Puma Technology Forges Alliance with Wireless Middleware Leader, Nettech Systems, as Part of Wireless Internet Strategy - extends Intellisync Anywhere file transfer software capabilities - Company Business and Marketing

Cambridge Telcom Report, August 16, 1999

Nettech Systems, Inc. and Puma Technology (Nasdaq: PUMA), a leading provider of mobile device management and synchronization software, Monday announced a strategic alliance whereby Puma will utilize Nettech's Smart IP middleware to add support for a broad range of wireless networks. This support will extend the wireless capabilities of Puma's Intellisync Anywhere software product line that connects the corporate enterprise to handheld devices, interactive pagers, and smartphones.

Intellisync Anywhere will continue to redefine the business role of interactive pagers and smartphones, as well as Palm Computing Platform Products, by making them powerful, cost-effective and tightly integrated extensions of the corporate enterprise. The open Intellisync platform lets users synchronize the critical data between both wired and wireless handheld devices and the vast stores of information found in corporate databases. Intellisync Anywhere for Microsoft Exchange uniquely provides remote and LAN-based synchronization of the Palm Computing Platform with Microsoft Exchange, a mission-critical enterprise groupware application.

Nettech's Smart IP allows organizations to easily add wireless connectivity to their mobile applications. Smart IP provides reliable, optimized wireless data communication and will allow Intellisync Anywhere to run efficiently over all wireless networks. This optimized wireless performance also reduces airtime expenses and extends device battery life. In the future, Smart IP will support Puma's recently announced Vulcan solution. Vulcan will produce a new class of enterprise solutions for secure, manageable and controlled access to mission critical corporate data from handheld mobile devices.

"Enabling individuals and corporations alike to wirelessly access and synchronize critical information has been a logical next step for Puma," said Puma President and CEO Brad Rowe. "Partnering with Nettech allows us to connect mobile users in real-time over a wide range of wireless data networks."

"We see a dynamic shift taking place in the wireless data market. What traditionally has been strong in more business operations-oriented markets, is now shifting across all industry segments," said Boris Fridman, CEO of Nettech. "Puma's wireless offerings are a natural extension of this shift. With Nettech and Puma, business professionals have a best-of-breed solution for synchronizing and accessing their vital information from anywhere, at anytime, which will significantly increase productivity from the field."

Puma Technology, a leading provider of mobile device management and synchronization software, enables consumers, mobile professionals and information technology officers in the corporate enterprise to harness the full capabilities of handheld organizers/computers, "smart phones" and other wireless personal communication platforms. The Puma Technology Intellisync software platform is the global standard for synchronization and control of the critical connection between handheld devices and vast stores of information found in corporate databases, the Internet and individual desktops. Puma is the only company that provides an end-to-end PDA management solution that addresses virtually every scenario for synchronization, total customization of device-based applications, centralized backup, security, information flow control, notification, and browsing of critical information. The company's Intellisync platform enables the management and development of software to make handheld devices true extensions of the corporate server, the Internet and individual desktops. The Intellisync platform enables mobile access to up-to-the-minute, accurate, "anytime, anywhere" information and has been adopted worldwide by individuals, companies, mobile device manufacturers, telecommunications carriers and on-line contact, calendar and event services. The company, headquartered in San Jose, Calif., maintains a web site at www.pumatech.com.

Nettech Systems, Inc. provides mobile connectivity tools to companies who develop and deploy mobile data applications. Nettech has established a worldwide customer base of more than 70,000 users in over 500 companies, representing the leading share of mobile applications. Nettech also offers the wireless data industry's premier Developer Program and Professional Services Division, designed to accelerate the development and deployment of mobile applications. Based in Princeton, New Jersey, Nettech Systems can be contacted at 609-734-0300 or by fax at 609-734-0346.