Odyssey Software Announces Support for Microsoft Windows-Powered Pocket PC 2002.

Business & High Tech Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 4, 2001

Concurrent with New Release of ViaXML(TM)- Enhanced XML Web

Services for Mobile Devices

Odyssey Software today announced broad product support with immediate availability for the next-generation Microsoft Windows-Powered Pocket PC 2002 platform.

Corporations can use the new Pocket PC 2002--introduced today by Microsoft Corp.-- as an effective line-of-business tool to mobilize their work force and provide rich connectivity to their existing enterprise systems through Odyssey Software's suite of mobile data access infrastructure products. Odyssey Software is excited to be a Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 Launch Partner, and has made its ViaXML(TM), CEfusion(TM), and ViaDB(TM) products immediately available worldwide, to businesses and developers who wish to leverage the expanded features and enhanced wireless connectivity options of Pocket PC 2002 - the next-generation software for personal digital assistants (PDAs) from Microsoft Corp.

Additionally, Odyssey Software today released ViaXML Version 1.2, adding support for bi-directional compression and asynchronous operation to an already rich set of ViaXML features. ViaXML is mobile application remote data access infrastructure, enabling next-generation XML web services for mobile devices. ViaXML allows mobile applications to both call XML web services, and publish XML web services, over any public or private network using open Internet standards - XML, HTTP and HTTPS. Using ViaXML, businesses can now transform existing corporate enterprise and web infrastructure, into powerful mobile application servers, allowing rapid deployment of highly scalable mobile line-of-business solutions that deliver interactive access to enterprise knowledge, without compromising security.

Also included with ViaXML, is a powerful set of pre-built application frameworks that provide: device directory services, device management services, and device database synchronization services. These application frameworks, when combined with ViaXML, allow developers to easily build exciting new peer-to-peer (P2P) applications that allow mobile workers to directly interact and collaborate with one another over the Internet or corporate Intranet, "raising the bar" to a new level of mobile productivity.

"Corporations view maximized productivity as a key element in their mobile computing standard," said Rogers Weed, General Manager of the Mobility Division at Microsoft Corp. "Odyssey Software helps to address this key enterprise need by providing data access infrastructure, to quickly and effectively deploy line-of-business mobile solutions with solid return on investment."

"IT Professionals have been asked to deliver on the promise of wireless and mobility - improved business processes that enhance productivity and decision-making through better access to enterprise information," said Mark Gentile, President and CEO of Odyssey Software. "Using our products, with the expanded functionality and enhanced wireless connectivity available with the Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 platform, corporations can quickly leverage their existing Microsoft development experience to deliver next generation applications for both knowledge and line-of-business workers so they can maximize their productivity and quality of decision-making.

ViaXML, CEfusion, and ViaDB for Pocket PC 2002 are available immediately. Free thirty-day evaluation licenses are available from http://www.odysseysoftware.com. Further information is available at [e-mail] on how we can help to effectively Mobilize Your Enterprise(TM).

About Odyssey Software

Odyssey Software, Inc. is a leading provider of mobile application remote data access infrastructure, which extends the enterprise across the Internet or corporate Intranet to the palm of your hand. Developers can quickly build and deploy rich mobile applications using the core Windows DNA technologies - as well as open Internet standards such as XML, HTTP, HTTPS - with real-time, online, interactive access or application-controlled synchronization with centralized data and business logic over any wireless LAN or WAN, wired or dial-up connection.

Odyssey Software was founded in 1996 with the mission of providing software tools and infrastructure that allow real-time, online, interactive access to centralized data, and was the first company to provide enterprise development tools and infrastructure for Windows CE. The company's products include ViaXML(TM), open standards based mobile application infrastructure that enables XML web services to be called or published over the Internet and corporate Intranet, CEfusion(TM), a set of powerful tools and infrastructure for building and deploying robust mobile enterprise applications for Pocket PCs and other devices powered by Windows CE; APIfusion(TM), tools and infrastructure for Palm OS and DOS devices; and ViaDB(TM), a Universal OLE DB Provider that works with ADOCE 3.x to allow direct online database access.

Odyssey's software tools and infrastructure are used for real-time wireless mobile and landline enterprise computing by AT&T; BP Oil; Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, EDS; ESPN; General Electric; Johnson & Johnson; Kellogg's Foods; MasterCard; Microsoft; The New York Times; Northrop Grumman; Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical; Pitney-Bowes; Smith-Kline Beecham, The United States Air Force, and many other companies.

For more information about building effective mobile enterprise applications, please contact Odyssey Software at 716-214-2409 (Ext. 201), [e-mail], or visit the company's Web site at www.odysseysoftware.com.

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