Passport Corporation Launches Wireless Alliance; Partners with SavaJe Technologies to Enhance Wireless OSS Solutions.

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PARAMUS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 2001

Passport Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise-class software solutions to major corporate clients in the telecommunications and financial services industries, today announces it has formed an alliance with SavaJe Technologies. SavaJe Technologies provides the world's first operating system that supports a full Java(TM) 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE(TM)) for information appliances such as smart phones, PDAs, set-top boxes, web-pads, game consoles and internet appliances.

The alliance, through the SavaJe Partner Program, is aimed at providing customers with a full complement of J2SE mobile enterprise services and solutions based on the SavaJe XE(TM) operating system, which Passport's Operational Support System (OSS) solutions leverage.

Since 1990, Passport has been providing highly scalable, secure and robust enterprise and field force automation solutions to the telecommunications and financial services industries to enhance workflow, increase productivity and quality, and reduce downtime, errors and duplication. Passport applications run in an ultra-lite client, server-centric model, enabling rapid maintenance, repair, and deployment of applications. These solutions can be deployed concurrently across the Internet, wireless, and traditional client/server networks.

"As businesses explore and embrace the many economic benefits of wireless access to fully interactive, critical business applications, it is crucial that Passport's products support all current and future wireless and mobile platforms. As such, we began seeking ways to extend our existing solutions to wireless devices, including a mobile Java platform that supports J2SE," says Alan Tonnesen, President and CEO of Passport Corporation.

"In our search to date, we identified SavaJe as the only commercially available solution that met our J2SE needs. Through our alliance, Passport has access to essential resources and support to develop and deploy Passport Wireless, our new enterprise wireless offering. J2SE-based mobile platforms are an optimal platform for Passport applications in order to realize LAN-like performance and security on wireless devices," Tonnesen added.

"Passport has a long heritage of building and deploying enterprise solutions in key vertical markets to maximize their clients' existing technology and leverage new developments. We are pleased to be in an alliance with Passport as our partnership confirms that J2SE can deliver mission-critical information to businesses via handheld devices," said George Grey, CEO at SavaJe Technologies. "We are committed to assisting Passport in the delivery of a wide range of J2SE-based mobile applications, services and solutions to their customers."

About Passport's Solutions

Passport's solutions have enabled such leading companies as AT&T/TCG, Lucent Technologies, Exxon/Mobil, John Hancock, Dupont, General Electric, Paine Webber, Standard & Poor's and American Airlines to streamline business processes, enhance operational efficiency, optimize and manage network resources, eliminate redundancies, and improve service times. These clients have implemented Passport's state-of-the-art solutions in global projects that involved thousands of users and millions of transactions and were a part of mission-critical systems that required extensive integration and interoperability with other existing systems and technologies.

Underlying all of Passport's products is their high performance, scalable Enterprise Integration Architecture (EIA). Passport has developed its own application server framework, which is fully integrated with its EIA to yield a single technology and methodology that has been touted by industry analysts including IDC, Gartner Group and Hurwitz Group as being best in its class. Passport's application framework delivers a completely Web Interactive(TM), Microsoft(R)-style graphical user interface (GUI) over the Internet and wireless devices using ultra-lite client Java technology. This ultra-lite technology provides LAN-like performance from today's narrowband dial-up or wireless network connections.

About SavaJe Technologies

SavaJe Technologies has developed the world's first operating system that supports a full Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition for information appliances - smart phones, PDAs, set-top boxes, web-pads, game consoles and internet appliances - a market which is expected to grow from 34.8 million units today to over 100 million by 2004. SavaJe is a privately held company headquartered in Massachusetts, with offices in Illinois and Cambridge, UK. For more information call [phone] or visit www.savaje.com.

About Passport Corporation

Passport Corporation is a leading provider of enterprise-class solutions focusing on the telecommunications and financial industries. Its solutions include very large-scale, mission critical applications designed to be concurrently deployable across the Internet, wireless, and traditional client/server networks. Since 1990, Passport has utilized proven application server framework and technology architecture to develop, deploy and integrate highly scalable, secure, robust and flexible solutions for customers worldwide in extremely short timeframes. Headquartered in Paramus, NJ, the company also has offices in Iselin, NJ, Philadelphia, PA and Washington DC.

Additional information may be obtained by contacting Passport at [phone] or by visiting www.passportcorp.com.

(c)2001 Passport Corporation, All Rights Reserved. Passport and Passport Wireless are trademarks of Passport Corporation. All other company and product names are trademarks of their respective companies.