New Enterprise Suite Simplifies Adoption of Mirapoint Email Appliances.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Mirapoint Approach Delivers Industry's Proven Lowest Total Cost of Ownership for Messaging; Enables Large Enterprises to Save Millions Per Year

Mirapoint(R) today announced its new Enterprise Suite, which provides enterprise customers with a complete, integrated email solution that combines carrier-grade reliable desktop, web, and wireless email, group calendaring, and address book services with powerful virus and spam protection. To address the needs of collaborative enterprises, Mirapoint also announced availability of its new SynQ(TM) technology that supports native Outlook client functionality and mobile access from PDA devices.

To eliminate the complexity of working with multiple vendors and integrating heterogeneous hardware and software components, the Enterprise Suite includes all application and OS software, server hardware, and storage required for a complete, secure email solution and is priced on a simple, all-inclusive per-user basis. The complete Enterprise Suite employs Mirapoint's purpose-built, performance-tuned Message Server appliances, which are independently proven to have a dramatically lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) when compared to software-only alternatives such as Lotus Notes, Exchange, Oracle, and Sun.

"Email is the most important application on enterprise networks today, yet for many customers it has become difficult and costly to manage, prone to outages, and vulnerable to security threats," said Barry Ariko, chairman and chief executive officer at Mirapoint. "Our compelling Enterprise Suite gives customers a more manageable, secure, and reliable approach with purpose-built Mirapoint appliances. Not only can enterprises save millions with Mirapoint, CIOs and IT managers can benefit from the piece of mind provided by Mirapoint's complete, integrated solutions and single vendor support."

"Mollie Stone's Markets previously used hosted email, but needed a more secure and reliable solution as email-based communications and collaboration became more important to our business," said Karen Barnes, chief operating officer of Mollie Stone's Markets. "By selecting Mirapoint's enterprise-class solutions, we will benefit from the ease-of-management and low cost of ownership only available with Mirapoint's appliance-based solutions. We will also get a complete, end-to-end email and security solution that includes key features for desktop email, group calendaring, Outlook synchronization, as well as integrated spam and virus filtering that are critical to our business."

A growing number of enterprises representing millions of deployed mailboxes already depend on Mirapoint appliances, including ST Microelectronics, Illinois Tool Works, Ford, Cisco, Sonic Drive-In, Alex Lee, and Mollie Stone's Markets, among others.

Lowest Total Cost of Ownership

Cost of ownership is one of the most compelling business drivers for enterprises to adopt Mirapoint's new Enterprise Suite, as highlighted by a recent TCO study from The Radicati Group. For a large enterprise moving only a percentage of users, like its deskless workforce, to Mirapoint appliances or an enterprise switching entirely to Mirapoint, the annual TCO savings from a few hundred thousand dollars to millions each year!

"Like many enterprises, Alex Lee's previous software-based email solution had become unreliable, difficult to manage, and costly to operate," said Randy Miller, director of I/S operations and telecommunications at Alex Lee. "By switching to Mirapoint's purpose-built Message Server appliances, Alex Lee has been able to boost email service reliability and performance, as well as benefit from significant savings by lowering its internal messaging cost of ownership."

The Mirapoint Message Server appliance provides roughly a 3:1 cost advantage over prevailing enterprise email products and a significant savings compared to other software-based solutions. A summary of The Radicati Group's TCO findings for leading messaging vendors is available in the attached chart or at http://www.mirapoint.com/lowtco/chart.html.

"Email far eclipses the office phone as the primary means of business communications," said Dr. Sara Radicati, president and CEO of the Radicati Group. "When we evaluated the acquisition, maintenance, upgrade, administrative, storage, downtime, and training costs of Mirapoint appliances, we found that enterprises could reap substantial savings by migrating either certain user segments, or the entire organization, to these purpose-built 'all-in-one' email appliances. Moreover, customers that had selected Mirapoint were highly satisfied with their decision, especially with regard to simplified ongoing administration."

Secure, High Performance Message Appliance

Users in today's enterprises often have different types of message requirements. The knowledge workers that need advanced collaboration features generally represent only a small percentage of the overall user population. Most traditional users rely on standard functionality, such as secure email, group calendaring, shared folders, and address books. Certain vertical enterprises, such as retail or manufacturing, might also have a growing deskless workforce who can benefit from flexible email communications from a web kiosk using Webmail, or from mobile devices like PDAs or phones. With proven 99.999% uptime, the Message Server is designed to support any enterprise delivering email to a broad base of users that demand anytime, anywhere access to carrier-grade messaging services.

The Mirapoint Message Server is the industry's only dedicated appliance that integrates email routing, storage, access, and management with Mirapoint's comprehensive, multi-layered Full-Spectrum(TM) email security technology. To address enterprise users' advanced requirements and minimize re-training, Mirapoint's Outlook SynQ automatically synchronizes email, group calendar, address book, and task list functions with Mirapoint's Message Server, while Mirapoint's PDA SynQ extends synchronization to mobile devices. The pre-integrated Full-Spectrum technology protects against hackers, spam, and virus threats, as well as provides advanced management of message traffic through policy enforcement tools, content filters, and detailed reporting.

"With our previous software-based email server, we found a significant cost over time was the ongoing administration and management required to keep the solution up-to-date and performing reliably," said Rick Nicholas, manager of information technology at Humane Society Silicon Valley. "As a non-profit organization with a very tight budget, we standardized on the Mirapoint Message Server because it was the only solution that provides the right combination of proven low cost of ownership, simplicity of management, and key enterprise capabilities like feature-rich web-based email and calendaring plus integrated security protection."

Mirapoint Migration Ensures Message Availability

The Enterprise Suite is available with special migration services from Mirapoint's global Professional Services organization geared at enterprises that want to migrate an existing user base to the Mirapoint Message Server. The Mirapoint staff has extensive experience handling migrations from both freeware and commercial-grade products, and to-date has successfully migrated billions of messages including mailbox, folder, calendar, and address book data.

Attractive Bundled Pricing

To further ease enterprise's switch to Mirapoint, the Enterprise Suite is available immediately and includes a single price per-user for the total, integrated solution. For example, the Enterprise Suite for an enterprise with 5000 employees costs $100 per-user and includes all the appliance hardware, software, and storage required to support a full-featured email solution, including: POP and IMAP email, personal and group calendaring, address book and task lists, Webmail and wireless access, Outlook & PDA SynQ, integrated anti-virus and spam protection, and more. Technical support plus spam and virus updates for the first year are also included. For more information or to purchase the Enterprise Suite, call 1-800-937-8118 or [e-mail].

About Mirapoint

Mirapoint(R) is a leader in solutions for message networks used by service provider, enterprise, education, and government institutions. Customers use Mirapoint solutions, including the new line of RazorGate email security appliances, to build message networks that intelligently and securely route, store, access, and manage Internet messages, including email. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com.