Communications Platform enables compliance with the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) guidelines on the archival and tracking of instant messages within member organizations.

According to the NASD, members that permit instant messaging must use a platform that enables the member to monitor, archive, and retrieve message traffic. Members must similarly ensure that their use of instant messaging is consistent with their basic supervisory and recordkeeping obligations.

Jabber maintains that its platform is extensible and flexible, capable of creating an NASD compliant environment either out-of-the-box or in conjunction with a company's existing investment(s) in third party products or services.

"The key to compliance is ensuring the elimination of unmonitored peer-to-peer message traffic. At some point, IM traffic has to travel through a server for the purposes of archival," said Joe Hildebrand, Jabber, Inc.'s Chief Architect. "Jabber is a highly scalable and secure client-server-client platform that operates similarly to e-mail. A customer can integrate Jabber with existing data storage infrastructure behind the firewall, or can leverage investment made in third-party archiving systems, such as IMLogic's or FaceTime's."

Jabber, Inc.'s Extensible Communications Platform has been licensed by several members of the Financial Instant Messaging Association (FIMA) and is under review by several more. FIMA is an organization comprised of many of the largest financial services industry's largest investment banks.

The Jabber commercial product and its open source counterpart, Jabber.org, is based on the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), which achieved IETF Working Group status in October of 2002 and is quickly moving towards full ratification.

ABOUT JABBER, INC.

Jabber, Inc. is the developer of the world's most widely used open platform for extensible instant messaging and other presence-enabled communications. Jabber, Inc.'s commercial software has been sold and deployed to more than 3 million users. The Jabber Open Source project now has more than 160,000 servers in operation worldwide, and an estimated 7-10 million users. Jabber has been adopted in the telecommunications, enterprise and software development markets by customers that include France Telecom, Earthlink, Hewlett-Packard, BellSouth, webMethods, AT&T, Landmark Graphics, and Juniper Networks. Jabber, Inc.'s investors include France Telecom (NYSE:FTE), Intel Capital, Intel's strategic investing arm, and Webb Interactive Services, Inc. (OTCBB:WEBB). Please see www.jabber.com for more information.